based on https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-returning-500-errors-after-update-to-421, seems like it was related to the conversions of tables to utf8mb format done in 4.2 which timeout when there are many comment.
Possible solutions: make the DB upgrade on some staging server in which all timeouts are off, or increase the timeout on the production server until it works.
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