Re: Update from 14.3 to 15

From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2025 07:49:56 UTC
On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote:

> I updated my 14.3 arm64 (Raspberry Pi 4) to 14.3-RELEASE-P6, then ran pkg
> upgrade where it updated pkg, and then used freebsd-update to install
> 15.0-RELEASE.
>
> Everything went smooth as it usually does until I tried to use pkg:
>
> test# pkg
> ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.9" not found, required by "pkg"
> test#
>
> Somehow pkg didn't get updated.  Only libutil.so.10 exists.  I haven't
> tried this yet, but I have another arm64 machine running 14.3 that I could
> copy over that file.  I am not sure that is the best approach though.
>

I had this as well and as a workaround, I created a symlink to
libutil.so.10 for libutil.so.9
And I believe this creates a lot more issues because I have struggled with
installing qemu-guest-agent on the server to no avail.
Let me await the correct solution.


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