Upgrade from Fedora 42 → 44 isn't working

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#  dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=44 --refresh
Updating and loading repositories:
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Nonfree                                                                                                                                                    100% |   3.8 KiB/s |   5.7 KiB |  00m02s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Nonfree - Updates                                                                                                                                          100% |   3.1 KiB/s |   4.5 KiB |  00m01s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Free - Updates                                                                                                                                             100% |   2.0 KiB/s |   2.8 KiB |  00m01s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Free                                                                                                                                                       100% |   2.3 KiB/s |   3.0 KiB |  00m01s
 google-talkplugin                                                                                                                                                                     100% |   2.9 KiB/s | 951.0   B |  00m00s
 Fedora 44 - hardware:razer                                                                                                                                                            100% |   5.1 KiB/s |   1.6 KiB |  00m00s
 Fedora 44 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64                                                                                                                                              100% | 810.0   B/s | 986.0   B |  00m01s
 Fedora 44 - x86_64 - Updates                                                                                                                                                          100% |  28.2 KiB/s |  27.5 KiB |  00m01s
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 Adobe Systems Incorporated                                                                                                                                                            100% |  10.1 KiB/s |   2.9 KiB |  00m00s
 Adobe Systems Incorporated                                                                                                                                                            100% |  14.2 KiB/s |   2.9 KiB |  00m00s
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Package "qcom-wwan-firmware-20260410-1.fc42.noarch" is already installed.
Packages for argument 'intel-gpu-firmware' available, but not installed.
Packages for argument 'mt7xxx-firmware' available, but not installed.
Package "fedora-flathub-remote-1-10.fc42.noarch" is already installed.
Package "fedora-workstation-repositories-38-7.fc42.x86_64" is already installed.
Package "aurorae-6.6.4-1.fc42.x86_64" is already installed.
Packages for argument 'plasma-pk-updates' available, but not installed.
Problem 1: installed package kdelibs-webkit-6:4.14.38-47.fc42.x86_64 requires kdelibs(x86-64) = 6:4.14.38-47.fc42, but none of the providers can be installed
  - kdelibs-6:4.14.38-47.fc42.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 2: wine-dxvk-2.6.2-1.fc42.i686 from @System has inferior architecture
  - wine-dxvk-2.6.2-1.fc42.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 3: wine-dxvk-d3d10-2.6.2-1.fc42.i686 from @System has inferior architecture
  - wine-dxvk-d3d10-2.6.2-1.fc42.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 4: wine-dxvk-d3d8-2.6.2-1.fc42.i686 from @System has inferior architecture
  - wine-dxvk-d3d8-2.6.2-1.fc42.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 5: wine-dxvk-d3d9-2.6.2-1.fc42.i686 from @System has inferior architecture
  - wine-dxvk-d3d9-2.6.2-1.fc42.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 6: wine-dxvk-dxgi-2.6.2-1.fc42.i686 from @System has inferior architecture
  - wine-dxvk-dxgi-2.6.2-1.fc42.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 7: package icedtea-web-1.8.8-11.fc44.x86_64 from fedora requires java-21-openjdk, but none of the providers can be installed
  - problem with installed package
  - java-21-openjdk-1:21.0.10.0.7-2.fc42.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - icedtea-web-1.8.8-8.fc42.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
 Problem 8: installed package kdelibs-webkit-6:4.14.38-47.fc42.x86_64 requires kdelibs(x86-64) = 6:4.14.38-47.fc42, but none of the providers can be installed
  - installed package kdelibs-6:4.14.38-47.fc42.x86_64 requires kde-apps-rpm-macros = 6:4.14.38-47.fc42, but none of the providers can be installed
  - installed package libkfbapi-1.0-16.fc32.x86_64 requires libkdewebkit.so.5()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - kde-apps-rpm-macros-6:4.14.38-47.fc42.noarch does not belong to a distupgrade repository
  - problem with installed package

The java and wine packages I could do without, but the kde packages being broken gives me pause.

2

Did you follow the instructions here, especially the very first command?
If you did was the command in step 1 able to complete without error?

3

Yes all packages are up to date. When this first happened the system was up to date. I waited a while, hoping there would be some missing packages upstream that would propagate and solve the problem, so the system had to be kept up to date, which I have done. The problem is persisting.

4

https://github.com/KDE/kdewebkit says:

Removed for KF6, the ‘kf5’ branch contains the last maintained state.

5

The package icdtea-web version 1.8.8-8 from f42 requires java-21-openjdk but that package does not exist in f44 repos. F44 contains java-25-openjdk and java-latest-openjdk

On my system that has both java-25-openjdk and java-latest-openjdk when I attempt to install icedtea-web dnf is quite happy to do so.
I think removing icedtea-web before upgrading may solve problem 7. It could be reinstalled after the upgrade.

I believe kdelibs-webkit has been removed and that the f44 version of kdelibs has superceded it. Try removing kdelibs-webkit and that should manage problem 1 and most of problem 8.

Problem 8 seems to be related to kdelibs-webkit as well and involves an f32 package libkfbapi which is not available in f44. That package requires a library file that is part of the obsoleted kdelibs-webkit package so removing the kdelibs-webkit package should manage most of the issues in problem 8 (and remove the libkfbapi package for you).
The final part of problem 8 (the kde-apps-rpm-macros package) should also benefit from removing the kdelibs-webkit package. The remaining packages (kde-apps-rpm-macros & kdelibs) should upgrade after the depencency issues in problems 1 & 8 are solved.

With all those changes it boils down to
sudo dnf remove kdelibs-webkit icedtea-web wine and see what happens. I suspect you should be able to run sudo dnf upgrade --refresh then follow the steps in the linked guide to complete the upgrade after that.

You can of course reinstall icedtea-web and wine after completing the upgrade if desired.

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If I remove kdelibs-webkit it removes all of kde.

7

Try perhaps: sudo dnf remove kdelibs-webkit icedtea-web wine --no-autoremove

If it still wants to remove all kde, remove the fc32 RPMs with: sudo dnf remove '*.fc32*'

8

these are probably the packages that depend on kde 4.

adding --allowerasing should take care of this. It should retain kdelibs-4.14 but remove kdelibs-webkit and packages that depend on kdelibs-webkit

sudo dnf system-upgrade  download --releasever=44 --allowerasing

before runnig the system-upgrade maybe remove wine\* and libkfbapi