Description of problem: There is a problem with pkcon with the fedora repository if zchunk is enabled. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.2.2-2.fc33 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use "pkcon refresh force" Actual results: Fatal error: cannot update repo 'fedora': Yum repo downloading error: Downloading error: Unable to initialize zchunk file repodata/f9196996d311c31b162864369f45430463808a93e8c5ab92bede63611698358e-comps-Everything.x86_64.xml.zck: Unable to set zchunk file descriptor for repodata/f9196996d311c31b162864369f45430463808a93e8c5ab92bede63611698358e-comps-Everything.x86_64.xml.zck: Unable to find multipart download range ; Last error: Zchunk error: Unable to find multipart download range sometimes Fatal error: cannot update repo 'fedora': Yum repo downloading error: Downloading error: Unable to initialize zchunk file repodata/f9196996d311c31b162864369f45430463808a93e8c5ab92bede63611698358e-comps-Everything.x86_64.xml.zck: Unable to set zchunk file descriptor for repodata/f9196996d311c31b162864369f45430463808a93e8c5ab92bede63611698358e-comps-Everything.x86_64.xml.zck: Unable to compile regular expression ; Last error: Zchunk error: Unable to compile regular expression Expected results: No error Additional info: Software Update in cockpit-packagekit (234-1.fc33) could not work because of this. Temporary solution: 1. Set zchunk to False in dnf.conf ~]# echo 'zchunk=False' >> /etc/dnf/dnf.conf 2. Restart packagekit ~]# systemctl restart packagekit.service 3. Run again "pkcon refresh force"