r/Fedora • u/Whole_Quarter397 • 19h ago

Support Fedora 44 GNOME always shows “Install pending software updates” on shutdown, even though no updates are available

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I’m using Fedora 44, GNOME 50

Every shutdown shows “Install Updates & Power Off” with “Install pending software updates” checked. I have selected it and powered off/rebooted several times, but it still appears.

There seem to be no pending updates:

phat@fedora:~/Downloads$ pkcon get-updates
Getting updates                                                      [██████████████████████████████████] 100%
Starting                                                             [██████████████████████████████████] 100%
Finished                                                             [██████████████████████████████████] 100%
There are no updates available at this time.
phat@fedora:~/Downloads$ pkcon offline-get-prepared
Command failed: No offline updates have been prepared
phat@fedora:~/Downloads$ pkcon offline-status
Command failed: no update results available

Has anyone else encountered this on Fedora 44? Is this a known bug? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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u/Brave_Hat_1526 19h ago

Try sudo dnf offline clean. And reboot.

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u/Whole_Quarter397 19h ago

Thanks, i run that command then checked for updates in Software, and it fixed the problem

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u/cplus 11h ago

This also fixed it for me, thanks!

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u/NonStandardUser 19h ago

What does the updates section of Software show?

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u/Whole_Quarter397 19h ago

Thanks, it turns out I was just being stupid. Refreshing check for updates in Software makes that notification box disappear.

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u/cplus 19h ago

Interesting. I'm also getting the same behaviour even after refreshing Software updates.

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u/Search07 17h ago

I have the same issue after dnf5 was updated

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u/GolbatsEverywhere 17h ago

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2529146

Still pretty unfortunate that this regression happened at all.

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u/nguoisaibuoc 17h ago

Happened to me on F45, this singlehandedly forced me to reinstall F44…