Snap option in discover app and no firmware updates

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Hi,

I needed a snap app, so seeing the “snap” option at the bottom of the discover app I decided to trigger it. Now this is what I am seeing

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Everything should be fine, since it seems to process updates on every sources as you can see

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But instead it seems NOT to process anymore the firmware updates: with a “sudo dnf update -y” on konsole, I receive multiple assets.

So I kindly ask for your help:

  • how to reset to default the discover app?
  • possible fixes?

Stats as follows:

Operating System: Fedora Linux 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.10.0
Kernel Version: 6.17.7-300.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 24 × AMD RYZEN AI MAX 390 w/ Radeon 8050S
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (27.0 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: Radeon 8050S Graphics
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Product Name: ROG Flow Z13 GZ302EA_GZ302EA
System Version: 1.0

Thanks!

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The firmware updates here do not come from your distro’s software archive, but from lvfs, via the fwupdmgr tool for the purpose, not dnf.

Now, I do not see your normal Fedora RPM repos showing, but that may just be a UI issue, assuming that your screenshot is capturing the whole window.

Sometimes Discover is very slow to load or show all the software sources when it is fetching and possibly installing updates in the background, especially when it has to check for updates from five or six different sources. i.e Snap, Firmware, KDE Store, Fedora Flatpak, Flathub flatpak, and the standard repos.

I see this on other distros myself.

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Hi,

1. Thanks for the clarifications, I miss the knowledge on a vocabulary - infrastructural standpoint for what concerns fedora and KDE

2. I confirm that the screenshot is not cut.

3. Point is that with dnf, anyway, I receive results that are not showing in Discover: but as you stated, they may appear anyway in a couple of days, because it’s slow. Correct?

4. Is there a way to check that the normal fedora RPM repos are there? Even if I do not see them in a potential UI issue?

5. I have tried a fwupdmgr update and it seems that everything is up to date

The doubt actually raised from the fact that before I received updates almost everyday. Now with snap enabled, not anymore.

Thanks a lot for the support

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Not that long, no. Minutes.

If dnf is working, that should be enough, I’d think.

I’m not running before anywhere currently, so I can’t say for sure, but I wonder if this isn’t a bug. This happens on the Kubuntu LTS release, and maybe 25.04 after a change in the format for source files in Apt.

There could be a bug of some sort in the dnf plugin that Discover uses, maybe.

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Clear!

Thanks a lot, one last question:

Do you consider that it would be reasonable to restore the default settings in discover? (Even of there is the dnf on konsole workaround)

If yes, do you know how to do it quickly? I have read of a config file somewhere to be found, but not sure it’s the most appropriate thing.

Thanks!