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

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?
>