I have tried to upgrade my F42 system to F43 with no success. I have
downloaded all the F43 files it just never installs them. Here is what
I have tried:
sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=43
sudo dnf5 offline reboot
This just boots back to F42.
sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
sudo dnf autoremove
sudo reboot
As does this
sudo dnf clean all
sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
As does this.
When it boots up I get the following message:
In emergency mode. After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view logs,
"systemctl reboot" to reboot, or exit.
Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked.
See sulogin(8) man page for more details.
Press enter to continue.
When I press enter the system boots up, but it fails to start
vmware.service, ipmi.service, mariadb.service and dhcpd.service.
After I login and retry to start dhcpd.service it starts up, but the
others all fail.
sudo systemctl restart mariadb.service
Job for mariadb.service failed because a fatal signal was delivered
causing the control process to dump core.
See "systemctl status mariadb.service" and "journalctl -xeu
mariadb.service" for details.
Job for ipmi.service failed because the control process exited with
error code.
See "systemctl status ipmi.service" and "journalctl -xeu ipmi.service"
for details.
[pgaltieri@terrapin ~]$ systemctl status ipmi.service
× ipmi.service - IPMI Driver
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ipmi.service; enabled;
preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
└─10-timeout-abort.conf
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2026-01-10 09:30:26
PST; 12s ago
Invocation: 12a78a847faa48499de851a13e2938c6
Process: 38601 ExecStart=/usr/libexec/openipmi-helper start
(code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 38601 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Mem peak: 3.1M
CPU: 54ms
Jan 10 09:30:26 terrapin.homenet192-168-10.com systemd[1]: Starting
ipmi.service - IPMI Driver...
Jan 10 09:30:26 terrapin.homenet192-168-10.com openipmi-helper[38601]:
Startup failed.
Jan 10 09:30:26 terrapin.homenet192-168-10.com systemd[1]: ipmi.service:
Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jan 10 09:30:26 terrapin.homenet192-168-10.com systemd[1]: ipmi.service:
Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 10 09:30:26 terrapin.homenet192-168-10.com systemd[1]: Failed to
start ipmi.service - IPMI Driver.
sudo systemctl restart vmware.service
Job for vmware.service failed because the control process exited with
error code.
See "systemctl status vmware.service" and "journalctl -xeu
vmware.service" for details.
Defined-By: systemd
Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
An ExecStart= process belonging to unit vmware.service has exited.
The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1.
Jan 10 09:41:58 terrapin.homenet192-168-10.com systemd[1]:
vmware.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Subject: Unit failed
Defined-By: systemd
Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
The unit vmware.service has entered the 'failed' state with result
'exit-code'.
Jan 10 09:41:58 terrapin.homenet192-168-10.com systemd[1]:
vmware.service: Unit process 1364 (vmware-authdlau) remains running
after unit stopped.
Jan 10 09:41:58 terrapin.homenet192-168-10.com systemd[1]:
vmware.service: Unit process 57042 (vmware-authdlau) remains running
after unit stopped.
Jan 10 09:41:58 terrapin.homenet192-168-10.com systemd[1]:
vmware.service: Unit process 57043 (logger) remains running after unit
stopped.
Jan 10 09:41:58 terrapin.homenet192-168-10.com systemd[1]: Failed to
start vmware.service - SYSV: This service starts and stops VMware services.
Subject: A start job for unit vmware.service has failed
Defined-By: systemd
Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
A start job for unit vmware.service has finished with a failure.
The job identifier is 74825 and the job result is failed.
Notice that in these messages it never says what the exit code is, it
just says 'exit-code'
I have upgraded my system from F39 -> F40 -> F41 -> F42 with no issues.
This is the first time I've had an upgrade fail with no error messages.
So what do I need to do to upgrade to F43 from F42?
Paolo
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