I was upgrading my kids' computer from f25 to f28. I went from 25-26, 26-27, but when I went from 27->28, there was a power outage due to bad weather. I don't know at what stage the interruption occurred, because I was not following the install process. Upon reboot, it still said fedora 27 and I rerun
dnf system-upgrade reboot
multiple times, even attempted the 27-28 upgrade from scratch. Every time, the system reboots straight into the usual f27 login prompt (I'm not running gdm).
On the system I now have a mixture of f27 and f28 packages.
dnf check
shows things like xz-libs-5.2.3-4.fc27.i686 is a duplicate with xz-libs-5.2.3-4.fc27.x86_64 xz-libs-5.2.3-4.fc27.i686 is a duplicate with xz-libs-5.2.4-2.fc28.x86_64 yajl-2.1.0-8.fc27.x86_64 is a duplicate with yajl-2.1.0-10.fc28.x86_64 zlib-1.2.11-4.fc27.i686 is a duplicate with zlib-1.2.11-4.fc27.x86_64 zlib-1.2.11-4.fc27.i686 is a duplicate with zlib-1.2.11-8.fc28.x86_64
255 in total.
I tried installing f28 from a usb stick, but the display is messed-up and, after all my efforts with a crippled display, it crashed. Trying to install via VNC did not work either - neither the direct or connect method.
Any way to get out of this mess?
On 05/28/18 07:53, Amadeus WM wrote:
I tried installing f28 from a usb stick, but the display is messed-up and, after all my efforts with a crippled display, it crashed. Trying to install via VNC did not work either - neither the direct or connect method.
Any way to get out of this mess?
If you are to the point of installing from scratch but are having video issues you can boot the Live image and then go to "Trouble Shooting" and try booting in basic graphics mode.
On Mon, 28 May 2018 17:36:42 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 05/28/18 07:53, Amadeus WM wrote:
I tried installing f28 from a usb stick, but the display is messed-up and, after all my efforts with a crippled display, it crashed. Trying to install via VNC did not work either - neither the direct or connect method.
Any way to get out of this mess?
If you are to the point of installing from scratch but are having video issues you can boot the Live image and then go to "Trouble Shooting" and try booting in basic graphics mode.
I installed from scratch, and I did have video troubles with 2 monitors. I unplugged one monitor and I was able to install without any issues. After install, I plugged the 2nd monitor back in and I have the same video troubles with Gnome and either Wayland or Xorg, whether in graphical mode (gdm) or not (startx). That's why I was looking for the X logs. Luckily, Mate works flawlessly, as always. For now.
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Ed Greshko