Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:52:43 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Anton Shterenlikht <lists@cmplx.uk>, stable@freebsd.org, pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] stable/15: new base packages for PAM, zstd Message-ID: <3847a70c-f2d8-4c4a-a5f0-56a4a90168b0@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <aeedOZ7VcQAOsQCV@cmplx.uk> References: <adTq6tMP4GWQS35e@amaryllis.le-fay.org> <aeedOZ7VcQAOsQCV@cmplx.uk>
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On 4/21/26 08:52, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 12:30:50PM +0100, Lexi Winter wrote: >> hello, >> >> i've just MFC'd two commits to stable/15[0] which add new packages for >> OpenPAM (FreeBSD-pam*) and Zstandard (FreeBSD-zstd*). if you have >> set-minimal installed, you do not need to do anything; the new packages >> will be installed automatically the next time you run pkg upgrade. >> >> if you do *not* have set-minimal installed (because you didn't install >> with bsdinstall, or because you removed it after installation), you MUST >> install the FreeBSD-pam package, otherwise you will no longer be able to >> log into the system after updating. >> >> to display the sets you currently have installed, use this command: >> >> % pkg query -e '%n ~ FreeBSD-set-*' '%n' >> >> [0] 95cc7f59b7ce "libpam: Move to a new "pam" package" >> 8c61751d078e "zstd: Move to a new zstd package" > > > I recently upgraded Lenovo T480 laptop from some 14.x relase to 15.0-RELEASE-p4. > I'm still figuring out the use of pkg for base upgrades. > > For a few weeks all was working more or less well (some unexpected > reboots, but I had no time to dig into that). > > After reading your mail, I typed the pkg query command you suggested, > which returned nothing. > I then did "pkg install FreeBSD-set-minimal". > When that completed, I realised that my user is gone.... > > Looking at /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd I see that indeed > my user is not there anymore. Did you end up with the likes of: /etc/passwd.pkgsave /etc/master.passwd.pkgsave (Another naming convention when the old file content is left in its original place by path/name is adding a .pkgnew suffix. There is also a prefix naming convention: a .pkgtemp. name prefix, But the prefix naming should not normally be seen.) > All my files are owned by my old uid. > > Is this the expected behaviour? > What have I done wrong? > > I tried to manually add my user, with the uid/gid matching my files, > but that didn't seem to work. > How can I recover? > > Thank you > > Anton > > > -- === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.comhome | help
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