begin with? Reply-To: Forwarded thread from the users' list below. In the normal case, since we ask people to do a `dnf upgrade` before `dnf system-upgrade`, there will almost always been at least the release-day kernel and an updated one of the older release installed. Is the case where there's just one running kernel installed tested? What *would* happen in this case? ----- Forwarded message from Andras Simon <szajmi@xxxxxxxxx> ----- > Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 08:33:35 +0100 > From: Andras Simon <szajmi@xxxxxxxxx> > To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: dnf system-upgrades wants to remove the running kernel > > 2016-11-24 1:42 GMT+01:00, Jon LaBadie <jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:25:30PM +0100, Andras Simon wrote: > >> 2016-11-23 21:30 GMT+01:00, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 09:20:23PM +0100, Andras Simon wrote: > >> >> The same: it wants to remove that old kernel. But after booting again > >> >> the latest kernel and starting the upgrade, dnf wanted to erase the > >> >> old kernel, not the newest, running one. So I let it. > >> >> Now I'm sitting here with fingers crossed... > >> > > >> > Keep in mind that it's gonna reboot to do the actual package > >> > installation anyway. > >> > >> Right, so I was wrong: letting dnf remove the only working f23 kernel > >> wouldn't have been risky; it would've led to disaster. > >> > >> Thanks for pointing this out! > > > > What about temporarily increasing the number of retained kernels. > > I think the parameter is in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf, "installonly_limit=3". > > > > Raise it to say 6 so it will not deleted the currently running kernel. > > Later return it to default 3 or whatever you want. > > It's too late now because the upgrade has already succeded (though I > may run into these issues again when I go to F25 or upgrade other > laptops) but this problem came up even when I had only one kernel > installed with installonly_limit=3. > > Andras > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
