Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:23:32 +1000 From: Tilde Joy <tilde@ultros.pro> To: freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: pkgbase pkg upgrade breaks systems Re: after updating to latest, pkg base segfaults and leaves me unbootable Message-ID: <1a1f3edb-456e-4754-951f-2a0373a22099@ultros.pro> In-Reply-To: <6d5b80be-b333-4ec3-9082-42d97fad52c8@madpilot.net> References: <DCA0D1E8-8D89-4B59-B44F-CD5C6F35C5A6@gushi.org> <582d802f-da93-415c-9dee-1f1f1beb1830@smeets.xyz> <6d5b80be-b333-4ec3-9082-42d97fad52c8@madpilot.net>
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On 8/14/25 18:17, Guido Falsi wrote: > Hi, > > I was also bitten by this. I'm sharing how I got past the issue in > case it could be useful to others. > > I recovered by rolling back to a previous ZFS snapshot using an USB > installation media. This can be a viable solution depending on FS > being used and availability of snapshots. > > Anyway, after taking the machine to a usable state I was able to > update past the tripping point by doing: > > pkg-static upgrade -r <base-repo> -g 'FreeBSD-runtime*' > 'FreeBSD-pkg-bootstrap*' 'FreeBSD-clibs*' > > (the bootstrap part is most probably not needed) > > this will tell you it wants to remove the pkg package, but will not do > so, since there is no '-f' option. After this proceed with a > `pkg-static -r <base-repo> upgrade`. > > Depending on how old the previous installation is you will need to > check for new packages to install, I was missing a bunch -dev and -man > ones, and some new ones. > > I then had to add this to libmap.conf (actually to > /usr/local/etc/libmap.d/upgrade.conf): > > libcrypto.so.30 libcrypto.so.35 > libutil.so.9 libutil.so.10 > libssl.so.30 libssl.so.35 > > > So old ports depending on old libraries still work. I'm keeping these > for a while, until I can perform a `pkg upgrade -f` > > > Hope this can be helpful until the issue is solved. thanks for this guido, this helped me out a lot, in my case the first command still aborted with pkg trying to remove itself, i had to run the arguments separately: pkg-static upgrade -r FreeBSD-base -g 'FreeBSD-runtime*' pkg-static upgrade -r FreeBSD-base -g 'FreeBSD-pkg-bootstrap*' pkg-static upgrade -r FreeBSD-base -g 'FreeBSD-clibs*' and these were the new packages i installed: FreeBSD-bsdconfig FreeBSD-gssd FreeBSD-kerberos-kdc FreeBSD-libmilter FreeBSD-rip FreeBSD-test not sure if any of these were essential or not, can't hurt to have them i suppose, but i'm finally updated to 15.0-PRERELEASE <3 tilde~home | help
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