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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.

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

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

benmc wrote: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 ?