Stuck mid-upgrade to Fedora 43

How to handle a stuck upgrade?

Upgrading with the DNF method as per Upgrading Fedora Linux Using DNF System Plugin :: Fedora Docs with sudo dnf5 offline reboot

Progress appears to have stopped at 42% of the system upgrade from F42 to F43. It has been stuck for 45 minutes. Normally the whole upgrade would be done in this time.

The computer is still responsive, it’s just that the upgrade seems to have stalled somehow. eg. pressing ESC toggles between the graphical progress indicator and the tty with text of the upgrade steps. CTRL+ALT+F2 can be used to log in to a tty, but does not allow users to log in, however it is possible to log in as root.

What should I do?

Proceed like this:

  • If there’s no progress in a long time, reboot with keyboard shortcuts or using SysRq CLI.

  • If you can still boot the system, switch to a text TTY, otherwise boot a live session and set up a chroot.

  • Perform in-place upgrade:

sudo dnf distro-sync --refresh --allowerasing --releasever=43
  • Complete post-upgrade tasks.

Do you mean CTRL+ALT+DEL or ALT+PRTSCN+R+E+I+S+U+B?

I could also log in as root as issue something like shutdown -r now or similar.

What is preferable?

Is it possibile to diagnose what is going on before killing it? Nothing stood out to me in journalctl around the line where the upgrade stopped progressing.

CTRL+ALT+DEL rebooted the system and I was able to boot and log into what seems to be mostly F42, though there was an abrt notification about some F43 package.

As for the next step:

$ sudo dnf distro-sync --refresh --allowerasing --releasever=43 results in:

Failed to resolve the transaction:
Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: dnf5, grub2-efi-ia32, grub2-efi-x64, grub2-pc, grub2-tools-minimal, selinux-policy-targeted, setup, sudo, systemd, systemd-udev
You can try to add to command line:
–skip-broken to skip uninstallable packages

I noticed very slow upgrade on one of my systems.
But I left it alone for a few hours and when I came back to check it had upgrade.
Not sure how long it took, but over an hour.

That’s weird, and lucky it worked out for you. In my case I rebooted after maybe a couple of hours of no change.

So what do I do now, given the error posted earlier?

dnf was perhaps stuck executing a postinstall or posttrans script of some RPM.
Killing this script may have unblocked dnf (I have seen that).
You would have to reinstall this RPM after rebooting.

Seeing this post: Fixing duplicates detected by dnf check would mean removing protected packages

you may try:

Note: dnf4 had a remove --duplicates command, dnf5 no :frowning:

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried several of the options mentioned, but they all fail. dnf4 is still present on my system but even that did not work with remove --duplicates.

There are over 9000 packages problems with duplicates between F42 and F43 versions:

$ sudo dnf check
Check discovered 9128 problem(s) in 9053 package(s)

sudo dnf reinstall --setopt=protected_packages= --assumeno $(dnf rq --duplicates --latest-limit=1 --qf="%{name}\n")

Failed to resolve the transaction:
Installed packages for argument 'javascriptcoregtk4.1' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: javascriptcoregtk4.1-2.48.0-1.fc42.x86_64,javascriptcoregtk4.1-2.50.3-1.fc42.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'rstudio-common' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: rstudio-common-2025.05.1+513-1.fc42.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'rstudio-desktop' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: rstudio-desktop-2025.05.1+513-1.fc42.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'rstudio-server' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: rstudio-server-2025.05.1+513-1.fc42.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'webkit2gtk4.1' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: webkit2gtk4.1-2.48.0-1.fc42.x86_64,webkit2gtk4.1-2.50.3-1.fc42.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Problem 1: installed package clang20-resource-filesystem-20.1.8-2.fc43.x86_64 conflicts with clang-resource-filesystem < 20.99 provided by clang-resource-filesystem-20.1.8-4.fc42.x86_64 from updates
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 2: installed package dnf4-plugin-notify-PackageKit-1.3.1-6.fc43.noarch conflicts with PackageKit < 1.3.1-3 provided by PackageKit-1.2.8-9.fc42.x86_64 from fedora
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 3: installed package glycin-thumbnailer-2.0.4-1.fc43.x86_64 obsoletes gdk-pixbuf2 < 2.43.5-1 provided by gdk-pixbuf2-2.42.12-12.fc42.x86_64 from updates
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 4: installed package gnupg2-dirmngr-2.4.8-4.fc43.x86_64 conflicts with gnupg2 < 2.4.8-2 provided by gnupg2-2.4.7-2.fc42.x86_64 from fedora
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 5: installed package llvm20-filesystem-20.1.8-2.fc43.x86_64 conflicts with llvm-filesystem < 20.99 provided by llvm-filesystem-20.1.8-4.fc42.x86_64 from updates
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 6: cannot install both libicu-76.1-4.fc42.x86_64 from fedora and libicu-77.1-1.fc43.x86_64 from @System
  - installed package mozjs140-140.2.0-1.fc43.x86_64 requires libicui18n.so.77()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - installed package mozjs140-140.2.0-1.fc43.x86_64 requires libicuuc.so.77()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 7: installed package llvm20-filesystem-20.1.8-2.fc43.x86_64 conflicts with llvm-filesystem < 20.99 provided by llvm-filesystem-20.1.8-4.fc42.i686 from updates
  - installed package llvm20-libs-20.1.8-2.fc43.x86_64 requires llvm20-filesystem(x86-64) = 20.1.8-2.fc43, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 8: cannot install both llvm-libs-20.1.8-4.fc42.x86_64 from updates and llvm-libs-21.1.7-1.fc43.x86_64 from @System
  - installed package mesa-compat-libxatracker-25.0.7-3.fc43.x86_64 requires libLLVM.so.21.1()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - installed package mesa-compat-libxatracker-25.0.7-3.fc43.x86_64 requires libLLVM.so.21.1(LLVM_21.1)(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 9: cannot install both nftables-1:1.1.1-3.fc42.x86_64 from fedora and nftables-1:1.1.3-5.fc43.x86_64 from @System
  - installed package nftables-services-1:1.1.3-5.fc43.noarch requires nftables = 1:1.1.3-5.fc43, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 10: cannot install both openssl-libs-1:3.2.6-2.fc42.x86_64 from updates and openssl-libs-1:3.5.4-1.fc43.x86_64 from @System
  - installed package ngtcp2-crypto-ossl-1.18.0-1.fc43.x86_64 requires libssl.so.3(OPENSSL_3.5.0)(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 11: cannot install both pandoc-common-3.1.11.1-34.fc42.noarch from updates and pandoc-common-3.6.4-36.fc43.noarch from @System
  - installed package pandoc-cli-3.6.4-38.fc43.x86_64 requires pandoc-common = 3.6.4, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 12: cannot install both python3-3.13.9-1.fc42.x86_64 from updates and python3-3.14.2-1.fc43.x86_64 from @System
  - installed package python3-annotated-doc-0.0.4-1.fc43.noarch requires python(abi) = 3.14, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 13: cannot install both qemu-common-2:9.2.4-2.fc42.x86_64 from updates and qemu-common-2:10.1.2-1.fc43.x86_64 from @System
  - installed package qemu-device-uefi-vars-2:10.1.2-1.fc43.x86_64 requires qemu-common(x86-64) = 2:10.1.2-1.fc43, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 14: cannot install both sdbus-cpp-1.5.0-4.fc42.x86_64 from fedora and sdbus-cpp-2.1.0-3.fc43.x86_64 from @System
  - installed package libdnf5-plugin-notify-PackageKit-1.3.1-6.fc43.x86_64 requires libsdbus-c++.so.2()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package
You can try to add to command line:
  --skip-broken to skip uninstallable packages

