Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-08-05 Thread Russel Winder
On Fri, 2018-07-13 at 09:06 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 07/13/2018 07:23 AM, Russel Winder wrote: > > PS Is it correct that dnf works fine without the history database, and > > seems not to recreate it? > > You will have lost your past history of dnf transactions. The next time > you

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-07-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 07/13/2018 07:23 AM, Russel Winder wrote: PS Is it correct that dnf works fine without the history database, and seems not to recreate it? You will have lost your past history of dnf transactions. The next time you install, update, or remove something, it should create it again.

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-07-13 Thread Russel Winder
On Thu, 2018-07-12 at 20:42 +, Andre Robatino wrote: > > accessing it). I don't suppose you kept a backup of the file? That > > would be very helpful for investigating the problem... > > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1598590#c4 . It would seem that this is a possible reason

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-07-12 Thread Andre Robatino
> accessing it). I don't suppose you kept a backup of the file? That > would be very helpful for investigating the problem... See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1598590#c4 . ___ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-07-08 Thread Russel Winder
On Fri, 2018-07-06 at 07:43 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > […] > That's interesting, but rather odd, as it suggests that run as root dnf > just *happens* to have a *different* issue involving the same file > (since obviously, when run as root, it wouldn't have had any problem > accessing it). I

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-07-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2018-07-06 at 12:33 +0100, Russel Winder wrote: > By pure fluke I ran "dnf check-update --refresh" not as root and got: > > RuntimeError: C++ std::exception: Failed to open backup database: > /var/lib/dnf/history/history-2015-04-01.sqlite > > Surprising in that I have run this command

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-07-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2018-07-06 at 11:57 +0100, Russel Winder wrote: > On Thu, 2018-07-05 at 12:49 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > […] > > > > But the new dnf doesn't break everywhere; I updated to it and didn't > > hit any of the reported issues. I'm sure the DNF developers *do* test > > it on their local

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-07-06 Thread Russel Winder
By pure fluke I ran "dnf check-update --refresh" not as root and got: RuntimeError: C++ std::exception: Failed to open backup database: /var/lib/dnf/history/history-2015-04-01.sqlite Surprising in that I have run this command not as root before and it didn't fail, but the file was owned

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-07-06 Thread Russel Winder
On Thu, 2018-07-05 at 12:49 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: […] > > But the new dnf doesn't break everywhere; I updated to it and didn't > hit any of the reported issues. I'm sure the DNF developers *do* test > it on their local machines, but this is not some sort of cast-iron > guarantee that it

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-07-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2018-07-05 at 10:38 +0100, Russel Winder wrote: > On Tue, 2018-07-03 at 20:14 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Sun, 2018-07-01 at 09:19 +0100, Russel Winder wrote: > > > I wonder if this > > > episode indicates that there should be work done to make sure that a > > > broken > > > dnf

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-07-05 Thread Russel Winder
On Thu, 2018-07-05 at 10:48 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Russel Winder wrote: > > > > Has anyone discovered a way forward for updating Fedora Rawhide given dnf > > just > > seg faults currently? > > Can you use rpm to just update it lmanually? > So far no.

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-07-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Russel Winder wrote: > > Has anyone discovered a way forward for updating Fedora Rawhide given dnf just > seg faults currently? Can you use rpm to just update it lmanually? > -- > Russel. > === > Dr Russel Winder t:

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-07-05 Thread Russel Winder
Has anyone discovered a way forward for updating Fedora Rawhide given dnf just seg faults currently? -- Russel. === Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-07-05 Thread Russel Winder
On Tue, 2018-07-03 at 20:14 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2018-07-01 at 09:19 +0100, Russel Winder wrote: > > I wonder if this > > episode indicates that there should be work done to make sure that a > > broken > > dnf can never be installed? > > How do you propose we do that? Using a

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-07-04 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 4:14 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sun, 2018-07-01 at 09:19 +0100, Russel Winder wrote: >> I wonder if this >> episode indicates that there should be work done to make sure that a broken >> dnf can never be installed? > > How do you propose we do that? Personally I would

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-07-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2018-07-01 at 09:19 +0100, Russel Winder wrote: > I wonder if this > episode indicates that there should be work done to make sure that a broken > dnf can never be installed? How do you propose we do that? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora |

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-07-01 Thread stan
On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 10:21:40 -0700 stan wrote: > 'chroot dnf update' worked for me the last time dnf was compromised > in rawhide. This can't be true. I remember using it, but that can't have been why, because if dnf is borked in rawhide, it won't work.

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-07-01 Thread stan
On Sun, 01 Jul 2018 09:19:15 +0100 Russel Winder wrote: > Sadly it seems the 3.0.2 and 2.7.5 packages cannot be installed due > to various different broken dependencies, so simple upgrade or > downgrade of dnf from the current state of the Fedora install is not > possible. > > I know this is

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-07-01 Thread Russel Winder
On Sat, 2018-06-30 at 12:39 -0700, stan wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 16:57:47 + (UTC) > George R Goffe wrote: > > > Is there a specific download site for the fix for this problem? I > > wrote a bug report yesterday to the RedHat bugzilla "Bug 1596827 – > > dnf non-functional after upgrade".

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-06-30 Thread stan
On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 16:57:47 + (UTC) George R Goffe wrote: > Is there a specific download site for the fix for this problem? I > wrote a bug report yesterday to the RedHat bugzilla "Bug 1596827 – > dnf non-functional after upgrade". > > Bug 1596827 – dnf non-functional after upgrade You

Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-06-30 Thread George R Goffe
Dirk, Is there a specific download site for the fix for this problem? I wrote a bug report yesterday to the RedHat bugzilla "Bug 1596827 – dnf non-functional after upgrade". Bug 1596827 – dnf non-functional after upgrade Best regards, George...