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  • Failed upgrade to Mga10

    From Grimble@grimble@nomail.afraid.org to alt.os.linux.mageia on Tue Aug 4 16:36:16 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.mageia

    At the end of June, just after the availability of version 10 was
    announced, I attempted an on-line upgrade which hasn't completed
    properly. On reboot, I was presented with a splash screen showing Tux
    doing a "boiling a frog slowly in as cauldron" thing and a very basic
    vga type display. None of my usual plasma display stuff is visible. Eventually, I get a console and start MCC. I see a new partition,
    /dev/sda9 (not visible from this system); on "view" it shows directory
    names, but all the files within are greyed out.
    How to recover?
    I think I should get SystemRescue to delete the sda9 partition and then restart the upgrade. ny other advice?
    Thanks
    --
    Grimble
    Registered Linux User #450547
    Machine 'Bach' running Plasma 5.27.10 on 6.6.116-desktop-1.mga9 kernel.
    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64

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  • From faeychild@faeychild@nomail.afraid.org to alt.os.linux.mageia on Thu Aug 6 08:24:05 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.mageia

    On 5/8/26 01:36, Grimble wrote:
    At the end of June, just after the availability of version 10 was
    announced, I attempted an on-line upgrade which hasn't completed
    properly. On reboot, I was presented with a splash screen-a showing Tux doing a "boiling a frog slowly in as cauldron" thing and a very basic
    vga type display. None of my usual plasma display stuff is visible. Eventually, I get a console and start MCC. I see a new partition, /dev/
    sda9 (not visible from this system); on "view" it shows directory names,
    but all the files within are greyed out.
    How to recover?
    I think I should get SystemRescue to delete the sda9 partition and then restart the upgrade. ny other advice?
    Thanks

    I would have no faith in an online upgrade
    anything can happen
    I use ISOdumper to create a bootable USB with the ISO and go from there
    --
    faeychild
    Running kde on 6.6.141-desktop-1.mga9 kernel.
    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64
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  • From Grimble@grimble@nomail.afraid.org to alt.os.linux.mageia on Fri Aug 7 17:31:39 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.mageia

    On 05/08/2026 23:24, faeychild wrote:
    On 5/8/26 01:36, Grimble wrote:
    At the end of June, just after the availability of version 10 was
    announced, I attempted an on-line upgrade which hasn't completed
    properly. On reboot, I was presented with a splash screen-a showing Tux
    doing a "boiling a frog slowly in as cauldron" thing and a very basic
    vga type display. None of my usual plasma display stuff is visible.
    Eventually, I get a console and start MCC. I see a new partition, /
    dev/ sda9 (not visible from this system); on "view" it shows directory
    names, but all the files within are greyed out.
    How to recover?
    I think I should get SystemRescue to delete the sda9 partition and
    then restart the upgrade. ny other advice?
    Thanks

    I would have no faith in an online upgrade
    anything can happen
    I use ISOdumper to create a bootable USB with-a the ISO and go from there

    Happy to report that a repeat upgrade completed satisfactorily. Also
    that the problem reported on the other machine (Haydn) did not recur.
    Phew!
    --
    Grimble
    Registered Linux User #450547
    Machine 'Bach' running Plasma 5.27.10 on 6.6.116-desktop-1.mga9 kernel.
    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64
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  • From faeychild@faeychild@nomail.afraid.org to alt.os.linux.mageia on Sun Aug 9 12:40:49 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.mageia

    On 8/8/26 02:31, Grimble wrote:

    Happy to report that a repeat upgrade completed satisfactorily. Also
    that the problem reported on the other machine (Haydn) did not recur.
    Phew!


    relief is a much underrated emotion
    --
    faeychild
    Running kde on 6.6.141-desktop-1.mga9 kernel.
    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64
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