$sudo dnf4 remove --assumeno --duplicates --releasever 43 --setopt protected_packages=

Installed package container-selinux-4:2.244.0-1.fc43.noarch not available.
Installed package cmake-3.31.10-2.fc43.x86_64 not available.
Installed package cmake-filesystem-3.31.10-2.fc43.x86_64 not available.
Installed package aopalliance-1.0-53.fc42.noarch not available.
Installed package cmake-rpm-macros-3.31.10-2.fc43.noarch not available.
Installed package cmake-data-3.31.10-2.fc43.noarch not available.
Installed package cargo-1.91.1-1.fc43.x86_64 not available.
Installed package rust-1.91.1-1.fc43.x86_64 not available.
Installed package rstudio-common-2025.09.1+401-1.fc42.x86_64 not available.
Installed package rstudio-desktop-2025.09.1+401-1.fc42.x86_64 not available.
Installed package rstudio-server-2025.09.1+401-1.fc42.x86_64 not available.
Installed package nodejs-libs-1:22.21.1-2.fc42.x86_64 not available.
Installed package cpu-x-data-5.4.0-4.fc42.noarch not available.
Installed package cpu-x-5.4.0-4.fc42.x86_64 not available.
Installed package rust-std-static-1.91.1-1.fc43.x86_64 not available.
Installed package nodejs-1:22.21.1-2.fc42.x86_64 not available.
Installed package nodejs-npm-1:10.9.4-1.22.21.1.2.fc42.x86_64 not available.
Installed package nodejs-full-i18n-1:22.21.1-2.fc42.x86_64 not available.
Installed package wayland-protocols-devel-1.46-1.fc43.noarch not available.
Installed package ibus-typing-booster-2.28.6-1.fc43.noarch not available.
Installed package kf6-kirigami-6.21.0-1.fc43.x86_64 not available.
Installed package krita-5.2.14-1.fc42.x86_64 not available.
Installed package krita-libs-5.2.14-1.fc42.x86_64 not available.
Error: 
 Problem 1: problem with installed package rstudio-common-2025.09.1+401-1.fc42.x86_64
  - package rstudio-common-2025.09.1+401-1.fc42.x86_64 from @System requires libsoci_core.so.4.0()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
 Problem 2: problem with installed package rstudio-server-2025.09.1+401-1.fc42.x86_64
  - package rstudio-server-2025.09.1+401-1.fc42.x86_64 from @System requires libsoci_sqlite3.so.4.0()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
 Problem 3: package rstudio-desktop-2025.09.1+401-1.fc42.x86_64 from @System requires rstudio-common(x86-64) = 2025.09.1+401-1.fc42, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package rstudio-common-2025.09.1+401-1.fc42.x86_64 from @System requires libsoci_core.so.4.0()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - problem with installed package rstudio-desktop-2025.09.1+401-1.fc42.x86_64
  - cannot install both soci-4.1.2-2.fc43.x86_64 from fedora and soci-4.0.3-12.fc42.x86_64 from @System
  - conflicting requests
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)

I modified this by adding --setopt protected_packages= and it appeared that it would work

Transaction Summary:
 Installing:        12 packages
 Upgrading:        651 packages
 Replacing:        703 packages
 Removing:        4486 packages
 Downgrading:        1 package

Total size of inbound packages is 2 GiB. Need to download 2 GiB.
After this operation, 23 GiB will be freed (install 5 GiB, remove 28 GiB).

However, after downloading, the transaction failed:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'libdnf5::AssertionError'
  what():  libdnf5/rpm/transaction.cpp:195: void libdnf5::rpm::Transaction::fill(const libdnf5::base::Transaction&): Assertion 'implicit_ts_elements.empty()' failed: The rpm transaction contains more elements than requested
Aborted                    sudo dnf distro-sync --refresh --allowerasing --releasever=43 --setopt protected_packages=

What now?
Would it be a bad or good idea to try sudo dnf5 offline reboot now?

