[Bug 293516] freebsd-update not working as expected following a major upgrade from 13.5-RELEASE-p10 to 14.4-RC1

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=293516

Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@freebsd.org> changed:

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           See Also|                            |https://bugs.freebsd.org/bu
                   |                            |gzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2561
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           Keywords|                            |needs-qa

--- Comment #4 from Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@freebsd.org> ---
Re: comment 3

After a few hours: 

- I cancelled the fetch command
- I attempted the install command. 

Re:
<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/6da9d465c54bf2e3496e83db025c5d22f3b3cc17/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh#L33>
and
<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/6da9d465c54bf2e3496e83db025c5d22f3b3cc17/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh#L339-L344>
I experimented with: 

    --debug

    the VERBOSELEVEL environment variable. 

Nothing gained, unfortunately. 

In the absence of logging (bug 256143), I'm experimenting without truly
understanding the code.

"load …" lines in previous comments, and below, are from SIGINFO (Control-T). 

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Script started on Sun Mar  1 04:45:49 2026
root@bug293516:~ # echo $SHELL

/bin/csh
root@bug293516:~ # uptime

 4:45AM  up 1 min, 1 user, load averages: 0.22, 0.07, 0.02
root@bug293516:~ # bectl list -c creation

BE                                 Active Mountpoint Space Created
default                            NR     /          2.75G 2026-03-01 04:06
13.5-RELEASE_2026-03-01_041835     -      -          246M  2026-03-01 04:18
13.5-RELEASE-p10_2026-03-01_044342 -      -          1.88M 2026-03-01 04:43
root@bug293516:~ # freebsd-version -kru

14.4-RC1
14.4-RC1
13.5-RELEASE-p10
root@bug293516:~ # pkg leaf

The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: n
root@bug293516:~ # freebsd-update install

src component not installed, skipped
Creating snapshot of existing boot environment... done.
Installing updates...
Completing this upgrade requires removing old shared object files.
Please rebuild all installed 3rd party software (e.g., programs
installed from the ports tree) and then run
'freebsd-update [options] install' again to finish installing updates.
root@bug293516:~ # date ; freebsd-update fetch

Sun Mar  1 05:04:10 GMT 2026
load: 0.19  cmd: pkg 44149 [ttyin] 13993.27r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 8204k
^^C^C

root@bug293516:~ # date

Sun Mar  1 08:57:36 GMT 2026
root@bug293516:~ # freebsd-update --debug install

load: 0.08  cmd: pkg 44890 [ttyin] 102.80r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 8228k
^C

root@bug293516:~ # setenv VERBOSELEVEL debug

root@bug293516:~ # date

Sun Mar  1 09:00:56 GMT 2026
root@bug293516:~ # 

root@bug293516:~ # freebsd-update install

load: 0.16  cmd: pkg 45139 [ttyin] 151.24r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 8228k
^C

root@bug293516:~ # date

Sun Mar  1 09:03:53 GMT 2026
root@bug293516:~ # exit

exit

Script done on Sun Mar  1 09:04:03 2026

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