Kernel-devel-matched from updates kernel-devel but non of the providers can be installed

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Hello Fedora Community,
I’m having an issue with dnf upgrade command. It’s giving me the exceptions below. I’ve tried searching discussions hoping to find a similar issue, but I was not able to. I want to preface that I did dnf upgrade --refresh at some point, although I’m not sure if this is the root cause of the problem. I would appreciate any help. Thank you.

Problem: package kernel-devel-matched-6.7.6-200.fc39.x86_64 from updates requires kernel-devel = 6.7.6-200.fc39, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package kernel-devel-matched-6.6.10-667.rog.fc39.x86_64
  - package kernel-devel-6.7.6-200.fc39.x86_64 from updates is filtered out by exclude filtering
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sounds like you defined excludepkgs=xxx in your /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

where do you have this package from?

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kernel-devel-matched is a package which will pull in matched versions of kernel-core and kernel-devel. The package is a dependency of akmods and dkms.

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I am aware on the existence and meaning of the package, however, look at the weird unusual name of the package. That suggests to be some third-party package to me, and not from Fedora repo.

kernel-devel-matched-6.6.10-667.rog.fc39.x86_64

That could explain why it can’t be updated (“no update candidate”)

PS: On my system it’s called kernel-devel-matched-6.7.5-200.fc39.x86_64

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This the some of the information about my kernel-devel-matched release:

❯ rpm -qi kernel-devel-matched
Name        : kernel-devel-matched
Version     : 6.6.10
Release     : 667.rog.fc39
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Thu 11 Jan 2024 08:18:23 PM
Group       : Unspecified
Size        : 0
License     : ((GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) AND ((GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) AND ((GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR CDDL-1.0) AND ((GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR Linux-OpenIB) AND ((GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) AND ((GPL-2.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) AND ((GPL-2.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause-Clear AND GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later AND GPL-1.0-or-later AND (GPL-1.0-or-later OR BSD-3-Clause) AND (GPL-1.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND GPL-2.0-only AND (GPL-2.0-only OR Apache-2.0) AND (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause) AND (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-3-Clause) AND (GPL-2.0-only OR CDDL-1.0) AND (GPL-2.0-only OR GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later) AND (GPL-2.0-only OR GFDL-1.2-no-invariants-only) AND (GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND (GPL-2.0-or-later OR BSD-2-Clause) AND (GPL-2.0-or-later OR BSD-3-Clause) AND (GPL-2.0-or-later OR CC-BY-4.0) AND (GPL-2.0-or-later WITH GCC-exception-2.0) AND (GPL-2.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND ISC AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND (LGPL-2.0-or-later OR BSD-2-Clause) AND (LGPL-2.0-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND LGPL-2.1-only AND (LGPL-2.1-only OR BSD-2-Clause) AND (LGPL-2.1-only WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND (LGPL-2.1-or-later WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND (Linux-OpenIB OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (Linux-OpenIB OR GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause) AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft AND MIT AND (MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND (MIT OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (MIT OR GPL-2.0-or-later) AND (MIT OR LGPL-2.1-only) AND (MPL-1.1 OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (X11 OR GPL-2.0-only) AND (X11 OR GPL-2.0-or-later) AND Zlib AND (copyleft-next-0.3.1 OR GPL-2.0-or-later)
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Tue 09 Jan 2024 01:12:14 AM, Key ID c1ce9c03c45b6d2e
Source RPM  : kernel-6.6.10-667.rog.fc39.src.rpm
Build Date  : Mon 08 Jan 2024 08:31:05 PM
Build Host  : copr-hv-x86-64-01-prod-00796781-20240109-023939
Vendor      : Fedora Copr - user lukenukem
URL         : https://www.kernel.org/
Summary     : Meta package to install matching core and devel packages for a given kernel
Description :
This meta package is used to install matching core and devel packages for a given kernel.
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That does not tell us which repo it was installed from.

Try dnf list installed kernel-devel-matched which usually gives the corresponding repo at the right side of the screen.

You should only have one package named kernel-devel-matched and it should match the latest kernel installed. This from dnf list installed kernel\*

kernel-devel.x86_64                                                 6.7.3-200.fc39                                          @updates
kernel-devel.x86_64                                                 6.7.4-200.fc39                                          @updates
kernel-devel.x86_64                                                 6.7.5-200.fc39                                          @updates
kernel-devel-matched.x86_64                                         6.7.5-200.fc39                                          @updates

If you were to run sudo dnf remove kernel-devel-matched --noautoremove then run sudo dnf upgrade --refresh it probably would no longer complain and allow the upgrade to happen normally.

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I bet it is from here.

lukenukem/asus-kernel Copr

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I ran the command, dnf list installed kernel-devel-matched, and it gave the output below. I should add, and this might give an idea to where I got these .rog kernels, I followed this Reddit post to install Fedora to an Asus laptop verbatim.

kernel-devel-matched.x86_64         6.6.10-667.rog.fc39          @copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:lukenukem:asus-kernel
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It shows where it’s from…

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There is still an outstanding question From @augenauf

sounds like you defined excludepkgs=xxx in your /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

The thing is: You have to install the version of kernel-devel which matches the version of the other installed kernel packages.

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There are no variables excludepkgs defined in dnf.conf. I’ll see about installing the correct versions of kernel-devel.

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Then it’s defined in the repo files. Look for something like exclude=kernel kernel-core kernel-modules kernel-devel kernel-modules-extra kernel-modules-core kernel-devel-matched in:

/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo 
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo
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Since that is installed and it is not from the fedora repos it seems you may need to explicitly remove that package as I suggested above. It may be necessary to remove all the kernel-devel packages for all the kernels as well (sudo dnf remove kernel-devel\* --noautoremove) then reinstall the kernel-devel package for the newest kernel with sudo install kernel-devel

As I said before, if you are not using the 6.6.10 kernel for a specific reason then removing it would solve this specific issue.