Install fails -

[Bob Goodwin]

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I put /Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-28-1.1.iso on a flash drive using 
the Fedora Media Writer and started the installer on an updated Fedora 
27 computer, The process starts without a problem after doing the 
initial check but stops when it does:

"Started User Manager for UID 1000." then nothing more and eventually 
keyboard/mouse stop next the screen goes black ...

I thought perhaps it is a problem running from USB and made a DVD copy 
of the same file via K3B and saw the same result.

What should I do now? All I can think of is to wipe the existing system 
off the drive, but intuitively it seems the existing system should not 
matter.

Suggestions?

Bob

[SternData]

On 05/05/2018 01:43 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> .
>
> I put /Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-28-1.1.iso on a flash drive using
> the Fedora Media Writer and started the installer on an updated Fedora
> 27 computer, The process starts without a problem after doing the
> initial check but stops when it does:
>
> "Started User Manager for UID 1000." then nothing more and eventually
> keyboard/mouse stop next the screen goes black ...
>
> I thought perhaps it is a problem running from USB and made a DVD copy
> of the same file via K3B and saw the same result.
>
> What should I do now? All I can think of is to wipe the existing system
> off the drive, but intuitively it seems the existing system should not
> matter.
>
> Suggestions?

Why not do it from the command line via dnf?

https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-27-fedora-28/

[Bob Goodwin]

On 05/05/18 15:57, SternData wrote:
> Why not do it from the command line via dnf?
>
> https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-27-fedora-28/
>
> -- -- Steve ___________________

Well, that just wasn't what I set out to do. The the beta version 
installed easily in a VM and I expected this to work also. My usage is 
limited and I already had downloaded the file, so economy is part of the 
reason although not really stopping me.

I guess I will do as you suggest and burn up a little more of my 
allocated bandwidth. It will be easier than a fresh install, less 
configuration to do.

Thanks for the suggestion,

Bob

[Bob Goodwin]

On 05/05/18 15:57, SternData wrote:
> Why not do it from the command line via dnf?
>
> https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-27-fedora-28/
>
> -- -- Steve _______________________________________________

Ok, I did the dnf system upgrade as you suggested during the "free" time 
after 03:00 to avoid the Viasat usage charge. That worked well until 
about 04:00 when it began to rain heavily which attenuates my low power 
k-band signal and everything stopped at 91% downloaded. It completed the 
last part this morning and the system appears to be working as expected 
after it completed the reboot.

I still don't know why it would not install from the flash drive or the 
DVD as it has in the past but it's done ...

Bob