Re: dnf failing to update

[Ed Greshko]

On 07/10/17 08:32, Richard England wrote:
>  On 07/09/2017 04:54 PM, Richard England wrote:
> > On 07/09/2017 03:19 PM, Richard England wrote:
> >> I've removed all but the fedora related files in yum.repos.d and it had no
> effect.
> >>>
> >>> Try a
> >>> dnf clean metadata
> >>> in case you are trying to access a bad repo.
> >> The error/traceback occurs with any dnf command I try, including the clean
> commands
> >>>
> >>
> >> My   /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo looks identical to the one you posted.
> >
> > I find that if you use the  option --noplugins dnf seems to work. e.g.
> >
> >     dnf --noplugins dnf
> >
> > This seems to help any command command, for me. This sounds like I have installed
> > a plugin and forgotten about it.  Does anyone know how to list the plugins that
> > are installed or where they reside?  And more to the point, how do I remove them?
> >
> > ~~R
> >
>  The url/IPaddr is embedded in /usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf-plugins/dnf_zsync.py
>
>      class Plugin(dnf.Plugin):
>
>          name = 'zsync'
>
>          def __init__(self, base, cli):
>              super(Plugin, self).__init__(base, cli)
>              self.cli = cli
>              self.base = base
>              self.impl = PluginImpl('http://209.132.178.35/' +
> base.conf.releasever +
>                                     '/')
>
>          def config(self):
>              if self.cli:
>                  self.cli.demands.cacheonly = True
>                  self.base.repos['updates'].md_only_cached = True
>                  self.impl.sync_metadata(self.base.repos['updates'].cachedir)
>  
If you type "dnf" with no options you'll get a list of plugins

But, based on the name, I'm guess it is zsync.  I think you may have installed this
from someone's copr repository.

If you "rpm -qa | grep zsync" you probably will find the offending package. 
Then
just use "rpm" to uninstall.


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