rob thijssen
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It boots from the internal drive with the stick removed — 18s to multi-user,
no failed units.
The first thing tried on it was `dnf install net-tools`, which failed with:
Transaction failed: Rpm transaction failed.
- systemd is needed by net-tools-2.0-0.77.20160912git.fc44.aarch64
systemd is obviously installed; the machine had just booted. The cause is the
clock. This machine's RTC cannot be set at all — ioctl(RTC_SET_TIME) returns
"No such device" — and reads 1970 every boot, so systemd advances it to its own
build date. That is close enough to look plausible and early enough that rpm
treats package signatures created after it as not yet valid, skips those
headers outright, and reports the packages as absent:
Signature created at Sat Jul 25 18:33:30 2026 invalid: signature is not alive
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 282
package systemd is not installed
chrony was already added to base.pkgs for the drift; it turns out to be load
bearing rather than a nicety, and it syncs within about five seconds of the
network appearing. Documented, because the symptom points nowhere near the
cause.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XWRjNJMistCy6ngXH5aJLS