Re: pkg upgrade segfaults on 15-STABLE

Lexi Winter <ivy_at_freebsd.org> wrote on
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2025 13:57:12 UTC :

> Christos Margiolis wrote in <DE3D09D5MHFK.2GP6VDWDK2ZT@freebsd.org>:
> > On Sat Nov 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM CET, Ricardo Branco wrote:
> > > $ pkg --version
> > > 2.3.1
> > >
> > > # pkg upgrade
> > > ...
> > > [1/7] Upgrading FreeBSD-utilities from 15.snap20251105170707 to
> > > 15.snap20251107233400...
> > > [1/7] Extracting FreeBSD-utilities-15.snap20251107233400: 0%Child process
> > > pid=51001 terminated abnormally: Segmentation fault
> > 
> > Been having the same problem since yesterday, exactly at the extraction
> > stage, like you:
> > 
> > [...]
> > [1/15] Upgrading FreeBSD-openssl from 15.0.b4.20251105194318 to 15.0.b5.20251107060943...
> > [1/15] Extracting FreeBSD-openssl-15.0.b5.20251107060943: 0%Child process pid=5894 terminated abnormally: Segmentation fault
> 
> i also ran into this and found it was fixed in pkg 2.4.99, which
> probably means it's fixed in 2.4.[01] as well. to recover a broken
> system, you could (build, and) copy over a pkg-static from another
> system.
> 
> i mentioned this to Colin, and it's apparently too late to get pkg 2.4
> into the 15.0 release, but it should be on pkg.f.o before the release,
> which means 'pkg upgrade' will pick it up before running the upgrade.

Will it be clear to folks without internet access that they
should avoid the pkgbase technical preview selection? Does
the problem exist even if the only use is port-packages?

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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com