Network upgrade from f39 to f41 does not work

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I have made 3 attempts to use system update to do a network upgrade my fedora 39 system to f41. The upgrade process appears to complete but when I look in the /boot folder the only kernels are associated with f39, vmlinuz-6.5.6-300.fc39.x86_64 dating from 2023-10-06 and vmlinuz-6.5.12-300.fc39.x86_64 dating from 2023-11-20.

Where should I look for error messages for the attempted upgrade.

Cannot put in tag for f41, not in list of tags.

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Have you never updated F39 after Nov 2023?

can you pls provide output of

hostnamectl |grep System
dnf repolist
cat /etc/sysconfig/kernel
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Not true. I added it

How are you attempting to perform the upgrade.?
I use sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
then sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=41
followed by sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
and it works flawlessly for me.

I don’t attempt to use the gui software manager for major release upgrades (nor for any other upgrades). The command line does what I need and provides a lot more information for troubleshooting should something not work perfectly.

You must have an active network connection for any upgrades to work properly.

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I have had a thought since I submitted this problem. Looking at my /boot partition I suspect it may not have enough room for two versions of fedora, may need to expand partition first.

In the meantime I will follow the command line upgrade procedure which you suggested. If it does not work it may tell me why iincluding it may verify my inadequate space suspicion.

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Before you start you may check available space with df -h
If that shows more than about 10GB free in the root partition (/) then you should have adequate space. You also should have several MB free in /boot.

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Jeff.

I have followed the 3 step dnf procedure you suggested.
Step 1 Worked, refreshed f39 but did not upgrade to 41. I suspect this is what the Gnome System Update does as far as the OS is concerned.
Step 2 Worked.
Step3 failed, not enough room in boot partition. Therefore problem solved, will expand boot partition.

It is useful to have access to the error messages.

Now to learn learn parted and resizepart. Probably time to install an f41 system on that 64GB USB stick I bought.

Thanks your advice was most helpful.

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