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Date:      Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:43:51 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 296952] [ports-mgmt/pkg] Reports readonly database for non-root user.
Message-ID:  <bug-296952-7788@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=296952

            Bug ID: 296952
           Summary: [ports-mgmt/pkg] Reports readonly database for
                    non-root user.
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: pkg@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: peterj@FreeBSD.org
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(pkg@FreeBSD.org)
          Assignee: pkg@FreeBSD.org

After upgrading from pkg 2.7.5 to 2.8.0, pkg now typically reports an error
when run as non-root:

server% pkg -d info
DBG(1)[16393]> (config) pkg initialized
DBG(1)[16393]> (config) loading repositories in /etc/pkg/
DBG(1)[16393]> (config) loading /etc/pkg//FreeBSD.conf
DBG(1)[16393]> (config) parsing key 'FreeBSD'
DBG(1)[16393]> (config) parsing repository object FreeBSD
DBG(1)[16393]> (config) parsing key 'FreeBSD-kmods'
DBG(1)[16393]> (config) parsing repository object FreeBSD-kmods
DBG(1)[16393]> (config) loading repositories in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/
pkg: sqlite error while executing INSERT OR REPLACE INTO packages( origin,
name, version, comment, desc, message, arch, maintainer, www, prefix, flatsize,
automatic, licenselogic, time, manifestdigest, dep_formula, vital)VALUES( ?1,
?2, ?3, ?4, ?5, ?6, ?7, ?8, ?9, ?10, ?11, ?12, ?13, NOW(), ?14, ?15, ?16 ) in
file pkgdb.c:100: attempt to write a readonly database
server% 

If I run "pkg info" as root, it's then usable as non-root until a pkg write
operation is performed.  This seems to be defined by the presence or otherwise
of the "-shm" and "-wal" files but I don't understand why read operations are
sometimes attempting to write to the database.  In any case, this is a major
regression and breaks tooling that expects to use options like "pkg info" as a
normal user.

I've rebuilt and reinstalled pkg in case there was a build issue and have
reproduced the issue on 2 different systems.

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