Was running in place upgrade from 15.5 to 15.6 as just “dup” with no other parms (downloads everything first?). Downloading froze about half-way through the 1800-or-so items to download. Broke out with Ctrl-C, rebooted, everything came up OK, reset my repository releasevers back to 15.5 and I am back where I was. Disk space (this is in a VM) went from 70% full to 79% full but I still have space. What is the best way to re-try? Will process automatically skip over everything that downloaded the first time? Should I try to delete it first? If so, how? Was going to just re-try (maybe download froze for network reasons? I seem to have enough space) before looking for other problems. Thanks! SC
Yes. They are stored in /var/cache/zypp/packages/ until they get installed.
My experience when I encountered a problem with a console based upgrade was that re-running the upgrade resolved the problems. I cannot guarantee that you will have the same success but, as long as you have everything in /home backed up, I think it is worth trying.
I always do such an upgrade using the tmux console rather than an ordinary console as it maintains a record of exactly where the download was when any problems arose.
Help is appreciated! First time I had mentioned that it froze up at about 49% downloaded, restarted today and it skimmed over that stuff and ran up to about 82% done and froze again. Restarted process again right away and it ran to completion just fine. I can tell from df command that it must have done some cleaning up too.
I will also look into how to install tmux. Thanks again.
Are you running a VPN? If so try without the VPN.
This sort of download problems have often to do with the Internet connection.
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