On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 19:55:24 -0300 "George N. White III" gnwiii@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 13:57, Ranjan Maitra maitra@email.com wrote:
So, I have been trying to upgrade this fully updated f31 machine on the CLI. I have tried the following:
$ sudo dnf --refresh upgrade Adobe Systems Incorporated 17 kB/s | 2.9 kB 00:00 Fedora 31 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 6.6 kB/s | 986 B 00:00 Fedora Modular 31 - x86_64 93 kB/s | 16 kB 00:00 Fedora Modular 31 - x86_64 - Updates 77 kB/s | 13 kB 00:00 Fedora 31 - x86_64 - Updates 71 kB/s | 12 kB 00:00 Fedora 31 - x86_64 - Updates 801 kB/s | 2.8 MB 00:03 Fedora 31 - x86_64 96 kB/s | 16 kB 00:00 google-chrome 18 kB/s | 1.3 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 31 - Free - Updates 14 kB/s | 3.3 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 31 - Free 23 kB/s | 3.1 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 31 - Nonfree - Updates 25 kB/s | 3.4 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 31 - Nonfree 23 kB/s | 3.1 kB 00:00 Dependencies resolved. Nothing to do. Complete!
$ sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=32 Before you continue ensure that your system is fully upgraded by running "dnf --refresh upgrade". Do you want to continue [y/N]: y Adobe Systems Incorporated 17 kB/s | 2.9 kB 00:00 Fedora 32 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 6.7 kB/s | 986 B 00:00 Fedora Modular 32 - x86_64 87 kB/s | 16 kB 00:00 Fedora Modular 32 - x86_64 - Updates 71 kB/s | 13 kB 00:00 Fedora 32 - x86_64 - Updates 65 kB/s | 11 kB 00:00 Fedora 32 - x86_64 - Updates 402 kB/s | 460 kB 00:01 Fedora 32 - x86_64 88 kB/s | 16 kB 00:00 google-chrome 24 kB/s | 1.3 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 32 - Free - Updates 24 kB/s | 3.3 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 32 - Free 22 kB/s | 3.1 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 32 - Nonfree - Updates 25 kB/s | 3.4 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 32 - Nonfree 23 kB/s | 3.1 kB 00:00 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)
$ 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)
I can not figure out what to do. Any suggestions?
Upgrading a broken system often leads to an open-ended fight with broken apps. If you backup anything important and do a fresh install you know you will get a working system in finite time.
It is amazing how fast two systems that start out with identical hardware and software from a disk image can diverge, especially when used by students.
I had a good chuckle at this one! But to be fair, this particular student was (is) older than the average and knows quite a lot. Nevertheless, I decided that it is perhaps best to go ahead and do a fresh install and have done that.
Thanks again to everybody for all your help!
Best wishes, Ranjan
Ranjan