With a new installation of Fedora Server 43, it is unable to update, because `python3-botocore-1.42.45-1.fc43` is 404 at the sole mirror that it tries to access

I’ve recently downloaded download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/43/Server/x86_64/images/Fedora-Server-Guest-Generic-43-1.6.x86_64.qcow2, and installed it with virt-manager-5.1.0-3.fc43.noarch, as:

<domain type="kvm">
  <name>Fedora43Server</name>
  <uuid>ba05ce80-7220-40ed-a398-2346dde34861</uuid>
  <metadata>
    <libosinfo:libosinfo xmlns:libosinfo="http://libosinfo.org/xmlns/libvirt/domain/1.0">
      <libosinfo:os id="http://fedoraproject.org/fedora/42"/>
    </libosinfo:libosinfo>
  </metadata>
  <memory unit="KiB">16777216</memory>
  <currentMemory unit="KiB">16777216</currentMemory>
  <vcpu placement="static">6</vcpu>
  <os firmware="efi">
    <type arch="x86_64" machine="pc-q35-10.1">hvm</type>
    <firmware>
      <feature enabled="yes" name="enrolled-keys"/>
      <feature enabled="yes" name="secure-boot"/>
    </firmware>
    <loader readonly="yes" secure="yes" type="pflash" format="qcow2">/usr/share/edk2/ovmf/OVMF_CODE_4M.secboot.qcow2</loader>
    <nvram template="/usr/share/edk2/ovmf/OVMF_VARS_4M.secboot.qcow2" templateFormat="qcow2" format="qcow2">/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/Fedora43Server_VARS.qcow2</nvram>
    <boot dev="hd"/>
  </os>
  <features>
    <acpi/>
    <apic/>
    <vmport state="off"/>
    <smm state="on"/>
  </features>
  <cpu mode="host-passthrough" check="none" migratable="on"/>
  <clock offset="utc">
    <timer name="rtc" tickpolicy="catchup"/>
    <timer name="pit" tickpolicy="delay"/>
    <timer name="hpet" present="no"/>
  </clock>
  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
  <pm>
    <suspend-to-mem enabled="no"/>
    <suspend-to-disk enabled="no"/>
  </pm>
  <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator>
    <disk type="file" device="disk">
      <driver name="qemu" type="qcow2"/>
      <source file="/home/RokeJulianLockhart/Documents/The_Unsanitised/ISOs/Fedora-Server-Guest-Generic-43-1.6.x86_64.qcow2"/>
      <target dev="nvme0n1" bus="nvme"/>
      <address type="drive" controller="0" bus="0" target="0" unit="0"/>
    </disk>
    <controller type="nvme" index="0">
      <serial>nvme0</serial>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x10" slot="0x01" function="0x0"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="usb" index="0" model="qemu-xhci" ports="15">
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x03" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="pci" index="0" model="pcie-root"/>
    <controller type="pci" index="1" model="pcie-root-port">
      <model name="pcie-root-port"/>
      <target chassis="1" port="0x10"/>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x0" multifunction="on"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="pci" index="2" model="pcie-root-port">
      <model name="pcie-root-port"/>
      <target chassis="2" port="0x11"/>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x1"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="pci" index="3" model="pcie-root-port">
      <model name="pcie-root-port"/>
      <target chassis="3" port="0x12"/>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x2"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="pci" index="4" model="pcie-root-port">
      <model name="pcie-root-port"/>
      <target chassis="4" port="0x13"/>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x3"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="pci" index="5" model="pcie-root-port">
      <model name="pcie-root-port"/>
      <target chassis="5" port="0x14"/>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x4"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="pci" index="6" model="pcie-root-port">
      <model name="pcie-root-port"/>
      <target chassis="6" port="0x15"/>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x5"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="pci" index="7" model="pcie-root-port">
      <model name="pcie-root-port"/>
      <target chassis="7" port="0x16"/>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x6"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="pci" index="8" model="pcie-root-port">
      <model name="pcie-root-port"/>
      <target chassis="8" port="0x17"/>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x7"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="pci" index="9" model="pcie-root-port">
      <model name="pcie-root-port"/>
      <target chassis="9" port="0x18"/>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x03" function="0x0" multifunction="on"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="pci" index="10" model="pcie-root-port">
      <model name="pcie-root-port"/>
      <target chassis="10" port="0x19"/>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x03" function="0x1"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="pci" index="11" model="pcie-root-port">
      <model name="pcie-root-port"/>
      <target chassis="11" port="0x1a"/>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x03" function="0x2"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="pci" index="12" model="pcie-root-port">
      <model name="pcie-root-port"/>
      <target chassis="12" port="0x1b"/>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x03" function="0x3"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="pci" index="13" model="pcie-root-port">
      <model name="pcie-root-port"/>
      <target chassis="13" port="0x1c"/>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x03" function="0x4"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="pci" index="14" model="pcie-root-port">
      <model name="pcie-root-port"/>
      <target chassis="14" port="0x1d"/>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x03" function="0x5"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="pci" index="15" model="pcie-root-port">
      <model name="pcie-root-port"/>
      <target chassis="15" port="0x1e"/>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x03" function="0x6"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="pci" index="16" model="pcie-to-pci-bridge">
      <model name="pcie-pci-bridge"/>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x01" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="sata" index="0">
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x1f" function="0x2"/>
    </controller>
    <controller type="virtio-serial" index="0">
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x04" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
    </controller>
    <interface type="network">
      <mac address="52:54:00:a8:57:2f"/>
      <source network="default"/>
      <model type="virtio"/>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x02" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
    </interface>
    <serial type="pty">
      <target type="isa-serial" port="0">
        <model name="isa-serial"/>
      </target>
    </serial>
    <console type="pty">
      <target type="serial" port="0"/>
    </console>
    <channel type="unix">
      <target type="virtio" name="org.qemu.guest_agent.0"/>
      <address type="virtio-serial" controller="0" bus="0" port="1"/>
    </channel>
    <channel type="spicevmc">
      <target type="virtio" name="com.redhat.spice.0"/>
      <address type="virtio-serial" controller="0" bus="0" port="2"/>
    </channel>
    <input type="tablet" bus="usb">
      <address type="usb" bus="0" port="1"/>
    </input>
    <input type="mouse" bus="ps2"/>
    <input type="keyboard" bus="ps2"/>
    <graphics type="spice" autoport="yes">
      <listen type="address"/>
      <image compression="off"/>
    </graphics>
    <sound model="ich9">
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x1b" function="0x0"/>
    </sound>
    <audio id="1" type="spice"/>
    <video>
      <model type="virtio" heads="1" primary="yes"/>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x01" function="0x0"/>
    </video>
    <redirdev bus="usb" type="spicevmc">
      <address type="usb" bus="0" port="2"/>
    </redirdev>
    <redirdev bus="usb" type="spicevmc">
      <address type="usb" bus="0" port="3"/>
    </redirdev>
    <watchdog model="itco" action="reset"/>
    <memballoon model="virtio">
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x05" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
    </memballoon>
    <rng model="virtio">
      <backend model="random">/dev/urandom</backend>
      <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x06" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
    </rng>
  </devices>
</domain>

