Re: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE: Trouble after upgrade

From: Dave Cottlehuber <dch_at_skunkwerks.at>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:33:24 UTC
On Tue, 2 Dec 2025, at 12:21, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> I have upgraded my FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE to 15.0-RELEASE using freebsd update.
>
> There is trouble in paradise:

Hi Odhiambo,

Oh dear :-(

> Dec  2 15:13:00 gw /usr/sbin/cron[88206]: in try_dlopen(): 
> /usr/lib/pam_nologin.so.6: /lib/libutil.so.10: Undefined symbol 
> "initgroups@FBSD_1.8"
> Dec  2 15:13:00 gw /usr/sbin/cron[89387]: in try_dlopen(): 
> /usr/lib/pam_nologin.so.6: /lib/libutil.so.10: Undefined symbol 
> "initgroups@FBSD_1.8"

I'm guessing userland & kernel are out of sync, did you run
freebsd-update both before & after reboot?

Try running `freebsd-update install` again, and see if that
sorts it.

What does `freebsd-version -kru` show you?

ditto for `uname -a`?

A+
Dave