New system fail2ban failed to install

Virtualmin
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SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version Almalinux 9.3
Webmin version 2.105
Virtualmin version 7.10.0
Related packages Fail2Ban

Hi

I’ve setup a new system (started from a new OS isntall). Fail2Ban is not installed and running dnf install fail2ban results in these errors:

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Error:
Problem: problem with installed package selinux-policy-targeted-38.1.23-1.el9_3.1.noarch

  • package fail2ban-server-1.0.2-12.el9.noarch from epel requires (fail2ban-selinux if selinux-policy-targeted), but none of the providers can be installed
  • package fail2ban-1.0.2-12.el9.noarch from epel requires fail2ban-server = 1.0.2-12.el9, but none of the providers can be installed
  • conflicting requests
  • nothing provides selinux-policy >= 38.1.23-1.el9_3.2 needed by fail2ban-selinux-1.0.2-12.el9.noarch from epel
  • nothing provides selinux-policy-base >= 38.1.23-1.el9_3.2 needed by fail2ban-selinux-1.0.2-12.el9.noarch from epel
    (try to add ‘–skip-broken’ to skip uninstallable packages or ‘–nobest’ to use not only best candidate packages)

i’ve tried dnf upgrade --refresh and the --nobest parameter but with no luck…
selinux is disabled. The selinux policy type is indeed targeted. I’ve changed it to minimum + rebooted but the error remains the same…

Any advice?

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Did you start with a minimal install? I’m really unable to give much help here. I’m only asking that question because this should be a common issue reported here otherwise.

Hmm… Rereading it is almost as if the repo you are pulling from is out of sync. Are you pulling from your server provider’s repo?

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erhm how can I check that?

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OK…so yesterday I installed the server from scratch including all updates (triple checked on that -after a reboot)… with the error above.
I was just going to dive into checking the respositories but Virtualmin had a few updates ready so I installed these first and right after fail2ban succeeded to install…
Really bizar…

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