When i try to download Fedora 43 from Software - Updates the download stops after 7%. Running Fedora 41 today and want to update. No problem to download from homepage but that is an iso and don’t know how to install that properly.
Best alternative to the Software app (so I guess you are using Gnome) is dnf. This app will show you errors which you can solve step by step to achieve your upgrade from F41 to 43.
Please feel free to post the errors as preformated text here.
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Hi
this seams to work out fine
sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
and this also
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=43
but when I come to this part of the instruction I get
[Admin@localhost ~]$ sudo dnf5 offline reboot
[sudo] password for Admin:
No offline transaction is stored.
and nothing happens.
/Lars
Try that as sudo dnf offline reboot or the instructions for dnf4 on the linked page. sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
I am guessing that since the dnf5 command did not work that dnf may still be linked to dnf4 and that means the downloaded files would be in a different location than dnf5 expects.
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ls -ahld /usr/bin/dnf* #can you please post this output
mine looks like this:
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 4 set 1 21:00 /usr/bin/dnf -> dnf5
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 2,0K out 20 21:00 /usr/bin/dnf-3
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 5 out 20 21:00 /usr/bin/dnf4 -> dnf-3
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1,6M set 1 21:00 /usr/bin/dnf5
If the symlinks ( /usr/bin/dnf -> dnf5 & /usr/bin/dnf4 -> dnf-3 ) not exist you can also try:
sudo /usr/bin/dnf5 offline reboot
or
sudo /usr/bin/dnf-3 system-upgrade reboot
Did try that with same result.
\[Admin@localhost \~\]$ ls -ahld /usr/bin/dnf\*
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 4 Sep 2 02:00 /usr/bin/dnf → dnf5
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 2.0K Oct 21 02:00 /usr/bin/dnf-3
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 5 Oct 21 02:00 /usr/bin/dnf4 → dnf-3
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1.5M Sep 2 02:00 /usr/bin/dnf5
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 5.3K Nov 25 2023 /usr/bin/dnfdragora
\[Admin@localhost \~\]$
It looks like you are not on native Linux. You are using Linux over WSL right?
\[Admin@localhost \~\]$ ls -ahld /usr/bin/dnf\*
The indication is Admin and the backslashes?
And also the output from dnf* (dnfdragora) shows that you not use a edition rather a spin.
Can we first get the exact info so we are not tapping in the dark, please 
Because for WSL it would need additional steps also in the powershell:
I am not using WSL. The Linux is running direct on the H/W i do not have any virtual machine on the computer.
Admin@localhost /]$ ls -ahld /usr/bin/dnf*~
ls: cannot access ‘/usr/bin/dnf*~’: No such file or directory
[Admin@localhost /]$
[Admin@localhost bin]$ ls -ahld dnf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 4 Sep 2 02:00 dnf → dnf5
Will this helpl?
/Lars
Note you have a typo and added a ~ after the *.
Run the download command check it worked, if not post the error you see.
And then the system-upgrade reboot should work.
It seems that it is a memory problem. Any idea for cleaning up the disk?
Testing offline transaction
Transaction failed: Rpm transaction failed.
- installing package ibus-1.5.32-3.fc42.x86_64 needs 45MB more space on the / filesystem
Have 500GB for the system disk is this to small?
The system disk contains everything on the machine. If you have downloaded a lot of ‘stuff’ into your home directory it will fill up the drive. With btrfs both the OS and your /home (sub)volumes share the drive and it seems you filled it up.
Either remove some of what you have downloaded or get more drive space.
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I made a minimal installation of F43 with Gnome In a Virtual environment. I used a everything-net-install ISO file:
On the first view compared with your screenshot:
- EFI System Partition is fat32 and not fat16 anymore.
- ext4 /boot increased from 1GB to 2GB
- by default Fedora (if you let the Installer make autoinstall) is using btrfs as long you not create a server installation.
If you can backup your data from the 500GB disk, the easiest way is to start over and reinstall the system new.
However if it is a server or an older Workstation you would like to keep running, then best is to give us more information what you really pretend to do. The request was in Ask Fedora without any other tags.
I added f43 update
For start over to create a new boot media:
What are the sizes of the logical volumes inside that 500GB LVM physical volume?
I deleted a number of apps with the Software - Installed with large size and then it finally could download and install.
On my computer i have 2 disks. One SSD for the system on 500 GB and one rotating for user data /home directories on 1TB. At the /dev/sdb there are 3 partitions (see screeeshot previous in the flow).
At the fedora there is 3 files
[lrhe@localhost fedora]$ ls
home root swap
It seems to me that fedora has an other home allocated that could be used for system? I want to free as much as possible for system use on the sdb disk, for use of system programs. How do i do that?
We do have a small issue here, I do not know how you made the installation? Did you format manually or did you let the Installer to format it automatically? Please have a look on my screenshot i posted, there you see:
- EFI System Partition is fat32 and not fat16 anymore. Size by default is 600.00MiB
- ext4 /boot increased from 1GB to 2GB
On the Workstation I use, btrfs is the default. As @computersavvy allready mentioned, while using btrfs the
/ (root) & /home
are sharing the same partition which not allocates a specific size, they are not physical partitions.
This sub volumes do share the space dynamically.
If your /home uses a bit more space, you just can remove some data like ISO files in Donwloads (as an example in my case) and the system works fine again.
