[Bug 234538] freebsd-update hangs on upgrade from 11.2p7 to 12.0 on Google Compute Engine

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234538

--- Comment #4 from Morgan Vandagriff <morgan at vandagriff.org> ---
I discovered a workaround which may be of interest: the issue observed with
freebsd-update is apparently related to behavior of the
py27-google-compute-engine package installed by default on the FreeBSD GCE
images. If one uninstalls the package prior to upgrading, all proceeds
normally.

I have a theory that the issue may proceed from py-google-compute-engine's
tendency to overwrite certain files in /etc every few seconds whenever it is
running. While I'm lacking an understanding of the internals of freebsd-update,
it seems plausible that this could somehow give rise to the hangs I observed.

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