A bad idea IMO:

  • better to stay connected to catch precisely the logs
  • distro-sync works fine for in-place upgrade (I use it forever)

Your tries show that dnf still think your machine is running F42.

  • Problem 1: installed package clang20-resource-filesystem-20.1.8-2.fc43.x86_64
    conflicts with clang-resource-filesystem < 20.99
    provided by clang-resource-filesystem-20.1.8-4.fc42.x86_64 from updates

  • dnf --dump-variables should confirm that

Adding thus --releasever=43 to reinstall the duplicates may help, but I think that using distro-sync should be better,
because reinstalling implies that the very same version of the RPMs exist in the repos.

The failure of dnf distro-sync is perhaps due to a corrupted RPM or dnf5 db/cache.

Try thus:

  • rpmdb --rebuilddb
  • dnf clean all
  • then retry the distro-sync

PS: For security I would protect distro-sync using nohup or systemd-run. For example:
nohup sudo dnf distro-sync -y --refresh --allowerasing --releasever=43 --setopt protected_packages= &> /var/tmp/distro-sync.log &

You are quite right. The system, kernel, and many packages are all still F42, although there are ~4500 packages that also have their F43 version installed.

$ dnf --dump-variables
======== Variables: ========
arch = x86_64
basearch = x86_64
releasever = 42
releasever_major = 42

Would it be helpful to use distro-sync to get back to a proper F42 state before trying the upgrade again?

This appears to function although it triggers a SELinux alert: SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/rpmdb from using the dac_read_search capability.

SELinux output
$ sealert -l 869f1f08-a9cf-43ee-bada-190fde4ae797
SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/rpmdb from using the dac_read_search capability.

*****  Plugin dac_override (91.4 confidence) suggests   **********************

If you want to help identify if domain needs this access or you have a file with the wrong permissions on your system
Then turn on full auditing to get path information about the offending file and generate the error again.
Do

Turn on full auditing
# auditctl -w /etc/shadow -p w
Try to recreate AVC. Then execute
# ausearch -m avc -ts recent
If you see PATH record check ownership/permissions on file, and fix it,
otherwise report as a bugzilla.

*****  Plugin catchall (9.59 confidence) suggests   **************************

If you believe that rpmdb should have the dac_read_search capability by default.
Then you should report this as a bug.
You can generate a local policy module to allow this access.
Do
allow this access for now by executing:
# ausearch -c 'rpmdb' --raw | audit2allow -M my-rpmdb
# semodule -X 300 -i my-rpmdb.pp


Additional Information:
Source Context                unconfined_u:unconfined_r:rpmdb_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Context                unconfined_u:unconfined_r:rpmdb_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Objects                /home/user/~/.config/rpm/rpmrc [ capability ]
Source                        rpmdb
Source Path                   /usr/bin/rpmdb
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          hostname
Source RPM Packages           rpm-4.20.1-1.fc42.x86_64 rpm-6.0.0-1.fc43.x86_64
Target RPM Packages           
SELinux Policy RPM            selinux-policy-targeted-42.19-1.fc42.noarch
                              selinux-policy-targeted-42.19-1.fc43.noarch
Local Policy RPM              selinux-policy-targeted-42.19-1.fc42.noarch
                              selinux-policy-targeted-42.19-1.fc43.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     hostname
Platform                      Linux hostname 6.17.11-200.fc42.x86_64 #1 SMP
                              PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Dec  9 00:25:56 UTC 2025
                              x86_64
Alert Count                   5
First Seen                    2025-12-17 21:06:50 EST
Last Seen                     2025-12-18 14:29:01 EST
Local ID                      869f1f08-a9cf-43ee-bada-190fde4ae797

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1766086141.861:1870): avc:  denied  { dac_read_search } for  pid=518416 comm="rpmdb" capability=2  scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:rpmdb_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:rpmdb_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=capability permissive=0


type=AVC msg=audit(1766086141.861:1870): avc:  denied  { dac_override } for  pid=518416 comm="rpmdb" capability=1  scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:rpmdb_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:rpmdb_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=capability permissive=0


type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1766086141.861:1870): arch=x86_64 syscall=access success=no exit=EACCES a0=56449bc53ed0 a1=4 a2=ffffffffffffff88 a3=810 items=1 ppid=518415 pid=518416 auid=1000 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts2 ses=3 comm=rpmdb exe=/usr/bin/rpmdb subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:rpmdb_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)

type=CWD msg=audit(1766086141.861:1870): cwd=/home/user

type=PATH msg=audit(1766086141.861:1870): item=0 name=~/.config/rpm/rpmrc nametype=UNKNOWN cap_fp=0 cap_fi=0 cap_fe=0 cap_fver=0 cap_frootid=0

Hash: rpmdb,rpmdb_t,rpmdb_t,capability,dac_read_search

There have been a number of SELinux issues going on, and I wonder if some are contributing to the upgrade issues right now. I already tried sudo fixfiles -B onboot and rebooting. Should I consider putting SELinux in permissive mode?

Still the same error:

$sudo dnf distro-sync --refresh --allowerasing --releasever=43 --setopt protected_packages= 

Transaction Summary:
 Installing:        19 packages
 Upgrading:        731 packages
 Replacing:        861 packages
 Removing:        4416 packages
 Downgrading:        1 package

Total size of inbound packages is 3 GiB. Need to download 3 GiB.
After this operation, 23 GiB will be freed (install 7 GiB, remove 30 GiB).

[...]

