Re: poudriere gives [ERROR] Unhandled error! lately

From: Dan <dan_at_proinbox.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:19:44 UTC
Hi Mike,

> trying to build a port using poudriere doesn't work an longer for me 
> (FreeBSD 14.2 and also 14.3)

I had the same problem. I couldn't debug the "Unhandled error!" message even with the "-vv" switch to poudriere-bulk. It seems to be a problem with Poudriere 3.4.3 fetching pre-built pacakges; see https://github.com/freebsd/poudriere/issues/1238.

Workaround: I downgraded to 3.4.2 by building the port outside Poudriere, from the host system ports tree; that version is in the 2025Q2 quarterly branch. I built it as a package and pinned the old version with pkg-lock(8). After that, poudriere-bulk works properly with the "-b" switch.

Sincerely,
Dan