I’m trying to update Fedora from 40 to 41 through the Discover app. The process seems to run just fine - the system reboots and appears to update - but then when it boots back up and I login, it’s still on 40. I go back into Discover and it says “A new version is available”, as if I never tried to install the update.
Does anyone know where the update logs are stored? I haven’t been able to find a clear answer when searching online.
My storage is encrypted. I’m not sure if that’s messing up the update process or not.
Which Linux distro are you using? Fedora 40 with KDE Plasma DE
Which kernel are you using? 6.14.5-100.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
Which BIOS version are you using? 03.05
Which Framework Laptop 16 model are you using? AMD Ryzen 7040 Series
Generally you could look at system logs?
On Ubuntu those can be viewed by executing journalctl -b
Add a negative number to the -b (e.g. -b-1) to get previous boot journals.
Thank you for the quick reply and info!
Looks like the same command works in Fedora, so I was going to update/reboot and check the logs. However, to my chagrin, the update actually managed to work this time and my system settings say I’m on Fedora 41 now. I have no idea what was done differently, but I’m just going to roll with it.
journalctl looks very useful, so I will definitely be keeping that in mind when weird stuff happens again!
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Great!
If you really wanted to find out, what was going wrong, you could try to find the journal of the boots before it worked by using the -b-#number argument. You would start with -b-1, check the time/date and continue with -b-2, … until you find the right ones.
But I myself wouldnt bother anymore 
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In the future, dont upgrade w/the GUI.
Do this:
sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=42 (change 42 to the version needed)
sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
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