Fedora 38 live archives.fedoraproject.org sha256sum doesn't match

I’m desperately trying to recover a failed upgrade from Fedora 38 to Fedora 40. I’ve given up on the upgrade to Fedora 40 at the moment and only trying to recover a workable Fedora 38 system. It won’t even boot now.

I think many libs are missing and I just want to install enough Fedora 38 libs to try again.

I want to install them from the live distro but the sha256sum’s don’t match from the download site:

https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/38/Workstation/x86_64/iso/

Out of an abundance of caution, I don’t want to use an ISO when the checksums don’t match.

Is there a problem with this archive ISO and/or checksum?

The archived ISOs are OK

Running gpg --verify Fedora-Workstation-38-1.6-x86_64-CHECKSUM

gpg: Signature made Fri 14 Apr 2023 09:59:35 CEST
gpg:                using RSA key 6A51BBABBA3D5467B6171221809A8D7CEB10B464
gpg: Good signature from "Fedora (38) <fedora-38-primary@fedoraproject.org>" [full]

Running sha256sum -c Fedora-Workstation-38-1.6-x86_64-CHECKSUM

Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-38-1.6.iso: OK
sha256sum: WARNING: 17 lines are improperly formatted

But, remember that the iso is missing a whole year of updates.

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As @vekruse notes, the archived ISO is OK!

In this case, I had a corrupted download and sha256sum told me that, as it should.

Another win for checksums! :trophy: :tada: :partying_face: