libutil.so.9 not found (was: HEADS-UP: pkgbase pkg upgrade breaks systems Re: after updating to latest, pkg base segfaults and leaves me unbootable)

From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 06:34:46 UTC
On 11/08/2025 01:17, Dan Mahoney (Ports) wrote:
> … pkg is still being persnickety, and I don't know what the mechanism is to bootstrap it is:
>
> # ldd /usr/local/sbin/pkg
> /usr/local/sbin/pkg:
>          libelf.so.2 => /lib/libelf.so.2 (0x2a08ac8d1000)
>          libjail.so.1 => /lib/libjail.so.1 (0x2a08ad283000)
>          libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x2a08adcbd000)
>          libarchive.so.7 => /usr/lib/libarchive.so.7 (0x2a08ae37a000)
>          libz.so.6 => /lib/libz.so.6 (0x2a08abe01000)
>          libutil.so.9 => not found (0)
>          …


I guess, that explains pkg non-usable in the shell when booting
FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64-20250807-02f394281fd6-279407-disc1.iso

> ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.9" not found, required by "pkg"