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Upgrading to new releases of Mageia has never worked for me. The installer always says that upgrade won't work on my system, without providing any reason, such as not enough free space or the presence of unsupported software packages.
However, in the past I have proceeded to attempt upgrades anyway, although I don't recall if those were ever successful. If not, I would proceed to perform a fresh install. I have the iso files on my system going all the way back to Mageia 3.
I tried to perform an upgrade again with the Mageia 7 RC installer, but immediately encountered an error. The installer mounted disk partitions then displayed the message: "An error occurred. Can't call method "val" on an undefined value."
I'm still hoping to be able to perform an upgrade to Mageia 7.

Please try again, and when the error occurs, press Ctrl-Alt-F2 which will switch to a console. Insert a formatted USB stick into a spare USB slot, then enter

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at the command prompt. This should write a file named "report.bug" to the USB stick. Open a bug report describing the problem, and attach that file (compressed with 'xz' if necessary).

Bug report submitted at https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24943 .

Please always provide the link, as that allows others to look it up in case they have a similar issue.

Link to bug report added above.

The problem was due to a bad iso DVD disc.

I looked into why the installer claims your system cannot be safely upgraded. The commit message for when this check was added is

warn the user and propose to install/quit-install before upgrading from a partition where "/" is ext3 with block-size 1KB to avoid kernel bug (#37583)

As this check was added in 2008, it seems likely that the kernel bug has since been fixed,