Bug 1634385

Summary: [abrt] dnf: __init__(): transaction.py:729:__init__:RuntimeError: C++ std::exception: Failed to open backup database: /var/lib/dnf/history/history-2016-06-14.sqlite
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) <sanjay.ankur>
Component: dnfAssignee: Daniel Mach <dmach>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 29CC: dmach, mblaha, packaging-team-maint, rpm-software-management, vmukhame
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Unspecified   
URL: https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/bthash/0554e0257de8dafde78a0648ed76a15be7bc1c00
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File: _var_log_dnf.log
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File: backtrace
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File: cgroup
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File: cpuinfo
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File: dnf-makecache.log
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File: environ
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File: mountinfo
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File: namespaces
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File: open_fds none

Description Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2018-09-30 12:12:25 UTC
Version-Release number of selected component:
dnf-3.5.1-1.fc29

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.9.5
cmdline:        /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/dnf history list
crash_function: __init__
exception_type: RuntimeError
executable:     /usr/bin/dnf
interpreter:    python3-3.7.0-9.fc29.x86_64
kernel:         4.18.5-300.fc29.x86_64
runlevel:       N 5
type:           Python3
uid:            1000

Truncated backtrace:
transaction.py:729:__init__:RuntimeError: C++ std::exception: Failed to open backup database: /var/lib/dnf/history/history-2016-06-14.sqlite

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/dnf", line 58, in <module>
    main.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 179, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 64, in main
    return _main(base, args, cli_class, option_parser_class)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 95, in _main
    cli.configure(list(map(ucd, args)), option_parser())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/cli.py", line 913, in configure
    self.command.configure()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/commands/__init__.py", line 849, in configure
    if not os.access(self.base.history.path, os.R_OK):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dnf/db/history.py", line 310, in path
    return self.swdb.getPath()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dnf/db/history.py", line 291, in swdb
    self._swdb = libdnf.transaction.Swdb(self.dbpath)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/site-packages/libdnf/transaction.py", line 729, in __init__
    this = _transaction.new_Swdb(*args)
RuntimeError: C++ std::exception: Failed to open backup database: /var/lib/dnf/history/history-2016-06-14.sqlite

Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <libdnf.transaction.Swdb;  >
args: ('/var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite',)

Comment 1 Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2018-09-30 12:12:48 UTC
Created attachment 1488537 [details]
File: _var_log_dnf.log

Comment 2 Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2018-09-30 12:12:49 UTC
Created attachment 1488538 [details]
File: backtrace

Comment 3 Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2018-09-30 12:12:51 UTC
Created attachment 1488539 [details]
File: cgroup

Comment 4 Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2018-09-30 12:12:52 UTC
Created attachment 1488540 [details]
File: cpuinfo

Comment 5 Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2018-09-30 12:12:55 UTC
Created attachment 1488541 [details]
File: dnf-makecache.log

Comment 6 Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2018-09-30 12:12:57 UTC
Created attachment 1488542 [details]
File: environ

Comment 7 Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2018-09-30 12:12:58 UTC
Created attachment 1488543 [details]
File: mountinfo

Comment 8 Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2018-09-30 12:13:00 UTC
Created attachment 1488544 [details]
File: namespaces

Comment 9 Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2018-09-30 12:13:01 UTC
Created attachment 1488545 [details]
File: open_fds

Comment 10 Daniel Mach 2019-03-10 12:17:33 UTC
This happens when a non-privileged user runs dnf before root runs it.
Dnf attempts to migrate the history database and fails on write permissions.

Comment 12 Ben Cotton 2019-10-31 19:00:24 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 29 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 29 on 2019-11-26.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
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Comment 13 Ben Cotton 2019-11-27 23:08:02 UTC
Fedora 29 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-11-26. Fedora 29 is
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