I have the following specs:
- intel i7 x86_64 board
- fresh fedora server 41 iso install
- New Zealand location (discuss later why it might be important)
When running dnf makecache or dnf upgrade the device gets stuck on random parts of the process.
Sometimes it gets stuck indefinitely (after 1 hour I kill the process) on these sections (and it seems its always either the fedora-updates repo or the fedora main repo):
Updating and loading repositories:
Fedora 41 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_ 100% | 2.1 KiB/s | 5.8 KiB | 00m03s
Fedora 41 - x86_64 - Updates 100% | 1.3 MiB/s | 11.6 MiB | 00m09s
Fedora 41 - x86_64 1% [= ] | 15.6 KiB/s | 17.9 MiB | 12m01s
And sometimes it passes this section but then there are issues during these sections (Packages take 20 minutes to download sometimes indefinitely):
Updating and loading repositories:
│ Repositories loaded.
│ Package "util-linux-2.40.4-1.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
│ Package "lvm2-2.03.25-4.fc41.x86_64" is already installed.
│
│
│ Package Arch Version Repository Size
│ Installing:
│ boom-boot noarch 1.6.6-1.fc41 updates 55.7 KiB
│ greenboot x86_64 0.15.8-1.fc41 updates 51.2 KiB
│ watchdog x86_64 5.16-9.fc41 fedora 168.1 KiB
│ Installing dependencies:
│ aardvark-dns x86_64 2:1.16.0-1.fc41 updates 2.3 MiB
│ boom-boot-conf noarch 1.6.6-1.fc41 updates 45.6 KiB
│ bootc x86_64 1.8.0-1.fc41 updates 9.3 MiB
│ bubblewrap x86_64 0.10.0-1.fc41 fedora 134.1 KiB
│ catatonit x86_64 0.2.1-1.fc41 updates 763.3 KiB
│ composefs x86_64 1.0.8-1.fc41 updates 176.3 KiB
│ composefs-libs x86_64 1.0.8-1.fc41 updates 140.1 KiB
│ conmon x86_64 2:2.1.13-1.fc41 updates 166.4 KiB
│ container-selinux noarch 4:2.242.0-1.fc41 updates 72.6 KiB
│ containers-common noarch 5:0.64.2-1.fc41 updates 128.8 KiB
│ containers-common-extra noarch 5:0.64.2-1.fc41 updates 0.0 B
│ criu x86_64 4.1.1-1.fc41 updates 1.6 MiB
│ crun x86_64 1.25.1-1.fc41 updates 585.7 KiB
│ fuse-overlayfs x86_64 1.13-2.fc41 fedora 131.2 KiB
│ libbsd x86_64 0.12.2-4.fc41 fedora 419.2 KiB
│ libmd x86_64 1.1.0-5.fc41 fedora 102.9 KiB
│ libnet x86_64 1.3-4.fc41 fedora 136.5 KiB
│ netavark x86_64 2:1.16.1-1.fc41 updates 11.4 MiB
│ ostree x86_64 2025.6-1.fc41 updates 645.5 KiB
│ ostree-libs x86_64 2025.6-1.fc41 updates 1.2 MiB
│ passt x86_64 0^20250919.g623dbf6-1.fc41 updates 1.2 MiB
│ passt-selinux noarch 0^20250919.g623dbf6-1.fc41 updates 292.3 KiB
│ podman x86_64 5:5.6.2-1.fc41 updates 47.3 MiB
│ python3-boom noarch 1.6.6-1.fc41 updates 4.0 MiB
│ qemu-user-static-aarch64 x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 13.5 MiB
│ qemu-user-static-alpha x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 3.8 MiB
│ qemu-user-static-arm x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 10.1 MiB
│ qemu-user-static-cris x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 3.8 MiB
│ qemu-user-static-hexagon x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 5.6 MiB
│ qemu-user-static-hppa x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 3.9 MiB
│ qemu-user-static-loongarch64 x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 4.4 MiB
│ qemu-user-static-m68k x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 4.0 MiB
│ qemu-user-static-microblaze x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 7.6 MiB
│ qemu-user-static-mips x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 28.8 MiB
│ qemu-user-static-or1k x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 3.7 MiB
│ qemu-user-static-ppc x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 14.2 MiB
│ qemu-user-static-riscv x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 10.1 MiB
│ qemu-user-static-s390x x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 4.2 MiB
│ qemu-user-static-sh4 x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 7.6 MiB
│ qemu-user-static-sparc x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 12.0 MiB
