Yesterday I removed a simple package from my Fedora 23 machine and after that I got the message
error: Failed to initialize NSS library
WTF??????
Searching the interwebs I found out I wasn’t the first, and probably not the last, to run into this problem.
It seems that, one way or another, the DNF package doesn’t know about
the dependency it has on SQLite. So, when a package removal requests to
remove SQLite, DNF removes it without questions. Ans thus break itself.
But how to fix this? DNF doesn’t work, but RPM doesn’t either, so there is no way to reinstall the SQLite packages.
Tinkering and probing I found this solution:
#!/bin/bash
url="http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/fedora/linux/updates/23/x86_64/s/"
ver="3.11.0-3"
wget ${url}/sqlite-${ver}.fc23.x86_64.rpm
wget ${url}/sqlite-libs-${ver}.fc23.x86_64.rpm
rpm2cpio sqlite-${ver}.fc23.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv
rpm2cpio sqlite-libs-${ver}.fc23.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv
cp -Rp usr /
dnf --best --allowerasing install sqlite.x86_64This downloads the SQLite package and SQLite library packages, extracts
them and copies the missing files to their /usr destination. After
doing that, DNF and RPM get working again. It could be that I downloaded
an older version of the SQLite stuff, so to make sure I have a current
version I reinstall SQLite again.
Maybe a good idea to fix that in DNF!