Moved to Mageia at last

[janpihlgren]

Hi
At last I have moved from Mandriva tio Mageia.
The move was not easy. The upgrade from Mandrive 2010.2 failed. 163 packages faild to be insstalled.
But what was the worst thing was that kdm coudn't start becas of , what it say, wrong setup. After a couple av tries I stop trying.
I did a "clean" install and 'voila' , up and running . Then I had to reinstal a couple of programs.

My conclusion after this and previus upgradings (of Mandriva) is that upgrading is something that often fails.
Well now this is historical.

I hope that Mageia will continue to develop in the same direction as old Mandriva.

So here I am, a happy Mageia-user.

My equipment is a Lenovo ThinkPad W701 with 8GB memory, Nvidia GForce FX2800 graphic, 320GB + 500GB hd and 2TB external hd

[doktor5000]

Nice to have you onboard

It would have been helpful if you would have posted the packages which failed to be installed,
or missing dependencies so that we could fix those upgrade problems ...

[Will94]

I also recently upgraded from Mandriva 2010.2 to Mageia. I couldn't do it booting to the .iso. I received the error "output in file /mnt/etc/hosts failed: Permission denied" when I tried. I went to this page http://www.mageia.org/en/1/migrate/ and entered the command lines as shown near the bottom. Near the end of the installation, I received a dependency error, and the entire process bombed.

The machine that I was upgrading was an Oracle Virtualbox machine, so I restored the .vdi file and started again. The package that had the dependency error had something to do with printing, so I just removed it. I wound up with three more dependency problems. I was able to install the missing package twice and had to delete one more package. I don't remember what any of them were.

Once I did this, I was able to successfully upgrade to Mageia, but without a GUI. That's when I posted this message to the basic support forum.
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1063. I am kind of disappointed that it didn't get any replies in case I have any problems down the line. The lack of a GUI turned out of be easy to solve. When I looked through the logs, I saw an error about no valid displays (or something along those lines). I renamed the xorg.conf file and re-install Virtualbox Guest Additions... problem solved.

I've been running Mageia since September 12 and love it.

[janpihlgren]

Nice to have you onboard

It would have been helpful if you would have posted the packages which failed to be installed,
or missing dependencies so that we could fix those upgrade problems ...

I'm sorry, but at the installation I get a messagelist that tell me which files that failed. But I don't saved that list .
If I has succeeded to launch kdm I ,maybe, could has to send the list.
But I'm sorry it's to late.
At the end, as I'm working with Mageia I'm happy.
My intention for this topic was to tell that I'm a Mageian user.

[doktor5000]

At the end, as I'm working with Mageia I'm happy.
My intention for this topic was to tell that I'm a Mageian user.

And that's the important thing!