[Mageia-discuss] Upgrade fail on both i586 and x86_64

Sat May 21 21:15:13 CEST 2011

On Saturday, May 21, 2011 11:50:48 am Thomas Spuhler wrote:
+> On Saturday, May 21, 2011 11:24:48 am Luan Pham wrote:
+> > On Saturday, May 21, 2011 08:37:43 AM Anne nicolas wrote:
+> > > > Last night I was reinstall MDV2010.2 on both Laptop with i586 and
+> > > > x86_64. When I try to do upgrade on both machine it failed both
+> > > > midway to the upgrade procedure.  I also try to download RC1 DVD and
+> > > > both fail to boot
+> > > > 
+> > > >  to attemp either upgrade or install.
+> > > 
+> > > without any detail it's just impossible to help you.
+> > 
+> > They just both try to upgrade half way and it unable to install all the
+> > packages it need.  It went to the whole procedure just like it actually
+> > complete but it not, since it still show version Mandriva 2010.2.  If I
+> > do a fresh install then it is okay.
+> 
+> yep, it stops after about 50% after a group of packages that contain
+> netprofile.
+> When doing a ping of an external address, it takes a very long time until I
+> get a reply but then the reply comes fast.
+> 
+> BTW this is the same in MDV. I had to reboot and then finish the upgrade
+OK, as in MDV the system loses the address of the server. restarting the 
+network doesn't help. The box shows the dns server, but...
+
+If you reboot, and then use urpmi --auto-update or urpmi --auto-select the 
+system will finish the upgrade.
+The x-window may not start so boot into a console. 
+The safest way to do that is boot using the  failsafe line and then init 3
+(adding failsafe to the boot option may not work either)
+
+-- 
+Thomas
+