Upon boot, it reports two failed services — perhaps, caused by bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2439964, because I solely set setenforce permissive after installation — which don’t appear to matter:

What does matter is:

When I visit view-source:http://mirror.dogado.de/fedora/linux/updates/43/Everything/x86_64/Packages/p/python3-botocore-1.42.45-1.fc43.noarch.rpm#line13 via firefox-nightly-149.0a1-20260213212122.x86_64, I observe an identical error message:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
	<head>
		<title>Repository Mirror for your Cloud Server and Webhosting - 404 Not Found</title>
		<meta charset="utf-8" />
		<meta name="description" content="The Repository Mirror for your CloudServer and Webhosting" />
		<meta name="keywords" content="Webhosting, Webspace, Domains, PHP, MySQL, SSL, Repository, Mirror" />
		<meta name="author" content="dogado GmbH" />
		<meta name="robots" content="noodp, index, follow" />
		<meta name="googlebot" content="noodp, index, follow" />
		<meta name="revisit-after" content="1 days" />
		<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" />
	</head>
	<body>
		<p>The hardware and bandwidth for this mirror is donated by <a href="[https://www.dogado.de](view-source:https://www.dogado.de/)">dogado GmbH</a>, the <a href="[https://www.dogado.de/website/hosting](view-source:https://www.dogado.de/website/hosting)">Webhosting</a> and Full Service-Cloud Provider. Check out our <a href="[https://www.dogado.de/wordpress/](view-source:https://www.dogado.de/wordpress/)">Wordpress</a> Tutorial.<br>If you wish to report a bug, or if you are interested in having us mirror your free-software or open-source project, please feel free to contact us at mirror[@]dogado.de.</p>
		<center>
			<h1>404 Not Found</h1>
		</center>
		<hr>
		<center>nginx</center>
		<p>These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.<br>They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.<br>Health stats visible at <a href="[https://blmonitor.dogado.net/report/uptime/2a7850bb4634bcbfb1ad5e40ad254f50/](view-source:https://blmonitor.dogado.net/report/uptime/2a7850bb4634bcbfb1ad5e40ad254f50/)">Monitor</a>.</p>
	</body>
</html>

We have just had a report of the same issue on the Matrix chat and it seems it has been happening for a couple of days.

Apparently some cache / rechache command will fix it - I’ve asked what they are and will get back to you if I can tonight.

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Maybe this?

sudo dnf clean all
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@theprogram, are you able to provide a URI to it?

@barryascott, thanks! I performed that via a TTY, then re-commenced the update, via Cockpit. Thereafter, the update process completed, without even a location.reload:

I knew of that command, but don’t understand why that would remediate DNF5 forcing an invalid mirror for a package. I presume that this is a bug with DNF5.

  • Cockpit Software relies on PackageKit.
  • PackageKit in F43 uses DNF4 for transactions.
  • PackageKit does not share its cache with DNF.

@vgaetera, do you mean that Cockpit relies upon DNF4 because PackageKit does? If so:

Certainly, F43 utilises DNF5 by default, and the command appeared to work.

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Correlation does not imply causation, as PackageKit cache is entirely separate from DNF and requires a different command to clear:
pkcon: PackageKit console client | Man Page | Commands | PackageKit | ManKier

Issues like this are typically transient and resolve on their own as soon as it switches to a different mirror.

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