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Hi

I was upgrading a laptop Dell Inspiron 1545 which had Mageia 4 (and Mageia 3 before). It worked fine until it told me to reboot.
However, rebooting gets stuck at

"Started System Logging Service."

If I boot into safe mode, even if I plugin Ethernet cable, I have no network.

The machine is useless at this moment.
Also, the only failed message is about mounting the NAS volume.

Are you able to download the Classical Installer DVD, dump to USB or burn to disk and complete the upgrade that way?

No, what I did was use the GUI distribution upgrade.
It downloaded packages from online.

Upgrade killed this machine completly.
Here's a photo of what's happening before freezes.

Are you suggesting to download Mageia 5 from another computer into a DVD and then reinstall it on the laptop?

Sorry, I don't know why that photo came up upside down.

It's only upside down in the preview, actual image displays normal.

If you have a look in the middle of the image, you see that your /dev/sda6 filesystem contains errors, and you need to run fsck manually on that filesystem to fix that.
I suggest booting to failsafe mode, login as root, and run

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fsck /dev/sda6

If that is fixed, when the boot still stops at the point you mentioned, best switch to another tty via Ctrl+Alt+F2, login as root
and check /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see why the graphical server doesn't come up.

Fsck helped.

Thank you doktor5000.

So, did I learn that Mageia 5 has stricter mounting criteria than 4?
Or what could be the reason Mageia 4 ignored this problem but Mageia 5 halts the system?

Mageia 5 doesn't halt the system, and it behaves the same way as Mageia 4 in that regard. You probably didn't encounter any filesystem errors previously, so you didn't notice.

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks