Fedora Upgrade: F41 -> F42

Written by on 09.11.2025 | Technology

A belated upgrade to Fedora 42, kicked off in typical fashion, but now with a dnf5 twist A few kernels to remove to recover some space on /boot and all good. One thing I note as a longtime licensed synergy user for network keyboard-mouse sharing across multiple machines and OSes, is that quicksynergy seemed to […]

Fedora Upgrade: F40 -> F41

Written by on 04.06.2025 | Technology

Prior to upgrade while still on Fedora 40, some trepidation regarding kernel updates and a seeming XFS bug: Kernel in the clear, go for broke: Sigh. Not my first run-in with metadata changes in lvm hitting old or ancient volumes. On a last note, with the change from NetworkManager-1.46.6-1.fc40.x86_64 to NetworkManager-1.50.3-1.fc41.x86_64, static IP assignments no […]

Fedora Upgrade: F39 -> F40

Written by on 16.06.2024 | Technology

An easy upgrade: This one free from package removal/wrangling to solve edge dependency and repo issues. Sweet.

Fedora Upgrade: F38 -> F39

Written by on 01.01.2024 | Technology

And another one down, and another one down… Typical removal of a handful of packages to solve edge dependency and repo issues: libsss_simpleifp, wazuh-manager, libswscale-free, rpmfusion-free-release, etc. And then put them back, maybe. Some rpm gpg key work narrowing to expired key for removal:

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