Unable to upgrade linux-firmware error unpacking rpm

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hello,

I’m having an issue updating to 8.10. Getting “Error unpacking rpm package linux-firmware-2024.0610-122.git90df68d2.el8_10.noarch” when doing a dnf upgrade

tried downloading the rpm and installing using
rpm -Uvh “file name”
That gives me an unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/firmware/ath11k/IPQ6018/hw1.0/m3_fw.mdt;6697cddb: cpio: rename failed - No such file or directory

I’ve tried doing
dnf clean all
dnf update

I’ve checked ps -aux | grep -release and nothing shows up holding the os-release file

Anyone have any ideas what is going on here?

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Just going to reply here with what I ended up doing to get this update to take in case someone in the future has a similar issue.

While probably not a technical fix that you would expect. I downloaded the rpm and then rebooted in to the rescue console. installed the rpm manually, rebooted and verified the update was successful which it was.