Hi guys i installed fedora yesterday. After sometime i got a notification that it needs updates around 5GB. After downloading and rebooting for applying the update it’s stuck at 43%. After pretty much thinking that it will do something i let it do its thing for 5 hours but no go. So i pretty much thought maybe it got corrupted or something so i made new live usb and installed it but the result is same. Can someone tell me what to do ?
Can you provide a bit more information please.
- What version of fedora are you installing? KDE, Workstation, or a different spin?
- What is the machine being installed upon?
- Are you installing dual boot with windows or another OS?
- How much drive space is available?
- What steps were used in preparation for the installation?
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1.Hi i am installing kde plasma 42 for my laptop.
2.My laptop is hp15s fq2717tu (i3 11th gen 8gb ram 500gb nvme)
- I am installing it as main os (not dual-boot)
4.490 gb is available in the nvme as it made the partition itself
- I downloaded the fedora through the website (amd64) and used rufus for mounting in the usb drive. I Clicked on the ‘install it to hard drive” and made root and user name for the system. It rebooted and connected to wi-fi. In discover it showed “Update available” after downloading it told me to reboot. After that i got “INSTALLING UPDATES” window and the progress was normal uptil it hit 40%.
Right now it is in 97%
It shows this now
Hi. I saw you updated your post from 55% to 97%, so is it still stuck at 97% or did it complete since then?
When you installed Fedora, did you let the self-test verification to complete, before installing Fedora, right? (its a good practice, cause there are times when the installer itself is corrupt due to failing usb stick or incomplete iso writes)
Yeah i checked it was fine.
And about the problem i just was feeling kinda angry so i just hard rebooted it and it shows the update is complete.
So i am not so happy with this issues as it takes 6 hours+ for a update
Yeah I feel you, but hard resetting during an offline update, while it’s designed to be safe, it’s strongly unadvised, because it can still cause data corruption on your disk, and your personal datas can be lost that way. I’d suggest you setting up SysRq - I did that too, so you can gracefully reboot a computer, without the need to press the power button, and this way, no data corruption will occur.
I’d be concerned whether the updates truly were deployed though, so If I were you, I’d run a sudo dnf up -–refresh just to be sure.
About 6+ hours thats just abnormal yes, unless your internet speed is extra slow, which I doubt. Again if I were you, I’d check my storage disk’s S.M.A.R.T. reports, cause this one feels a bit weird, and I suspect that your disk might be failing (they usually do due to wearing, when there are too much I/O going and stuff) - you can check smart reports by pressing the start menu, type in smart and the first result should be it something like SMART status.
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