On 10/12/25 10:08 PM, Franta Hanzlík via users wrote:
Another thing, I don't know if it might be of any significance: on
another machine of mine, where a dnf upgrade was done a few months ago,
/var/lib/rpm is a symlink to ../../usr/lib/sysimage/rpm.
That seems like what it should be.
On this problematic one, /var/lib/rpm is a normal directory and contains:
# ls -lia /var/lib/rpm
total 609520
262152 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Nov 28 2023 .
262146 drwxr-xr-x. 117 root root 4096 Oct 12 23:21 ..
263688 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jun 15 2024 .migratedb
262153 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 624103424 Jul 25 2024 rpmdb.sqlite
262155 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 32768 Oct 12 12:50 rpmdb.sqlite-shm
262154 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jul 25 2024 rpmdb.sqlite-wal
264701 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Nov 28 2023 .rpm.lock
Those are old, except for the "-shm" file, so that's really weird.
Normal directory /usr/lib/sysimage/rpm/ exist too and contains:
# ls -lia /usr/lib/sysimage/rpm/
total 306124
2621474 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 12 12:50 .
2621660 drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 Oct 12 23:10 ..
2621641 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 313425920 Oct 12 12:50 rpmdb.sqlite
2622120 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 32768 Oct 12 23:22 rpmdb.sqlite-shm
2621650 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Oct 12 12:50 rpmdb.sqlite-wal
but it seems no difference between with rpm queries with '--dbpath
/usr/lib/sysimage/rpm'
and '--dbpath /var/lib/rpm'
Try moving /var/lib/rpm somewhere else, make the symlink, and see what
you get.
If you check the upgrade log, is there anything there that would be
relevant.
After making the symlink, you could try the upgrade again. I expect
there will a very large number of complaints about missing files, but
the end result should be ok.
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