On Fri, 2020-08-14 at 00:34 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 8/13/20 8:50 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > > From: Bob Goodwin <bobgood...@fastmail.us>
> > > Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:43:38 -0400
> > > Error: SQLite error on "/var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite": Reading a row 
> > > failed: database disk image is malformed
> > 
> > I too got this SQLite error.
> > 
> > I was able to fix it simply: just
> >     sudo mv /var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite /var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite.hide
> > 
> > I have no idea if this causes other damage but dnf update now works.
> > 
> > What does this file do and what am I going to lose without it?
> > Is there a way to reliably repair this file?
> > Based on googling, this problem seems quite rare.
> 
> This is the dnf history database.  By removing it, you now have no way 
> to see the history of your dnf transactions.

/var/log/dnf.rpm.log contains some useful information. Not as much as
the DNF log, but I find that to be more than I need a lot of the time.

poc
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