│ qemu-user-static-x86 x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 9.0 MiB
│ qemu-user-static-xtensa x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 13.9 MiB
│ rpm-ostree x86_64 2025.11-1.fc41 updates 14.6 MiB
│ rpm-ostree-li
│ bs x86_64 2025.11-1.fc41
│ updates 56.1 KiB
│ shadow-utils-subid x86_64 2:4.15.1-12.fc41 fedora 54.1 KiB
│ skopeo x86_64 1:1.20.0-3.fc41 updates 24.9 MiB
│ yajl x86_64 2.1.0-24.fc41 fedora 90.6 KiB
│ Installing weak dependencies:
│ bootupd x86_64 0.2.26-1.fc41 updates 3.4 MiB
│ criu-libs x86_64 4.1.1-1.fc41 updates 84.8 KiB
│ qemu-user-static x86_64 2:9.1.3-2.fc41 updates 44.6 KiB
│
│ Transaction Summary:
│ Installing: 53 packages
│
│ Total size of inbound packages is 73 MiB. Need to download 73 MiB.
│ After this operation, 286 MiB extra will be used (install 286 MiB, remove 0 B).
│ [ 1/53] boom-boot-conf-0:1.6.6-1.fc41.n 100% | 10.4 KiB/s | 23.7 KiB | 00m02s
│ [ 2/53] boom-boot-0:1.6.6-1.fc41.noarch 100% | 9.8 KiB/s | 34.2 KiB | 00m04s
│ [ 3/53] watchdog-0:5.16-9.fc41.x86_64 100% | 19.2 KiB/s | 83.1 KiB | 00m04s
│ [ 4/53] greenboot-0:0.15.8-1.fc41.x86_6 100% | 8.5 KiB/s | 41.5 KiB | 00m05s
│ [ 5/53] bubblewrap-0:0.10.0-1.fc41.x86_ 100% | 4.5 KiB/s | 62.7 KiB | 00m14s
│ [ 6/53] python3-boom-0:1.6.6-1.fc41.noa 100% | 5.6 KiB/s | 573.9 KiB | 01m43s
│ [ 7/53] rpm-ostree-libs-0:2025.11-1.fc4 100% | 2.2 KiB/s | 47.9 KiB | 00m22s
│ [ 8/53] ostree-libs-0:2025.6-1.fc41.x86 100% | 4.1 KiB/s | 487.0 KiB | 02m00s
│ [ 9/53] ostree-0:2025.6-1.fc41.x86_64 100% | 3.3 KiB/s | 288.0 KiB | 01m26s
│ [10/53] bootc-0:1.8.0-1.fc41.x86_64 100% | 3.7 KiB/s | 3.0 MiB | 13m52s
│ [11/53] shadow-utils-subid-2:4.15.1-12. 100% | 1.3 KiB/s | 28.1 KiB | 00m21s
│ [12/53] composefs-libs-0:1.0.8-1.fc41.x 100% | 2.2 KiB/s | 53.6 KiB | 00m25s
│ [13/53] composefs-0:1.0.8-1.fc41.x86_64 100% | 2.3 KiB/s | 59.7 KiB | 00m26s
│ [14/53] rpm-ostree-0:2025.11-1.fc41.x86 100% | 4.0 KiB/s | 4.6 MiB | 19m41s
Here is my /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo (as I said before it is a fresh fedora server 41 iso so this file is default and not touched):
[fedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.example/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
countme=1
metadata_expire=7d
repo_gpgcheck=0
type=rpm
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$releasever-$basearch
skip_if_unavailable=False
[fedora-debuginfo]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Debug
#baseurl=http://download.example/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/debug/tree/
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-debug-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
metadata_expire=7d
repo_gpgcheck=0
type=rpm
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$releasever-$basearch
skip_if_unavailable=False
[fedora-source]
name=Fedora $releasever - Source
#baseurl=http://download.example/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/tree/
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
metadata_expire=7d
repo_gpgcheck=0
type=rpm
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$releasever-$basearch
skip_if_unavailable=False
And I have tried the following:
- Using
rpmdb --rebuilddbor combination ofdnf clean alland thendnf makecache. But this did not help the issues. - I checked for DNS issues or access to https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org but I am able to ping the site and even
curl -L -o fedora41.metalink "https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-41&arch=x86_64"here is my metalinks:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<metalink version="3.0" xmlns="http://www.metalinker.org/" type="dynamic" pubdate="Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:17:09 GMT" generator="mirrormanager" xmlns:mm0="http://fedorahosted.org/mirrormanager">
<files>
<file name="repomd.xml">
<mm0:timestamp>1729778159</mm0:timestamp>
<size>5959</size>
