On Fri, Dec 26, 2025, at 5:02 PM, Jay Hart wrote: > Good Evening, > > I tried to upgrade from 7.7 to 7.8 today. Running a standard 7.7 > install fully patched. Rebooted after the last three patches for 7.7 > were installed. > > Machine booted normally into the fully patched 7.7 and I then ran the > sysupgrade command. > NOTE: installurl is pointed to cdn.openbsd.org/pub/openbsd, nothing > special here. > > The following four files were downloaded: > - BUILDINFO > - install.i386 > - SHA256 > - base78.tgz > > The base78.tgz file took an hour to download, and upon completion of > the file download the 'sysupgrade' script died. > > Fearing those files were bad, I deleted them and tried to redo the > sysupgrade script. Once again the base78.tgz file was going to take > over an hour to fetch. I killed the sysupgrade command at this file, > and deleted the files again. > > I have not rebooted the box. I am wondering how to proceed?
Try again with a non-CDN mirror that is geographically close to you. Fastly does not always work for everyone all the time. > Any > danger to my box if i reboot??? Negative, the download step failed with an error and the script exited. You've already found where the files are to clean up. > > Thanks in advance, > > Jay Brian Conway
