Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > On 02/05/2019 08.30, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 5/1/19 9:56 AM, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: >>> On 01/05/2019 17.50, Neal Becker wrote: >>>> It's too bad you can't get a bash prompt during the upgrade so you >>>> could run >>>> ps or something. My laptop doesn't have a disk activity light, so >>>> there's >>>> no way to tell if it's doing anything. >>> >>> I've been able to go to another virtual terminal by type Ctr-Alt-F2, but >>> only when using the graphical interface during the upgrade. After that >>> I was able to login as root. >> >> How did you have a graphical interface during the upgrade? Were you >> using "dnf upgrade" instead of "dnf system-upgrade"? > > I didn't do anything special. The systems I tried this on both run X11 > (XFCE, so no wayland), and I just got this graphical display (Fedora > logo in the middle of the screen and update messages at the top). I > guess it's the plymouth package that takes care of these graphics. > > I used dnf system-upgrade to do the upgrades. > Actually, fiddling around with Alt-F2 etc I did manage to get to a root login shell. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx