Sjoerd Mullender wrote:

> On 02/05/2019 08.30, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> On 5/1/19 9:56 AM, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
>>> On 01/05/2019 17.50, Neal Becker wrote:
>>>> It's too bad you can't get a bash prompt during the upgrade so you
>>>> could run
>>>> ps or something.  My laptop doesn't have a disk activity light, so
>>>> there's
>>>> no way to tell if it's doing anything.
>>>
>>> I've been able to go to another virtual terminal by type Ctr-Alt-F2, but
>>> only when using the graphical interface during the upgrade.  After that
>>> I was able to login as root.
>> 
>> How did you have a graphical interface during the upgrade?  Were you
>> using "dnf upgrade" instead of "dnf system-upgrade"?
> 
> I didn't do anything special.  The systems I tried this on both run X11
> (XFCE, so no wayland), and I just got this graphical display (Fedora
> logo in the middle of the screen and update messages at the top).  I
> guess it's the plymouth package that takes care of these graphics.
> 
> I used dnf system-upgrade to do the upgrades.
> 

Actually, fiddling around with Alt-F2 etc I did manage to get to a root 
login shell.
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