recent 14.3 upgrade - no packages available to install
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2026 23:21:56 UTC
Hello all, I recently upgraded a box from 14.2-p2 to 14.3-RELEASE-p7 using freebsd-update. Everything appeared to go smoothly. But now, there don't seem to be any packages available to install - pkg says "No packages available to install". Although it does attempt to upgrade one of my existing packages. My /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf is the same as the one distributed with 14.3-RELEASE for quarterly packages. The directory /usr/local/etc/pkg does not exist. Below is a log of my attempts at update/upgrade/install. I've tried to install various packages other than gnucash - all with the same result. Thanks for any help, Graham # pkg -d update Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... DBG(1)[10719]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD DBG(1)[10719]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD/db' DBG(1)[10719]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly/meta.conf DBG(1)[10719]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https DBG(1)[10719]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly/data.pkg DBG(1)[10719]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https FreeBSD repository is up to date. Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue... DBG(1)[10719]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD-kmods DBG(1)[10719]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-kmods/db' DBG(1)[10719]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/kmods_quarterly_3/meta.conf DBG(1)[10719]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https DBG(1)[10719]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/kmods_quarterly_3/data.pkg DBG(1)[10719]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https FreeBSD-kmods repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. # pkg -d upgrade Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... DBG(1)[10720]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD DBG(1)[10720]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD/db' DBG(1)[10720]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly/meta.conf DBG(1)[10720]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https DBG(1)[10720]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly/data.pkg DBG(1)[10720]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https FreeBSD repository is up to date. Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue... DBG(1)[10720]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD-kmods DBG(1)[10720]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-kmods/db' DBG(1)[10720]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/kmods_quarterly_3/meta.conf DBG(1)[10720]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https DBG(1)[10720]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/kmods_quarterly_3/data.pkg DBG(1)[10720]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https FreeBSD-kmods repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. DBG(1)[10720]> (db) want to get an advisory lock on a database Checking for upgrades (1 candidates): 100% Processing candidates (1 candidates): 100% The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): Installed packages to be REINSTALLED: virtualbox-ose-kmod-6.1.50.1403000_1 [FreeBSD-kmods] (options changed) Number of packages to be reinstalled: 1 149 KiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: n DBG(1)[10720]> (db) release an advisory lock on a database # pkg -d install gnucash Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... DBG(1)[10721]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD DBG(1)[10721]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD/db' DBG(1)[10721]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly/meta.conf DBG(1)[10721]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https DBG(1)[10721]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly/data.pkg DBG(1)[10721]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https FreeBSD repository is up to date. Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue... DBG(1)[10721]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD-kmods DBG(1)[10721]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-kmods/db' DBG(1)[10721]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/kmods_quarterly_3/meta.conf DBG(1)[10721]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https DBG(1)[10721]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/kmods_quarterly_3/data.pkg DBG(1)[10721]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https FreeBSD-kmods repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. DBG(1)[10721]> (db) want to get an advisory lock on a database pkg: No packages available to install matching 'gnucash' have been found in the repositories DBG(1)[10721]> (db) release an advisory lock on a database # pkg search gnucash #