An everyday tale of dnf

[Jan Zelený]

On 9. 4. 2015 at 10:31:20, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 09.04.2015 um 10:28 schrieb Jan Zelený:
> > On 9. 4. 2015 at 03:19:02, kendell clark wrote:
> >> hi
> >> I'll add my two cents in. I've had few problems with dnf. That being
> >> said, I usually get an error after every install/update that goes
> >> something like, snapper. Could not create snapshot error.unknown
> >> config: /org.freedesktop.dbus.error. This is not exact, I can get
> >> exact if needed. I'm assuming the snapshot plugin might be broken, or
> >> still be in development. I sometimes get a much more serious error
> >> that I solved once, but now can't remember how. Sometimes when I go to
> >> do anything with dnf, I get an error of, error. Repository "local" is
> >> listed more than once in the configuration." And dnf immediately
> >> returns me to my prompt. This not only affects dnf when run from the
> >> command line, but also appears to affect gnome software, which
> >> presumably uses it. I hope to be able to help fix these issues by
> >> f22's release. I'll gladly provide any needed info.
> >> Thanks
> >> Kendell clark
> >> Sent from Fedora GNU/Linux
> > 
> > Please review the entire thread, I believe you are hitting the very same
> > issue that was thoroughly analyzed and solved here. Once again, dnf is
> > not to be blamed here, the issues are in the individual plugins you have
> > installed
> not really
> 
> snapper could simply realize that it can't work as example on ext4 and
> just be a NOP operatin doing nothing in that case

My point was that it's still an issue of one specific plugin, not the entire 
dnf. That plugin (may it be snapper or local) can be disabled or uninstalled 
until the bug is fixed.

Thanks
Jan