Discover reports updates, but is stuck at fetching updates

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i woke up the pc this morning, the system reported me that there were updates available, i tried to instal them, it takes alot of time to report that there are 13 packages that need update but stays at fetching updates message

i left it all day and stays there, i rebooted the pc, the same situation remains

is there a way to reset discover or perhaps change repo or something like that? i dont have more ideas what to do here

2

Try the update from the command line instead
sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
If there are actually updates pending that should pull in the updates and will provide real time notes on screen about what is being done or errors that may be seen.

Many times the gui tools hide messages so the user has no clue about what is actually happening but is not displayed. An error may have caused a hang but the user never sees it and the gui just waits for a response that is never coming.

3

Its a known bug with the current Plasma update version 6.7.0

Not everybody seems to be effected, but we are not the only ones and is not Fedora KDE specific.
This bug has happened before across multiple version of KDE.
I have opened up a bug with: bugs.kde.org
New bug No: 521865

For now use Konsole for updating your system:
Paste this into your Konsole and hit Enter:

sudo dnf update --refresh

4

thank you for your reply, will do

5

thank you for your reply, the command pulled some updates, is it necessary to reboot after it pulled those updates? it said complete and nothing more

6

That’s the problem with using Konsole. It doesn’t tell you if any of the updates are core files.
So…yes, while using Konsole, the safest way is to treat them as core files and rebooting will avoid random problems.

7

thank you, i did that, from konsole, i just used reboot, but i didnt saw any message of any package being updated or replaced

out of curiosity, i tried discover, instead of staying stuck at 13 packages now it says 10, still stuck of course

8

That doesn’t sound right. With the command in Konsole it will do the full repository update and then if there are packages to be updated will ask you if you want to update yes/No
You need to type yes for it to update them. If there are no packages to be updated, it will say “nothing to do”.
If you didn’t say “yes” and hit enter then it never updated any packages it found.

9

The remaining updates seen in Discover may be updates to flatpaks.
So, open Konsole and use command:

flatpak update
10

Never thought of that…thanks for the hint. I just did mine and it had 8 packages to be updated and another 9 under DNF. See if any of them fixes Discover yet.

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thank you for your reply, yes, i wrote yes, that is why i know it did it, then i ran it again and said nothing to do or something like that

12

i just ran that command and there were 8 packages to update

at least discover doesnt tell me that there are updates now and i dont get the notification in the taskbar about packages that require update, it also doesnt say anything about any package, but still gets stuck in fetching updates as mentioned

thank you all for your help

13

“sudo dnf remove plasma-discover-snap” does the job - discover working again.

14

That’s interesting, because plasma-discover-snap shouldn’t be present on a standard Fedora KDE system. (Obviously it is if you choose to install snap.)

It would be interesting to see if the other affected users here have that package installed.

15

This is what solved it for me! I don’t know what installed the plasma-discover-snap package initially, but removing it finally got rid of the “Fetching Updates…”

Thanks!

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If you’re curious, you should be able to find what installed it from:

dnf history list --contains-pkgs=plasma-discover-snap

or, if it’s not present there, then

dnf4 history plasma-discover-snap
17

Hmm not totally clear. Perhaps an upstream dep that pulled it in erroneously ?

dnf history list --contains-pkgs=plasma-discover-snap
ID Command line                                Date and time       Action(s) Altered
55 dnf remove plasma-discover-snap             2026-06-21 13:24:41                 1
50                                             2026-06-18 21:30:41               246
39                                             2026-05-19 01:25:38               550
22 dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=44 2026-04-23 12:14:19              5094
20 dnf update
18

Could be! dnf history info 20 should show you everything that was done in that first relevant transaction, if that helps.

19

Thank you very much. I have two computers and the same problem on both.

20

Worked for me, been stuck for about a week. Thank you Thomas Nalbach