Problem upgrading to Fedora 44 on Intel Macbook Air

I’m having some issues upgrading from Fedora 43 to Fedora 44 on a dual-booted Intel Macbook Air. I first tried upgrading via GUI, but every time I finished downloading the upgrades, after rebooting, all the updates popped up again on the Software app and had to go back through the whole thing all over again.

So today I tried following the DNF guide and I got a bit further.

I managed to upgrade all the secondary packages using

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh

but I am still unable to upgrade to f44 using:

sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=44

I also tried adding --allowerasing with no avail. I also tried switching the systemctl get-default to multi-user.target and performing the dnf system-upgrade from there, but nothing changed.

The issue is I don’t get any visible errors. As soon as the dnf asks me to reboot, it seems to briefly “start” upgrading, and then just completely reboots to boot back into f43.

When I was trying to upgrade from gui instead, I clearly remember the upgrade process stopping at 14% and then rebooting into f43.

Running:

sudo touch /usr/lib/clock-epoch

did the trick for me. I just had to read the t2linux FAQ for the Fedora project. Sorry for the noise!