Bug 1198998 - dnf does not allow to recover from broken history database
Summary: dnf does not allow to recover from broken history database
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf
Version: 28
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Packaging Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: 1167239
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-03-05 09:59 UTC by Till Maas
Modified: 2018-05-29 14:36 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-12-02 09:46:09 UTC
Type: Bug


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Description Till Maas 2015-03-05 09:59:19 UTC
Description of problem:
the dnf history database got corrupted on a system, but there is no way to recove from this with dnf, e.g. dnf could just move the old one away and create a new one or at least allow to create a new one for example like dnf history new.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-0.6.4-1

Comment 1 Honza Silhan 2015-03-17 09:22:50 UTC
Thanks for the report. We're not able to recover everything but it should at least create the new one. Let's do this functionality into Swdb. In the meantime try `sqlite3 history-<date>.sqlite ".dump" | sqlite3 history-2015-03-17.db && rm history-<date>.sqlite`

Comment 2 Honza Silhan 2015-10-21 12:48:33 UTC
*** Bug 1266103 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2015-11-04 10:04:50 UTC
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Comment 4 Christian Stadelmann 2015-11-04 10:31:46 UTC
This issue is still present on F23, see bug #1266103.

Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2015-12-02 09:46:14 UTC
Fedora 21 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-12-01. Fedora 21 is
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Comment 6 udo 2018-05-25 10:03:06 UTC
And it was still present in Fedora 28.

Comment 7 udo 2018-05-29 14:36:54 UTC
You did not read my comment?
What process is this that is peformed at the end of each new fedora release?


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