Repeatedly getting error in Discover app upon restart after upgrading to fedora 44

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I upgraded my system from the command line using dnf system-upgrade. However, after the upgrade, each time I open the Discover app or click the “Refresh” button on the Updates tab, I get the following error message:

startup job failed

Specifically, I get this popup:

A dark-themed error dialog box titled "Update Issue" displays the message "There was an issue during the update or installation process. Please try again later." with a "See Technical Details" button and a close (X) icon. (Captioned by AI)
A dark-themed error dialog box titled "Update Issue" displays the message "There was an issue during the update or installation process. Please try again later." with a "See Technical Details" button and a close (X) icon. (Captioned by AI)517×131 8.99 KB

I don’t know what’s wrong or how to fix it, but attempting to further upgrade with dnf system-upgrade tells me I’m already on version 44 and need to specify a releasever greater than my current one. What can I do about this?

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I recommend you use the command lines tools to do the upgrade.
Using these tools you will either have sucess or see actionable error messages.
See Making sure you're not a bot! and the section “Upgrading Fedora using the DNF system upgrade”

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Yeah, this is what I did.

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Are you upgraded now? Need any more assistance?

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I’m getting the same error every time I try to install or update a program through Discover on a clean install of Fedora 44 with KDE.

It seems to be an issue with PackageKit. When I launch Discover from the terminal, I see these messages:

qt.network.http2.connection: [0x7f162c046a50] Connection error: DATA on invalid stream (11)
qt.network.http2: stream 1 error: "DATA on invalid stream"
qt.network.http2: stream 1 finished with error: "Server dislikes our behavior, excessive load detected."
qt.network.http2: stream 17 error: "DATA on invalid stream"
qt.network.http2: stream 17 finished with error: "Server dislikes our behavior, excessive load detected."
qt.network.http2: stream 11 error: "DATA on invalid stream"
qt.network.http2: stream 11 finished with error: "Server dislikes our behavior, excessive load detected."
qt.network.http2: stream 13 error: "DATA on invalid stream"
qt.network.http2: stream 13 finished with error: "Server dislikes our behavior, excessive load detected."
qt.network.http2: stream 15 error: "DATA on invalid stream"
qt.network.http2: stream 15 finished with error: "Server dislikes our behavior, excessive load detected."
qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/discover/qml/CarouselDelegate.qml:161:33: QML QQuickImage: Server dislikes our behavior, excessive load detected.
org.kde.plasma.libdiscover.backend.packagekit: percentage cannot be calculated
PackageKit error: PackageKit::Transaction::ErrorTransactionError

I’ve cleared the cache and restarted the PackageKit process, but it still doesn’t work.

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You could use command line to do your update.
It should provide better info on any issues.

sudo dnf update --refresh