The answer to your question (see blockquote) is yes. If you installed the the system the traditional way you will have a /home from the Linux File system and a other /home you would have made separately. You can check the file /etc/fstab to see which mount it is using.
With lsblk -f you can check the UUID from the partitions and compare with the UUID used in the /etc/fstab to see exactly which /home fedora is using while booting.
Probably we do have some sort of misunderstandings, because your system is still using LVM and since longer now fedora uses btrfs which is the standard for Workstations.
Right, and /dev/sdb3 is an LVM partition (Logical Volume Manager), so inside it will be different “logical partitions”. It would be interesting to see if there is any space not allocated to a logical partition.
Can you try running lvscan from the terminal? I think this should show the size of each logical partition.
I think the command needed is sudo vgdisplay which shows allocated and free PE (Physical Extent) units. This would show if there is any space available to allow growth of an LV located within the VG (the free PE number).
sudo lvdisplay would show the allocated size of each LV within the VG.
When using LVM for drive management it also is useful to use the file system utilities such as df to verify the actual remaining free space in each file system since gparted, lvdisplay, and vgdisplay do not show the details of the file system content, but only the “partition” level info.
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Thanks for all helpful comments from you guys.
The system was automatically installed, as you can see at 2018-12-30 and have not been reinstalled since only updated with newer versions. I am planing for get a new mother board and a better NVIDA card the present GTX1060. The motherboard is a ASUS H310-plus that I have a problem with as the LAN only use more than 100 Mb/s event though the board allows 1 Gb, a LAN driver problem that I not have solved.
What I think I understand from the hints you gave me is that my rotating 1T disk is used from user data as intended but the dev/fedora/home that is allocated from the installation for user data using 406 GB. This amount could be reduced to a minimum as there is a separate 1T disk for user data, and expand the fedora /root so next update not will end up in a low memory problem. If the download for the update ends up there, have not understand where does.
How do I reduce the sis of /dev/fedora/home and increase fedora/root?
Admin@localhost /]$ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 squashfs 4.0 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core/17200
loop1 squashfs 4.0 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/hunspell-dictionaries/21
loop2 squashfs 4.0 0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/mathpix-snipping-tool/195
sda ext4 1.0 user_data 01351d66-c66d-4da9-a04e-90dc6a86f83c 1.6T 5% /home
sdb
├─sdb1 vfat FAT16 71C7-244F 180.3M 10% /boot/efi
├─sdb2 ext4 1.0 73e2e47f-d27a-4c3e-9c08-a0962e1dcea8 388M 53% /boot
└─sdb3 LVM2_member LVM2 001 TJ6MUf-AtsJ-cItG-UOxW-TWfi-kIfg-K7hAsM
├─fedora-root ext4 1.0 86296214-acb1-410b-a431-596a920550ca 9.3G 76% /
├─fedora-swap swap 1 0db139b7-1e74-4e5d-b196-efb641292ade [SWAP]
└─fedora-home ext4 1.0 1957dc81-fdcc-451c-8d41-186592d7eb7e
sr0
zram0 swap 1 zram0 66c83ac8-db1c-4022-b9bc-f7494bef2a03 [SWAP]
[Admin@localhost /]$ sudo lvscan
ACTIVE ‘/dev/fedora/swap’ [<7.86 GiB] inherit
ACTIVE ‘/dev/fedora/home’ [<406.71 GiB] inherit
ACTIVE ‘/dev/fedora/root’ [50.00 GiB] inherit
dmin@localhost /]$ sudo vgdisplay
-– Volume group —
VG Name fedora
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 4
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 3
Open LV 2
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 464.56 GiB
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 118928
Alloc PE / Size 118928 / 464.56 GiB
Free PE / Size 0 / 0
VG UUID BXECJp-N3rh-vn1A-gFDS-nGRJ-yXMh-RswmGc
Admin@localhost /]$ sudo lvdisplay
-– Logical volume —
LV Path /dev/fedora/swap
LV Name swap
VG Name fedora
LV UUID mre31E-Drqe-uL0x-syuW-YcPj-laam-NTpqfs
LV Write Access read/write
LV Creation host, time localhost, 2018-12-30 12:08:08 +0100
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size <7.86 GiB
Current LE 2011
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 252:1
-– Logical volume —
LV Path /dev/fedora/home
LV Name home
VG Name fedora
LV UUID donVjr-PnFH-9Pc9-KY6v-inkI-2A4e-ZM663U
LV Write Access read/write
LV Creation host, time localhost, 2018-12-30 12:08:08 +0100
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size <406.71 GiB
Current LE 104117
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 252:2
-– Logical volume —
LV Path /dev/fedora/root
LV Name root
VG Name fedora
LV UUID Fq3MVK-zqNE-6xIH-XcFe-WnSB-zvHn-u3YZ03
LV Write Access read/write
LV Creation host, time localhost, 2018-12-30 12:08:11 +0100
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 50.00 GiB
Current LE 12800
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 252:0
This is an indication that a new installation would maybe a good idea?
Please before buying new hardware, check it on https://linux-hardware.org/ to avoid issues. As an example is the network issues you have. Try to look that the adapter is a Intel network adapter. This adapters are mostly working with the drivers the kernel is delivering.
For the existing 500GB HD just wait till the other participants give you answer.