Passing along for anyone who may be looking to create a synthetic ActiveGate in AWS using Amazon Linux 2023.
When installing this image we ran into install failures, noting that package xorg-x11-server-utils did not exist. When running dnf install -y xorg-x11-server-utils we would get a message saying that the iceauth package was already installed. I found it strange that it references iceauth here. Then running rpm -qa | grep xorg-x11-server-utils to check that the package is installed we would see that it was not installed. For whatever reason it seems xorg-x11-server-utils was never actually getting installed and I could never get it installed, therefore never allowing a successful install.
I opened a ticket with AWS, below is what they informed me to run, they are digging more into the issue. After doing this running rpm -qa | grep xorg-x11-server-utils showed the package as being installed
dnf remove iceauth -y
dnf install -y xorg-x11-server-utils-7.7-39.amzn2023.0.2.x86_64 --allowerasing
For reference here is the AMI we were using
AMI name: al2023-ami-2023.6.20241010.0-kernel-6.1-x86_64
AMI ID: ami-06b21ccaeff8cd686
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