On 11/5/25 8:30 AM, Barry Scott wrote:


On 4 Nov 2025, at 21:39, Paolo Galtieri <[email protected]> wrote:

Folks,
after this morning's update dnf4 fails in the following way:

dnf4 list all
Last metadata expiration check: 3:12:25 ago on Tue 04 Nov 2025 10:24:23 AM PST.
Error: SQLite error on "/var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite": Executing an SQL 
statement failed: attempt to write a readonly database

This command should not be attempting a write. This is a read only operation. 
This worked fine yesterday morning and has worked fine for years.

It also fails for dnf4 list installed


f42 switched to dnf5. Only if you use the GUI install tools might you need to 
use dnf4.

Barry


Paolo
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I have used dnf4 on F42 for months without issue. Now dnf4 is complaining about writing a read only file when before it never complained. Why has this behaviour changed?

Paolo






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