'unable to drop privileges' error

[Royce Williams]

My pkg wedged about a month ago, and I've been unable to determine root
cause or a fix. At this point I'd be happy with the latter. :)

$ sudo pkg update
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
pkg: repository meta /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD.meta has wrong version or wrong
format
pkg: Repository FreeBSD load error: meta cannot be loaded No such file or
directory
Fetching meta.txz: 100%    944 B   0.9kB/s    00:01
pkg: Unable to drop privileges: No error: 0
pkg: No signature found
repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings
Fetching packagesite.txz: 100%    6 MiB  37.5kB/s    02:58
pkg: Unable to drop privileges: No error: 0
pkg: No signature found
Unable to update repository FreeBSD
Error updating repositories!
pkg: Unable to drop privileges: No such file or directory

$ uname -imrv
11.2-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p9 #0: Tue Feb  5 15:30:36 UTC 2019
 root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
GENERIC

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Royce