urpmi upgrade of mga6 to mga7 i586 hangs at atop-2.4.0

[bjarne_thomsen]

urpmi --replacefiles --auto-update --auto --download-all (--test)
It reported OK for upgrade with (--test)
There are 2620 packages. It all went very well until it hangs at
1526/2620 atop
so it is quite far in the process.
atop is a System and Processor monitor that I had forgotten existed. It has been carried along during upgrades.
My current kernel is
kernel 4.14.131-server-1.mga6 on a 4-processor i686
I do not need to upgrade atop.
How do I proceed ? I cannot just remove it from anoter terminal as the urpmi db is locked?
It is just sitting there...

[bjarne_thomsen]

Followup question:
I have found the process ID by ps aux|grep urpmi
Can I just kill the process?
followed by a repeat of the urpmi command?
I have removed the package "atop" from the downloads.

[doktor5000]

Just Ctrl+C the running urpmi process, then remove atop and start again. But I'd guess there's something else going on, like the space filled up for /var/cache/urpmi.

[bjarne_thomsen]

Ctrl+C does nothing in the Alt+F2 terminal. atop is really hanging.
There is 15 GB of free space in /
and var is in /
My suspicion is rather the new microcode for the kernel, but I have no idea if this is true.
atop makes a hardware investigation of the processor.
But atop is an official Mageia package.
I am afraid that I cannot kill the urpmi process from the Alt-F2 terminal.
Should I try?

[bjarne_thomsen]

Added information:
Ctl+C produces a new line and ^C
It looks as if the install terminal has Ctl+C disabled.
I can brobably kill the urpmi process from another terminal and remove atop by using urpme.

[bjarne_thomsen]

I would just let you know that it worked that way.
It has now been upgradet to Mageia-7 and it is working.
I have no idea what went wrong with atop.

[isadora]

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Thanks ahead.

[doktor5000]

But atop is an official Mageia package.
I am afraid that I cannot kill the urpmi process from the Alt-F2 terminal.

FWIW, I've seen the same issue during my upgrade, it was hung during the %post section of atop running /etc/atop/atop.daily
I just did "kill -9" on the process that ran the rpm %post script and the upgrade continued just fine.

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[doktor5000@Mageia6]─[20:56:04]─[~] pstree -pas 3779
systemd,1 nokmsboot splash noiswmd 3
  └─login,17976
      └─bash,18039
          └─sudo,3779 -E urpmi --debug --replacefiles --auto-update --auto
              └─urpmi,3784 /sbin/urpmi --debug --replacefiles --auto-update --auto
                  └─sh,31012 /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.3lSBGy 2
                      └─atop,31041 -R -w /var/log/atop/atop_20190707 600

[doktor5000@Mageia6]─[20:57:20]─[~] sudo cat /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.3lSBGy
/usr/share/rpm-helper/add-service atop $1 atop


# save today's logfile (format might be incompatible)
mv /var/log/atop/atop_`date +%Y%m%d` /var/log/atop/atop_`date +%Y%m%d`.save \
        2> /dev/null || :

# create dummy files to be rotated
touch /var/log/atop/dummy_before /var/log/atop/dummy_after

# activate daily logging for today
/etc/atop/atop.daily[doktor5000@Mageia6]─[20:57:24]─[~]