Hello all. I have a problem in that I have a failed upgrade attempt to Fedora 37. It’ll probably take two stages to ask my question thoroughly because I’m stuck in how to ask my question. After the upgrade attempt (from GNOME asking “Upgrade available! Do you wish to upgrade now?” or something close to that to which I responded in the affirmative), I got a character mode screen with the following message:
[begin message]
Generating “/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt”
Entering emergency mode. Exit the shell to continue.
Type “journalctl” to view systemlogs.
You might want to save “/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt” to a USB stick or /boot after mounting them and attach it to a bug report.
Press Enter for maintenance
(or press Control-D to continue):
[end message]
Pressing Ctl-D doesn’t continue so entering maintenance is the only option. I looked at the system logs but I’m not particularly versed in what I’m looking for so if that’s worth attaching, let me know where to get them and I’ll try to attach them to this thread.
I have a more basic problem at the moment. I’d like to copy the rdsosreport.txt to a USB stick but I’m not sure how to mount the stick from the command line. I put in a USB memory stick in the machine and I see a “sdb” and “sdb1” appear in the /dev folder but when I “ls” either one, I don’t see the preexisting file there (which I had there to verify that I had the correct device). The “sdb”s are not there when I remove the stick so I’m pretty certain that they represent the stick I’m inserting. I assume I have to mount one of them in some way? I tried mounting them with various mount commands but I don’t think I’m doing it correctly.
So, before I actually ask for help with the failure, how do I get the rdsosreport.txt onto a stick? Is that what is needed here? Or is it the system logs? If the latter, what files do I need to attach and where are they?
I apologize if this is a known process but I’ve been using Fedora since 34 and this is way beyond any problem I’ve ever had to deal with so it’s way beyond my capabilities. Thanks for the help.
-mraki