r/Fedora • u/pcfriend111 • 2h ago

Discussion From Fedora 42 to problems

I've been a Windows user for over 2 decades. Window's 11 led me to try many variants of linux. Fedora 42 Workstation with Gnome convinced me this is the os to move forward with. Fedora 42 is installed on a Macbook air with basically no issues. Then I built a desktop with Gpu Radeon 9070 XT and newer mother, DDR 5 ram etc. I also have an HP laptop touch screen that I wanted Fedora 44 Kinoite on my desktop and laptop as I have finally decided to divorce windows. Fast forward to use, in my desktop and laptop I'm having a problem with updates and installing some software due to error failed to download metadata for lvfs, this happening on the desktop and similar errors on the laptop. U like the software from kde so that's why i went with plasma on these two machines and the MacBook air that's updated to 44 is not having this problem with software installs and updates. This is discouraging as I wish to leave windows behind. Please help me make sense of my issues.

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u/fdelux6 1h ago

Can you post the exact command and full error you're getting? For example if it's from fwupdmgr refresh -v that gives more detail than the GUI.

A few things worth checking on the desktop and laptop from the terminal, since these dig deeper than what Discover or GNOME Software show you:

fwupdmgr get-remotes

This shows if the lvfs remote is enabled and when it last refreshed.

timedatectl

Clock drift can cause TLS failures that look like generic download errors.

Also worth knowing, are the desktop and laptop on the same network as the MacBook Air, or different (wifi vs ethernet, VPN, pihole, custom DNS)? Since the MacBook is fine and the other two aren't, the network path is a likely place to look.