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Date:      Sat, 9 Aug 2025 09:34:08 -0500
From:      Maku Bex <zagazaw2004@gmail.com>
To:        Florian Smeets <flo@smeets.xyz>, Dan Mahoney <freebsd@gushi.org>, freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org,  FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@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:  <CALvWPyZr5Hyg-KzYD=Se6hn_PkSvrepdkMm9N--25L8cP3ZhPA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <aJdC73lsKX9EpRFK@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <DCA0D1E8-8D89-4B59-B44F-CD5C6F35C5A6@gushi.org> <582d802f-da93-415c-9dee-1f1f1beb1830@smeets.xyz> <aJcqL5-gbvKLNWng@freefall.freebsd.org> <614fc6f3-0bbd-47a0-8f7b-9ed907230aa3@smeets.xyz> <aJdC73lsKX9EpRFK@freefall.freebsd.org>

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By any chance, is this what you are experiencing?

"""When installing the FreeBSD-* packages in the next step, run the command
as a super user. The password and group files will be temporarily reset to
defaults, so if you install the packages using a one-off sudo command, you
will lose access to the system."""

Source: https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase

On Sat, Aug 9, 2025, 07:46 Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Florian Smeets:
> > I uploaded the important part of /var/log/messages here
> > https://people.freebsd.org/~flo/pkg-upgrade-20250808.txt>;
>
> Aug  8 23:26:03 rp64 kernel: pid 18424 (pkg), jid 0, uid 0: exited on
> signal 11 (core dumped)
>
> are you able to get a backtrace from this core?
>

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<div dir="auto">By any chance, is this what you are experiencing? <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">&quot;&quot;&quot;When installing the FreeBSD-* packages in the next step, run the command as a super user. The password and group files will be temporarily reset to defaults, so if you install the packages using a one-off sudo command, you will lose access to the system.&quot;&quot;&quot;</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Source: <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase">https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 9, 2025, 07:46 Lexi Winter &lt;<a href="mailto:ivy@freebsd.org">ivy@freebsd.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Florian Smeets:<br>
&gt; I uploaded the important part of /var/log/messages here<br>
&gt; <a href="https://people.freebsd.org/~flo/pkg-upgrade-20250808.txt" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://people.freebsd.org/~flo/pkg-upgrade-20250808.txt</a>&gt;<br>;
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Aug  8 23:26:03 rp64 kernel: pid 18424 (pkg), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)<br>
<br>
are you able to get a backtrace from this core?<br>
</blockquote></div>
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