My system fails to log in while upgrading from 38 to 39(By mistake press the restart). Now entering the login password, I see a white screen like the following:
Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can’t recover.
Please log out and try again.
Welcome to Fedora @sbhar
Please test this as you use a Nvidia GPU:
I did that, but it’s not the same problem either.
If you pressed restart via the Power button on your Computer while the update was going, I guarantee you have broken packages on the system.
Also, Please tell us what GPU, and computer spec is. This can help trouble shoot the issue.
Are you comfortable going back to a LiveUSB and attempting to fix the system from there? There will need to be several things you need to do to attempt to rebuild your system and other commands you could run to check system packages.
Yes, Please assist me
Please reply
Patience please!
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Sorry everyone, I’m in the Public Library, had to move from where I was.
I honestly believe you have broken packages on the system, so what i would do is clean up the update, and run a distro sync both using dnf.
Here we go :
/. You can use the lsblk or fdisk -l command to list all available partitions and identify your root partition. Once you identify the root partition (let’s assume it’s either /dev/sdXn where “X” is the drive letter and “n” is the partition number or or /dev/nvme0nX), mount it to /mntmount /dev/sdXn /mnt
let’s Bind mount some directories just in case :
sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
sudo dnf --installroot=/mnt clean all
then
sudo dnf --installroot=/mnt distro-sync
Let’s us know how it goes !
go straight to # 3 , now that your /dev/sda4 is mounted to /mnt
sudo dnf --installroot=/mnt clean allsudo dnf --installroot=/mnt distro-syncsudo dnf --installroot=/mnt clean all
It looks like you typed “clear” not clean
It looks like there are mismatched packages,
Go ahead with sudo dnf --installroot=/mnt distro-sync
You could try this again? sudo dnf --installroot=/mnt distro-sync --releasever=39 this include the Release you are upgrading to, which is what the command was asking you to add.
Using --best or --allowerasing are options for you as well.
If that does not work, Try these commands.
dnf upgrade --refresh
dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade
dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=39
Repeat these commands :
sudo dnf --installroot=/mnt clean all --releasever=39
then
sudo dnf --installroot=/mnt upgrade --refresh add --best --allowerasing if needed.
Add the --releasever=39 flag please, that is what the error is telling you. My apologies for not adding that.
