Keeping questions about the wisdom of merging /bin and /sbin aside for the moment*, this certainly doesn't sound like the smooth and easy Fedora upgrades you were bragging about just at the last meeting! 🤔😅 I think I'll just stick to my choices of other distros for now. 🤣 Gilbert * As someone who has to manage systems with lots of decidedly non-privileged users, I'd actually advocate for moving MORE stuff into [/usr]/sbin, rather than combining them. But, trying to keep an open mind, I'm curious as to Fedora's rationale for this decision. And, is this a Fedora-only move for now, or are we likely to see this happen with other (particularly non-RHEL-based) distros? On 2025-11-24 2:23 a.m., Trevor Cordes wrote:
F41 is EOL in a few days. So I upgraded using the dnf method, as usual.
Warning! If you have 2 different architectures of some rpms installed, which is likely if you use WINE, then a bug may trigger where the migration from separate /sbin to combined /bin & /sbin doesn't work properly. It will leave you with a decent mess to contend with.
Probably the best idea is to find all those other-arch rpms and dnf remove them first. Then run the upgrade. Then reinstall the other-arch rpms. Obviously you'll need to record what rpms those are.
Hopefully the bug won't trigger on "normal" installs without 2 arches... I will find out soon.
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