Just recently migrated to AIX 7.3 and did a fresh install of dnf and update with no apparent errors.  However, when attempting to run dnf search I get the following:
 # dnf search zip
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/dnf", line 58, in <module>
    from dnf.cli import main
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf/__init__.py", line 30, in <module>
    import dnf.base
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 29, in <module>
    import libdnf.transaction
  File "/opt/freeware/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/libdnf/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from . import common_types
  File "/opt/freeware/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/libdnf/common_types.py", line 13, in <module>
    from . import _common_types
ImportError: Symbol resolution failed for /opt/freeware/lib/libglib-2.0.a[libglib-2.0.so.0] because:
        Symbol _GLOBAL__AIXI_libintl_so (number 197) is not exported from dependent
          module /usr/opt/rpm/lib/libintl.a[libintl.so.8].
        Symbol _GLOBAL__AIXD_libintl_so (number 198) is not exported from dependent
          module /usr/opt/rpm/lib/libintl.a[libintl.so.8].
Could not load module /opt/freeware/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/libdnf/_common_types.so.
System error: Exec format error
Examine .loader section symbols with the 'dump -Tv' command.

Verified libintl.so.8 is in place:
#> ar -tv /usr/opt/rpm/lib/libintl.a
rwxr-xr-x     0/0      93072 May 28 04:38 2022 libintl.so.8
rw-r-----     0/0     114582 May 28 04:52 2022 libintl.so.1

# ls -l /usr/lib/libintl.a
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     system           26 Oct 18 13:10 /usr/lib/libintl.a -> /usr/opt/rpm/lib/libintl.a

Suggestions?

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John Bogoslofski
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#AIXOpenSource

Hi, John

Check your LIBPATH, you should not have this set to /usr/lib, but it seems that's where the DNF libraries are searching.

/opt/freeware/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/libdnf/_common_types.so should be loading /opt/freeware/lib/libintl.a(libintl.so.8)

I can reproduce this error:

 export LIBPATH=/usr/lib; dnf --help
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/freeware/bin/dnf", line 58, in <module>
    from dnf.cli import main
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf/__init__.py", line 30, in <module>
    import dnf.base
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 29, in <module>
    import libdnf.transaction
  File "/opt/freeware/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/libdnf/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from . import common_types
  File "/opt/freeware/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/libdnf/common_types.py", line 13, in <module>
    from . import _common_types
ImportError:    0509-022 Cannot load module /opt/freeware/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/libdnf/_common_types.so.
        0509-150   Dependent module /usr/lib/libiconv.a(libiconv.so.2) could not be loaded.
        0509-152   Member libiconv.so.2 is not found in archive

Then:

 unset LIBPATH; dnf --help

usage: dnf [options] COMMAND

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Jan Harris
AIX Development Support (Liaison to the AIX Toolbox for Open Source)
IBM (Contract)
Austin TX
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