I tried to upgrade from Mageia 3 to 4 using the mgaonline program as described at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_4_Rel ... m_Mageia_3. I made sure to backup all my partitions in case of problems using GParted live. The upgrade proceeded correctly until it tried to install a particular Mageia 4 package and then everything just froze. I walked away from my computer for awhile hoping it might continue but it was just stalled. After a computer reset Mageia was no longer bootable so I just restored my partitions and am back up on Mageia 3 successfully.
Is there any way, if I try mgaonline again, that I can get the program to write out its state to some file so I can later see where it was frozen ? The file could be on a partition I share with other Linux distros I also run or which I share with Windows, so I could look at it later and report the problem.