On Wed, 03 Jan 2018 20:11:29 +0100 Martin Wagner <martin.wagner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2018-01-03 at 18:45 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Jan 2018 20:06:24 +0100 > > Martin Wagner <martin.wagner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [ ... ] > > Did you try to log out from your X (Gnome?) before the upgrade? Then > > switch to a tty (can be reached via CTRL-ALT-Fx). From there, as > > root, > > two commands: > > > > # dnf check-update > > # dnf upgrade > > Yes, that works fine, but that didn't involve any kind of restart like > the Gnome Software update routine does. Ah, I see: I missed that in your first message - sorry. But if dnf upgrades work, your concerns about not being not be able to upgrade to the next major version of Fedora might be not necessary: there's some upgrade version for dnf that worked for me upgrading from F24 -> F25 ->F26. I've used this Fedora HowTo: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade Excerpt: "DNF system upgrade can upgrade your system to a newer release of Fedora, using a mechanism similar to that used for offline package updates. The updated packages are downloaded while the system is running normally, then the system reboots to a special environment (implemented as a systemd target) to install them. Once installation of the updated packages is complete, the system reboots again to the new Fedora release." Additionally to the recommendations above I recommend doing this from a VT / TTY - after logging out of X. On the tty I even started the upgrade from inside a tmux session. Not being sure if this latter approach is really necessary .... HTH Wolfgang _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
