I was upgrading my kids' computer from f25 to f28. I went from 25-26,
26-27, but when I went from 27->28, there was a power outage due to bad
weather. I don't know at what stage the interruption occurred, because I
was not following the install process. Upon reboot, it still said fedora
27 and I rerun
dnf system-upgrade reboot
multiple times, even attempted the 27-28 upgrade from scratch. Every
time, the system reboots straight into the usual f27 login prompt (I'm
not running gdm).
On the system I now have a mixture of f27 and f28 packages.
dnf check
shows things like
xz-libs-5.2.3-4.fc27.i686 is a duplicate with xz-libs-5.2.3-4.fc27.x86_64
xz-libs-5.2.3-4.fc27.i686 is a duplicate with xz-libs-5.2.4-2.fc28.x86_64
yajl-2.1.0-8.fc27.x86_64 is a duplicate with yajl-2.1.0-10.fc28.x86_64
zlib-1.2.11-4.fc27.i686 is a duplicate with zlib-1.2.11-4.fc27.x86_64
zlib-1.2.11-4.fc27.i686 is a duplicate with zlib-1.2.11-8.fc28.x86_64
255 in total.
I tried installing f28 from a usb stick, but the display is messed-up
and, after all my efforts with a crippled display, it crashed. Trying to
install via VNC did not work either - neither the direct or connect
method.
Any way to get out of this mess?
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