F42 Upgrade Test Day

More information about the event can be found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2025-03-02_F42_Upgrade_Test_Day
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Workstation

Username	Profile	dnf current	dnf current encrypted	dnf previous	dnf previous encrypted	gnome-software current workstation	gnome-software previous workstation	Comments
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Baltazaras	Fedora Workstation
Groogee	Boxes on Macbook Pro (2017, 14,1)
TreezZ	Fedora Workstation - Acer One 10 S1003 v.1.19 - Intel Atom x5-Z8350, 4GB RAM	[1]						1. Upgraded on April 4th. The upgrade procedure went smoothly, with nothing to report there. After upgrading, GNOME animations are smoother, while they were stuttery on Fedora 41. However, the Fedora logo appears bigger than it used to be in the GDM login screen. In addition, the on-screen touch keyboard now appears slightly cropped at the bottom.
adriend	Fedora Workstation - Dell Latitude 3510 - i5-10210U - SSD NVme		[1]					1. Upgraded sucessfully the Saturday March 22th 2025
adriend	Fedora Workstation, ProxmoxVM - Repos : RPM Fusion, Vivaldi - Many RPMS and Flatpak					[1]		1. First time, not enough space on disk, and after downloading, the "restart" button to apply the upgrade prompt the password, but after no action, no reboot and no notification. After grow up the disk and partition, the update started after download and restart button clicked. All is Okay.
adriend	Raspberry Pi 4 Model B	[1]						1. dnf system-upgrade --releasever=42 download + dnf5 offline reboot = FAILED because no RTC Clock (unable to check GPG) - All is OK with dnf distro-sync --releasever=42 without issue
billgrz	Fedora Workstation 41, in a Boxes virtual machine under Fedora Workstation 41 - Framework 16 Laptop w/ AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS CPU , 32GB RAM, 500GB SSD					[1]		1. Upgrade and subsequent updates installed without issue. "Learn about this new version" link, but clicking the link (https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-workstation-42) results in an Error 404 page.
billgrz	Fedora Workstation 41, in a Boxes virtual machine under Fedora Workstation 41 - Framework 16 Laptop w/ AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS CPU , 32GB RAM, 500GB SSD	[1]						1. Successful upgrade from Fedora WS 41 to 42.
boniboyblue	Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 4					[1]	[2]	1. The learn more link isn't public yet so get a 404 error. 2. 1. The learn more link isn't public yet so get a 404 error.
ersen	x86_64 virt-managee
ewanp	Fedora Workstation 41, QEMU, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
geraldosimiao	Fedora 41 (KDE) x86_64 KVM/QEMU Standard PC (Q35) Kernel 6.13.9
jevans667cc	2017 imac 27"	[1]						1. Had to uninstall python3-qt5-webkit before the upgrade could proceed, but after that everything went well.
jevans667cc	2020 macbook pro arm64 (asahi)	[1]						1. As with the 2017 imac case, had to manually uninstall python3-qt5-webkit first, after that, all good.
quemeraisc	Fedora workstation 41 Toshiba satellite s50	[1]				[2]		1. All good 2. Got proposed to download fedora 42 but it stops at 8%, tried a few times, always same behaviour. Also the more info web page is not available
rai510	Fedora Workstation	[1]						1. Looks Ok
roberine	MacBook Pro M1 32GB/1TB		[1]					1. Upgraded to F42 with no problems. Installed updates after upgrade also without any problems
shartrec	Fedora Workstation 41, Lenovo Thinkpad E520 - Intel Core I7-2620M 8.0 GiB Ram, Graphics Intel HD Graphics 3000 + AMD TURKS.	[1]						1. Upgrade ran without any issues. Both integrated and discrete graphics appear to work OK.
ungesaeuertesbrot	Fedora Workstation 41, Dell XPS 14 9440		[1]					1. Like jevans667cc I first had to remove python3-qt5-webkit. Otherwise an entirely smooth upgrade.
whelanh	Fedora 41 (Workstation) x86_64 KVM/QEMU Standard PC (Q35 I ICH9) Kernel 6.13.9 CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970x	[1]						1. Smooth upgrade without any issues to working Fedora 42 system

Server

Username	Profile	dnf current	dnf previous	Comments
		Enter result	Enter result
adriend	Fedora Server - httpd + php + mariadb + wordpress website	[1]		1. Upgrade OS OK, upgrading httpd, php and mariadb ok. Wbesite works well
alciregi	Dell PowerEdge R630
alciregi	Oracle Cloud Ampere A1 Compute instance (Arm processor)

KDE

Username	Profile	dnf current	dnf previous	plasma-discover current	Comments
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Yosuke	KVM KDE Desktop fresh install			[1]	1. Step 7: The page which appears after clicking the "More Information" button does not have a URL to the release webpage.
abhis3k		[1]			1. Working okay
abhis3k	From existing KDE install with nvidia	[1]		[2]	1. Working okay 2. Did not check Discover
adriend	Fedora KDE, ProxmoxVM - Repos : RPM Fusion, Vivaldi - Many RPMS and Flatpak			[1]	1. All is OK
adriend	Fedora KDE, ProxmoxVM - Repos : RPM Fusion, Vivaldi - Many RPMS and Flatpak
derekenz	AMD 5600g F41 KDE Boxes VM
djon	Fedora 42 KDE Plasma (upgraded from F41) on an Asus Desktop; CPU: 4 × Intel Core i5; GPU: Intel HD Graphics (Mesa); Repos: RPM Fusion, Flatpak.	[1]	[2]	[3]	1. Using the 'dnf5 offline reboot' command, the upgrade proceeded smoothly and took 30 minutes. 2. OK 3. The upgrade from Fedora 41 to Fedora 42 (using dnf5) completed successfully. However, post-upgrade, the enabled third-party hashicorp repository causes errors during repository refreshes.
geraldosimiao	Fedora 41 (KDE) x86_64 KVM/QEMU Standard PC (Q35) Kernel 6.13.9
mkaysi		[1] [2]			1. fedora-updates-testing breaks bluetooth, which dnf distro-sync and disabling updates-testing fixes again 2. Lenovo ThinkPad T470 upgraded via terminal from Fedora Plasma 41. I thought everything worked fine, but filling this I seem to have lost bluetooth. Grepping for bluez reveals "api.codec.bluez5.media.aptx has incompatible ABI version (7 != 12)" and kf.bluezqt: GetManagerJob Error: "Cannot find org.bluez.AgentManager1 object!", investigation continues.
rbowman	Fedora 41 KDE spin Intel Core I5-4590S (4th gen)	[1]			1. had to remove pyqt5 package for install to proceed. No other problems encountered

Spins

Username	Profile	graphical upgrade	dnf upgrade current	dnf upgrade prev	Comments
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adriend	Fedora Spin Cinnamon, ProxmoxVM - Repos : RPM Fusion, Vivaldi - Many RPMS and Flatpak		[1]		1. All is OK. Cinnamon same version between FC41 (6.4.8) and FC42 (6.4.8) - X11 session because Wayland is experimental.

Minimal

Username	Profile	dnf previous	dnf current	Comments
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theprogram	Custom OS with Sway WM, on AMD 5700G		[1]	1. Clean and easy upgrade experience from 41. Network, Sway, Thunderbird, Firefox, Keepass, Nheko, Lutris, Wine all work well. I am not sure I like the new font in Mozilla products.