Running transaction
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'libdnf5::AssertionError'
  what():  libdnf5/rpm/transaction.cpp:195: void libdnf5::rpm::Transaction::fill(const libdnf5::base::Transaction&): Assertion 'implicit_ts_elements.empty()' failed: The rpm transaction contains more elements than requested
Aborted                    sudo dnf distro-sync --refresh --allowerasing --releasever=43 --setopt protected_packages=

Thanks, but this too failed:

$sudo dnf reinstall --refresh --releasever=43 --allowerasing --setopt=protected_packages= $(dnf rq --duplicates --latest-limit=1 --qf="%{name}.%{arch}\n")

Failed to resolve the transaction:
Installed packages for argument 'cargo.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: cargo-1.90.0-1.fc43.x86_64,cargo-1.92.0-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'cmake-data.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: cmake-data-3.31.10-3.fc43.noarch,cmake-data-3.31.6-4.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'cmake-filesystem.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: cmake-filesystem-3.31.10-3.fc43.x86_64,cmake-filesystem-3.31.6-4.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'cmake-rpm-macros.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: cmake-rpm-macros-3.31.10-3.fc43.noarch,cmake-rpm-macros-3.31.6-4.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'cmake.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: cmake-3.31.10-3.fc43.x86_64,cmake-3.31.6-4.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'container-selinux.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: container-selinux-4:2.242.0-1.fc43.noarch,container-selinux-4:2.245.0-1.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'ibus-typing-booster.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: ibus-typing-booster-2.28.0-1.fc43.noarch,ibus-typing-booster-2.29.0-1.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'kernel-devel-matched.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: kernel-devel-matched-6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64,kernel-devel-matched-6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'kernel-tools-libs.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: kernel-tools-libs-6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64,kernel-tools-libs-6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'kernel-tools.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: kernel-tools-6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64,kernel-tools-6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'kf6-kirigami.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: kf6-kirigami-6.18.0-1.fc43.x86_64,kf6-kirigami-6.21.0-2.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'libdecor.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: libdecor-0.2.3-6.fc43.x86_64,libdecor-0.2.5-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'perf.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: perf-6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64,perf-6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'python3-boto3.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: python3-boto3-1.40.46-1.fc43.noarch,python3-boto3-1.42.10-1.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'python3-botocore.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: python3-botocore-1.40.46-1.fc43.noarch,python3-botocore-1.42.10-1.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-audio-alsa.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-audio-alsa-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-audio-alsa-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-audio-dbus.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-audio-dbus-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-audio-dbus-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-audio-jack.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-audio-jack-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-audio-jack-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-audio-oss.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-audio-oss-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-audio-oss-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-audio-pa.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-audio-pa-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-audio-pa-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-audio-pipewire.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-audio-pipewire-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-audio-pipewire-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-audio-sdl.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-audio-sdl-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-audio-sdl-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-audio-spice.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-audio-spice-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-audio-spice-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-block-blkio.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-block-blkio-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-block-blkio-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-block-curl.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-block-curl-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-block-curl-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-block-dmg.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-block-dmg-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-block-dmg-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-block-gluster.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-block-gluster-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-block-gluster-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-block-iscsi.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-block-iscsi-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-block-iscsi-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-block-nfs.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-block-nfs-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-block-nfs-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-block-rbd.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-block-rbd-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-block-rbd-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-block-ssh.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-block-ssh-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-block-ssh-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-char-baum.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-char-baum-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-char-baum-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-char-spice.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-char-spice-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-char-spice-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-common.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-common-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-common-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-qxl.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-qxl-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-qxl-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-vhost-user-gpu.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-vhost-user-gpu-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-vhost-user-gpu-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-gl.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-gl-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-gl-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-gl.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-gl-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-gl-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-rutabaga.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-rutabaga-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-rutabaga-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-rutabaga.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-rutabaga-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-rutabaga-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-gl.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-gl-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-gl-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-rutabaga.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-rutabaga-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-rutabaga-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-vga.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-usb-host.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-usb-host-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-usb-host-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-usb-redirect.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-usb-redirect-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-usb-redirect-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-usb-smartcard.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-usb-smartcard-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-usb-smartcard-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-img.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-img-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-img-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-kvm-core.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-kvm-core-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-kvm-core-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-kvm.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-kvm-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-kvm-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-pr-helper.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-pr-helper-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-pr-helper-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-system-aarch64-core.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-system-aarch64-core-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-system-aarch64-core-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-system-aarch64.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-system-aarch64-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-system-aarch64-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-system-x86-core.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-system-x86-core-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-system-x86-core-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-system-x86.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-system-x86-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-system-x86-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-ui-curses.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-ui-curses-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-ui-curses-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-ui-egl-headless.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-ui-egl-headless-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-ui-egl-headless-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-ui-gtk.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-ui-gtk-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-ui-gtk-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-ui-opengl.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-ui-opengl-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-ui-opengl-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-ui-sdl.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-ui-sdl-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-ui-sdl-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-ui-spice-app.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-ui-spice-app-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-ui-spice-app-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-ui-spice-core.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-ui-spice-core-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-ui-spice-core-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'rust-std-static.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: rust-std-static-1.90.0-1.fc43.x86_64,rust-std-static-1.92.0-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'rust.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: rust-1.90.0-1.fc43.x86_64,rust-1.92.0-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'sos.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: sos-4.10.0-3.fc43.noarch,sos-4.10.2-1.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'wayland-protocols-devel.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: wayland-protocols-devel-1.45-2.fc43.noarch,wayland-protocols-devel-1.47-1.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.

Somewhat. It still failed, but I’m not sure if it’s due to a lack of free space or also package issues.

$ sudo dnf reinstall --refresh --releasever=43 --allowerasing --skip-unavailable --setopt=protected_packages= $(dnf rq --duplicates --latest-limit=1 --qf="%{name}.%{arch}\n")

Transaction Summary:
 Installing:         8 packages
 Reinstalling:    4431 packages
 Upgrading:        332 packages
 Replacing:       9229 packages
 Removing:          13 packages
 Downgrading:       13 packages

Total size of inbound packages is 9 GiB. Need to download 7 GiB.
After this operation, 23 GiB will be freed (install 27 GiB, remove 50 GiB).

