[SOLVED] Issues enabling fprintd.service

Hi @Matt_Hartley,

I received an email with a question from you but I cannot find the comment anywhere, so I will respond here. Your question was regarding the followed steps from the guide. To confirm; yes I followed the following steps, in the following order:

sudo dnf upgrade

Install the needed packages:

sudo dnf install fprintd fprintd-pam (though they were already installed)

systemctl enable fprintd.service
then
systemctl start fprintd.service

These steps created the error referenced in the first post. After tweaking /usr/lib/systemd/system/fprintd.service I reran the enable and start commands without error.

Something I left out in the post, is that I also tried a full fresh re-install from USB. As well as removing and reinstalling fprintd & fprintd-pam. This didn’t solve it.

The only issue that persisted after the added steps was the verify command removing all enrolled prints after a mismatch. Before enabling fprintd.service the same thing happened on the login a couple times. I have not tried the verify command since my successful verification, let me know if you want me to try to get a mismatch to reproduce the issue.

BTW: can you add a [SOLVED] tag to the title, if you deem it so? I don’t think I have the permissions.

If you have any other questions, let me know.

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