Strange dnf behavior or UFU (user foul up)?

[George R Goffe]

Hi,

I'm trying to upgrade a system here and am having some difficulty with dnf. Could I
get some help or tips or suggestions please?

Below is what I would enter in a bugzilla.redhat.com bug report. I thought I'd check
here first in case I've done something stupid.

Thanks,

George...

Description of problem:

Attempting to upgrade this system. First try revealed errors with "nut" and
"gnutls" so I reran the command adding --exclude='nut-*' and
--exclude='gnutls*'. This retry listed several other packages with problems.
Second try, adding --exclude='kdevelop*' and --exclude='python*'. This
resulted in the "protected packages" message.

It's clear that there's a bug here or (probably) I don't understand dnf as
well as I thought.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-4.2.21-1.fc33.noarch

How reproducible:
always for now

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see below
2.
3.

Actual results:
see below

Expected results:
clean and successful system upgrade

Additional info:

fc33-bash 5.0 /donez# /usr/bin/dnf -y --noautoremove --refresh --skip-broken --best
--allowerasing --exclude='gnutls-*' --exclude='nut*' upgrade
Fedora 33 openh264 (From Cisco) -
x86_64                                                               1.6 kB/s | 986  B    
00:00    
Fedora - Rawhide - Developmental packages for the next Fedora
release                                   32 kB/s |  14 kB     00:00    
Error:
 Problem 1: cannot install the best update candidate for package
thonny-3.2.7-2.fc32.noarch
  - problem with installed package thonny-3.2.7-2.fc32.noarch
  - nothing provides python3.9dist(asttokens) >= 1.1.10 needed by
thonny-3.2.7-3.fc33.noarch
 Problem 2: cannot install the best update candidate for package
pdfarranger-1.5.3-1.fc33.noarch
  - problem with installed package pdfarranger-1.5.3-1.fc33.noarch
  - nothing provides python3.9dist(pikepdf) >= 1.7 needed by
pdfarranger-1.5.3-2.fc33.noarch
 Problem 3: cannot install the best update candidate for package
kdevelop-libs-9:5.5.1-1.fc33.x86_64
  - problem with installed package kdevelop-libs-9:5.5.1-1.fc33.x86_64
  - nothing provides libprocesscore.so.9()(64bit) needed by
kdevelop-libs-9:5.5.1-2.fc33.x86_64
  - nothing provides libprocessui.so.9()(64bit) needed by
kdevelop-libs-9:5.5.1-2.fc33.x86_64
 Problem 4: cannot install the best update candidate for package
kdevelop-9:5.5.1-1.fc33.x86_64
  - problem with installed package kdevelop-9:5.5.1-1.fc33.x86_64
  - package kdevelop-9:5.5.1-2.fc33.x86_64 requires kdevelop-libs(x86-64) =
9:5.5.1-2.fc33, but none of the providers can be installed
  - nothing provides libprocesscore.so.9()(64bit) needed by
kdevelop-libs-9:5.5.1-2.fc33.x86_64
  - nothing provides libprocessui.so.9()(64bit) needed by
kdevelop-libs-9:5.5.1-2.fc33.x86_64
 Problem 5: cannot install the best update candidate for package
gnutls-3.6.13-3.fc33.x86_64
  - cannot install both gnutls-3.6.13-6.fc33.x86_64 and gnutls-3.6.13-3.fc33.x86_64
  - package gnutls-c++-3.6.13-3.fc33.x86_64 requires gnutls(x86-64) = 3.6.13-3.fc33, but
none of the providers can be installed
  - problem with installed package gnutls-c++-3.6.13-3.fc33.x86_64
 Problem 6: cannot install the best update candidate for package
gnutls-3.6.13-3.fc33.i686
  - cannot install both gnutls-3.6.13-6.fc33.i686 and gnutls-3.6.13-3.fc33.i686
  - package gnutls-c++-3.6.13-3.fc33.i686 requires gnutls(x86-32) = 3.6.13-3.fc33, but
none of the providers can be installed
  - problem with installed package gnutls-c++-3.6.13-3.fc33.i686
 Problem 7: cannot install the best update candidate for package
python3-3.8.3-1.fc33.x86_64
  - cannot install both python3-3.9.0~b1-4.fc33.x86_64 and python3-3.8.3-1.fc33.x86_64
  - python3-3.8.3-1.fc33.i686 has inferior architecture
  - package nut-client-2.7.4-27.fc32.x86_64 requires python(abi) = 3.8, but none of the
providers can be installed
  - problem with installed package nut-client-2.7.4-27.fc32.x86_64
 Problem 8: cannot install the best update candidate for package
python3-devel-3.8.3-1.fc33.x86_64
  - problem with installed package python3-devel-3.8.3-1.fc33.x86_64
  - package python3-devel-3.9.0~b1-4.fc33.x86_64 conflicts with python3 <
3.9.0~b1-4.fc33 provided by python3-3.8.3-1.fc33.x86_64
  - package nut-client-2.7.4-27.fc32.x86_64 requires python(abi) = 3.8, but none of the
providers can be installed
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package python3-3.8.3-1.fc33.i686
  - cannot install both python3-3.9.0~b1-4.fc33.i686 and python3-3.8.3-1.fc33.i686
  - package nut-2.7.4-27.fc32.x86_64 requires libupsclient.so.4()(64bit), but none of the
providers can be installed
  - problem with installed package nut-2.7.4-27.fc32.x86_64
  - package nut-client-2.7.4-30.fc33.x86_64 is filtered out by exclude filtering

fc33-bash 5.0 /donez# /usr/bin/dnf -y --noautoremove --refresh --skip-broken --best
--allowerasing --exclude='gnutls-*' --exclude='nut*'
--exclude='kdevelop*' --exclude='python*' upgrade
Fedora 33 openh264 (From Cisco) -
x86_64                                                               177  B/s | 986  B    
00:05    
Fedora - Rawhide - Developmental packages for the next Fedora
release                                   43 kB/s |  14 kB     00:00    
Error:
 Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: dnf

[Samuel Sieb]

On 6/3/20 1:41 PM, George R Goffe via users wrote:
>  Description of problem:
>  
>  Attempting to upgrade this system. First try revealed errors with "nut" and
> "gnutls" so I reran the command adding --exclude='nut-*' and
> --exclude='gnutls*'. This retry listed several other packages with problems.
> Second try, adding --exclude='kdevelop*' and --exclude='python*'. This
> resulted in the "protected packages" message.
>  
>  It's clear that there's a bug here or (probably) I don't understand dnf as
> well as I thought.
>  
>  Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
>  dnf-4.2.21-1.fc33.noarch 
This is a rawhide system, so someone is certainly going to tell you that 
you should post this on the test list instead.  So there, I just did it. :-)

It is not unusual for rawhide to have periods of time where upgrades of 
certain packages have issues because that's where development is 
happening.  I know there are two very large updates in progress, so 
you're likely hitting an issue with one or both of those.  I see a 
reference to python3.9 in there, so very likely.  Give it a few days to 
settle down and try again.  That's quite the combination of dnf options 
you've put together, I'm not sure how well they all work together.

Maybe just try "--skip-broken" for now and if that doesn't work, try later.