Fedora 28....time to upgrade
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Can't get this upgrade to work. Atleast the reboot process does not work to say the least.
so i did all the steps explained on several pages like already explained above this thread from @JaredBusch
After dnf -y system-upgrade reboot the system reboots and succeeds the installation i guess? (No errors)
Then the system reboots again and the VirtualBox VM window stays black.... just black.. nothing to press or to click..
Anyone else has this kind of problem?Edit: I did revert back to Fedora 27 with an old snapshot. That worked. I will take another try, when there is a new virtualbox update. Windows 1803 update crashed my vbox machines today aswell... not a good day to do updates it seems.
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@cherryman said in Fedora 28....time to upgrade:
Can't get this upgrade to work. Atleast the reboot process does not work to say the least.
so i did all the steps explained on several pages like already explained above this thread from @JaredBusch
After dnf -y system-upgrade reboot the system reboots and succeeds the installation i guess? (No errors)
Then the system reboots again and the VirtualBox VM window stays black.... just black.. nothing to press or to click..
Anyone else has this kind of problem?Edit: I did revert back to Fedora 27 with an old snapshot. That worked. I will take another try, when there is a new virtualbox update. Windows 1803 update crashed my vbox machines today aswell... not a good day to do updates it seems.
Did you by chance have virtualbox guest add on installed already? You can try removing it first.
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@black3dynamite said in Fedora 28....time to upgrade:
Did you by chance have virtualbox guest add on installed already? You can try removing it first.
Yes that's it probably. Completely forgot this point. My problem is that i really need them for the shared folder, so i can't risk upgrading and not being able to reinstall the guest additions afterwards. I will just wait (a month?) and try again. Maybe things will arrange themselves, hehe.
Still thanks a lot for the input. 
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@cherryman said in Fedora 28....time to upgrade:
@black3dynamite said in Fedora 28....time to upgrade:
Did you by chance have virtualbox guest add on installed already? You can try removing it first.
Yes that's it probably. Completely forgot this point. My problem is that i really need them for the shared folder, so i can't risk upgrading and not being able to reinstall the guest additions afterwards. I will just wait (a month?) and try again. Maybe things will arrange themselves, hehe.
Still thanks a lot for the input. Fedora 28 now includes virtualbox addon by default.
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@black3dynamite said in Fedora 28....time to upgrade:
Fedora 28 now includes virtualbox addon by default.
oh, okay? That's good to know. Maybe i will really try to deinstall the guest additions first and try the upgrade again tomorrow. I will give feedback if that worked.
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Sweet Spins.
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Did anyone else run into problems with nginx reverse proxy and selinux when updating to Fedora 28? My reverse proxy broke, and the fix for 27 in @JaredBusch's instructions doesn't work for 28.
I'll be digging into the log files this afternoon, but figured I'd ask and possibly warn everyone first.
I should say, I looked at it enough to verify that it is selinux not allowing nginx to start after the upgrade.
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If you're installing Fedora Desktop from scratch (no upgrades), are you installing from NetInstall or Live Image?
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@nerdydad said in Fedora 28....time to upgrade:
If you're installing Fedora Desktop from scratch (no upgrades), are you installing from NetInstall or Live Image?
I prefer netinstall, don't need to run updates first thing.
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@nerdydad said in Fedora 28....time to upgrade:
If you're installing Fedora Desktop from scratch (no upgrades), are you installing from NetInstall or Live Image?
I use had problems in the past where I wasn't able to install from a Live image. But with NetInstall, you can easily install a custom install and get the latest packages on a clean install.
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@black3dynamite it worked. I used the uninstall.sh for vBoxGuestAdditions before upgrading and this time everything worked.
But there are no "Default Fedora 28 vBoxGuestAdditions" to be found in the new version.
I will probably have to reinstall it like i used to do.Edit: reinstalling the vboxguestadditions broke Fedora 28 again... sigh..
Edit2: lsmod | grep -i vbox
gives me a list of active vbox modules. "vboxguest" and "vboxvideo" can be found but the one missing is "vboxsf" which is needed for sharing folders and so on. I couldn't find anyone else except me with that problem yet. Really odd.Edit3: I finally got this thing to work again, yuchee
For everyone who is experiencing the same issue as i did you have to do the following:- Before upgrading to Fedora 28 use uninstall.sh to uninstall your current guest additions.
- Upgrade Fedora like explained above
- After upgrading make sure your "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack" is up-to-date in ver: 5.2.10r122406
Download: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads - Install/update it > Virtualbox > Settings > Additional Packages
- boot the Fedora 28 Guest and log in.
- Double check if your virtualboxguestadditions.iso file is up-to-date aswell.
If not you will need to replace that file prior to mounting the CD-Drive.
Download: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.2.10/
The file you need is this one: VBoxGuestAdditions_5.2.10.iso - Mount the drive into your Fedora 28 Guest and install it.
- Reboot > done.
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Just upgraded a SuiteCRM instance in Vultr.
The reboot step was fast as fuck.
Vultr.