Transaction failed: Rpm transaction failed.
  - package aopalliance-1.0-6.fc43.noarch is already installed
  - package nodejs-libs-1:22.20.0-1.fc43.x86_64 is already installed
  - package nodejs-1:22.20.0-1.fc43.x86_64 is already installed
  - package rstudio-common-2025.05.1+513-1.fc43.x86_64 is already installed
  - installing package rocm-llvm-static-19-14.rocm6.4.2.fc43.x86_64 needs 720MB more space on the / filesystem
  - package rstudio-desktop-2025.05.1+513-1.fc43.x86_64 is already installed
  - package krita-5.2.13-2.fc43.x86_64 is already installed
  - package krita-libs-5.2.13-2.fc43.x86_64 is already installed
  - package cpu-x-5.4.0-3.fc43.x86_64 is already installed
  - package cpu-x-data-5.4.0-3.fc43.noarch is already installed
  - package rstudio-server-2025.05.1+513-1.fc43.x86_64 is already installed
  - package nodejs-full-i18n-1:22.20.0-1.fc43.x86_64 is already installed
  - package nodejs-npm-1:10.9.3-1.22.20.0.1.fc43.x86_64 is already installed
  - installing package wine-core-10.20-2.fc43.x86_64 needs 557MB more space on the / filesystem

The / filesystem is 100GB, and is normally ~50% utilized, but right now because of the duplicate installations there is just 1.8GB free left after downloading the 7GB of packages for the transaction.

Uninstalling, even temporarily, isn’t going to cause problems? I think some of those packages may be dependencies of others.

Also what about the concern of installing many GB when there is almost no free space left?

No Btrfs here. It’s ext4 with with LVM on LUKS, and different lvmlv for root, home, etc

If you have the default btrfs @root and @home subvolumes, space is shared, and df doesn’t include metadata so, when space is tight, you need to use btrfs filesystem df /. You could move some big files from the @home subvolumes to other media until the update is complete.

Il would be nice to memorize the list of duplicates before attempting any fix.

That would allow:

  • verifying precisely those RPM with rpm -V
  • removing the old versions with rpm -e --nodeps (but only if dnf fails to do that)

For example with:

  • dnf repoquery --duplicates --latest-limit=-1 > olddups
  • dnf repoquery --duplicates --latest-limit=1 > newdups
  • dnf repoquery --duplicates --latest-limit=1 -qf="%{name}.%{arch}\n" > newdupsshort

(I prefer to use the repoquery command name instead of its rq alias).

Note: the post on github: Remove duplicates after a botched dnf upgrade uses rpm -e --nodeps but:

  • it should be better to achieve that with dnf itself
  • this post is now wrong with dnf5: the format of dnf5 check is not usable as it says.
    dnf repoquery --duplicates --latest-limit=-1 should be used instead.

Using MATE disk utliization analyzer, I noticed that /usr/lib/sysimage/libdnf5 is 11.2 GB, /var/cache/libdnf5 another 11.3 GB, /var/cache/dnf 3.7GB.

sudo dnf5 offline clean freed up 11.2 GB. Now with 13GB free, hopefully space won’t be an issue.

Now for the sudo dnf reinstall --refresh --releasever=43 --allowerasing --skip-unavailable --setopt=protected_packages= $(dnf rq --duplicates --latest-limit=1 --qf="%{name}.%{arch}\n") command, some details from the transaction attract attention:

Transaction Summary:
 Installing:         8 packages
 Reinstalling:    4397 packages
 Upgrading:        329 packages
 Replacing:       9154 packages
 Removing:          27 packages
 Downgrading:       11 packages

Total size of inbound packages is 8 GiB. Need to download 32 KiB.
After this operation, 22 GiB will be freed (install 26 GiB, remove 48 GiB).

Messages about inability to reinstall many packages including core system packages:

