Latest F44 Kernel Installed but Not on Grub Boot Menu

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dnf purportedly installed kernel 7.2.4 this morning, but it does not appear as a choice when rebooting. /boot/grub2/grub.cfg has modification date that corresponds to the time of the update. rpm reports:

rpm -qa | grep 7.2.4

kernel-modules-core-7.2.4-200.fc44.x86_64
kernel-core-7.2.4-200.fc44.x86_64
kernel-modules-7.2.4-200.fc44.x86_64
kernel-modules-extra-7.2.4-200.fc44.x86_64
kernel-tools-libs-7.2.4-200.fc44.x86_64
python3-perf-7.2.4-200.fc44.x86_64
kernel-tools-7.2.4-200.fc44.x86_64
kernel-headers-7.2.4-200.fc44.x86_64
kernel-7.2.4-200.fc44.x86_64

Doing a re-install of the 7.2.4 kernel did not change anything.

Lately (i.e. the past 10 days or so) a message appears at the end of dnf updates that may or may not be related.

“Warning: A pending offline transaction initiated by the following command will be invalidated: dnf5daemon-server.”

When rebooting, the checkbox for “install pending updates” is checked, and it is not cleared on reboot, even though the system does two boots, as if it had installed something.

In any case, the previous kernel is the latest available on the boot menu. There is plenty of space available in /boot and /boot/efi:

/dev/nvme0n1p5 974M 362M 545M 40% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p1 236M 122M 115M 52% /boot/efi

Suggestions? Thanks.

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Hi Tim,

Try doing the upgrade with dnf via the command line and see what that produces.
sudo dnf upgrade

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Thanks. As I indicated, I used dnf to install the upgrades.

Turns out ‘dnf reinstall kernel-core’ did the trick. Something must’ve gone wrong with the postinstall script this morning.

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… ahh … yeah … you might check the amount of space in /boot … if is below 300~400MB free before you do an upgrade … you could run out of space, particularly if you have kmods like the Nvidia driver …