Created attachment 11091 [details]
.tgz of journalctl -b -1 (upgrade boot) and journalctl -b (finish upgrade)

Original summary:
[oops] Upgrading online from mga6 to mga7 using urpmi locked up ~80% complete

I was following the urpmi upgrade instruction at:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_7_Release_Notes

I'm only educated guessing that the immutable /boot/initrd.img is the root cause of needing to abort via the power button while auto-select had progressed to ~290 packages remaining to install. Before apparent total lockup I attempted remote login, which failed, but was able to get top running on vtty2. CPU was at 100% with *edid* staying at the top of the command list before lockup became total. .bash_history was not updated, so the session's command history was lost. Reboot using 4.14 kernel succeeded, as did follow-up urpmi --auto-select, followed by urpmi kernel-desktop-latest.

Upgrade phase 1 ran on: AMD/ATI RV610 [Radeon HD2400 PRO] driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:94c3, but I removed it to finish, thinking the 100% EDID process may have overheated the GPU, or that a mailing list report of trouble with a Radeon HD3000 on mga7 might be related to the lockup. After installing the new kernel I powered down, reinstalled the HD2400, and rebooted 5.1.9 almost successfully (fixed IP network broken).

Current state:
# inxi -Gxxba
# inxi -Gxxba
System:    Host: hpg33 Kernel: 5.1.9-desktop-1.mga7 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.1
           parameters: root=LABEL=mga7sd32 ipv6.disable=1 net.ifnames=0 noresume mitigations=auto consoleblank=0 noxorgconf
           plymouth.enable=0 speedboot=no vga=791 video=1024x768@60 video=1440x900@60 3
           Desktop: Trinity R14.0.4 tk: Qt 3.5.0 wm: Twin dm: startx Distro: Mageia 7 mga7
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: HP-Pavilion product: KJ385AA-ABA a6433w v: N/A serial: MXU81408RY Chassis: Hewlett-Packard
           type: 3 serial: N/A
           Mobo: PEGATRON model: Benicia v: 1.01 serial: X312345678 BIOS: American Megatrends v: 5.43 date: 09/10/2009
CPU:       Dual Core: Intel Core2 Duo E7500 type: MCP arch: Penryn speed: 1600 MHz min/max: 1600/2933 MHz
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV610 [Radeon HD 2400 PRO] vendor: Dell driver: radeon v: kernel
           bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 1002:94c3
           Display: tty server: Mageia X.org 1.20.4 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: modesetting,vesa alternate: fbdev
           resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RV610 (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.1.9-desktop-1.mga7 LLVM 8.0.0) v: 3.3 Mesa 19.1.0 compat-v: 3.0
           direct render: Yes
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard Asus IPIBL-LB
           driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e800 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 83.76 GiB (28.1%)
Info:      Processes: 156 Uptime: 3m Memory: 1.95 GiB used: 235.7 MiB (11.8%) Init: systemd v: 241 runlevel: 3
           target: runlevel5.target Compilers: gcc: N/A Shell: bash v: 4.4.23 running in: konsole inxi: 3.0.34