On Mon, 2025-10-20 at 19:55 +0000, Beartooth via users wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM I Beartooth via users > <[email protected]> wrote about the troubles with curl on > three machines all running F42. > > I'm still running F42 on the same three machines, seven weeks > later. Routine daily dnf upgrades have since fixed each of them at least > once -- and broken the upgrading process on each at least once. <sigh> > > The following rpm -q is the same on all three: > > $ rpm -q kernel > kernel-6.16.10-200.fc42.x86_64 > kernel-6.16.11-200.fc42.x86_64 > kernel-6.16.12-200.fc42.x86_64 > > Currently two machines accept upgrades with no trouble. And one > fails to the curl trouble every time.
Actual error messages might be useful. "dnf update" on the command line, and post some results. But can the same problem machine otherwise do other things on the internet without issues? Curl is essentially just a downloading tool. If you typed "curl www.example.com" it'll download the default page from that website and show it to you in the terminal. Add some parameters, and it saves it to a file, instead (e.g. curl www.example.com --output test.html). It can do other things, but it's common use is just to download something. Either by users using it on the command line, or other programs using it as their downloader. For it to work, your network has to work, and DNS resolution too (unless all the download links use numerical IP addresses instead of domain names). If you have an unusual network configuration (e.g. computers going through other computers, going through routers, double NATing), that can be a cause of why one particular computer has networking problems (if the NAT isn't set up well). Another consideration is network speed. If my internet is being throttled, dnf updating fails badly, over and over. The remote end doesn't like what ought to be a quick download turning into a prolonged slow dribble, and aborts after a short while. I had to adjust my DNF settings to only download one file at a time to have any chance of it succeeding. Even then, large files often took several attempts. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
