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 will never fail anywhere else.

Can I suggest that the DNF people ought to be interested in the fact that two
people prepared to say something on this list have a real problem that they
have no idea how to fix without doing a reinstall from scratch. 

It sounds like there is a set up for which there is no problem and that is
good. It implies there is hope!

If given direction I can create a list of all packages installed, George I
suspect can do likewise. This then might be able to allow people to ascertain
what went wrong, why the tests didn't find it, and (the most important thing) 
how to get out of this situation.

I did an "strace dnf check-update" and got:

…
pwrite64(24, 
"\305\33\10\3\2\3\7s\2\305\34\10\3\2\3\7s\2\305\35\10\3\2\3\7s\2\305\36\10\3\2"...,
 1024, 1595392) = 1024
pwrite64(24, 
"s\2\305\215\10\3\2\3\7s\2\305\216\10\3\2\3\7s\2\305\217\10\3\2\3\7s\2\305\220\10"...,
 1024, 1596416) = 1024
pwrite64(24, 
"\3\7s\2\305\377\10\3\2\3\7s\2\306\0\10\3\2\3\7s\2\306\1\10\3\2\3\7s\2\306"..., 
609, 1597440) = 609
munmap(0x7f95ff0c8000, 1598055)         = 0
close(24)                               = 0
--- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=0x40} ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

but that isn't entirely helpful on its own I guess.

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