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<\/a><\/p>\nFedora 23<\/a> has been released yesterday, and as a big fan and a long time user I had to upgrade my laptop (from Fedora 22) immediately. \u00a0Or at least try.<\/p>\n Usually, the process is quite simple and doesn’t take much figuring out. \u00a0This time it was somewhat different though. \u00a0At first, the recommended upgrade command<\/a> changed slightly from the nice and simple fedup<\/em> to dnf system-upgrade<\/em>.<\/p>\n The first attempt downloaded all packages, ended with a cryptic error along the lines of “No updates for kernel packages were found<\/em>“. \u00a0Hmm, weird. \u00a0I thought maybe this was caused by me forgetting to run “dnf update<\/em>” before the upgrade process. \u00a0So I did. \u00a0Some updates were installed, but there were no kernel packages among them. \u00a0I rebooted the laptop just in case.<\/p>\n The second attempt for some reason failed to find any of the previously downloaded packages, so I had to wait until the almost 2 GB get pulled down again. \u00a0Result – same error about missing kernel updates. \u00a0Hmm, again.<\/p>\n After poking around for a bit, I realized that I had previously configured yum<\/em> to exclude some packages from updates (kernel, kmod-wl, kmod-VirtualBox, and VirtualBox). \u00a0These settings were picked up by dnf<\/em>. \u00a0Editing both \/etc\/yum.conf<\/em> and \/etc\/dnf\/dnf.conf<\/em> to disable the exclude fixed the issue. \u00a0“dnf update<\/em>” now pulled some updates to the kernel. \u00a0Another reboot.<\/p>\n The third attempt once again lost all the downloaded packages and I had to wait some more. \u00a0This was annoying, especially at 1am now. \u00a0The process of downloading finished OK and this time there was no errors. \u00a0So “dnf system-upgrade reboot<\/em>” should do the trick now, right? \u00a0Wrong!<\/p>\n Surprisingly, there was no boot menu for system upgrade upon reboot. \u00a0So I went with Fedora 22 boot option. \u00a0Which resulted in a brief screen saying “Preparing for upgrade<\/em>“. \u00a0Which then disappeared and the system booted back into Fedora 22. \u00a0Now that was interesting.<\/p>\n It took me a while to find the issue. \u00a0The problem was that my Fedora 22 laptop wasn’t a clean install, but an upgrade from Fedora 21. \u00a0That shouldn’t be a problem, but it is, due to this bug<\/a>. \u00a0My \/etc\/os-release<\/em> file didn’t have the VARIANT and VARIANT_ID variables (thanks to this blog<\/a>). \u00a0So after adding these lines:<\/p>\n I’ve rebooted once again, and started the fourth attempt. \u00a0Downloaded packages were gone once again, so I had to wait a bit more. \u00a0This time the faster office Internet connection helped to save some time. \u00a0Download finished OK. Another reboot. \u00a0Once again, there is no option to upgrade Fedora, so I’m going into Fedora 22 boot. \u00a0Finally, now there is the upgrade screen! \u00a0After some preparation time, the packages were installed, the machine rebooted, and now I’m Fedora 23 user.<\/p>\n Checking my \/etc\/os-release<\/em> file I see that both variant variables are gone now. \u00a0This feels weird, but hopefully won’t cause issues in the future. \u00a0If it will, I’ll probably Google for three hours before finding this very blog post.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n Fedora 23 has been released yesterday, and as a big fan and a long time user I had to upgrade my laptop (from Fedora 22) immediately. \u00a0Or at least try. 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