diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING
index 199f06a17..6be098cd6 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ work to other active development branches and to ``master``.
     ``git push``
 
 - if there is no ``x.{y+1}-devel``, merge it onto ``{x+1}.y`` branches
-  as appopriate, oldest-to-newest
+  as appropriate, oldest-to-newest
 
   For example, if you already merged onto ``2.1-devel`` and there is
   no ``2.2-devel``, the next place to merge would be ``3.0-devel`` if
diff --git a/blivet/__init__.py b/blivet/__init__.py
index 42524bded..80aca1e86 100644
--- a/blivet/__init__.py
+++ b/blivet/__init__.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 import warnings
 import syslog
 
-from . import util, arch
+from . import arch
 
 import logging
 log = logging.getLogger("blivet")
diff --git a/blivet/fstab.py b/blivet/fstab.py
index 5981a9514..9286b5d89 100644
--- a/blivet/fstab.py
+++ b/blivet/fstab.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def __init__(self):
         self.freq = None
         self.passno = None
 
-        # prefered spec identification type; default "UUID"
+        # preferred spec identification type; default "UUID"
         # possible values: None, "UUID", "LABEL", "PARTLABEL", "PARTUUID", "PATH"
         self.spec_type = None
 
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ def __init__(self, src_file=None, dest_file=None):
         self.src_file = src_file
         self.dest_file = dest_file
 
-        # prefered spec identification type; default "UUID"
+        # preferred spec identification type; default "UUID"
         # possible values: None, "UUID", "LABEL", "PARTLABEL", "PARTUUID", "PATH"
         self.spec_type = None
 
diff --git a/doc/intro.rst b/doc/intro.rst
index a0918d0a3..2f8b5e8fa 100644
--- a/doc/intro.rst
+++ b/doc/intro.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Introduction to Blivet
 Blivet is a python module for system storage configuration.
 
 The main thing that blivet offers is the ability to model a series of changes
-without necessarily commiting any of the changes to disk. You can schedule an
+without necessarily committing any of the changes to disk. You can schedule an
 arbitrarily large series of changes (called 'actions'), seeing the effects of
 each (within the :class:`~.devicetree.DeviceTree` instance) as it is scheduled.
 Nothing is written to disk, however, until you execute the actions.
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ To make changes to the configuration you'll schedule actions, but
 At this point, the StorageDevice representing sda3 is no longer in the tree.
 That means you could allocate a new partition from the newly free space if you
 wanted to (via blivet, that is, since there is not actually any free space on
-the physical disk yet -- you haven't commited the changes). If you now ran the
+the physical disk yet -- you haven't committed the changes). If you now ran the
 following line::
 
     sda3 = b.devicetree.get_device_by_name("sda3")
diff --git a/misc/install-test-dependencies.yml b/misc/install-test-dependencies.yml
index 460627ae7..ec9982e4b 100644
--- a/misc/install-test-dependencies.yml
+++ b/misc/install-test-dependencies.yml
@@ -132,9 +132,9 @@
       state: present
       name:
         - python3-blockdev
-        - libblockdev2
+        - libblockdev3
         - libblockdev-plugins-all
-        - gir1.2-blockdev-2.0
+        - gir1.2-blockdev-3.0
         - python3-bytesize
         - python3-selinux
         - python3-pyudev
diff --git a/tests/pylint/runpylint.py b/tests/pylint/runpylint.py
index 196222495..eef4047fa 100755
--- a/tests/pylint/runpylint.py
+++ b/tests/pylint/runpylint.py
@@ -18,17 +18,14 @@ def __init__(self):
         self.pylintrc_path = os.path.join(current_dir, "pylintrc")
 
         self.false_positives = [
-            FalsePositive(r"Catching an exception which doesn't inherit from (BaseException|Exception): (BlockDev|DM|Crypto|Swap|LVM|Btrfs|MDRaid|Utils|G)Error$"),
             FalsePositive(r"Instance of 'int' has no .* member"),
             FalsePositive(r"Method 'do_task' is abstract in class 'Task' but is not overridden"),
             FalsePositive(r"Method 'do_task' is abstract in class 'UnimplementedTask' but is not overridden"),
             FalsePositive(r"No value for argument 'member_count' in unbound method call$"),
             FalsePositive(r"No value for argument 'smallest_member_size' in unbound method call$"),
-            FalsePositive(r"Parameters differ from overridden 'do_task' method$"),
             FalsePositive(r"Bad option value '(subprocess-popen-preexec-fn|try-except-raise|environment-modify|arguments-renamed|redundant-u-string-prefix)'"),
             FalsePositive(r"Instance of '(Action.*Device|Action.*Format|Action.*Member|Device|DeviceAction|DeviceFormat|Event|ObjectID|PartitionDevice|StorageDevice|BTRFS.*Device|LoopDevice)' has no 'id' member$"),
             FalsePositive(r"Instance of 'GError' has no 'message' member"),  # overriding currently broken local pylint disable
-            FalsePositive(r"Module '(gi.repository.Gio|gi.repository.GLib)' has no .* member"),  # pylint/astroid has issues with GI modules https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6352
             FalsePositive(r"No name '.*' in module 'libmount'")
         ]
 
diff --git a/tests/skip.yml b/tests/skip.yml
index 8d353b1ba..3da848944 100644
--- a/tests/skip.yml
+++ b/tests/skip.yml
@@ -23,3 +23,9 @@
 # - all "skips" can specified as a list, for example 'version: [10, 11]'
 
 ---
+
+- test: storage_tests.devices_test.md_test.MDTestCase
+  skip_on:
+    - distro: "centos"
+      version: "9"
+      reason: "MD tests are randomly failing on RHEL/CentOS 9"