Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:18:39 +0100 From: Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> To: stable@freebsd.org, pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] stable/15: new base packages for PAM, zstd Message-ID: <aek7L4X26D0zQTU-@amaryllis.le-fay.org> In-Reply-To: <aeh6ddAuDClL4YFn@cmplx.uk> References: <adTq6tMP4GWQS35e@amaryllis.le-fay.org> <aeedOZ7VcQAOsQCV@cmplx.uk> <3847a70c-f2d8-4c4a-a5f0-56a4a90168b0@yahoo.com> <aeh6ddAuDClL4YFn@cmplx.uk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Anton Shterenlikht wrote in <aeh6ddAuDClL4YFn@cmplx.uk>: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 12:52:43PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote: > > On 4/21/26 08:52, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 12:30:50PM +0100, Lexi Winter wrote: > > > 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 > > Yes, I have /etc/master.passwd.pkgsave > > So what happened? > Is it expected that "pkg install FreeBSD-set-minimal" > should erase all ordinary users from /etc/master.passwd > and save the original file as /etc/master.passwd.pkgsave? no, something has gone wrong here. how did you install this system? /etc/master.passwd is in the FreeBSD-runtime package, which must always be installed on a pkgbase system. the only reason 'pkg upgrade' would overwrite it with a pristine copy is if you somehow didn't have that package installed, but if that was the case, the system would already be completely non-functional. the only way i can imagine this happening if you had a non-pkgbase system, then installed FreeBSD-runtime (e.g., as a dependency of FreeBSD-set-minimal), but this should not be possible in a normal non-pkgbase installation since the FreeBSD-base repository won't be enabled. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABYKAB0WIQSyjTg96lp3RifySyn1nT63mIK/YAUCaek7KwAKCRD1nT63mIK/ YBeOAP9uXff7vp4ayd5qtZs1FmnUo3QosEG2tGhVVWjtiPKJOgD8DBfG1NLA4+wA mCX2CBcuV/9zhUgXPFcdJZMlCLzUkgc= =JRMg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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