I tried to upgrade a Fedora 32 Server with the casual dnf upgrade --refresh, the plan was then to upgrade it to Fedora 35. The SSH connection broke during the upgrade and reconnecting wasn’t possible. I hard rebooted the system and got “Failed to load SELinux policy” so I temporally disabled SELinux…

DNF unusable ("file too short") after system crash during upgrade

oprizal (Syaifur Rizal) January 5, 2022, 3:43am 5

Look like you have similiar problem.

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