Neal Becker wrote: > 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.
So I did successfully complete the upgrade. 1. You can get a root login shell, but only after some time. 2. It did complete, but I had to wait a long time from the starting transaction until I saw any activity about installing any files. It really would be a lot more friendly if there was some way to see an indication that it wasn't just hung. Thanks, Neal _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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@lists.fedoraproject.org
