Re: fedora-upgrade fails with error: unrecognized arguments: --distro-sync

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On 11/16/17 22:49, Christopher Ross wrote:
> On 16/11/17 14:24, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 11/16/17 22:04, Christopher Ross wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 16/11/17 12:59, Christopher Ross wrote:
>>>> Today I tried upgrading my x86 laptop from Fedora 26 to 27 but it failed with the
>>>> following...
>>>
>>>
>>> For info, trying again consistently yields the same results.
>>>
>>
>> Well, the description of the fedora-upgrade package says...
>>
>> Description  : Upgrade Fedora to next version using dnf upgrade.
>>               : This is attempt to automatize steps as listed here:
>>               : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_package_manager
>>               :
>>               : This is an unofficial tool, for official Fedora-supported
>>               : upgrades please see:
>>               : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading
>>
>>
>> So, it seems like a work in progress.....
>>
>> How about just doing the "approved" method found at
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade
>
> I get a different error with that!

Even if the other method "worked" you'd still run into the difficulty you show below.

I don't have a 32bit system and don't have EFI sytems.

You may want to try adding --skip-broken to the command, or -x to exclude the
grub2-efi package from the upgrade process.

>
> root@nellie 14:43:37 ~ # dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=27
> Before you continue ensure that your system is fully upgraded by running "dnf
> --refresh upgrade". Do you want to continue [y/N]: Y
> Adobe Systems Incorporated                                19 kB/s | 1.9 kB     00:00
> negativo17 - Spotify                                91 kB/s |  15 kB     00:00
> Fedora 27 - i386 - Updates                               4.8 MB/s | 7.9 MB     00:01
> Fedora 27 - i386                               3.3 MB/s |  53 MB     00:16
> RPM Fusion for Fedora 27 - Free - Updates                               284 kB/s | 
> 38 kB     00:00
> RPM Fusion for Fedora 27 - Free                               2.2 MB/s | 614 kB    
> 00:00
> RPM Fusion for Fedora 27 - Nonfree - Updates                               208  B/s
> | 1.1 kB     00:05
> RPM Fusion for Fedora 27 - Nonfree                               947 kB/s | 151
> kB     00:00
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Thu 16 Nov 2017 14:47:16 GMT.
> Error:
>  Problem: package grub2-efi-1:2.02-0.40.fc26.i686 requires grub2-tools =
> 1:2.02-0.40.fc26, but none of the providers can be installed
>   - grub2-tools-1:2.02-0.40.fc26.i686 does not belong to a distupgrade repository
>   - problem with installed package grub2-efi-1:2.02-0.40.fc26.i686
> root@nellie 14:47:37 ~ #
>
>
> Regards,
> Chris R.
>
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