Hello,
I have been having an issue with my Fedora 34 where “dnf update” does not actually offer updates for the majority of my packages.
For instance, running dnf update:
$ sudo dnf update
[sudo] password for _____:
Loaded plugins: builddep, changelog, config-manager, copr, debug, debuginfo-install, download, generate_completion_cache, groups-manager, needs-restarting, playground, repoclosure, repodiff, repograph, repomanage, reposync, system-upgrade
DNF version: 4.9.0
cachedir: /var/cache/dnf
User-Agent: constructed: 'libdnf (Fedora 34; workstation; Linux.x86_64)'
countme: no event for fedora: budget to spend: 2
Fedora 34 - x86_64 111 kB/s | 23 kB 00:00
reviving: 'fedora' can be revived - metalink checksums match.
fedora: using metadata from Fri 23 Apr 2021 06:47:57 AM.
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 4.9 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
reviving: 'fedora-cisco-openh264' can be revived - metalink checksums match.
fedora-cisco-openh264: using metadata from Mon 22 Feb 2021 07:49:00 PM.
countme: no event for fedora-modular: budget to spend: 2
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 51 kB/s | 22 kB 00:00
reviving: 'fedora-modular' can be revived - metalink checksums match.
fedora-modular: using metadata from Fri 23 Apr 2021 06:25:38 AM.
countme: event triggered for updates: bucket 4
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 107 kB/s | 22 kB 00:00
reviving: 'updates' can be revived - metalink checksums match.
updates: using metadata from Mon 06 Jun 2022 10:47:23 PM.
countme: no event for updates-modular: budget to spend: 3
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 81 kB/s | 22 kB 00:00
reviving: 'updates-modular' can be revived - metalink checksums match.
updates-modular: using metadata from Thu 02 Jun 2022 11:13:39 PM.
google-chrome 12 kB/s | 1.3 kB 00:00
reviving: failed for 'google-chrome', mismatched repomd.
repo: downloading from remote: google-chrome
google-chrome 22 kB/s | 3.6 kB 00:00
google-chrome: using metadata from Thu 29 Dec 2022 06:56:40 PM.
google-chrome-beta 11 kB/s | 1.3 kB 00:00
reviving: failed for 'google-chrome-beta', mismatched repomd.
repo: downloading from remote: google-chrome-beta
google-chrome-beta 10 kB/s | 3.6 kB 00:00
google-chrome-beta: using metadata from Thu 29 Dec 2022 06:56:40 PM.
home:Alexander_Pozdnyakov (Fedora_34) 5.4 kB/s | 1.7 kB 00:00
reviving: 'home_Alexander_Pozdnyakov' can be revived - repomd matches.
home_Alexander_Pozdnyakov: using metadata from Fri 04 Mar 2022 04:37:24 PM.
MEGAsync 4.1 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
reviving: failed for 'MEGAsync', mismatched repomd.
repo: downloading from remote: MEGAsync
MEGAsync 20 kB/s | 15 kB 00:00
MEGAsync: using metadata from Mon 28 Nov 2022 06:56:22 PM.
NordVPN YUM repository - x86_64 11 kB/s | 2.5 kB 00:00
reviving: failed for 'nordvpn', mismatched repomd.
repo: downloading from remote: nordvpn
NordVPN YUM repository - x86_64 5.4 kB/s | 2.7 kB 00:00
nordvpn: using metadata from Thu 29 Dec 2022 07:38:32 AM.
NordVPN YUM repository - noarch 14 kB/s | 2.5 kB 00:00
reviving: failed for 'nordvpn-noarch', mismatched repomd.
repo: downloading from remote: nordvpn-noarch
NordVPN YUM repository - noarch 2.6 kB/s | 1.3 kB 00:00
nordvpn-noarch: using metadata from Thu 29 Dec 2022 07:38:30 AM.
RPM Fusion for Fedora 34 - Free 6.3 kB/s | 2.6 kB 00:00
reviving: 'rpmfusion-free' can be revived - metalink checksums match.
rpmfusion-free: using metadata from Sun 25 Apr 2021 02:10:08 PM.
RPM Fusion for Fedora 34 - Free - Updates 30 kB/s | 2.4 kB 00:00
reviving: 'rpmfusion-free-updates' can be revived - metalink checksums match.
rpmfusion-free-updates: using metadata from Thu 02 Jun 2022 10:16:27 AM.
RPM Fusion for Fedora 34 - Nonfree 33 kB/s | 2.6 kB 00:00
reviving: 'rpmfusion-nonfree' can be revived - metalink checksums match.
rpmfusion-nonfree: using metadata from Sun 25 Apr 2021 02:36:02 PM.
