I have an underpowered amd64 VPS and attempted to (auto)upgrade it to 7.4. Everything went swimmingly until it attempted to relink the kernel, at which point it (seemingly) hung.
With previous releases, I would expect the host to become unresponsive for a few minutes, and eventually recover. I chalked the issue up to insufficient RAM and hitting swap - however, my upgrade has been in this state for more than 6 hours. I plan to consult the manual upgrade guide to hopefully figure out a way to successfully finish the install, and then disable relinking while I find a solution. Does anyone have tips for this situation, aside from throwing more hardware at it? Thanks! —david
