Re: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE: Trouble after upgrade

Hello Alexandre,

I see the file /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf.
The /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf is supposed to be used to
override it.
I see that your version of /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf adds
the FreeBSD-ports
spec.
During the upgrade, I installed the new version of the file in /etc/pkg/
and it did not have the ports spec.

Also, I mostly use the ports to install the apps on my server, as opposed
to packages.
I think I find the ports more flexible. Mixing ports and pkgs has always
given me grief.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM <freebsd.tug890@passmail.net> wrote:

> Hello @Odhiambo,
>
> You updated your packages from QUATERLY branch on 15.0-RELEASE but you
> were using LATEST branch on 14.3-RELEASE
> You can create your custom pkg conf.
>
> # mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
>
> Then add the following content into the file
> /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
>
> --- File Begin ---
> FreeBSD-ports: {
>  url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
>  mirror_type: "srv",
>  signature_type: "fingerprints",
>  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
>  enabled: yes
> }
>
> FreeBSD-ports-kmods: {
>  url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/kmods_latest_${VERSION_MINOR}",
>  mirror_type: "srv",
> signature_type: "fingerprints",
> fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
> enabled: yes
> }
>
> FreeBSD-base: {
> url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/base_release_${VERSION_MINOR}",
> mirror_type: "srv",
> signature_type: "fingerprints",
> fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkgbase-${VERSION_MAJOR}"
> enabled: no
> }
> --- File End ---
>
> After that, you can type the following command and your doas(1) issue
> should be solved.
> # pkg upgrade -f -y
>
> It works fine for me.
>
> Kind regards.
> Alexandre
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> On Wednesday, 12/03/25 at 13:13 Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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 <http://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.
>>
>
>
> I started from square one and ended up with the libutil.so.9 error that's
> been reported by others.
>
> ```
> root@gw:/home/wash # shutdown -r now
> Shutdown NOW!
> shutdown: [pid 70896]
> root@gw:/home/wash #
> *** FINAL System shutdown message from wash@gw.wash.lan ***
>
> System going down IMMEDIATELY
>
>
>
> System shutdown time has arrived
> login as: wash
> Keyboard-interactive authentication prompts from server:
> | Password for wash@gw.wash.lan:
> End of keyboard-interactive prompts from server
> wash@gw:~$ doas su
> root@gw:/home/wash # freebsd-update install
> pkg: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected.  Running "pkg bootstrap
> -f" recommended
> Installing updates... done.
> root@gw:/home/wash # pkg bootstrap -f
> The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
> Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
> Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+
> https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0
> <https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0>, please
> wait...
> pkg: Error fetching
> https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/Latest/pkg.pkg
> <https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/Latest/pkg.pkg>:
> Not Found
> A pre-built version of pkg could not be found for your system.
> root@gw:/home/wash #
> root@gw:/home/wash #
> root@gw:/home/wash #
> root@gw:/home/wash #
> root@gw:/home/wash # portupgrade -af
> pkg-static: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected.  Running "pkg
> bootstrap -f" recommended
> pkg-static: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected.  Running "pkg
> bootstrap -f" recommended
> pkg-static: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected.  Running "pkg
> bootstrap -f" recommended
> pkg-static: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected.  Running "pkg
> bootstrap -f" recommended
> [Rebuilding the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 0 packages
> found (-0 +0)  nothing to do]
> root@gw:/home/wash # pkg bootstrap -f
> The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
> Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
> Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+
> https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0
> <https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0>, please
> wait...
> pkg: Error fetching
> https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/Latest/pkg.pkg
> <https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/Latest/pkg.pkg>:
> Not Found
> A pre-built version of pkg could not be found for your system.
> root@gw:/home/wash # pkg-static install -f pkg
> pkg-static: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected.  Running "pkg
> bootstrap -f" recommended
> Updating FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository is up to date.
> All repositories are up to date.
> Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
> The most recent versions of packages are already installed
> root@gw:/home/wash # pkg-static upgrade -F -y
> pkg-static: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected.  Running "pkg
> bootstrap -f" recommended
> Updating FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository is up to date.
> All repositories are up to date.
> Checking for upgrades (0 candidates): 100%
> Processing candidates (0 candidates): 100%
> Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
> Your packages are up to date.
> root@gw:/home/wash # pkg upgrade -f -y
> ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.9" not found, required by "pkg"
> <=========================================
> root@gw:/home/wash # freebsd-update install
> No updates are available to install.
> Run 'freebsd-update [options] fetch' first.
> root@gw:/home/wash # reboot
> login as: wash
> Keyboard-interactive authentication prompts from server:
> | Password for wash@gw.wash.lan:
> End of keyboard-interactive prompts from server
> wash@gw:~$ doas su
> ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.9" not found, required by "doas"
> <========================================
> wash@gw:~$
> ```
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
> +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
>  In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS.
> "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-)
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>
>

-- 
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS.
"Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-)
[How to ask smart questions:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]