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(a)gmail.com> -----
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 08:33:35 +0100
From: Andras Simon <szajmi(a)gmail.com>
To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: dnf system-upgrades wants to remove the running kernel
2016-11-24 1:42 GMT+01:00, Jon LaBadie <jonfu(a)jgcomp.com>:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:25:30PM +0100, Andras Simon wrote:
>> 2016-11-23 21:30 GMT+01:00, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>:
>> > 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
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