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Bug 1687455 - always reinstalling the kernel in "dnf update"
Summary: always reinstalling the kernel in "dnf update"
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libsolv
Version: 7.6
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jaroslav Rohel
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Whiteboard:
Depends On: 1668256
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-03-11 14:07 UTC by Remi Collet
Modified: 2019-07-18 12:02 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-07-18 12:02:22 UTC
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Description Remi Collet 2019-03-11 14:07:21 UTC 
Description of problem:
Always reinstalling the kernel

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-4.0.9.2-1.el7_6.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf update
2. dnf update
3.

Actual results:
# LANG=C dnf update
Last metadata expiration check: 0:05:58 ago on Mon Mar 11 15:00:30 2019.
Detection of Platform Module failed: Missing PLATFORM_ID in /etc/os-release
Dependencies resolved.

 Problem: cannot install both kernel-3.10.0-1018.el7.x86_64 and kernel-3.10.0-1018.el7.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package kernel-3.10.0-1018.el7.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package kernel-3.10.0-952.el7.x86_64
==============================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                    Arch                                       Version                                                Repository                                 Size
==============================================================================================================================================================================================
Reinstalling:
 kernel                                     x86_64                                     3.10.0-1018.el7                                        devel                                      49 M

Transaction Summary
==============================================================================================================================================================================================

Total download size: 49 M
Installed size: 63 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Comment 2 Remi Collet 2019-03-11 14:13:27 UTC 
It seems kernel-devel is also not properly managed, when installed

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/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 179, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 64, in main
    return _main(base, args, cli_class, option_parser_class)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 99, in _main
    return cli_run(cli, base)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 123, in cli_run
    ret = resolving(cli, base)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 154, in resolving
    base.do_transaction(display=displays)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/cli.py", line 240, in do_transaction
    tid = super(BaseCli, self).do_transaction(display)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 872, in do_transaction
    tid = self._run_transaction(cb=cb)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 1021, in _run_transaction
    self._verify_transaction(cb.verify_tsi_package)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 1059, in _verify_transaction
    self.history.end(rpmdbv, 0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/db/history.py", line 504, in end
    bool(return_code)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libdnf/transaction.py", line 758, in endTransaction
    return _transaction.Swdb_endTransaction(self, dtEnd, rpmdbVersionEnd, state)
RuntimeError: L'état du TransactionItem n'est pas défini: kernel-devel-3.10.0-834.el7.x86_64
Comment 3 Ben Beasley 2019-03-13 22:56:51 UTC 
Looks like #1668256. See also #1677862.
Comment 4 Ben Beasley 2019-03-13 22:57:35 UTC 
Let's try that again with links. Looks like bug #1668256. See also bug #1677862.
Comment 5 Jaroslav Mracek 2019-03-19 13:47:28 UTC 
The issue from Description if fixed by commit https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/commit/0ce04714c477f25fde16c57b5fdc478755794126
Comment 6 Daniel Mach 2019-07-18 12:02:22 UTC 
This bug is not planned to be addressed during Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 life-cycle.
Please contact Red Hat support if you wish to have it reconsidered.
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