well, there may be a higher force .... thanks a zillion!!!

well, after several attempts to start xeams manually or through the qnap app center - it's running again but now as 7.1 build 6090

found no errors related to "troubleshooting auto update" article - everything was just fine

several error messages in various logs - but nothing really suspicious

so, lets keep it running and receiving emails like heck

Thanks again ;-)