That was the point - you can see I followed that document - it says max_upload is 6000000 as per the doc in my log file…even if I make it more it still does not work. I suspect it has something to do with my VPS
In any case I’m going to run a fresh install rather than upgrade.
I too faced similar situation while migrating.
Have you changed the upload file size in sugar administration-> system settings?
In a situation like this, I have done small technique and did the migration
Steps
Typically SugarCE upgrade will initially copy the upgrade files and then extract it and make some changes before starting upgrade.
So what I did is simply move the necessary files and make the necessary changes manually in the SugarCE uploads patch folder. Then If I begin the upgrade wizard it will prompt the existing upgrade files(manually configured files). If I continue on that finally the upgrade process will complete successfully. I have tried this technique by upgrading couple of times and it worked well.