How to select text-based "system-upgrade reboot" progress indication?

[Ron Flory]

Hi-

Am just now getting around to upgrading a secondary HP laptop from 
FC39 -> FC40.

The post-reboot upgrade process for FC40 appears to display a sterile 
windoze-style GUI progress-indication now.  It initially sat there at 0% 
for a long, LONG time, which scared the [bleep] out of me.

I don't launch my Linux systems into GUI-mode by default, preferring 
text-mode until/if I decide to manually 'startx' - so the new silent 
upgrade process (with no indication of progress) probably looks slick to 
new users, but is a loss-of-functionality from a developer point of view.

Is there a way to request the upgrade process revert to the 
(comforting) noisy/verbose text-based mode?

Thanks-

ron

[Samuel Sieb]

On 4/22/25 2:26 PM, Ron Flory via users wrote:
> Hi-
>
> Am just now getting around to upgrading a secondary HP laptop from 
> FC39 -> FC40.
>
> The post-reboot upgrade process for FC40 appears to display a sterile 
> windoze-style GUI progress-indication now.  It initially sat there at 0% 
> for a long, LONG time, which scared the [bleep] out of me.
>
> I don't launch my Linux systems into GUI-mode by default, preferring 
> text-mode until/if I decide to manually 'startx' - so the new silent 
> upgrade process (with no indication of progress) probably looks slick to 
> new users, but is a loss-of-functionality from a developer point of view.
>
> Is there a way to request the upgrade process revert to the 
> (comforting) noisy/verbose text-based mode?

Press the ESC key.

[Ron Flory]

On 4/22/2025 3:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 4/22/25 2:26 PM, Ron Flory via users wrote:
> > Hi-
> >
> > Am just now getting around to upgrading a secondary HP laptop from 
> > FC39 -> FC40.
> >
> > The post-reboot upgrade process for FC40 appears to display a 
> > sterile windoze-style GUI progress-indication now.  It initially sat 
> > there at 0% for a long, LONG time, which scared the [bleep] out of me.
> >
> > I don't launch my Linux systems into GUI-mode by default, 
> > preferring text-mode until/if I decide to manually 'startx' - so the 
> > new silent upgrade process (with no indication of progress) probably 
> > looks slick to new users, but is a loss-of-functionality from a 
> > developer point of view.
> >
> > Is there a way to request the upgrade process revert to the 
> > (comforting) noisy/verbose text-based mode?
>
> Press the ESC key.

;)  Hilarious...   I was afraid to do anything that rude for fear of 
leaving things in an indeterminate state.

Thanks again.

[Todd Zullinger]

Ron Flory via users wrote:
> On 4/22/2025 3:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > On 4/22/25 2:26 PM, Ron Flory via users wrote:
> > > I don't launch my Linux systems into GUI-mode by default

If you don't want to use the graphical boot in general,
removing `rhgb quiet` (or just `rhgb`) from the kernel
command line may be useful.  That can be done via:

sudo grubby --remove-args="rhgb quiet" --update-kernel=ALL

That removes the argument(s) from all currently installed
kernels and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub for
future kernels.

[Samuel Sieb]

On 4/22/25 3:15 PM, Ron Flory via users wrote:
> On 4/22/2025 3:40 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > On 4/22/25 2:26 PM, Ron Flory via users wrote:
> > > Hi-
> > >
> > > Am just now getting around to upgrading a secondary HP laptop from 
> > > FC39 -> FC40.
> > >
> > > The post-reboot upgrade process for FC40 appears to display a 
> > > sterile windoze-style GUI progress-indication now.  It initially sat 
> > > there at 0% for a long, LONG time, which scared the [bleep] out of me.
> > >
> > > I don't launch my Linux systems into GUI-mode by default, 
> > > preferring text-mode until/if I decide to manually 'startx' - so the 
> > > new silent upgrade process (with no indication of progress) probably 
> > > looks slick to new users, but is a loss-of-functionality from a 
> > > developer point of view.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to request the upgrade process revert to the 
> > > (comforting) noisy/verbose text-based mode?
> >
> > Press the ESC key.
>
> ;)  Hilarious...   I was afraid to do anything that rude for fear of 
> leaving things in an indeterminate state.

The progress indicator is provided by Plymouth, just like the normal 
bootup.  You can use ESC to switch between the text output and graphical 
view.  ESC is generally safe.  It's CTRL-C that can interrupt things. 
But I don't think there's anything you can do to interrupt the upgrade 
(or bootup in general) other than doing CTRL-ALT-DEL.