[SOLVED] Failed upgrade from Mageia 3 to 4 using mgaonline

[eldiener]

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.

[benmc]

hi
using mgaonline has two option, " download files first and then upgrade " [ ideal, if you have about 5G spare hdd space in / partition ] or " live upgrade " which requires an active broadband connection for the duation of the upgrade [ use this option if you have limited hdd space in / ], risky if you have a suspect connection that drops out or your local mirror hasn't yet been sync'ed .
which did you select?

Which was the particular M4 package that you supect froze system?

regards

Benmc

[jkerr82508]

If the upgrade process stops without completing, you may be able to kill mgaonline and complete the process from within a terminal by executing:

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su
urpmi --replacefiles --auto-update --auto

run that command twice to ensure everything is updated.

Jim

[eldiener]

hi
using mgaonline has two option, " download files first and then upgrade " [ ideal, if you have about 5G spare hdd space in / partition ] or " live upgrade " which requires an active broadband connection for the duation of the upgrade [ use this option if you have limited hdd space in / ], risky if you have a suspect connection that drops out or your local mirror hasn't yet been sync'ed .
which did you select?

Which was the particular M4 package that you supect froze system?

regards

Benmc

I chose " download files first and then upgrade " and the downloads had finished. I have tons of free space in the root partition ( about 45 GB ). The package it froze on was when I was installing pango or libpango, not sure which.

I would like to try it again but I want to be able to get a log of what it is doing so I can look at it later. Is mgonline really incapable of producing a log and have me redirect it somewhere ?