RPM Fusion for Fedora 34 - Nonfree - NVIDIA Driver 6.7 kB/s | 2.5 kB 00:00
reviving: 'rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver' can be revived - metalink checksums match.
rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver: using metadata from Thu 02 Jun 2022 09:45:05 AM.
RPM Fusion for Fedora 34 - Nonfree - Updates 6.7 kB/s | 2.5 kB 00:00
reviving: 'rpmfusion-nonfree-updates' can be revived - metalink checksums match.
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: using metadata from Thu 02 Jun 2022 10:45:39 AM.
skype (stable) 3.7 kB/s | 2.9 kB 00:00
reviving: failed for 'skype-stable', mismatched repomd.
repo: downloading from remote: skype-stable
skype (stable) 7.9 kB/s | 4.5 kB 00:00
skype-stable: using metadata from Thu 15 Dec 2022 09:46:15 AM.
slack 2.2 kB/s | 1.8 kB 00:00
reviving: failed for 'slack', mismatched repomd.
repo: downloading from remote: slack
slack 8.2 kB/s | 12 kB 00:01
slack: using metadata from Mon 28 Nov 2022 04:44:19 PM.
Sublime Text - x86_64 - Stable 16 kB/s | 2.9 kB 00:00
reviving: failed for 'sublime-text', mismatched repomd.
repo: downloading from remote: sublime-text
Sublime Text - x86_64 - Stable 7.1 kB/s | 2.2 kB 00:00
sublime-text: using metadata from Wed 21 Dec 2022 06:20:38 PM.
teams 14 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
reviving: 'teams' can be revived - repomd matches.
teams: using metadata from Mon 19 Sep 2022 07:43:00 AM.
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - VirtualBox 806 B/s | 181 B 00:00
reviving: 'virtualbox' can be revived - repomd matches.
virtualbox: using metadata from Tue 11 Oct 2022 02:38:41 PM.
Visual Studio Code 18 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
reviving: failed for 'code', mismatched repomd.
repo: downloading from remote: code
Visual Studio Code 4.5 MB/s | 31 MB 00:07
code: using metadata from Fri 23 Dec 2022 01:41:32 AM.
WineHQ packages 22 kB/s | 3.3 kB 00:00
reviving: 'WineHQ' can be revived - repomd matches.
WineHQ: using metadata from Wed 11 Nov 2020 04:11:57 AM.
Completion plugin: Generating completion cache...
--> Starting dependency resolution
---> Package google-chrome-beta.x86_64 108.0.5359.40-1 will be upgraded
---> Package google-chrome-beta.x86_64 109.0.5414.61-1 will be an upgrade
---> Package megasync.x86_64 4.7.1-3.1 will be upgraded
---> Package megasync.x86_64 4.8.1-1.1 will be an upgrade
---> Package nordvpn.x86_64 3.15.0-1 will be upgraded
---> Package nordvpn.x86_64 3.15.3-1 will be an upgrade
---> Package skypeforlinux.x86_64 8.90.0.407-1 will be upgraded
---> Package skypeforlinux.x86_64 8.92.0.204-1 will be an upgrade
---> Package slack.x86_64 4.28.184-0.1.el8 will be upgraded
---> Package slack.x86_64 4.29.149-0.1.el8 will be an upgrade
---> Package code.x86_64 1.73.1-1667967421.el7 will be upgraded
---> Package code.x86_64 1.74.2-1671533504.el7 will be an upgrade
--> Finished dependency resolution
Dependencies resolved.
============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Package Architecture Version Repository Size
============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Upgrading:
code x86_64 1.74.2-1671533504.el7 code 132 M
google-chrome-beta x86_64 109.0.5414.61-1 google-chrome 94 M
megasync x86_64 4.8.1-1.1 MEGAsync 18 M
nordvpn x86_64 3.15.3-1 nordvpn 24 M
skypeforlinux x86_64 8.92.0.204-1 skype-stable 121 M
slack x86_64 4.29.149-0.1.el8 slack 78 M
Transaction Summary
============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Upgrade 6 Packages
Total download size: 467 M
Is this ok [y/N]:
Does anyone have any ideas on how to begin to address this? On my other Fedora machine, “dnf update” should result in dozens if not hundreds of packages that I can update.
I have tried “dnf clean” and “dnf clean dbcache” but I get the same result.
Any thoughts? I apologize if this has been addressed elsewhere and I have just not found the correct set of of instructions.