Do you have enough available space on partition?  You didn't mention how many 
OS upgrades you've done on these systems.

diana

On April 7, 2024 3:04:53 PM MDT, Glen Gunsalus <g-gunsa...@mindspring.com> 
wrote:
>I have been running OpenBSD on three apu2 boards (as firewalls) for several 
>years and doing remote (ssh to boards) with no problems.
>
>Doing the 7.4 to 7.5 upgrades I had an initial success then two failures. Not 
>confidence building since these firewalls are at remote sites.
>
>Not sure where the problem lies, here is what I've experienced:
>
>pcEngines apu2 boards, running sysupgrade - have been running OpenBSD
>since about 6.2 and doing remote (ssh to board) for several releases
>w/o any problems
>
>Did successful sysupgrade on one board the evening before 7.5 release
>notification using: url  https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/ (other
>mirrors not yet showing items in 7.5 directory)
>
>Went fine, as per norm.
>
>Next day did on a second board using my default url (as per all previous
>remote upgrades)  https://mirrors.sonic.net/pub/OpenBSD/
>
>after syspugrade pings ok but cannot ssh:
>ssh: connect to host 10.42.xx.xx port 22: Connection refused
>
>used minicom to hook up to serial port and was able to see (didn't
>require login??):
>
># ls -al
>total 166
>drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel    512 Apr  7 18:34 .
>drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel    512 Apr  7 18:34 ..
>-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   1770 Mar 20 21:53 .profile
>-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    194 Apr  7 18:34 auto_upgrade.conf
>lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     11 Mar 20 21:53 autoinstall -> install.sub
>drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    512 Mar 20 21:53 bin
>drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   2560 Apr  7 18:34 dev
>drwxr-xr-x   5 root  wheel    512 Apr  7 18:34 etc
>lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     11 Mar 20 21:53 install -> install.sub
>-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   2903 Mar 20 21:53 install.md
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  64483 Mar 20 21:53 install.sub
>drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel    512 Apr  7 18:36 mnt
>drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    512 Mar 20 21:53 mnt2
>drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   1024 Mar 20 21:53 sbin
>drwxrwxrwt   4 root  wheel    512 Apr  7 18:36 tmp
>lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     11 Mar 20 21:53 upgrade -> install.sub
>drwxr-xr-x   6 root  wheel    512 Mar 20 21:53 usr
>drwxr-xr-x   6 root  wheel    512 Mar 20 21:53 var
>
>reboot from serial console with minicom
>
>Comes back up (can ssh now) but with only one cpu (normally running mp - 
>cpu[0-3] )
>
>reboot
>
>Watching on serial port
>
>reorder_kernel: failed -- see /usr/share/relink/kernel/GENERIC/relink.log
>
>as per log: run 'sha256 -h /var/db/kernel.SHA256 /bsd'
>
>reboot, no error, but still in single cpu mode.
>
>reboot bsd.mp
>
>hang, ssh connection refused
>
>Power cycle to get fresh reboot but still hangs
>
>still on serial port: boot usb with miniroot75.img
>
>reboot - needed to reset - 'stty com0 115200; set tty com0', otherwise hangs
>
>Choose upgrade
>
>Success!
>
>This happened on a third apu2 board; thus, two unsucessful and one successful 
>sysupgrades on apu2 boards
>
>Any ideas/pointers?  I'd like this not to reoccur.
>
>
>
>

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