Description of problem: running sudo dnf remove \*VirtualBox\* Version-Release number of selected component: dnf-1.1.10-4.fc24 Additional info: reporter: libreport-2.7.2 cmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /bin/dnf remove *VirtualBox* executable: /bin/dnf kernel: 4.9.6-100.fc24.x86_64 pkg_fingerprint: 73BD E983 81B4 6521 pkg_vendor: Fedora Project runlevel: N 5 type: Python3 uid: 0 Truncated backtrace: codecs.py:321:decode:UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x85 in position 1: invalid start byte Traceback (most recent call last): File "/bin/dnf", line 58, in <module> main.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 174, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 60, in main return _main(base, args) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 120, in _main ret = resolving(cli, base) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 139, in resolving base.resolve(cli.demands.allow_erasing) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 522, in resolve goal.push_userinstalled(self.sack.query().installed(), self._yumdb) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/goal.py", line 55, in push_userinstalled reason = getattr(yumdb_info, 'reason', 'user') File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/yum/rpmsack.py", line 305, in __getattr__ return self._read(attr) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/yum/rpmsack.py", line 280, in _read value = fo.read() File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/codecs.py", line 321, in decode (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x85 in position 1: invalid start byte Local variables in innermost frame: self: <encodings.utf_8.IncrementalDecoder object at 0x7f909fb1a128> data: b'H\x85\xedt\x17\xe8\xae' input: b'H\x85\xedt\x17\xe8\xae' final: True
Created attachment 1261155 [details] File: _var_log_dnf.log
Created attachment 1261156 [details] File: backtrace
Created attachment 1261157 [details] File: environ
Created attachment 1261158 [details] File: dnf-makecache.log
Thanks for the report. You may have probably corrupted file system or the value of dnfdb was changed externally. The issue will be addressed in bug 1167239. As a temporary workaround I would suggest to remove the corrupted file in dnfdb. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1167239 ***