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When deploying ostree payloads, anaconda is pre-filling /var, with the use of systemd-tmpfiles[1]. The latter has detailed error code reporting via its exit status, where "65" means that the configuration file was "invalid" but otherwise no error occurred. A special case of this is, if there are duplicated entries in the configuration file:

  NOTICE systemd-tmpfiles:[/mnt/sysroot/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:23] Duplicate line for path "/mnt/sysroot/var/spool", ignoring.

Since anaconda does not differentiate between the error conditions, this error will be taken as fatal and result in the abortion of the installation.

Since the content of the folder in /lib/tmpfiles.d/ is out of control of the installer itself and error 65 might be harmless (duplicated line), I believe Anaconda should special case error "65" and ignore it.

[1] _fill_var_subdirectories in rpm_ostree/installation.py

https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/3224

Adding bug 1857530 for a reference.

*** Bug 1937661 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (anaconda bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:1844