Re: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE: Trouble after upgrade

On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Nov 26, there was an advisory ' FreeBSD Security Advisory
> > FreeBSD-SA-25:10.unbound'.  On that date I did the freebsd-update
> > fetch && freebsd-update install thing.  Today, I assumed that I was
> > still updated. So it's obviously my mistake that I did not repeat the
> > same thing today before upgrading to 15.0-REL.
>
> No, if you updated on Nov 26 then you should have been fine, so
> something else went wrong.  I will try to see if I can reproduce it.
>

So, I hosed my upgraded server and restored the VM from the backup I made
before upgrade.
This is what I had:
root@gw:/home/wash # freebsd-version -kru
14.3-RELEASE-p5
14.3-RELEASE-p5
14.3-RELEASE-p6
root@gw:/home/wash # uname -a
FreeBSD gw.wash.lan 14.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p5 GENERIC amd64
root@gw:/home/wash # freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 14.3-RELEASE from update1.freebsd.org...
done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

No updates needed to update system to 14.3-RELEASE-p6.
root@gw:/home/wash #

So I suppose I was safe to upgrade, since I had also done a `portupgrade
-a`.

I am now embarking on the upgrade to 15.0-RELEASE once again.



> > Also ran the command, but I don't understand the meaning of the
> > output:
>
> None of these are particularly concerning.  They are telling you that
> you have modified configuration files (which is normal) and that some
> files and directories have incorrect permissions (which is something
> that sometimes happens with freebsd-update and isn't a big deal).  There
> are discrepancies in /usr/src but that's easily fixed by replacing the
> entire source tree (rm -rf /usr/src then download and extract src.txz).
>
> You can fix at least some of these issues by running the following
> commands as root:
>
>     mtree -deU -p / -f /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist
>     mtree -deU -p /var -f /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist
>     mtree -deU -p /usr -f /etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist
>

I will do this after this upgrade.


The only lines that surprise me are these:
>
>     /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libdevinfo.so.7.debug has SHA256 hash
> d06d59e4913a6103771409c598945e81dbaac857ea11271e2c03c92cd581aeef, but
> should have SHA256 hash
> 7653ff2946527fbb764e1932d767e4787fe8814c645f8c2d2359b43d0884f289.
>     /usr/lib/libdevinfo.a has SHA256 hash
> 378b792d00971a8d5ffc45ad7882d08190a244b97de5514f5b2eb75ea0f6db47, but
> should have SHA256 hash
> 3d412bd84e6a1a9914610c8e838e4c4afe3b131789d5e36e9371bd5de03e0d68.
>     /usr/lib/libdevinfo.so.7 has SHA256 hash
> 667f9592ed95a538077f3fc22461ed3d6ece3deae27b66ec1e6a271807f25110, but
> should have SHA256 hash
> 0f1f789aa07dbfdc1df637be1d31f41616ec74188c683d9f706bae0ceb61d904.
>
> which is not critical and can be fixed by extracting those files
> from base.txz as explained in my previous email.
>

This libdevinfo.so thing must have been created by me when I was struggling
with installing qemu-guest-agent after the upgrade to 15.0.
Starting with complaints about 'ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.9"
not found, required by "pkg"; at some point, I went into a wild goose chase
trying to fix things against the counsel of my 6th sense.
It's good I have a full backup of this VM so I can blow it away and restore
and try the upgrade again until I get it right - or wait a little longer
for others to be bitten and a solution found :-)


> I assume you will be switching to pkgbase at some point, which will
> make correcting this kind of issue much easier.
>

I have been following the discussions about pkgbase and I am sure to switch
to it after I successfully upgrade to 15.0-RELEASE.

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