On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 09:16:54AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-09-12 at 06:27 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 12:26:09PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > Hi folks!
> > >
> > > Around the time DNF 3 landed in Rawhide (hence F29), we had quite a few
> > > folks on these lists reporting issues, including crasher bugs. Many of
> > > these seemed somehow related to the DNF history database. They also
> > > were not easy to isolate and fix.
> > >
> > > We're now close to the F29 Beta release, but we don't have a
great
> > > sense of how many people are still having these problems with DNF 3.2
> > > or 3.3.
> > >
> > > Can anyone who is still struggling with DNF crashes on *basic*
> > > operations on F29 or Rawhide please reply, and provide a few details on
> > > what you're seeing and any workarounds or fixes you've found?
> >
> > I filed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1627694 yesterday.
> > The gist is that dnf stopped having locking around the rpm operation,
> > so it'll fail if two operations are invoked concurrently. Before it'd
> > very nicely do the downloads in parallel and then run the actual installations
> > sequentially. I think this is a huge regression in usability.
>
> Thanks. Doesn't really look like a Beta blocker, though.
It doesn't. I don't even think it'd be a Final blocker. Just unpleasant.
> > I also saw some "TransactionItem not found" messages, but this has
already
> > been reported extensively.
>
> On what operation? We have:
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625259
> for encountering them on downgrade or 'history undo' type operations.
> If you hit one on upgrade or install, that'd be worse.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1627534
I marked it as duplicate, to avoid noise. Mikhail reported it during 'history
undo',
but I saw during 'dnf upgrade'.
That seems significantly worse to me. I'm going to propose the bug as a
blocker and request input from dnf team. Thanks.
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