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Bug 1769788

Summary: dnf autoremove tries to remove kernel
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Lukas Brabec <lbrabec>
Component: dnfAssignee: Jaroslav Mracek <jmracek>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 31CC: dmach, jmracek, jrohel, kparal, mblaha, mhatina, packaging-team-maint, pkratoch, ricky.tigg, rpm-software-management, uor3ee, vmukhame
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Description Lukas Brabec 2019-11-07 13:34:20 UTC 
I tried to reproduce bug reported on r/Fedora (https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/dsv563/something_tells_me_this_isnt_supposed_to_happen), the original reporter on reddit saw a prompt to actually remove all kernels, for the bug I encountered see below.


After clean installation of Fedora 31, "dnf autoremove" will result in output:

$ sudo dnf autoremove
...
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!



Output after running "dnf update kernel" and reboot:

$ sudo dnf autoremove
Last metadata expiration check: 0:02:52 ago on Thu 07 Nov 2019 02:12:03 PM CET.
Error: 
 Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: kernel-core
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)



Output after "dnf update" and reboot:

$ sudo dnf autoremove
Last metadata expiration check: 0:07:42 ago on Thu 07 Nov 2019 02:12:03 PM CET.
Error: 
 Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: kernel-core
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)




Contents of /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

[main]
gpgcheck=1
installonly_limit=3
clean_requirements_on_remove=True
best=False
skip_if_unavailable=True




Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-4.2.9-5.fc31.noarch
rpm-4.15.0-6.fc31.x86_64
kernel-5.3.7-301.fc31.x86_64
kernel-5.3.8-300.fc31.x86_64
kernel-core-5.3.7-301.fc31.x86_64
kernel-core-5.3.8-300.fc31.x86_64
kernel-headers-5.3.6-300.fc31.x86_64
kernel-modules-5.3.7-301.fc31.x86_64
kernel-modules-5.3.8-300.fc31.x86_64
kernel-modules-extra-5.3.7-301.fc31.x86_64
kernel-modules-extra-5.3.8-300.fc31.x86_64



How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Clean install from F31 Workstation Live
2. dnf update kernel
3. reboot
4. dnf autoremove
Comment 1 Pavla Kratochvilova 2019-11-11 13:16:41 UTC 
*** Bug 1769632 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Jaroslav Mracek 2019-11-13 18:28:58 UTC 
With cooperation with Dan Mach we created patches (https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/1529) that resolve the issue.

As a workaround I would recommend to mark kernel and kernel-core as user-installed packages (dnf mark install kernel kernel-core).
Comment 3 Jaroslav Mracek 2019-11-22 07:31:00 UTC 
*** Bug 1774975 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2019-12-02 14:39:12 UTC 
FEDORA-2019-0d122cc67a has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-0d122cc67a
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2019-12-02 14:39:13 UTC 
FEDORA-2019-1635fee8f5 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 31. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-1635fee8f5
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2019-12-03 00:53:52 UTC 
dnf-4.2.17-1.fc31, dnf-plugins-core-4.0.12-1.fc31, libcomps-0.1.12-1.fc31, libdnf-0.39.1-1.fc31, microdnf-3.3.0-1.fc31 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-1635fee8f5
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2019-12-03 01:33:44 UTC 
dnf-4.2.17-1.fc30, dnf-plugins-core-4.0.12-1.fc30, libcomps-0.1.12-1.fc30, libdnf-0.39.1-1.fc30, microdnf-3.3.0-1.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-0d122cc67a
Comment 8 Kamil Páral 2019-12-03 10:48:28 UTC 
Lukas, can you please verify? Thanks.
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2019-12-04 07:52:50 UTC 
FEDORA-2019-1635fee8f5 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 31. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-1635fee8f5
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2019-12-04 08:04:16 UTC 
FEDORA-2019-0d122cc67a has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-0d122cc67a
Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2019-12-05 01:23:28 UTC 
dnf-4.2.17-1.fc31, dnf-plugins-core-4.0.12-1.fc31, libcomps-0.1.14-1.fc31, libdnf-0.39.1-1.fc31, microdnf-3.3.0-1.fc31 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-1635fee8f5
Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2019-12-05 02:00:37 UTC 
dnf-4.2.17-1.fc30, dnf-plugins-core-4.0.12-1.fc30, libcomps-0.1.14-1.fc30, libdnf-0.39.1-1.fc30, microdnf-3.3.0-1.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-0d122cc67a
Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2019-12-06 05:44:02 UTC 
dnf-4.2.17-1.fc31, dnf-plugins-core-4.0.12-1.fc31, libcomps-0.1.14-1.fc31, libdnf-0.39.1-1.fc31, microdnf-3.3.0-1.fc31 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 14 Lukas Brabec 2019-12-09 07:11:11 UTC 
fixed by FEDORA-2019-1635fee8f5
Comment 15 Pavla Kratochvilova 2019-12-17 12:50:34 UTC 
*** Bug 1782470 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2020-01-07 01:51:30 UTC 
dnf-4.2.17-1.fc30, dnf-plugins-core-4.0.12-1.fc30, libcomps-0.1.14-1.fc30, libdnf-0.39.1-1.fc30, microdnf-3.3.0-1.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.