On Mon, 2017-06-05 at 12:34 +0200, Kamil Paral wrote: > On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 6:44 PM, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > Hi folks! > > > > So as you may have read, F26 Beta was held up by a tricky bug which > > causes upgrades to hang in some situations: > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397087 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1394862 > > > > There are updates in F24, F25 and F26 at present which we hope should > > resolve this bug without causing other problems, but the code in > > question is quite sensitive so we want to be as sure as possible that > > it's good to go. > > > > It would be great if folks can help test. You should probably only test > > if you're confident in the old RPM database recovery trick - 'rm -f > > /var/lib/rpm/__db* ; rpm --rebuilddb' - and on systems which aren't > > *completely* mission critical. > > > > To test upgrading, please update to the newer libdb on the 'from' > > release first (F24 or F25), then run an upgrade *with the updates- > > testing repository enabled*: > > > > dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=26 --enablerepo=updates-testing > > > > Or if you want to avoid potential issues with other updates-testing > > packages, create a side repository with only the libdb-5.3.28-21.fc26 > > update: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-a4c41ecc27 > > in it, and enable *that* repository during the upgrade. Please check > > that libdb-5.3.28-21.fc26 is listed in the set of packages to be > > upgraded before running the upgrade, to ensure your test is valid. > > > > To make sure the patch doesn't cause other problems, please just > > install the updated libdb on F24, F25 or F26 and go about your normal > > business - maybe test installing, removing and updating more packages > > than usual. One of the previous attempts to fix this bug would cause > > RPM database corruption when an RPM scriptlet called rpm itself, so > > we're trying to catch other issues of this nature. > > > > If you do run into any problems, please report them in the bug reports > > and/or in reply to this mail. > > > > I updated F25 to libdb-5.3.28-21.fc25 and while dnf worked fine, > gnome-software stopped working and complained about a failure to open rpmdb: > > Jun 05 11:51:33 f25 packagekitd[1040]: error: db5 error(5) from > dbenv->open: Input/output error > Jun 05 11:51:33 f25 packagekitd[1040]: error: cannot open Packages index > using db5 - Input/output error (5) > Jun 05 11:51:33 f25 packagekitd[1040]: error: cannot open Packages database > in > Jun 05 11:51:33 f25 packagekitd[1040]: BDB1537 //var/lib/rpm/__db.001: > unable to read system-memory information: Input/output error > Jun 05 11:51:33 f25 PackageKit[1040]: resolve transaction /190_aadbbbbd > from uid 1000 finished with failed after 39ms > Jun 05 11:51:33 f25 gnome-software-service.desktop[1475]: 09:51:33:0558 Gs > failed to call gs_plugin_refine on packagekit-refine: Failed to load system > repo: failed loading RPMDB > > The issue disappeared after a reboot. Not sure whether that's > expected/wanted. Nope, this is one of those updates where everything should work...can you add a comment to one of the bugs about that, and see what the devs say? Thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
