On 2020-09-03 02:10, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 10:51:26 -0700 Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 9/2/20 9:56 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
$ sudo dnf distro-sync Last metadata expiration check: 0:14:06 ago on Wed 02 Sep 2020 11:22:53 AM CDT. Error: Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: dnf, systemd, systemd-udev (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
Something seems to be really broken.
Is that the entire output from dnf?
Yes.
What happens if you try adding "--skip-broken"?
Same result.
Have you installed any packages from outside Fedora's repos?
I don't know the answer: a student who knows quite a bit about Fedora used to use it. But it has never been a problem to upgrade this machine previously.
Is there an obvious way to remove/figure out packages that are causing the problems?
Another thing to try is to run
sudo rpm --rebuilddb
And try the upgrade again.