When I installed Fedora 36 this issue did not exist, so I assume it is my tinkering which created the issue. When I turn on my laptop and Fedora starts it gives me the notification:
“Software Updates Failed”
When I click on it a Window appears displaying the following message:
“Failed to Update. We’re sorry: the update failed to install. Please wait for another update and try again. If the problem persists, contact your software provider.
Details: Detailed errors from package manager follow: failed to resolve package_ids: Timeout was reached”
On the Explore tab of the Gnome-Software Center 42.4 nothing loads.
I killed gnome-software via system monitor, reopened software, vualá! worked! opened quickly and everything loaded nicely.
So then I turned off the computer to check wether the solution was permanent and
it returned to its former behavior. So I killed the process again and I reinstalled gnome-software as you suggested.
I turned off again and rebooted and unfortunately hasn’t solved the issue.
Thanks @rebok232 for your reply! if you have any other suggestions I’ll keep trying, also if I find the solution I’ll post it.
But at least now I can get it going by killing the process, so I’m half way there!
Also the output of journalctl -b | grep gnome-software:
Oct 15 12:17:13 main gnome-software[2138]: failed to set proxy: GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._pk_2dengine_2derror_2dquark.Code3: setting the proxy failed: failed to get the uid
Oct 15 12:17:13 main gnome-software[2138]: Failed to load proxy settings: GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._pk_2dengine_2derror_2dquark.Code3: setting the proxy failed: failed to get the uid
Oct 15 12:17:26 main gnome-software[2138]: enabled plugins: appstream, fwupd, os-release, repos, fedora-langpacks, fedora-pkgdb-collections, flatpak, hardcoded-blocklist, modalias, packagekit, rewrite-resource, generic-updates, malcontent, provenance, icons, provenance-license
Oct 15 12:17:26 main gnome-software[2138]: disabled plugins: dummy
Oct 15 12:18:04 main gnome-software[2138]: Broken accounting of active state for widget 0x55f2fed86f90(GtkBox)
Oct 15 12:18:04 main gnome-software[2138]: Broken accounting of active state for widget 0x55f2fedcb350(GtkMenuSectionBox)
Oct 15 12:18:04 main gnome-software[2138]: Broken accounting of active state for widget 0x55f2fed86390(GtkBox)
Oct 15 12:18:04 main gnome-software[2138]: Broken accounting of active state for widget 0x55f2fd33cd50(GtkMenuSectionBox)
Oct 15 12:18:04 main gnome-software[2138]: Broken accounting of active state for widget 0x55f2fd365bb0(GtkStack)
Oct 15 12:18:04 main gnome-software[2138]: Broken accounting of active state for widget 0x55f2fec2a830(GtkViewport)
Oct 15 12:18:04 main gnome-software[2138]: Broken accounting of active state for widget 0x55f2fd03f270(GtkScrolledWindow)
Oct 15 12:18:04 main gnome-software[2138]: Broken accounting of active state for widget 0x55f2fcf9d150(GtkPopoverContent)
Oct 15 12:18:04 main gnome-software[2138]: Broken accounting of active state for widget 0x55f2fce1e8f0(GtkPopoverMenu)
you you might also try pkcon refresh force to try and rebuild the cache in gnome software.I use dnf in the terminal but if you prefer gnome software that command should refresh it.
However, at least now, after the recommendation from @straycat ( pkcon refresh force). On this reboot the Software Center does work, without having to kill the gnome-control process.
@grumpey maybe I am running a proxy server, this is the output of less /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
# see `man dnf.conf` for defaults and possible options
[main]
gpgcheck=True
installonly_limit=3
clean_requirements_on_remove=True
best=False
skip_if_unavailable=True
fastestmirror=True
deltarpm=True
max_parallel_downloads=3
/etc/dnf/dnf.conf (END)
How can I know if I’m running a proxy server or not?
I do remember tinkering with certain files, perhaps this one and some other due to some recommendations from a video by DJ Ware, regarding Fedora not long ago, but I basically copied and pasted, can’t remember what nor what files unfortunately, I’ll
see if I can back-trace…