I am starting to suspect that the booting process installs OpenBSD 7.8 on another disk (on which I also have a boot partition). That would explain why i have no mail.
I am not sure if I can force the boot process to target a specific drive? obviously the difficulty is to do it only via ssh. (after deleting "/usr" contents) -> I expressed myself incorrectly. I followed your suggestion and deleted only /usr/share/man > On 25 Dec 2025, at 20:16, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 25 19:52:42, [email protected] wrote: >> Thank you. Unfortunately, I have no info in my mail. > > That is strange: after an upgrade, you should get emails > with subjects 'upgrade response file' and 'upgrade log'. > (Those mail are adressed to root, but you are reading root's emails, > having then redirected to your regular user account, right?) > >> I tried fsck, but all seems clean. > > That's just an example; that's how my sysupgrade failed a few times > (being a sysupgrade -sf after a power outage) - what actualy went > wrong in your case will be written in the (non)upgrade log. > >> I have also tried to upgrade with "sysupgrade -fs" >> (after deleting "/usr" contents), but that did not help. > > Ouch. If you deleted /usr/* and sysupgrade didn't work then, > how does your system even run? I remove _/usr/share/man_ just > before the sysupgrade to make sure no stale manpages linger around.) > > Jan
