Moving the file produced a change in the kernel-install Layout output from ‘bls’ to ‘other’
dnf ‘update’ and ‘reinstall’ kernel results in Curl 6 error
Don’t know why. Maybe the file movement did things in background ??
‘hostname -I’ shows only one ip address 192.168.124.1; 192.168.1.3 & 4, previously shown, have disappeared. Also, the network is now unreachable
‘dracut’ 6.17.7 tries but finally fails because it still says no space.
I gave up trying to fix using these tweaks and decided to install F43 from the .iso image. That crashed due to a problem with ‘anaconda’ which has been reported to bugzilla. Installing F43 over F43 may be an issue?
The NUC now, does not boot at all. I will format the M2 and start afresh when F43 settles a bit. In the meantime the laptop will have to do !
Thanks again for your interest and suggestions to solve my problems. I have learned lessons and a bit of sys admin, so not all bad
the “old” outdated kernel is no longer available in the updates repository. You should have performed a kernel upgrade. This would have installed kernel-6.17.8.
An easy way to see what is available would be dnf list --available --showduplicates kernel
EDIT:
However, the error message would not have been a curl error, but would have looked like this:
# dnf reinstall 'kernel*6.17.7*'
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Packages for argument 'kernel*6.17.7*' installed, but not available.
After the various failed attempts (some possibly due to my inexperience at this level) to repair the system following the initial installation of F43 around 7th Nov, I proceeded to re-format and install F43 again from an ‘.iso’. A persistent problem seemed to be a shortage of space, particularly when trying to repair and install the correct kernel using ‘initramfs’, although no problem was flagged during the 7th Nov installation.
After the re-format and fresh installation, I compared the partition sizes to the previous setup:
A check of the disk format and partition sizes at installation possibly could have prevented the problems that followed, but maybe my views are too simplistic.
A lesson learned, and I will ensure that regular system updates and data backups are performed in future.
My thanks to all for your interest, ideas and suggestions.
