Previously, I had installed Fedora KDE 42, but I broke the system. How can I reinstall Fedora KDE 43? The problem might be that I didn’t wipe the disk that was broken when I was using Fedora 42?
rm -f /run/user/0/anaconda.pid
deletes the temporary file that’s blocking the installer will work?
What is it you want to do?
Do you want to do an upgrade from 42 to 43, or do you want to install 43 from the bottom up?
When it’s the last then I would suggest to:
- Backup all your data to an external disk
- Boot from the USB you made from the F43 ISO file into the live version
- In there start the KDE partition manager
- Delete all partitions on your hard drive (select the correct disk). Not only select the partitions and choose delete but also perform the delete function with the apply button in the toolbar. Then close the partition manager.
- You now have an empty disk from which you should be able to start the installer which has a link on your desktop.
But this is just my way of doing it: back to the basics. It is a way which has always worked for me.
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I wipe my nvmp but the new Installer couldn’t load it and crash.
You wiped your hard disk and when you start the installer in the live version it crashes?
Is it possible to get a screendump from the messages you get, maybe there is some info in it which will help.
The media check is complete, the result is: FAIL.
It is not recommended to use this media.
[FAILED] Failed to start checksum5dev-sdc.service - Media check on /dev/sdc.
I try burn my usb with rufus balena and now with Fedora Media Writer
same error
it could be the USB stick?
You wrote: I wipe my nvmp (I think you meant nvme which is a type of harddrive) so /dev/sdc is not your harddrive and could well be your USB stick.
It could be the USB, it could be the downloaded ISO file. When you used Fedora Media Writer did you chose to download again, or use the ISO on your disk?
I downloaded each ISO from a different place each time.
So that rules out a faulty download. Do you have a second USB which you can use?
I bought another reliable 64GB flash drive, and it gave the same error.
The media check is complete, the result is: FAIL.
It is not recommended to use this media.
[FAILED] Failed to start checksum5dev-sdc.service - Media check on /dev/sdc.
Which media-check did you perform? Is it from the Fedora media writer?
Please open a terminal and type:
lsblk
sudo blkid
Select all the text with your mouse starting with lsblk until (and including) the last line in the sudo blkid output, right-click on it and select copy.
Here in your answer first select the </> button on top of this window, then right-click with your mouse on the text “type or paste code here” and select paste.
This way we can see which disks and partitions you have.
In grub menu, I will try this
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 2.7G 1 loop /run/rootfsbase
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 931.5G 0 part
sdb 8:16 0 447.1G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 100M 0 part
├─sdb2 8:18 0 16M 0 part
├─sdb3 8:19 0 445.8G 0 part
├─sdb4 8:20 0 740M 0 part
└─sdb5 8:21 0 519M 0 part
sdc 8:32 1 57.6G 0 disk
├─sdc1 8:33 1 3G 0 part /run/initramfs/live
└─sdc2 8:34 1 30M 0 part
zram0 251:0 0 8G 0 disk [SWAP]
nvme0n1 259:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
└─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 465.8G 0 part
dev/sdc1: BLOCK_SIZE="2048" UUID="2025-10-23-04-17-29-00" LABEL="Fedora-KDE-Live-43" TYPE="iso9660" PARTLABEL="ISO9660" PARTUUID="09d661a4-d7d4-4d99-8ec6-b91e3365d7f0"
/dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="02e925b8-4ba5-48d1-a759-6355dd0c8f59" UUID_SUB="2c7e7806-b25f-43d9-8ddc-03435cea00ad" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="btrfs" PARTUUID="96ce62fc-c40a-4f1f-8878-d54548ead559"
/dev/sdb4: BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="46145CA7145C9C2D" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="4053b49c-9432-443e-a15e-665078c8b901"
/dev/sdb2: PARTLABEL="Microsoft reserved partition" PARTUUID="e5fb9af4-eebc-4d56-887d-78c3447a3f87"
/dev/sdb5: BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="18F01A50F01A348A" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="6eb88600-8598-44c8-8e23-9eb412012a26"
/dev/sdb3: BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="08EC4153EC413C66" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="4d5ef67d-6dc4-4df4-ab64-54afefc7f1f9"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="A667-5F27" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI system partition" PARTUUID="0fd60b45-497e-47c8-9ac5-96c915fef883"
/dev/loop0: UUID="c49c3ecb-832b-440f-89b5-a601286ebff0" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="erofs"
/dev/sdc2: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL_FATBOOT="BOOT" LABEL="BOOT" UUID="BA0E-CF8F" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="Appended2" PARTUUID="09d661a4-d7d4-4d99-8ec5-b91e3365d7f0"
/dev/zram0: LABEL="zram0" UUID="dc55a015-5a46-4820-9494-2dda36ef2588" TYPE="swap"
It looks like sdc is your USB stick,
sdb is your Windows disk,
sda is a 1TB disk,
nvme is a 500G disk.
I don’t know what loop is, I don’t have that in my laptop.
Strange thing is that in the lsblk command you don’t show the sda1 partition, is that a copy-paste error or did the command not post it?
On which disk do you want to install Fedora?
You want to install Fedora KDE 43.
Place the usb stick in a USB slot
Open Fedora Media Writer and select: Download automatically, cick Next
On the next page select Official Editions, and in the drop-down bar select Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop, cick Next
Version is 43, Hardware Architecture is Intel/AMD 64bit, USB is the name of your USB stick, leave Download unchecked so you don’t need to re-download the ISO file when the first attempt doesn’t work. Click Download & Write
When the ISO install on the USB stick is completed you can reboot your computer and make sure to boot into the USB stick. How you do that depends on your computer, you probably need to press F2, or F12, or DEL repeatedly but that depends on the computer. It can also be a different key.
Once the computer has booted you will be in the Live version of Fedora KDE 43.
Open up the Firefox browser and type (copy-paste) this address: Fedora installer This is the explanation for the installer.
On your desktop you find the installer, double-click it to start it.
Follow the website step by step to install Fedora as you want it to be installed.
What I miss in the webpage is what to do with multiple disks, where can you select the disk you want to use? Since I have only one disk I only can use that one, but you have so many disks. I hope the installer shows that and makes it clear where you can install Fedora.
Is the media check failing at 4.8%, like it often does when the media is written from a Windows system?
If so, it may be a false positive and you could try to install after skipping the check.
I downloaded the Fedora Kinoite ISO with the old Anaconda installer, and it worked.
I can boot into the Fedora KDE live session without any problem. But when I click on the installer app to install Fedora, it opens a window that stays completely white for a few seconds, then it closes.
I installed it using my laptop with Fedora 43 GNOME, using Fedora MediaWriter. I downloaded the iso on Fedora MediaWriter, and even so, it didn’t work — it stopped at 4.8%.
Is there another approach I can try?
i use the Everything iso as fallback, it needs internet tho while install
mind that it will ask you to select the variant ( desktop and stuff, like the debian-installer kinda)
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Hi, I wish I could help you but I have no idea what is going on, why you can’t install Fedora.
I hope somebody here knows and helps you.
Success.
Best advice make backup of your windows data and reinstall both systems.Now what you try do do will not get your way .You have error because you try automatic partitioning new fedora system and installer doesn’t give that opportunity specially because is dual boot. Likely installer do prompt some error message .You need expert to guide you to do manual partitioning new system ( remove old one,create new ones install it and add windows back) .To much work if you consider 1 hour to install windows and fedora(p.s. if you can’t do that find some friend to do that for you)