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?
I think that’s saying both the RPM Fusion repositories (free and nonfree) can’t be found, possibly because the mirror you’re using is down, or doesn’t have F42.
Well the thing is, I’ve done this exact same operation on my own machine. It has managed to hold stable from F38 to F42.
But I’ve had to deal with similar annoyances since when I installed it on this particular laptop.
Edit: When you say you did it manually, what do you mean exactly?
Check dmesg output when after the wifi drops and see what the kernel is doing. That could inform your decision. I have an old asus that started having a bunch of wifi bugs too, and I’m pretty sure they made some updates to iwlwifi. No solution though, I dont really care because that machine barely gets any use. Wifi always works perfect if I stay on a tty and don’t enter a graphical session.
That being said I wouldn’t choose fedora for an older relative unless they were really into computers. While it has become more stable in recent years, they do break things from time to time.
If you do decide to keep them on fedora, maybe try an atomic version. That way when things break you can just roll back with no issues and pin the working deployment. Chances are they just want a web browser and libreoffice so the learning curve wouldn’t really matter to them.
I decided Fedora since I use it myself, so I figured it’d be easier to debug. I think I’ll pave the install and replace it with debian based mint if nothing works (I’ve made a separate partition for critical files)
When you say you did it manually, what do you mean exactly?
I meant that instead of doing it the “safe” GUI way, I simply did it by CLI, with the instructions available at the fedora docs
I’d remove rpmfusion and it’s packages, upgrade, and reinstall them. No idea what’s the particular issue with the 404, could be old mirrorlist, transient issues, but in general if you asked Fedora they’d tell you they only support upgrading with official repos on.
Which is fine really. You’re not losing anything.
https://blog.fyralabs.com/upgrade-error-with-vlc-plugins-freeworld/
That rpmfusion package looks like trouble, can you uninstall it or all of rpmfusion before upgrading? I also see internet problems here also so you might be better off fixing that first.
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?
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
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.
Yes, I updated the release targets first.
What happens if you try without the release version as if you were going up to 43?
Thanks for the suggestions, I will try again as soon as I can
If it’s too much of a headache, I can just wipe the partition and install something else, or just reinstall fedora I guess.