Hi, Run this command: journalctl -r Then search 'Failed to start System Upgrade using DNF' or 'system-upgrade'.
Can you find any matching line? If so, you may also see some errors related to this issue. Fix that error should let you upgrade to F31. On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 8:41 AM Temlakos <temla...@gmail.com> 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 > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > 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@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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