Can't install new Package in Fedora 39

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When trying to run dnf install htop I receive the following error:
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo ‘updates’: Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Parse error at line: 177 (Couldn’t find end of Start Tag url

Any help appreciated
Thanks

2

Most likely a temporary internet issue – or a mirror issue.
Try again after waiting a few minutes.
The server appears to be up since I am just in the middle of a ‘dnf update’ process.

3

It’s been this way for several hours. Also my update icon in kde is showing security updates available but can’t run dnf update. I get this:

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```Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'fedora':
  - Curl error (23): Failed writing received data to disk/application for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-39&arch=x86_64 [Failure writing output to destination]
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'fedora': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Curl error (23): Failed writing received data to disk/application for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-39&arch=x86_64 [Failure writing output to destination]

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I'm not sure they are related.  After update on Tuesday to kernel 6.10.8 along with a lot of other updates I've had nothing but problems.  Files just getting clobbered and having to restore from backup.  "ping" refusing to quit with <ctrl>c, system refusing to wake up, Fedora STart page taking greater than 5 minutes to load, etc.   I rebooted and went back to 6.10,6  and things appear to be working better except can update or install new packages.
4

Another tidbit! The update on Tuesday provided an update to dnf and yum. Is it possible that this is what caused the problems?? And if yes how can I go back to the old ie. remove this latest update now that I’m broken.

6

Sometimes, but probably not always, this can be cleared up by running

sudo dnf clean all

before trying again…

7

It is clear today, but that problem persisted at least until after 4PM EST yesterday. Another unexplained Fedora mystery!!

8

It would appear that your upgrade attempt was hitting a mirror repo that may have had a corrupted file and thus failed. Once the corruption was cleared then it worked. Not a mystery at all, but occasionally happens due to the way the repo mirroring occurs.