On Wed, 03 Jan 2018 20:11:29 +0100
Martin Wagner <martin.wagner(a)mailbit.io> wrote:
On Wed, 2018-01-03 at 18:45 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Jan 2018 20:06:24 +0100
> Martin Wagner <martin.wagner(a)mailbit.io> wrote:
[ ... ]
> Did you try to log out from your X (Gnome?) before the upgrade?
Then
> switch to a tty (can be reached via CTRL-ALT-Fx). From there, as
> root,
> two commands:
>
> # dnf check-update
> # dnf upgrade
Yes, that works fine, but that didn't involve any kind of restart like
the Gnome Software update routine does.
Ah, I see: I missed that in your first message - sorry. But if dnf
upgrades work, your concerns about not being not be able to upgrade to
the next major version of Fedora might be not necessary: there's some
upgrade version for dnf that worked for me upgrading from F24 -> F25
->F26. I've used this Fedora HowTo:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade
Excerpt:
"DNF system upgrade can upgrade your system to a newer release of
Fedora, using a mechanism similar to that used for offline package
updates. The updated packages are downloaded while the system is
running normally, then the system reboots to a special environment
(implemented as a systemd target) to install them. Once installation of
the updated packages is complete, the system reboots again to the new
Fedora release."
Additionally to the recommendations above I recommend doing this
from a VT / TTY - after logging out of X. On the tty I even started the
upgrade from inside a tmux session. Not being sure if this latter
approach is really necessary ....
HTH
Wolfgang