On 11/8/19 7:40 PM, Temlakos wrote:
Everyone:
I just tried to upgrade to F31. And I couldn't get past a few seconds
in the upgrade environment before it "failed out" and rebooted to F30,
after touching nothing.
For the record: I started by running:
sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
When one of my packages (a third-party package named mkvtoolnix)
didn't upgrade I reran the upgrade command with two additional flags,
per the explicit suggestion:
sudo dnf upgrade --best --allowerasing
That did it, and I have a working version of mkvtoolnix, even with its
GUI apparently baked in (so that the separate mkvtoolnix-gui package
is obsolete and now removed).
Then I ran this command:
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=31 --best
--allowerasing
It took many hours, but I got 2.8 gigabytes of downloads. I also
imported three GPG keys. It did successful transaction check and test.
Before anyone asks: I have never been able to do a successful CLI
upgrade using the system-upgrade package without passing the
--allowerasing switch to the download command. I passed the --best
switch because it seemed to work on the upgrade command and I thought
I was adding an extra measure of security.
Then I ran
sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
And what happened? Well, first it rebooted into the upgrade
environment. And I saw the progress screen.
And then, rather abruptly, the upgrade progress screen vanished. I saw
a very brief message from a program called "watchdog" that went by too
quickly to read.
Then it rebooted into my present F30 environment.
Result: I have a working system, but it's still in F30 and I don't
know why it failed to start the upgrade process, or how to get it
started.
At the moment I have a bunch of downloads of F31 packages, all dressed
up and nowhere to go.
If anyone wants to see logs, I ask just one thing: tell me what are
their names, and in what folder I will find them. Then I'll be happy
to copy and paste them.
As far as I know, nothing like this issue has shown up in Bugzilla,
unless I'm missing something.
Temlakos
Postscript:
The log at /var/log/dnf.log has a "CRITICAL ERROR" message--something
about having conflicting commands and not being able to install the
"best" version. They suggest passing the --skip-broken switch.
Questions:
1. How do I remove the present downloads so I can start over?
2. Should I pass the --best flag, when running dnf system-upgrade
download, or skip that?
3. Should I pass --allowerasing?
4. Should I pass --skip-broken?
And especially should I pass --allowerasing and --skip-broken both at once?
Temlakos
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