Neal Becker wrote:
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.
So I did successfully complete the upgrade.
1. You can get a root login shell, but only after some time.
2. It did complete, but I had to wait a long time from the starting
transaction until I saw any activity about installing any files. It really
would be a lot more friendly if there was some way to see an indication that
it wasn't just hung.
Thanks,
Neal