Re: HEADS-UP: pkgbase pkg upgrade breaks systems Re: after updating to latest, pkg base segfaults and leaves me unbootable

On 09.08.25 12:59, Lexi Winter wrote:
> Florian Smeets:
>> Yes, I had the same issue yesterday evening. When the system was back, I was
>> too tired to summarize and send something to the mailing list.
> 
> as a workaround, i suggest anyone upgrading pkgbase split the upgrade
> into two steps:
> 
> 	pkg upgrade -r base	# upgrade base
> 	pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD	# upgrade ports
> 
> replace 'base' with whatever your pkgbase repository is called.

I don't think that's going to help / would have helped. I just checked a 
couple of things. I disabled my ports package repo before running pkg 
upgrade for it to prevent those listed packages from being removed. The 
list just showed FreeBSD-* packages that were supposed to be upgraded.

I uploaded the important part of /var/log/messages here
https://people.freebsd.org/~flo/pkg-upgrade-20250808.txt>
> as this problem appears to be triggered by something in ports, this
> should ensure you don't end up with a broken base system if you run
> into this.

Not sure, I pretty certain that I only had pkgbase repo enabled and 
maybe FreeBSD-kmods. I cannot say with certainty for the kmods as 
/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf was replaced in my recovery attempts.

Florian