Cannot update Fedora due to kernel error

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Hi, I’m having some problem updating Fedora with ‘sudo dnf update’. After launching the command, the terminal outputs this:

created by dnf config-manager from file:///home 0.0  B/s |   0  B     00:00    
Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'home_alessandrovulcu_onedrive_repo':
  - Curl error (37): Couldn't read a file:// file for file:///home/alessandrovulcu/onedrive/repo/repodata/repomd.xml [Couldn't open file /home/alessandrovulcu/onedrive/repo/repodata/repomd.xml]
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'home_alessandrovulcu_onedrive_repo': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried
Repository ignorati: home_alessandrovulcu_onedrive_repo
Ultima verifica della scadenza dei metadati: 1:14:25 fa il sab 27 ago 2022, 21:08:41.
Errore: 
 Problema 1: package kernel-modules-extra-5.18.9-200.fc36.x86_64 requires kernel-uname-r = 5.18.9-200.fc36.x86_64, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
 Problema 2: package kernel-5.18.9-200.fc36.x86_64 requires kernel-core-uname-r = 5.18.9-200.fc36.x86_64, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)

(some lines are in italian but i guess that the errors and stuff are understandable)
Can someone hel me get through this?

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There are two things going on. Your onedrive repo appears to be unreasonable. The other might go away with dnf update --refresh, since it could just be a mirror that hasn’t fully sync’d yet.

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Unfortunately it didn’t work. I also tried to disable the Onedrive repo but the problem with the kernel update remains…

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Which kernel version are you running?
uname -a
In addition, could you paste the result of this command?
rpm -qa kernel* | sort

(The kernel-5.18.9-200.fc36.x86_64 packages were in the repository a month ago).

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ALso important

dnf repolist
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So uname -a and rpm -qa kernel* | sort results are:

[alessandrovulcu@fedora ~]$  uname -a
Linux fedora 5.18.11-200.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Jul 12 22:52:35 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[alessandrovulcu@fedora ~]$  rpm -qa kernel* | sort
kernel-5.18.11-200.fc36.x86_64
kernel-5.18.7-200.fc36.x86_64
kernel-5.18.9-200.fc36.x86_64
kernel-core-5.18.11-200.fc36.x86_64
kernel-core-5.18.13-200.fc36.x86_64
kernel-core-5.18.7-200.fc36.x86_64
kernel-core-5.18.9-200.fc36.x86_64
kernel-devel-5.18.11-200.fc36.x86_64
kernel-devel-5.18.7-200.fc36.x86_64
kernel-devel-5.18.9-200.fc36.x86_64
kernel-headers-5.18.13-200.fc36.x86_64
kernel-modules-5.18.11-200.fc36.x86_64
kernel-modules-5.18.13-200.fc36.x86_64
kernel-modules-5.18.7-200.fc36.x86_64
kernel-modules-5.18.9-200.fc36.x86_64
kernel-modules-extra-5.18.11-200.fc36.x86_64
kernel-modules-extra-5.18.7-200.fc36.x86_64
kernel-modules-extra-5.18.9-200.fc36.x86_64
kernel-srpm-macros-1.0-14.fc36.noarch

Then dnf repolist result is:

[alessandrovulcu@fedora ~]$ dnf repolist
id repo                                        nome repo
copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:elxreno:preload Copr repo for preload owned by elxreno
copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:jstaf:onedriver Copr repo for onedriver owned by jstaf
copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:vbatts:bazel    Copr repo for bazel owned by vbatts
docker-ce-stable                               Docker CE Stable - x86_64
fedora                                         Fedora 36 - x86_64
fedora-cisco-openh264                          Fedora 36 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64
fedora-modular                                 Fedora Modular 36 - x86_64
google-chrome                                  google-chrome
home_MasterSoft24                              MasterSoft24's Projects (Fedora_26)
phracek-PyCharm                                Copr repo for PyCharm owned by phracek
rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver                RPM Fusion for Fedora 36 - Nonfree - NVIDIA Driver
rpmfusion-nonfree-steam                        RPM Fusion for Fedora 36 - Nonfree - Steam
updates                                        Fedora 36 - x86_64 - Updates
updates-modular                                Fedora Modular 36 - x86_64 - Updates

I’m not an expert, but it seems that there are multiple kernel versions installed, but i know this is normal for Fedora(?).
I can’t figure it out if it is something wrong here.

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Yes. Fedora Linux keeps the last 3 kernels (the latest installed + two previous ones).

What sounds strange to me is that you are running on kernel-5.18.11-200 and there is kernel-core-5.18.13-200 package installed but no kernel-5.18.13-200 package.
Some previous update process gone wrong?
However, since you are on a more recent kernel, you could uninstall kernel-modules-extra-5.18.9-200 and retry the update.

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If dnf does not allow that, or if it tries to remove too musth. you can try to remove

dnf remove kernel-core-5.18.7-200.fc36.x86_64

Or you can edit /etc/dnf/dnf.conf changing installonly_limit=3 to installonly_limit=5.

That allows you to install two more kernels before you get the problem again.

I wonder if you have some strange package installed from one of the non-fedora repositories which would prevent you from removing kernel version 5.18.9-200.

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All right removing kernel-modules-extra-5.18.9-200 solved the problem. Now updating is working. Thanks for the help all :heart:

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Also, since it seems kernel 5.18.13 was not properly installed you may want to remove that kernel. sudo dnf remove kernel*5.18.13*
That kernel version is now obsolete anyway.

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