<resources maxconnections="1">
<url protocol="http" type="http" location="UA" preference="100">http://fedora-archive.ip-connect.vn.ua/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
<url protocol="https" type="https" location="UA" preference="100">https://fedora-archive.ip-connect.vn.ua/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
<url protocol="rsync" type="rsync" location="UA" preference="100">rsync://fedora-archive.ip-connect.vn.ua/fedora-archive/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
<url protocol="http" type="http" location="US" preference="99">http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/fedora-archive/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
<url protocol="rsync" type="rsync" location="US" preference="99">rsync://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/fedora-archive/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
<url protocol="rsync" type="rsync" location="KE" preference="98">rsync://fedora-archive.mirror.liquidtelecom.com/fedora-buffet/archive/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
<url protocol="http" type="http" location="KE" preference="98">http://fedora-archive.mirror.liquidtelecom.com/archive/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
<url protocol="https" type="https" location="KE" preference="98">https://fedora-archive.mirror.liquidtelecom.com/archive/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
<url protocol="https" type="https" location="UA" preference="97">https://fedora-archive.ip-connect.info/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
<url protocol="http" type="http" location="UA" preference="97">http://fedora-archive.ip-connect.info/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
<url protocol="rsync" type="rsync" location="UA" preference="97">rsync://fedora-archive.ip-connect.info/fedora-archive/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
<url protocol="https" type="https" location="US" preference="96">https://d2lzkl7pfhq30w.cloudfront.net/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
<url protocol="https" type="https" location="DE" preference="95">https://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archive.fedoraproject.org/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
<url protocol="rsync" type="rsync" location="DE" preference="95">rsync://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/fedora-archive/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
<url protocol="http" type="http" location="DE" preference="95">http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archive.fedoraproject.org/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
<url protocol="https" type="https" location="RO" preference="94">https://mirror.flo.c-f.ro/fedora/archive/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
<url protocol="https" type="https" location="US" preference="93">https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
<url protocol="http" type="http" location="US" preference="93">http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml</url>
</resources>
</file>
</files>
</metalink>
What I did notice about this ^ is the following:
- I don’t have a close mirror to my region NZ
- The preference value 100 changes, mostly I get UA location but when I try again sometimes I get UA, DE or US no real relationship between the location I get and the issue, it seems random…
In case anyone is wondering:
- No I do not have anything on my
/etc/dnf/dnf.conf:
# see `man dnf.conf` for defaults and possible options
[main]
- Yes I have tried using
dnf5command it is the same issue.
My best guess is the issue is related to getting KiB in download speed (but this might be a red herring) what is strange is it only started happening this Saturday 14/03/2026 NZDT, on Thursday 12/03/2026 doing reflashes this issue did not occur.
Did anything happen on fedora’s side that I missed?