Issues updating firmware with fwupdmgr

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@SNAFUcore

The software updater just continues to try and download the file over and over

Completely unrelated to this topic … please lets stay on topic here about fwupdmgr (which has no relation at all to the linux-firmware package)…

Your issue is related to:

Current Status Of Ubuntu Update Errors: Please Read!

At the time of this post and answer (September 5, 2025, at approximately 10:40 UTC-4), it is known to Canonical and many people who are actively working on development, patching, etc. that there was an outage on the primary public repository servers. All security updates and other update pockets were unavailable, and the upload / processing queue for Security updates among others was obscenely backlogged as a result of the outage. This was reflected on https://status.canonical.com as acknowled…

EDIT: I have updated the topic title to be more specific, to avoid spam around the linux-firmware package issue …