[Fedora 38 (Workstation Edition)] Software Updates do not download completely and successfully

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Hello! For more context - when I hit the “Download” button, the progress bar goes up to halfway, then stops. Power cycling the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th, removing software I don’t use, etc., does not seem to resolve this issue. This is preventing me from updating my System Updates, Google Chrome (which outdated version malfunctions - does not load pages properly), et al. Thanks for your time and help - Josh

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You have not provided enough information for us to understand the problem.

In case others encounter a similar issue it is helpful to provide (as text so it can be found by searches, using the </> icon (or just bracketing text with triple backquotes) your Fedora version, hardware details, and a summary of your mass storage. The commands below should be run in a terminal to generate text output:

  • Fedora version and hardware: run inxi -Fzx

  • Mass storage usage: run df -lTH

You may want to scan journalctl -b for messages related to your issue: problems with filesystems, disk space, or network.

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Probably some upgrade conflict, and GNOME Software doesn’t display enough information.

Try upgrading from terminal:

sudo dnf upgrade

If it fails, please provide the full output.

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Thanks for your time and help, @gnwiii++ and @jn64++! Justin’s solution resolved the issue. Just for everyone’s information–and hopefully benefit–there are a handful of prompts, so maybe adding both options -a and -y to the command Justin suggested prior will make the process seamless.

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Hi,

I’m trying to update from the Softwate app and the updates get stuck for hours and never complete.

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I’ve dried both dnf update and dnf upgrade on terminal and i get

Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!

I’ve tried also dnf update --refresh and same.
Both the software app and updating via terminal were working fine until a couple of days ago.
Tried both on X11 and Wayland
I’m on Fedora 38,

Any advise?

Thank you!

Jose

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Only the Flatpak apps are stuck. dnf update upgrades system apps, resulting in a “nothing to do” message indicating you have the latest release. This problem is related to a common issue Flatpak install/update fails with ‘Need more input’ or ‘Input buffer too small’.

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Thank you @yuntaz, that seems to be working.

Thanks again!

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