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Philip Krab posted Thu January 15, 2026 05:09 AM

Hello Team,

Since the 8th of Januari 2026, dnf fails to update at several of our customers and ends with the messages below.
For the record, AIX is at 7200-05-10-2520, openssl is at level 3.0.16.1000, including the efix from December last year.
There are no python3.9 packages installed. Anyone a solution?

root@SVR-NIM01:/opt/freeware/etc/dnf> # dnf update
AIX generic repository                                                                                                               0.0  B/s |   0  B     02:00
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/freeware/bin/dnf", line 57, in <module>
    main.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.12/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 208, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
              ^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.12/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 67, in main
    return _main(base, args, cli_class, option_parser_class)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.12/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 106, in _main
    return cli_run(cli, base)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.12/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 122, in cli_run
    cli.run()
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.12/site-packages/dnf/cli/cli.py", line 1098, in run
    self._process_demands()
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.12/site-packages/dnf/cli/cli.py", line 787, in _process_demands
    self.base.fill_sack(
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.12/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 413, in fill_sack
    self._add_repo_to_sack(r)
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.12/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 141, in _add_repo_to_sack
    repo.load()
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.12/site-packages/dnf/repo.py", line 574, in load
    ret = self._repo.load()
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/freeware/lib/python3.12/site-packages/libdnf/repo.py", line 467, in load
    return _repo.Repo_load(self)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
libdnf._error.Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'AIX_Toolbox': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried

Regards,

Philip