+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1594016 +++

Description of problem:

Not sure if this is a dnf issue or father down, but:

#!/usr/bin/python3
import dnf
import psutil

proc = psutil.Process()
base = dnf.Base()
base.conf.assumeyes = True
base.conf.read()
for i in [1, 2, 3]:
    base.fill_sack(load_system_repo='auto')
    base.close()
    print(proc.open_files())


produces:

[popenfile(path='/var/lib/sss/mc/passwd', fd=3, position=0, mode='r', flags=557056), popenfile(path='/var/lib/sss/mc/group', fd=5, position=0, mode='r', flags=557056), popenfile(path='/var/tmp/dnf-orion-admin-75jop0p2/hawkey.log', fd=6, position=4834, mode='a', flags=33793)]
[popenfile(path='/var/lib/sss/mc/passwd', fd=3, position=0, mode='r', flags=557056), popenfile(path='/var/lib/sss/mc/group', fd=5, position=0, mode='r', flags=557056), popenfile(path='/var/tmp/dnf-orion-admin-75jop0p2/hawkey.log', fd=6, position=4880, mode='a', flags=33793), popenfile(path='/var/tmp/dnf-orion-admin-75jop0p2/hawkey.log', fd=7, position=4968, mode='a', flags=33793)]
[popenfile(path='/var/lib/sss/mc/passwd', fd=3, position=0, mode='r', flags=557056), popenfile(path='/var/lib/sss/mc/group', fd=5, position=0, mode='r', flags=557056), popenfile(path='/var/tmp/dnf-orion-admin-75jop0p2/hawkey.log', fd=6, position=4880, mode='a', flags=33793), popenfile(path='/var/tmp/dnf-orion-admin-75jop0p2/hawkey.log', fd=7, position=5014, mode='a', flags=33793), popenfile(path='/var/tmp/dnf-orion-admin-75jop0p2/hawkey.log', fd=8, position=5102, mode='a', flags=33793)]

Note the multiple open files of hawkey.log.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python3-dnf-2.7.5-12.fc28.noarch

Related see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41810

--- Additional comment from David Wilson on 2018-06-22 03:33:52 UTC ---

Hi there,

This problem seems to be due to 'self._sack = None' in 'def reset()' being insufficient to clear out the last reference to the Sack, causing tp_dealloc() to call hy_sack_free() and subsequently close the file descriptor.

Triggering a manual 'gc.collection()' suggests the problem is also unrelated to a reference cycle within the graph of the Sack object itself, unless it has a missing or buggy tp_traverse implementation.

Please expose an explicit close() method on the Sack object, the existing API is unsafe as it conflates memory management and resource finalization, which always leads to fragile and surprising results

Related digging: https://github.com/dw/mitogen/issues/280#issuecomment-399307248

--- Additional comment from Ben Cotton on 2019-05-02 20:47:28 UTC ---

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--- Additional comment from Orion Poplawski on 2019-05-06 17:42:41 UTC ---

Still present with python3-dnf-4.2.5-1.fc29.noarch

--- Additional comment from Jaroslav Mracek on 2019-09-10 16:47:56 UTC ---

I created a patch: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/pull/792

--- Additional comment from Jaroslav Mracek on 2019-10-19 15:39:08 UTC ---

Fixed in Fedora 30 - dnf-4.2.11