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Having trouble upgrading Fedora from 41 to 42, plus WiFi problems. (mander.xyz)
submitted 10 months ago* by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I had installed Fedora KDE for an older relative on his old Dell laptop. I had already upgraded it from 40 to 41 before, but this time it seemingly refuses to upgrade at all.

I tried upgrading through the "KDE Discover" program at first, no success. I would click the "Upgrade to Fedora 42" button and nothing would happen.

Then I tried upgrading manually using the instructions given by the fedora wiki, and I get the errors from the attached image. (Image below is the continued output)

On top of that, to make things worse, WiFi literally disappears at a whim sometimes. I mean all GUI options for WiFi disappear. I have to restart to make it work again. This is frustrating, can anyone give some insight? Should I just wipe and reinstall something else?

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[–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

It's not resolving the mirrors. Can you open any websites in a browser on this machine? Sure seems like the network is unstable or possibly unusable.

Otherwise, just run the check for updates, install and updates that are available and see if those work.

Also, why are you specifying the release server manually?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child)

    The device can resolve dns requests. I can browse freely and normally.

    I'm specifying the release server manually as directed in the fedora docs for upgrading editions. That's what I followed

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Is ProtonVPN active by chance?

    Did you update the release targets first with dnf upgrade --refresh?

    You have two different problems btw. The first is a network connectivity issue where it can't find the target repos for whatever reason.

    Second is it looks like you have conflicting packages installed. I see mpv, rubberband, and Firefox in that screenshot, but there are more.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, I updated the release targets first.

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