Wary of powering down and restarting machine…
Please Advise…
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I’d wait a couple of hours.
If that doesn’t work, than interrupt the process with Alt+Ctrl+Del.
If there’s still no reaction in ~15 minutes, then press Power/Reset.
Then try to boot with fsck.mode=force on the kernel command line.
Check the logs to find the cause of the issue and try to resolve it if possible.
If the system is working, you can try to upgrade again.
Otherwise boot a Fedora live session and mount your partitions.
Then you can save the list of packages and try to force the upgrade.
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Alt+Ctrl+Del
gave this screen:
What next?
I think it’s easier to proceed with a Fedora live session, then mount the partitions and force the upgrade as mentioned above.
Booted F33 Live from USB
Transcript (edited for essentials):
# mkdir /mnt/root
# mkdir -p /mnt/root/boot
# mount /dev/mapper/fedora-root /mnt/root
# mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/root/boot
# mount /dev/sdc /mnt/root/home
# dnf --installroot=/mnt/root --releasever=33 distro-sync
warning: Found bdb Packages database while attempting sqlite backend: using bdb backend.
Fedora 33 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 339 B/s | 543 B 00:01
Fedora 33 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 141 kB/s | 1.6 kB 00:00
Importing GPG key 0x9570FF31:
Userid : “Fedora (33) <fedora-33-primary@fedoraproject.org>”
Fingerprint: 963A 2BEB 0200 9608 FE67 EA42 49FD 7749 9570 FF31
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Fedora 33 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 5.0 kB/s | 5.1 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 33 - x86_64 618 kB/s | 3.3 MB 00:05
Fedora Modular 33 - x86_64 - Updates 550 kB/s | 2.9 MB 00:05
Fedora 33 - x86_64 - Updates 2.1 MB/s | 17 MB 00:08
Fedora 33 - x86_64 1.8 MB/s | 72 MB 00:40
RPM Fusion for Fedora 33 - Free - Updates 188 kB/s | 314 kB 00:01
RPM Fusion for Fedora 33 - Free 469 kB/s | 897 kB 00:01
RPM Fusion for Fedora 33 - Nonfree - Updates 50 kB/s | 55 kB 00:01
RPM Fusion for Fedora 33 - Nonfree 189 kB/s | 278 kB 00:01
Error:
Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: dnf
(try to add ‘–skip-broken’ to skip uninstallable packages)
[root@localhost-live ~]# dnf --installroot=/mnt/root --releasever=33 distro-sync --skip-broken
warning: Found bdb Packages database while attempting sqlite backend: using bdb backend.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:51 ago on Fri 11 Dec 2020 11:14:47 AM EST.
Error:
Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: dnf
Any ideas/suggestions?
thanks.
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Save the list of installed packages and remove any conflicting packages:
sudo rpm --root /mnt/root -e dnf
You can restore the saved list after the upgrade.