I am trying to upgrade from Fedora 29 to Fedora 30 dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=30 --allowerasing dnf system-upgrade reboot The download stage completes and posts a msg proposing the second line. The reboot starts up , gets to a certain stage and automatically reboots. On rebooting I see the same fed29 kernel is used and it just boots normally to the old system. I would have expected something indicating that it was processing the update with the usual message like "this may take some time". journalctl --list-boots shows me one on 2019-07-08 which seems to be the first reboot after the initial system-upgrade call. There are many reps after that as I repeated trying to find the problem. I expected to get output from this from its boot number , but the following gives lines with datastamps earlier today. journalctl -b -15 What do I need to get the boot log ? TIA. Here is a snip from one of the boot logs which appears to cover the point where reaches the Offline Update. If someone can give explicit instructions to get a better log I will try to submit it somewhere. Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=grub-boot-indeterminate comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/syst$ Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=grub-boot-indeterminate comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/syste$ Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Reached target Offline System Update (Pre). Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: AVC avc: denied { read } for pid=1 comm="systemd" name="dnf" dev="sda6" ino=1572867 scontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:va$ Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Update the operating system whilst offline... Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain pk-offline-update[648]: another framework set up the trigger Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=packagekit-offline-update comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/sy$ Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=packagekit-offline-update comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/sys$ Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: AVC avc: denied { read } for pid=1 comm="systemd" name="dnf" dev="sda6" ino=1572867 scontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:va$ Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Update the operating system whilst offline. Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Reached target Offline System Update. Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Remove the Offline System Updates symlink... Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain rm[649]: removed '/system-update' Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Remove the Offline System Updates symlink. Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=system-update-cleanup comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/system$ Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=system-update-cleanup comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd$ Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Startup finished in 1.354s (kernel) + 8.443s (initrd) + 22.374s (userspace) = 32.172s. Jul 09 01:10:55 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Rebooting: unit succeeded _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx