Good morning,
When i’m updating from the command line it seems that it’s still loading the 42 repos.
[brett@fedora ~]$ sudo dnf update --refresh
Updating and loading repositories:
RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Nonfree 100% | 1.1 KiB/s | 6.4 KiB | 00m06s
RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Nonfree - Updates 100% | 1.2 KiB/s | 6.1 KiB | 00m05s
RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Nonfree tainted 100% | 1.3 KiB/s | 5.7 KiB | 00m04s
RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Free - Updates 100% | 873.0 B/s | 3.5 KiB | 00m04s
RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Free 100% | 1.1 KiB/s | 3.7 KiB | 00m03s
Mullvad VPN 100% | 1.1 KiB/s | 1.5 KiB | 00m01s
Fedora 42 - x86_64 100% | 10.7 KiB/s | 29.9 KiB | 00m03s
LibreWolf Software Repository 100% | 2.8 KiB/s | 3.8 KiB | 00m01s
Fedora 42 - hardware:razer 100% | 1.2 KiB/s | 1.6 KiB | 00m01s
Fedora 42 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 100% | 419.0 B/s | 986.0 B | 00m02s
Fedora 42 - x86_64 - Updates 100% | 14.6 KiB/s | 28.5 KiB | 00m02s
Copr repo for ani-cli owned by derisis13 100% | 1.6 KiB/s | 1.5 KiB | 00m01s
Repositories loaded.
Nothing to do.
How can I go ahead and fix this?
I also assume that Discovery updates (I use KDE) might be bugged as well likely. How can i check this?
Thanks.
Run hostnamectl and check what version of Fedora it says you are running.
From your output it seems you are on f42 not f43 yet.
Hey there,
Transient hostname: fedora
Static hostname: (unset)
Icon name: computer-desktop
Chassis: desktop 🖥️
Machine ID: ea0e294fd9294d5094f60a21d0eace2e
Boot ID: afe98b9e2fc2450788a05fc4a27883ff
Operating System: Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:43
OS Support End: Wed 2026-12-02
OS Support Remaining: 10month 2w 6d
Kernel: Linux 6.18.3-100.fc42.x86_64
Architecture: x86-64
Hardware Vendor: ASUS
Hardware Model: PRIME B550-PLUS AC-HES
Hardware SKU: SKU
Hardware Version: System Version
Firmware Version: 3634
Firmware Date: Wed 2025-09-10
Firmware Age: 4month
I’m wondering if the upgrade went a little borky. When I run fastfetch I seem to have a 42 kernel running. Perhaps I didn’t notice that I updated using F42 repos and it changed my kernel to that?
.',;::::;,'. brett@fedora
.';:cccccccccccc:;,. ------------
.;cccccccccccccccccccccc;. OS: Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Editi4
.:cccccccccccccccccccccccccc:. Kernel: Linux 6.18.3-100.fc42.x86_64
.;ccccccccccccc;.:dddl:.;ccccccc;. Uptime: 11 mins
.:ccccccccccccc;OWMKOOXMWd;ccccccc:. Packages: 5110 (rpm), 43 (flatpak), 10 (snap)
.:ccccccccccccc;KMMc;cc;xMMc;ccccccc:. Shell: bash 5.3.0
,cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cc;;WW:;cccccccc, Display (XZ270U P): 2560x1440 @ 165 Hz in 27"]
:cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc: Display (EDA270U P): 2560x1440 @ 180 Hz in 27*
:ccccccc;oxOOOo;MMM000k.;cccccccccccc: DE: KDE Plasma 6.5.4
cccccc;0MMKxdd:;MMMkddc.;cccccccccccc; WM: KWin (Wayland)
ccccc;XMO';cccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc' WM Theme: Desert-Aurorae
ccccc;MMo;ccccc;MMW.;ccccccccccccccc; Theme: Breeze (DarkDeser) [Qt], Breeze [GTK3/]
ccccc;0MNc.ccc.xMMd;ccccccccccccccc; Icons: NeonIcons [Qt], NeonIcons [GTK2/3/4]
cccccc;dNMWXXXWM0:;cccccccccccccc:, Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt)]
cccccccc;.:odl:.;cccccccccccccc:,. Cursor: breeze (24px)
ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc:'. Terminal: alacritty 0.16.1
:ccccccccccccccccccccccc:;,.. Terminal Font: monospace (11.0pt)
':cccccccccccccccc::;,. CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G (16) @ 4.67 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 [Discrete]
Memory: 10.79 GiB / 31.12 GiB (35%)
Swap: 12.00 KiB / 8.00 GiB (0%)
Disk (/): 1.15 TiB / 1.82 TiB (63%) - btrfs
Local IP (enp7s0): 10.0.0.230/24
Locale: en_US.UTF-8
vgaetera
(Vladislav Grigoryev)
January 10, 2026, 4:31pm
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sudo dnf distro-sync \
--refresh \
--releasever=43 \
--allowerasing \
--skip-broken \
--setopt=protected_packages=
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Seemed to work like a charm.
Thanks for giving me a bit of your time on Saturday Vladislav.
I also appreciate your help Barry.
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