Description of problem: In VirtualBox, M4.1 -> M5final Upgrade, KDE, 32-bit Using an up to date x86_64 M4.1 Vbox client then booting from: Mageia-5-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.iso Wed May 6 12:00:00 CEST 2015 md5sum: 7b06a39d3af2167e07a017acfa1eac91 Live media system ignores installed M4.1 then goes into endless looping processes none of which results in an installed system. Process does involve reformatting "drives" which results in a complete loss of the previously installed M4.1 x86_64 system. Bummer. Test platform: Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD3-B3 LGA 1155 MoBo GIGABYTE GV-N440D3-1GI Nvidia GeForce GT 440 (Fermi) 1GB RTL8111/8168B PCI Express 1Gbit Ethernet DRAM 16GB (4 x 4GB) Mageia 4 64-bit, Nvidia driver virtualbox-4.3.26-1.mga4.x86_64 virtualbox-guest-additions-4.3.26-1.mga4.x86_64 Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
Whiteboard: (none) => m5final
Correction to Description Line #1 s/b: In VirtualBox, M4.1 -> M5final Upgrade, KDE, 64-bit
In VirtualBox, M4.1 -> M5final Upgrade, KDE, 32-bit Using an up to date i586 M4.1 Vbox client then booting from: Mageia-5-LiveDVD-KDE4-i586-DVD.iso Wed May 6 12:00:00 CEST 2015 md5sum: b2b0c5c4b8490d9f6c365fdcfec9fb95 Live media system ignores installed M4.1 then goes into endless looping processes none of which results in an installed system. Process does involve reformatting "drives" which results in a complete loss of the previously installed M4.1 x86_64 system. Test platform: Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD3-B3 LGA 1155 MoBo GIGABYTE GV-N440D3-1GI Nvidia GeForce GT 440 (Fermi) 1GB RTL8111/8168B PCI Express 1Gbit Ethernet DRAM 16GB (4 x 4GB) Mageia 4 64-bit, Nvidia driver virtualbox-4.3.26-1.mga4.x86_64 virtualbox-guest-additions-4.3.26-1.mga4.x86_64
Upgrade using Live media is not supported at all Bill. On the other hand, if it proposes to upgrade and fails, it should probably be looked into to disable the possibility to upgrade with Live ISOs.
(In reply to Rémi Verschelde from comment #3) > Upgrade using Live media is not supported at all Bill. > > On the other hand, if it proposes to upgrade and fails, it should probably > be looked into to disable the possibility to upgrade with Live ISOs. Ya, a user can execute the process and doing so blows up the already installed M4.1. Not a good thing.
Lets rename this then.
Summary: Upgrading M4.1 with M5 Live-media puts process into loops and a lost system => Attempting a upgrade, M4.1 with M5, using Live-media is destructive
Priority: Normal => High
Summary: Attempting a upgrade, M4.1 with M5, using Live-media is destructive => Attempting a upgrade, M4.1 to M5, using Live-media is destructive
We have not _ever_ supported ugrades with live medias. We even warn about it on download pages. If endusers still wants to break their systems, we cant stop them..
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDCC: (none) => tmbResolution: (none) => INVALID