Installed packages for argument 'bind-dnssec-utils.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: bind-dnssec-utils-32:9.18.39-4.fc43.x86_64,bind-dnssec-utils-32:9.18.43-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'bind-libs.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: bind-libs-32:9.18.39-4.fc43.x86_64,bind-libs-32:9.18.43-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'bind-utils.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: bind-utils-32:9.18.39-4.fc43.x86_64,bind-utils-32:9.18.43-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'blender.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: blender-1:4.5.3-1.fc43.x86_64,blender-1:5.0.1-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'cargo.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: cargo-1.90.0-1.fc43.x86_64,cargo-1.92.0-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'chromium-common.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: chromium-common-141.0.7390.54-1.fc43.x86_64,chromium-common-143.0.7499.146-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'chromium.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: chromium-141.0.7390.54-1.fc43.x86_64,chromium-143.0.7499.146-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'cmake-data.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: cmake-data-3.31.10-3.fc43.noarch,cmake-data-3.31.6-4.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'cmake-filesystem.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: cmake-filesystem-3.31.10-3.fc43.x86_64,cmake-filesystem-3.31.6-4.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'cmake-rpm-macros.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: cmake-rpm-macros-3.31.10-3.fc43.noarch,cmake-rpm-macros-3.31.6-4.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'cmake.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: cmake-3.31.10-3.fc43.x86_64,cmake-3.31.6-4.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'container-selinux.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: container-selinux-4:2.242.0-1.fc43.noarch,container-selinux-4:2.245.0-1.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'freerdp-libs.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: freerdp-libs-2:3.16.0-4.fc43.x86_64,freerdp-libs-2:3.20.0-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'ibus-typing-booster.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: ibus-typing-booster-2.28.0-1.fc43.noarch,ibus-typing-booster-2.29.0-1.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'javascriptcoregtk4.1.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: javascriptcoregtk4.1-2.50.0-2.fc43.x86_64,javascriptcoregtk4.1-2.50.4-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'kernel-devel-matched.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: kernel-devel-matched-6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64,kernel-devel-matched-6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'kernel-tools-libs.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: kernel-tools-libs-6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64,kernel-tools-libs-6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'kernel-tools.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: kernel-tools-6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64,kernel-tools-6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'kf6-kirigami.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: kf6-kirigami-6.18.0-1.fc43.x86_64,kf6-kirigami-6.21.0-2.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'krita-libs.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: krita-libs-5.2.11-2.fc43.x86_64,krita-libs-5.2.14-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'krita.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: krita-5.2.11-2.fc43.x86_64,krita-5.2.14-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'libdecor.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: libdecor-0.2.3-6.fc43.x86_64,libdecor-0.2.5-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'libguestfs-appliance.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: libguestfs-appliance-1:1.57.2-2.fc43.x86_64,libguestfs-appliance-1:1.57.7-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'libguestfs-xfs.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: libguestfs-xfs-1:1.57.2-2.fc43.x86_64,libguestfs-xfs-1:1.57.7-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'libguestfs.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: libguestfs-1:1.57.2-2.fc43.x86_64,libguestfs-1:1.57.7-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'libwinpr.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: libwinpr-2:3.16.0-4.fc43.x86_64,libwinpr-2:3.20.0-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'mingw64-libpng.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: mingw64-libpng-1.6.50-2.fc43.noarch,mingw64-libpng-1.6.53-1.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'perf.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: perf-6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64,perf-6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'php-common.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: php-common-8.4.13-1.fc43.x86_64,php-common-8.4.16-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'php-mbstring.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: php-mbstring-8.4.13-1.fc43.x86_64,php-mbstring-8.4.16-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'python3-boto3.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: python3-boto3-1.40.46-1.fc43.noarch,python3-boto3-1.42.12-1.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'python3-botocore.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: python3-botocore-1.40.46-1.fc43.noarch,python3-botocore-1.42.12-1.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-audio-alsa.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-audio-alsa-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-audio-alsa-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-audio-dbus.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-audio-dbus-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-audio-dbus-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-audio-jack.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-audio-jack-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-audio-jack-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-audio-oss.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-audio-oss-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-audio-oss-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-audio-pa.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-audio-pa-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-audio-pa-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-audio-pipewire.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-audio-pipewire-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-audio-pipewire-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-audio-sdl.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-audio-sdl-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-audio-sdl-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-audio-spice.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-audio-spice-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-audio-spice-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-block-blkio.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-block-blkio-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-block-blkio-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-block-curl.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-block-curl-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-block-curl-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-block-dmg.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-block-dmg-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-block-dmg-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-block-gluster.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-block-gluster-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-block-gluster-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-block-iscsi.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-block-iscsi-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-block-iscsi-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-block-nfs.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-block-nfs-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-block-nfs-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-block-rbd.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-block-rbd-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-block-rbd-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-block-ssh.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-block-ssh-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-block-ssh-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-char-baum.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-char-baum-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-char-baum-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-char-spice.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-char-spice-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-char-spice-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-common.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-common-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-common-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-qxl.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-qxl-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-qxl-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-vhost-user-gpu.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-vhost-user-gpu-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-vhost-user-gpu-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-gl.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-gl-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-gl-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-gl.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-gl-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-gl-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-rutabaga.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-rutabaga-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-rutabaga-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-rutabaga.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-rutabaga-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-rutabaga-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-gl.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-gl-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-gl-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-rutabaga.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-rutabaga-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-rutabaga-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-display-virtio-vga.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-usb-host.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-usb-host-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-usb-host-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-usb-redirect.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-usb-redirect-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-usb-redirect-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-device-usb-smartcard.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-device-usb-smartcard-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-device-usb-smartcard-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-img.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-img-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-img-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-kvm-core.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-kvm-core-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-kvm-core-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-kvm.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-kvm-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-kvm-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-pr-helper.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-pr-helper-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-pr-helper-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-system-aarch64-core.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-system-aarch64-core-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-system-aarch64-core-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-system-aarch64.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-system-aarch64-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-system-aarch64-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-system-x86-core.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-system-x86-core-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-system-x86-core-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-system-x86.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-system-x86-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-system-x86-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-ui-curses.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-ui-curses-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-ui-curses-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-ui-egl-headless.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-ui-egl-headless-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-ui-egl-headless-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-ui-gtk.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-ui-gtk-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-ui-gtk-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-ui-opengl.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-ui-opengl-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-ui-opengl-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-ui-sdl.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-ui-sdl-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-ui-sdl-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-ui-spice-app.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-ui-spice-app-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-ui-spice-app-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'qemu-ui-spice-core.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: qemu-ui-spice-core-2:10.1.0-7.fc43.x86_64,qemu-ui-spice-core-2:10.1.3-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'rust-std-static.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: rust-std-static-1.90.0-1.fc43.x86_64,rust-std-static-1.92.0-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'rust.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: rust-1.90.0-1.fc43.x86_64,rust-1.92.0-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'signal-desktop.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: signal-desktop-7.83.0-1.1.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'solaar-udev.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: solaar-udev-1.1.14-13.fc43.noarch,solaar-udev-1.1.18-1.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'solaar.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: solaar-1.1.14-13.fc43.noarch,solaar-1.1.18-1.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'sos.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: sos-4.10.0-3.fc43.noarch,sos-4.10.2-1.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'systemd-container.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: systemd-container-258-1.fc43.x86_64,systemd-container-258.3-2.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'systemd-devel.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: systemd-devel-258-1.fc43.x86_64,systemd-devel-258.3-2.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'systemd-libs.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: systemd-libs-258-1.fc43.x86_64,systemd-libs-258.3-2.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'systemd-networkd.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: systemd-networkd-258-1.fc43.x86_64,systemd-networkd-258.3-2.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'systemd-oomd-defaults.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: systemd-oomd-defaults-258-1.fc43.noarch,systemd-oomd-defaults-258.3-2.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'systemd-pam.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: systemd-pam-258-1.fc43.x86_64,systemd-pam-258.3-2.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'systemd-resolved.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: systemd-resolved-258-1.fc43.x86_64,systemd-resolved-258.3-2.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'systemd-shared.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: systemd-shared-258-1.fc43.x86_64,systemd-shared-258.3-2.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'systemd-sysusers.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: systemd-sysusers-258-1.fc43.x86_64,systemd-sysusers-258.3-2.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'systemd-udev.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: systemd-udev-258-1.fc43.x86_64,systemd-udev-258.3-2.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'systemd.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: systemd-258-1.fc43.x86_64,systemd-258.3-2.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'thunderbird-librnp-rnp.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: thunderbird-librnp-rnp-140.3.0-1.fc43.x86_64,thunderbird-librnp-rnp-146.0-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'thunderbird.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: thunderbird-140.3.0-1.fc43.x86_64,thunderbird-146.0-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'wayland-protocols-devel.noarch' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: wayland-protocols-devel-1.45-2.fc43.noarch,wayland-protocols-devel-1.47-1.fc43.noarch, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'webkit2gtk4.1.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: webkit2gtk4.1-2.50.0-2.fc43.x86_64,webkit2gtk4.1-2.50.4-1.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'zlib-ng-compat-devel.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: zlib-ng-compat-devel-2.2.5-2.fc43.x86_64,zlib-ng-compat-devel-2.3.2-2.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'zlib-ng-compat.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: zlib-ng-compat-2.2.5-2.fc43.x86_64,zlib-ng-compat-2.3.2-2.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.
Installed packages for argument 'zlib-ng.x86_64' are not available in repositories in the same version, available versions: zlib-ng-2.2.5-2.fc43.x86_64,zlib-ng-2.3.2-2.fc43.x86_64, cannot reinstall.

