Can't Upgrade from Fedora 41 to 42

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Hello Everyone,
It’s my first time posting here, I have been using Fedora 41 (KDE Plasma) and since a new version Fedora 42 has been released, I tried to upgrade to that,
but no matter if I do the upgration from Discover or using terminal, both the cases, the Fedora 41 gets opened after reboot and shows this error in the attached photo

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Which Says :

Failed Offline Update

Failed to update 1 package
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not activate remote peer

‘org.freedesktop.PackageKit’: activation request failed: unit is invalid

I tried to install sudo dnf install PackageKit PackageKit-Qt6 PackageKit-Qt5

Also tried to unmask the packagekit service

While updating through terminal I tried sudo dnf5 system-upgrade reboot but didn’t work

N.B: I followed the fedora upgration guide and tried everything mentioned ther, please Help me!

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh

sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=42

sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot

all of these commands tried and returned the same error

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Ignore the gui upgrade and follow the command line update instructions.

That will either just work or provide error messages we can help with.

I am not sure what you have tried.

These are the instructions to follow Upgrading Fedora Linux Using DNF System Plugin :: Fedora Docs

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I followed all the instructions and tried to follow the terminal system-upgrade from the link you just mentioned, still the same issue

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh

sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=42

sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot

these returned no errors, when ran this just rebooted twice , returned into fedora 41 and showed the notification I psoted

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Use sudo dnf system-upgrade log command to look for errors during the offline upgrade attempt. The log is very long, look for lines that have dnf5 in them to see where the upgrade starts.

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What do you get for dnf --version?

Look for errors in in /var/log/dnf.log, journalctl --no-hostname -b [N] -p [P], and journalctl --no-hostname -b -g dnf (see man journalctl for values of [N] and '[P]`).

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My Wifi USB Adapter was lost, so I was connected to internet using my phone by USB Tethering, I think this was the issue

I bought a new WiFi adapter, and upgraded to Fedora 42 & finally the upgrade was successful.

N.B: Also, this time i upgraded from Hyprland Session instead of Plasma (Not sure if the solution has to do anything with this or not)