Dnfdragora crashes when looking at a certain history element

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tl;dr When clicking on a certain history item to display the details, the client crashes with the following error:

dnfdaemon client failure [g-io-error-quark: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.AttributeError: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/dbus/service.py", line 715, in _message_cb
    retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dnfdaemon/server/__init__.py", line 68, in newFunc
    rc = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/dnfdaemon/dnfdaemon-system", line 291, in GetHistoryPackages
    value = self.get_history_transaction_pkgs(tid)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dnfdaemon/server/__init__.py", line 731, in get_history_transaction_pkgs
    pkg_id = self._get_id(pkg)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dnfdaemon/server/__init__.py", line 1064, in _get_id
    values = [pkg.name, str(pkg.epoch), pkg.version, pkg.release, pkg.arch]
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dnf/db/history.py", line 72, in name
    return self._item.getRPMItem().getName()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'getName'
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<_M_> [ui] YUILoader.cc:236 deleteUI(): Shutting down UI

using dnf history command line to find the same entry, followed by dnf history info [id] displays the details without issue.

I assume this is a bug, not sure if I should raise a bugzilla or github issue. Please advise. Thanks

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I’d recommend starting with bugzilla.

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Did you happen to upgrade fedora versions recently? Apparently a known issue from previous upgrades. Proposed solutions are to move or delete /var/lib/dnf/history or /var/lib/dnf/history.sqlite.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1600917

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The Errors are remarkably similar, but I am on later version that is claimed to be fixed.

"$ dnf --version 
$ dnf --version
4.14.0
  Installed: dnf-0:4.14.0-1.fc36.noarch at Wed 09 Nov 2022 18:29:34 GMT
  Built    : Fedora Project at Fri 09 Sep 2022 13:49:11 GMT

  Installed: rpm-0:4.17.1-3.fc36.x86_64 at Wed 09 Nov 2022 18:28:25 GMT
  Built    : Fedora Project at Tue 02 Aug 2022 12:31:56 GMT

The comments also call for a new bug to be raised, so that I will do.

I believe that the problem is fixed in dnf-4.0.9 with libdnf-0:0.22.3. If the problem reappear please open the new bug, because already multiple issues are discussed here.

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2156680

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DNF dragona was unstable and kept having issues on my Fedora which caused more issues even after closing the application.
My suggestion would be to uninstall it.

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Uninstall is always an option. However, I quite like to see the introduction of more gui’s for linux and whilst many are far from perfect, it’s up to us, the users and community, to feed back our experiences. After all, not many get paid for doing ‘stuff’ and often software is not tested as vigorously as it is for ‘paid for’ commercial software.

Can always fall back to command line when the going gets tuff anyway.

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