I have a 6-month-old ThinkStation P3 Tiny that I keep up to date with DNF. A couple of weeks ago I clicked on a notification that a firmware update was available. GNOME Software listed two packages, but errored out on rebooting/installing them. fwupd at the command line gave the same error. The result of an online search suggested waiting for the next fwupd/systemd update. I upgraded to Fedora 42 and the subsequent dnf upgrade gave me a new systemd. One of the boot partition packages installed automatically on the next reboot, leaving me with the error for just the firmware. I booted from a FAT-formatted USB stick containing the BIOS update downloaded from Lenovo. After the progress bar(s) ran their course, there was a tense half hour of blank screen and manually powering off and back on a couple of times. I walked away for a while and came back to a running desktop. GNOME Software acknowledged the firmware installation. I changed from the Fedora desktop background to a GNOME background. Mike On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
From: Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
But now, when you would have done `dnf system-upgrade reboot` on previous upgrades, it's now `dnf offline reboot`. The previous command was quite clear about what it was doing: this new one is rather less so (apparently the `system-upgrade` subcommand doesn't work any more because it no longer exists - I didn't try).
I think DNF5 is new with Fedora 42.
DNF now has an "offline" subcommand that allows dnf operations to be deferred until the next boot. Seems useful.
I just updated my desktop for Fedora 42. There were a couple of oddities:
- I used Gnome "Software" to do the update. When it rebooted to actually install the new packages, I got a blank screen. I let it cook for a while (the fan was running for some of this). Then I sshed in and told it to reboot. That worked. It is possible that this isn't a Fedora issue but a monitor problem.
- postfix.system was disabled and not started. I was wondering why I wasn't getting mail. Easily fixed one the problem is discovered.
I've upgraded a number of other machines, usually with DNF, but not always. None of those updates produced adventures. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk