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.