dnf system-upgrade reboot problem

[Gary Artim]

my server is stuck i did:

dnf system-upgrade download --release=23
dnf system-upgrade reboot

now the last message i get on console is:
started rolekit - role server

Don't get the usual, updating various packages...tried reboot into recovery
mode and it just does the same, can seem to get it to forget the upgrade
now. Is there a switch or setting to start over?

any help would be great, last resort is to reinstall fc23.

thanks!

[stan]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 07:48:31 -0800
Gary Artim  wrote:
> my server is stuck i did:
>
> dnf system-upgrade download --release=23
> dnf system-upgrade reboot
>
> now the last message i get on console is:
> started rolekit - role server
>
> Don't get the usual, updating various packages...tried reboot into
> recovery mode and it just does the same, can seem to get it to forget
> the upgrade now. Is there a switch or setting to start over?
>
> any help would be great, last resort is to reinstall fc23.

I haven't run this upgrade, and I'm not familiar with it beyond
reading the mailing list.  So, this advice is very 'any help'.  There
should be a directory somewhere, with a switch set that tells the
system to do the upgrade reboot instead of a normal reboot.  It used to
be in /boot/.  Removing that directory would revert to a normal boot.

You could also edit the restart / reboot by adding noquiet to the
kernel boot line, so you can see boot messages.  I don't think it
is possible to look at journalctl to see what happened in this case,
but I could be wrong.  Maybe if you booted a rescue disk, and mounted
the root filesystem, and pointed journalctl at the file, it would work.

I did not find your problem in either the upgrade instructions, or on
fedora bugzilla, so we can name it after its discoverer, dnfis
artimus.  The problems I did find about rolekit mostly seemed concerned
with SElinux, so you might also add an enforcing=0 to the boot line if
you go that route.

You need someone a lot more knowledgeable than me helping you, though.
These are just stabs in the dark.

[Gary Artim]

found if I remove quiet and and boot with rd.break on the linux line of my
boot config I can get at the file that you're talking about, but have to
umount /sysroot then mount -w /dev/sda2 /sysroot (sdx would change if
diff). the file can then be removed. I tried redoing the process and it
hung every time. strange, I've done about 8 systems this way flawlessly. g.

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:10 AM, stan  wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 07:48:31 -0800
> Gary Artim  wrote:
> > my server is stuck i did:
> >
> > dnf system-upgrade download --release=23
> > dnf system-upgrade reboot
> >
> > now the last message i get on console is:
> > started rolekit - role server
> >
> > Don't get the usual, updating various packages...tried reboot into
> > recovery mode and it just does the same, can seem to get it to forget
> > the upgrade now. Is there a switch or setting to start over?
> >
> > any help would be great, last resort is to reinstall fc23.
>
> I haven't run this upgrade, and I'm not familiar with it beyond
> reading the mailing list.  So, this advice is very 'any help'.  There
> should be a directory somewhere, with a switch set that tells the
> system to do the upgrade reboot instead of a normal reboot.  It used to
> be in /boot/.  Removing that directory would revert to a normal boot.
>
> You could also edit the restart / reboot by adding noquiet to the
> kernel boot line, so you can see boot messages.  I don't think it
> is possible to look at journalctl to see what happened in this case,
> but I could be wrong.  Maybe if you booted a rescue disk, and mounted
> the root filesystem, and pointed journalctl at the file, it would work.
>
> I did not find your problem in either the upgrade instructions, or on
> fedora bugzilla, so we can name it after its discoverer, dnfis
> artimus.  The problems I did find about rolekit mostly seemed concerned
> with SElinux, so you might also add an enforcing=0 to the boot line if
> you go that route.
>
> You need someone a lot more knowledgeable than me helping you, though.
> These are just stabs in the dark.
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