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Bug 1961083

Summary:	Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in repo config files
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jan Vlug <jan.public>
Component:	dnf	Assignee:	Marek Blaha <mblaha>
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Version:	34	CC:	dmach, jmracek, jrohel, mblaha, mhatina, packaging-team-maint, pkratoch, rpm-software-management, vmukhame
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Description Jan Vlug 2021-05-17 08:00:39 UTC

Description of problem:
Since my last dnf update, I get these warnings when running dnf commands:

Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-modular.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-modular.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-modular.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-modular.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-modular.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-modular.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist

Version: dnf.noarch 4.7.0-1.fc34

Comment 1 Marek Blaha 2021-05-18 06:29:00 UTC

Hi, the `failovermethod` option is not supported by dnf. The option was already removed from the distribution versions of repository config files (package fedora-repos) quite long ago. Please remove the `failovermethod=priority` lines from your `/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora*.repo` files.

But the error message really is misleading and I'll try to improve / hide it. Thanks for reporting this.

Comment 2 Jan Vlug 2021-05-18 06:42:26 UTC

Thanks for you reply Marek, I have been upgrading Fedora since long, so it is very likely a leftover from past Fedora releases.

Comment 3 Marek Blaha 2021-06-17 08:40:14 UTC

This PR removes the misleading error message from the console: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/pull/1276