Update to Fedora 42 fails in gnome-software

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Most of my machines seem to be working fine, but I have one critical one where I have the notification for Fedora 42 in the gnome-software updates window, but when I click the Download button, the progress bar shows up to about 4% and then quits with no error message and reverts to showing the Download button.

I know I can use the dnf system-upgrade path, but I’d like to troubleshoot this in case there’s an issue that could bite me in the future.

Updates to my current Fedora 41 have worked flawlessly up to this point.

Any suggestions appreciated.

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This is a gnome software issue, you should follow this tutorial Upgrading Fedora Linux Using DNF System Plugin :: Fedora Docs

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Reported as a bug. The solution turned out to be disabling some repos in the gnome-software app that were not connected to Fedora or RPM Fusion (specifically, Dropbox and Microsoft Teams). gnome-software should report those errors.

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Thank you, good sir. I was facing the same issue as you - download would simply disappear at 8%. This helped.

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I tried to disable the Dropbox repo with sudo dnf --disable-repo but this didn’t work (some dnf 5 new syntax I red). I think this whole issue will prevent lots of less technical users to upgrade to 42. Any ideas on an ETA fix?