Fedora 43 KDE Plasma, VLFS failing on every update

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New Framework Laptop 16 Ai9 HX 370
Just returning after 15+ years absence from Linux. During an update using the “Discover Software Centre” I get a message window in the GUI saying: “fedora plasma-discover[3347]: Fwupd Error 21 Failed to download metadata for lvfs: network is unreachable: Err>iled to download metadata for lvfs: network is unreachable: Error resolving “cdn.fwupd.org”: Temporary failure in name resolution”
The updates themselves always work. Just the LVFS fails. Note when using the browser to get to “cdn.fwupd.org”, I reach it every time without a problem.
Not sure where to look for the problem.

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Sounds like a minor bug in Discover, they are usual :wink:
If the updates themselves work, no need to worry about it.

Personally, I recommend doing updates from the command line. You will need to run the firmware updates in command line seperately if you do this.

sudo dnf update

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Try the command sudo fwupdmgr update to see if that may work for you.

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Thanks Jeff
The command gave me this output, showing multiple possible updates.

Devices with the latest available firmware version:
• System Firmware
• Fingerprint Sensor
• Laptop 16 Keyboard Module - ANSI
• Laptop 16 Numpad Module
• UEFI CA
• UEFI dbx
Devices with no available firmware updates:
• WD BLACK SN7100 1TB
• WD BLACK SN770M 500GB
• HDMI Expansion Card
• KEK CA
• Laptop Webcam Module (2nd Gen)
• Option ROM UEFI CA
• SBAT
• Windows UEFI CA
• frame.work-LaptopDB
• frame.work-LaptopKEK

It shows me what can be updated but not how to do it. I am surprised that there are that many updates.

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Just to complete this:

  1. Yes, Discover seems to have a problem possibly only on some computers when it comes to VLFS via the GUI.
  2. Terminal is still the best way to update for software as per Matt’s info.
  3. Firmware as per Jeff’s info.
  4. The commands for firmware updates:
    First: fwupdmgr refresh --force
    Then: fwupdmgr get-updates
    Then: fwupdmgr update

Thanks for everybody’s help. I consider this as resolved.

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It actually shows which devices have the latest updates already and the list of devices for which there are no updates available.. There are no devices shown that require updates.

This does not mean those latter devices have no updates, but that none of them are supported for updating using that tool (the manufacturer does not provide firmware updates that can be used that way)

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