Update isussues on Fedora 42 Cinnamon

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Hello,

I installed Fedora 42 Cinnamon in my PC, and while I am having trouble with boot times (another thread) I wanted to make a dedicated thread to the installation and update issues I have encountered.

First things first, during install I got an error message to pop up which said that SELinux prevented systemd-coredump from mounton. I am mentioning this in case it’s relevant.

But now to the update issue. After a fresh install, the first thing I do is of course to update. I go into the Software Manager and click “download”. It downloads everything and I am prompted to restart, so I click the restart button. The first time it just logs me out. Okay so I log back in, click “Download” again, wait, am prompted to restart, and now it restarts. But it doesn’t apply the updates. So I download them again, am prompted to restart, I click restart and again it doesn’t apply any updates. This went on for a while until at one point, I don’t know why or how it did apply the updates. But it took multiple attempts and multiple restarts.

Seems like a bug, right?

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Use the SSO link in the top right menu.

I always recommend updating from the command line, as we see many problems with various GUI software updaters.

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What is an SSO link?

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Single Sign On
So you can use your Fedora Account to access Bugzilla

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Do an update from command line running the following command and report back

sudo dnf update
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Try running update in cli.

It’s probably an inhibitor issue fixed recently.