I’ve been trying to upgrade from Fedora 43 to 44, but I’m having difficulty. When I try the usual method via Discover, it downloads the upgrade and I choose to reboot to install it. When rebooting, it gets to 14% before rebooting again to the normal login screen. I then get the following notificati…

We always recommend using the method shown here for version upgrades. The gui method of updating hides what is happening and does not display the messages so the user has no clue of the actual cause. Using dnf on the command line displays all messages for the user. [image] Upgrading Fedor…

Thanks for the suggestions. Regarding the recommended method that Jeff posted, I think that’s what I already did. Is that not what I described in my post? Obviously there is a lot more detail in the docs page, but I couldn’t see anything about how to handle my situation. Regarding Vladislav’s sugg…

[image] K ~: sudo dnf upgrade --refresh sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=44 dnf5 offline reboot needs a reboot after the dnf upgrade step.

[image] K ~: will the GUI stuff get in the way of the upgrade? This is recommended to run in a text TTY, i.e. Ctrl+Alt+F3..F6. In addition, prepare and test a Fedora live media in case the issue escalates. [image] K ~: upgrade whatever you can, and don’t worry about the bits that you ca…

[image] Vladislav Grigoryev: This is recommended to run in a text TTY, i.e. Ctrl+Alt+F3..F6. In addition, prepare and test a Fedora live media in case the issue escalates. Ah. I’d tried those but it didn’t work at first, so I assumed it wasn’t a thing in Fedora. (I could tell you why it didn…

Failed upgrade to Fedora 44. Verification problem

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vgaetera (Vladislav Grigoryev) July 4, 2026, 6:59am 3

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