On Sun, May 24, 2026 at 3:53 PM Dave Close <[email protected]> wrote:

> "George N. White III" wrote:
>
> >Dave Close <[email protected]> wrote=
> >
> >> Jerry James wrote:
> >>
> >> >$ rpm -q --scripts kernel-core-7.0.9-205.fc44.x86_64
>
> >> Sorry, I don't understand why the above is relevant to the problem.
> >> What is this intending to accomplish or demonstrate?
> >
> >The potential use of weak-modules by an uninstall. See this 2021
> discussion:
> > <https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/FedoraWeakUpdatesFailure
> >
>
> Thanks. That clarifies things a lot.
>
> > Do you have anything for /lib/*/weak-updates?  Does the problem system
> >have a different history of upgrades over time from 2021?
>
>   $ ls -d /lib/*/weak*
>   ls: cannot access '/lib/*/weak*': No such file or directory
>
>   $ locate weak-updates
>   /usr/lib/modules/7.0.8-200.fc44.x86_64/weak-updates
>   /usr/lib/modules/7.0.9-204.fc44.x86_64/weak-updates
>   /usr/lib/modules/7.0.9-205.fc44.x86_64/weak-updates
>

This appears to be normal.



>
>   $ for x in /usr/lib/modules/*/weak-updates; do ls $x | wc; done
>         0       0       0
>         0       0       0
>         0       0       0
>
>   $ rpm -q --scripts kernel-core-7.0.9-205.fc44.x86_64 | wc
>        24      76     961
>
> All of the above results are identical on all of my Fedora machines,
> including the one which produces the RPM errors on upgrade.
>
> Note also that the first RPM error I quoted,
>   >>> [RPM] file /lib/modules/7.0.9-202.fc44.x86_64/weak-updates:
>       remove failed: No such file or directory
> is the only one of the 238 similar errors in that upgrade that
> contains the word, "weak", in any form.
>

The fact that  /lib/modules/7.0.9-202.fc44.x86_64/weak-updates was missing
indicates something went wrong with the installation of 7.0.9.-202.  You
can compare
grep 7.0.9-202.fc44.x86_64 /var/log/dnf5.log* across your systems.

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George N. White III
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