On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 05:07:15AM -0400, David Higgs wrote: > I have an underpowered amd64 VPS and attempted to (auto)upgrade it to 7.4. > Everything went swimmingly until it attempted to relink the kernel, at > which point it (seemingly) hung. > > With previous releases, I would expect the host to become unresponsive for > a few minutes, and eventually recover. I chalked the issue up to > insufficient RAM and hitting swap - however, my upgrade has been in this > state for more than 6 hours. > > I plan to consult the manual upgrade guide to hopefully figure out a way to > successfully finish the install, and then disable relinking while I find a > solution. > > Does anyone have tips for this situation, aside from throwing more hardware > at it? > > Thanks!
Try adding more RAM. Swapping can deadlock. The issue is being worked on in -current: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=169745580119640&w=2