Notably, systemd (F43 version from “unknown” repo) is in the list of packages to be removed:

Package                                                    Arch   Version                                   Repository                     Size
Removing dependent packages:
 blender                                                   x86_64 1:4.5.5-2.fc42                            updates                   253.7 MiB
 chromium                                                  x86_64 143.0.7499.109-2.fc42                     updates                   250.7 MiB
 freerdp-libs                                              x86_64 2:3.18.0-1.fc42                           updates                     3.5 MiB
 kernel-tools                                              x86_64 6.17.11-200.fc42                          updates                     2.3 MiB
 kf6-kirigami                                              x86_64 6.21.0-1.fc42                             updates                     3.7 MiB
 krita                                                     x86_64 5.2.14-1.fc42                             updates                   137.2 MiB
 krita-libs                                                x86_64 5.2.14-1.fc42                             updates                    33.4 MiB
 pandoc                                                    x86_64 3.1.11.1-34.1.fc42                        updates                   191.1 MiB
 perf                                                      x86_64 6.17.11-200.fc42                          updates                    11.9 MiB
 python3-boto3                                             noarch 1.42.5-1.fc42                             updates                     2.3 MiB
 python3-botocore                                          noarch 1.42.5-1.fc42                             updates                   108.4 MiB
 python3-nftables                                          x86_64 1:1.1.1-3.fc42                            fedora                     43.5 KiB
 python3-uvloop                                            x86_64 0.19.0-5.fc41                             <unknown>                   2.2 MiB
 qemu-kvm                                                  x86_64 2:9.2.4-2.fc42                            updates                     0.0   B
 qemu-kvm-core                                             x86_64 2:9.2.4-2.fc42                            updates                     0.0   B
 qemu-system-x86                                           x86_64 2:9.2.4-2.fc42                            updates                     0.0   B
 qemu-system-x86-core                                      x86_64 2:9.2.4-2.fc42                            updates                    54.9 MiB
 solaar                                                    noarch 1.1.16-1.fc42                             updates                     3.9 MiB
 sos                                                       noarch 4.10.0-1.fc42                             updates                     3.9 MiB
 systemd                                                   x86_64 258.2-1.fc43                              <unknown>                  12.7 MiB
 systemd-container                                         x86_64 258.2-1.fc43                              <unknown>                   2.2 MiB
 systemd-devel                                             x86_64 258.2-1.fc43                              <unknown>                 614.9 KiB
 systemd-networkd                                          x86_64 258.2-1.fc43                              <unknown>                   2.3 MiB
 systemd-oomd-defaults                                     noarch 258.2-1.fc43                              <unknown>                 187.0   B
 systemd-pam                                               x86_64 258.2-1.fc43                              <unknown>                   1.2 MiB
 systemd-resolved                                          x86_64 258.2-1.fc43                              <unknown>                 733.0 KiB
 systemd-udev                                              x86_64 258.2-1.fc43                              <unknown>                  12.6 MiB

There is also a F42 version of systemd installed from the usual updates repo.

Is it safe or a bad idea to (try to) run the reinstall command in this state?

Output from `rpm -V systemd`
$ rpm -V systemd
.M.......  c /etc/hostname
.M.......  c /etc/locale.conf
S.5......    /usr/bin/busctl
S.5......    /usr/bin/homectl
..5......    /usr/bin/hostnamectl
S.5......    /usr/bin/journalctl
S.5......    /usr/bin/localectl
..5......    /usr/bin/loginctl
..5......    /usr/bin/oomctl
S.5......    /usr/bin/resolvectl
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemctl
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-analyze
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-ask-password
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-cat
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-cgls
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-cgtop
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-creds
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-delta
..5......    /usr/bin/systemd-detect-virt
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-escape
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-firstboot
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-id128
..5......    /usr/bin/systemd-inhibit
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-machine-id-setup
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-mount
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Unsatisfied dependencies for systemd-258.2-1.fc43.x86_64:
	(systemd-rpm-macros = 258.2-1.fc43 if rpm-build) is needed by (installed) systemd-258.2-1.fc43.x86_64
.M.......  c /etc/hostname
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I hesitate to uninstall duplicates manually, especially since core packages like systemd, dnf5, glibc all seem to have such duplicates.

