Failed silverblue rebase to fedora44: failed to run semodule

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My attempt to rebase my Fedora Silverblue VM is failing with the following error:

Summary

root@fsbmac:~# rpm-ostree status -v
State: idle
Warning: failed to finalize previous deployment
error: Finalizing deployment: Finalizing SELinux policy: failed to run semodule: Child process exited with code 1
check journalctl -b -1 -u ostree-finalize-staged.service
AutomaticUpdates: disabled
Deployments:
● fedora:fedora/43/aarch64/silverblue (index: 0)
Version: 43.20260507.0 (2026-05-07T00:44:56Z)
Commit: 766883946e20e923fd34da2df4ea01858a1db2df9447e50c7621046612686ed1
├─ repo-0 (2025-10-23T03:37:18Z)
├─ repo-1 (2026-05-07T00:15:39Z)
└─ repo-2 (2026-05-07T00:17:30Z)
Staged: no
StateRoot: fedora
GPGSignature: 1 signature
Signature made Thu 07 May 2026 02:45:53 AM CEST using RSA key ID 829B606631645531
Good signature from “Fedora fedora-43-primary@fedoraproject.org”

root@fsbmac:~# getenforce
Enforcing

Please advise

2

I rebased to F44 Silverblue (aarch64) in a VM a while ago without issues.

Is rpm-ostree cleanup with -p or -m flag of any use?

3

I realize that I have made a most fundamental mistake: my VM is running on a Mac with M4 apple silicon so the correct architecture should have been aarch64 not x86_64 as I used initially. Now with this the problem is gone:
rpm-ostree rebase fedora:fedora/44/aarch64/silverblue

Unfortunately, even if now I can go past the error of this topic, I face a new one further on.
So I close this topic and thank for the support, I will open a new one for the new error.