Hi,
thanks for this great service that has helped me out on F41 several times! Now on F42 however, on a Thinkpad X1 Yoga 3rd gen, I ran into trouble (the FPReader works on Windoze). This is on the latest kernel (6.14.3-300.fc42.x86_64) with the latest firmware-updates.
When I try to install python3-validity, I get an error from the post-install script. It is then possible to continue, enable the services, even enroll a finger in the cli, however the fingerprints are never recognized. Also in the Gnome gui, enrolling never succeeds, and once I delete the (useless) fingerprint I “enrolled” earlier in the commandline, I cannot enroll an new one in the Gnome UI any more. The error I get in the post-install script is this (I cannot see a folder /var/run/python-validity, it seems in fact not to exist):
[10/11] Installing python3-validity-0:0.14-4.fc42.noarch 100% | 28.5 KiB/s | 791.3 KiB | 00m28s
>>> Running post-install scriptlet: python3-validity-0:0.14-4.fc42.noarch
>>> Finished post-install scriptlet: python3-validity-0:0.14-4.fc42.noarch
>>> Scriptlet output:
>>> Extracting "version 5.3.3542.26 (NZ3GF07W)" - setup data version 5.5.7 (unicode)
>>> - "code$GetExtractPath$/WBF_Drivers/6_07f_lenovo_mis_qm.xpfwext"
>>> Done.
>>> Downloading https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles/nz3gf07w.exe to extract 6_07f_lenovo_mis_qm.xpfwext
>>> Found firmware at /tmp/tmpo84j1pfp/code$GetExtractPath$/WBF_Drivers/6_07f_lenovo_mis_qm.xpfwext
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/shutil.py", line 262, in copyfile
>>> with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
>>> ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> IsADirectoryError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/var/run/python-validity/'
>>>
>>> The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "/sbin/validity-sensors-firmware", line 102, in <module>
>>> shutil.copy(fwpath, PYTHON_VALIDITY_DATA_DIR)
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/shutil.py", line 428, in copy
>>> copyfile(src, dst, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks)
>>> ~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/shutil.py", line 288, in copyfile
>>> raise FileNotFoundError(f'Directory does not exist: {dst}') from e
>>> FileNotFoundError: Directory does not exist: /var/run/python-validity/
>>>
[11/11] Installing fprintd-clients-pam-1:1.94.2-3.fc42.x86_64 100% | 30.8 KiB/s | 35.7 KiB | 00m01s
Complete!
I have encountered exactly the same error on Fedora 42 KDE. Creating the folder manually did not resolve the issue. I am using a ThinkPad x270 with 138a:0097 Validity Sensors, Inc..