I don’t think so: dnf5 will potentially re-download all those 11.2 GB.

You could safely remove the dnf4 cache with: dnf4 clean all

There is also surely some more possible cleanup elsewhere, for example
under /var/cache/PackageKit. A rm -rf /var/cache/PackageKit/* is
safe: one will not use PackageKit to fix this problem: using dnf5 is
IMO safer.

PS: why are you using offline, taking the risk that rebooting
fails ?

Seems indeed a bad idea, but can you check rpm -V of the F42
version of systemd ?

If it is clean, removing its F43 version should be safe.

That said, removing not all but most of the duplicates may make
dnf5 distro-sync succeed afterwards (I have seen that I think).

In any case, having a live USB stick to boot from seems now mandatory.

This progressed the most so far: sudo dnf reinstall --refresh --releasever=43 --enable-repo=updates-archive --allowerasing --skip-unavailable --setopt=protected_packages= $(dnf rq --duplicates --latest-limit=1 --qf="%{name}.%{arch}\n" | grep -vE 'aopalliance|nodejs|rstudio|krita|cpu-x|chromium|signal')

The | grep -vE 'aopalliance|nodejs|rstudio|krita|cpu-x|chromium|signal' was added because without it, those packages “already installed” caused aborting the operation before it began.

With the packages excluded, the transaction ran some 14000 operations installing/upgrading, running postinstall scripts, etc. It seemed successful, but strangely the last line of output after all that just said Transaction failed: Rpm transaction failed. with no other error or explanation.


Other things I’ve tried or checked:

  • dnf check still finds 9000+ issues.

  • sudo rpm --rebuilddb but I can’t tell if it succeeded. Sometimes running this brings up SELinux alerts.

  • I don’t know if differences in the dbs between /var/lib/rpm and /usr/lib/sysimage/rpm are of significance. Are they supposed to be synchronized?

$ ls -la /var/lib/rpm/
total 791080
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root      4096 Sep 29  2022 .
drwxr-xr-x. 96 root root      4096 Jul 29 20:00 ..
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root         0 Mar 20  2025 .migratedb
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 810020864 Dec 17 03:50 rpmdb.sqlite
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root     32768 Dec 20 12:36 rpmdb.sqlite-shm
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root         0 Dec 17 03:50 rpmdb.sqlite-wal
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root         0 Sep 29  2022 .rpm.lock

$ ls -la /usr/lib/sysimage/rpm/
total 778880
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root      4096 Dec 20 13:05 .
drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root      4096 Dec 20 13:05 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 797429760 Dec 20 13:05 rpmdb.sqlite
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root    131072 Dec 20 13:05 rpmdb.sqlite-shm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root         0 Dec 20 13:05 rpmdb.sqlite-wal
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root         0 Dec 20 13:05 .rpm.lock

  • $ sudo dnf distro-sync --refresh --allowerasing --releasever=43 --setopt protected_packages= still fails to run with:
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'libdnf5::AssertionError'
  what():  libdnf5/rpm/transaction.cpp:195: void libdnf5::rpm::Transaction::fill(const libdnf5::base::Transaction&): Assertion 'implicit_ts_elements.empty()' failed: The rpm transaction contains more elements than requested
Aborted                    sudo dnf distro-sync --refresh --allowerasing --releasever=43 --setopt protected_packages=```

I’m not using offline. Your previous reasons for avoiding it make sense. Offline was used for the upgrade initially, but since it froze mid-upgrade, the 11 GB cache of packages was never cleared.

This freed another 3+ GB. I don’t use PackageKit, so that is basically empty.

The system must also have some cache clearing scheduled task, because the 11GB dnf5 cache was also cleared overnight although I had intentionally spared it. Oh well.

In any case, with ~20GB of free space after clearing redundant package caches and redownloading several GB of packages I don’t think space is an issue anymore.

I posted the output of rpm -V systemd earlier: Stuck mid-upgrade to Fedora 43 - #21 by fasulia

Installing and enabling fedora-repos-archive avoided the potential removal of systemd, etc.

However, even now, problems remain:

Output of `rpm -V systemd-257.10-1.fc42`
$ rpm -V systemd-257.10-1.fc42
.M.......  c /etc/hostname
.M.......  c /etc/locale.conf
S.5......    /usr/bin/busctl
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..5......    /usr/bin/hostnamectl
S.5......    /usr/bin/journalctl
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..5......    /usr/bin/loginctl
..5......    /usr/bin/oomctl
S.5......    /usr/bin/resolvectl
missing     /usr/bin/runlevel
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemctl
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-analyze
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-ask-password
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-cat
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-cgls
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-cgtop
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-creds
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-delta
..5......    /usr/bin/systemd-detect-virt
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-escape
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-firstboot
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-id128
..5......    /usr/bin/systemd-inhibit
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-machine-id-setup
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-mount
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S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-path
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..5......    /usr/bin/systemd-socket-activate
..5......    /usr/bin/systemd-stdio-bridge
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S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent
S.5......    /usr/bin/systemd-vpick
missing     /usr/bin/telinit
..5......    /usr/bin/timedatectl
S.5......    /usr/bin/userdbctl
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Output of `rpm -V systemd-258.2-1.fc43`
$ rpm -V systemd-258.2-1.fc43
Unsatisfied dependencies for systemd-258.2-1.fc43.x86_64:
	(systemd-rpm-macros = 258.2-1.fc43 if rpm-build) is needed by (installed) systemd-258.2-1.fc43.x86_64
.M.......  c /etc/hostname
.M.......  c /etc/locale.conf