Fedora 23: “dnf update” stuck at “Running transaction”

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For a few days now I'm having issues running dnf update under my Fedora 23 installation.

After updating the package info and downloading the packages dnf seems to be stuck at "Running transaction". This is what the terminal shows:

[...]
[SKIPPED] xorg-x11-server-common-1.18.3-1.fc23.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded                                                           
[SKIPPED] xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-1.18.3-1.fc23.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded                                                         
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction

I don't see anything suspicious in journalctl. I already tried cleaning dnf with:

rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
cd /var/cache/dnf
rm -rf *
dnf clean all

The same happens when I try to install a new package via dnf install.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Best Answer

After waiting for several hours dnf still was stuck on Running transaction. However after pressing Ctrl+C numerous times it continued. After it was done installing and verifying it was stuck again. Ctrl+C to the rescue it exited normally and all the updated packaged were installed... I still don't know what happened and also don't see any error in the logs. Hopefully it will work as expected the next time.

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