Description of problem: My system is a Fedora 26, (upgraded from earlier versions), and I am trying to upgrade in-place to F27. The dnf-based system upgrade requires large amount of space on the root filesystem; I believe the default requires 7+GB for the RPM download and 7+GB of free space for the actual upgrade. Since my root partition doesn't have that, I tried to use a non-standard download directory. The distribution download succeeded but the subsequent reboot/update fails out. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): python3-dnf-plugin-system-upgrade-2.0.3-1.fc26.noarch How reproducible: I tried and failed several times Steps to Reproduce: 1.dnf system-upgrade download --destdir=/home/system-upgrade/fedora-cba4cf65782eccda/packages --releasever=27 --downloadonly --allowerasing 2.dnf system-upgrade reboot --destdir=/home/system-upgrade/fedora-cba4cf65782eccda/packages --releasever=27 --downloadonly --allowerasing Actual results: ..... dnf[931]: realmd x86_64 0.16.3-7.fc27 fedora 227 k dnf[931]: recode x86_64 3.6-46.fc27 fedora 723 k systemd[1]: dnf-system-upgrade.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE systemd[1]: Failed to start System Upgrade using DNF. systemd[1]: dnf-system-upgrade.service: Unit entered failed state. audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=dnf-system-upgrade comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed' systemd[1]: dnf-system-upgrade.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Expected results: successful system update from f26 to f27 Additional info:
when i try dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=27 --refresh --allowerasing it says i need 1535M more space on / but when i use dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=27 --refresh --allowerasing --destdir=/data2/temp to use a different directory it says that destdir can only be used by the download or downloadonly command
after i was able to free up space on the / filesystem i was able to upgrade when i updated previously from fedora 25 to 26 i used the following and had no problems dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=26 --allowerasing --datadir=/data/temp this did not work and it said that datadir was not a valid parameter dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=27 --allowerasing --datadir=/data/temp
I have the same problem ... Fedora 25 --> 26 > dnf system-upgrade download --releasever 26 --datadir=/usr/data/upgrade/rpms -y > dnf system-upgrade reboot Does the job. So simple and good... Fedora 26 --> 27 > dnf system-upgrade download --releasever 27 --destdir=/usr/data/upgrade/rpms Fails saying that '--destdir must be used with --downloadonly or download command' which is _is_. Adding --downloadonly circumvents this: > dnf system-upgrade download --releasever 27 --downloadonly --destdir=/usr/data/upgrade/rpms -y (Does indeed download the stuff as before) > dnf system-upgrade reboot Reboots the system, starts the upgrade procedure, but fails trying to ... download, as there is no network during an upgrade... Crashes and reboots with no work done. > dnf system-upgrade reboot --destdir=/usr/data/upgrade/rpms Says "--destdir must be used with --downloadonly or download command" I guess the 'new' version was never tested on anything but the most trivial case.. I ended up using the following workaround... > rm -rf /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade > ln -s /usr/data/upgrade/system-upgrade /var/lib/dnf/system-upgrade > dnf system-upgrade download --releasever 27 -y > dnf system-upgrade reboot
*** Bug 1515172 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
PR https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf-plugins-extras/pull/118
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The issue is solved by dnf-plugins-extras-3.0.0-1 that was released into rawhide.