> On 10 Jan 2026, at 17:49, Paolo Galtieri <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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:

Are you following these instructions? 
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/

> 
> sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
> sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=43
> sudo dnf5 offline reboot
> 
> This just boots back to F42.
> 

Please use dnf and not a mix of dnf and dnf5.

There is a command to view the logs of the upgrade that you can use to look for 
problems.
        sudo dnf system-upgrade log

Then to see the last log add its number from the list.
        sudo dnf system-upgrade log --number=XXX


> 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.

You need to debug why this is happening.
Did you do
        sudo journalctl -xb
to find the reason the system is in trouble?
What did you find?

Barry

> 
> 
> 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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