> On Aug 9, 2025, at 12:55 AM, Florian Smeets <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Adding current@ to CC
>
> On 09.08.25 01:38, Dan Mahoney wrote:
>>
>>
>> (Resending from phone after realizing my list-specific from: wasn’t set,
>> apologies for weird formatting)
>> Hey all,
>> After the recent big sleep in pkgbase, I hit the following trying to upgrade
>> to whatever snapshot was published today:
>> [598/1127] Deleting files for p5-MIME-Base32-1.303: 100%
>> [599/1127] Deinstalling p5-MIME-Base64-3.16...
>> [599/1127] Deleting files for p5-MIME-Base64-3.16: 100%
>> Child process pid=21537 terminated abnormally: Segmentation fault
>> (oh crap)
>> root@poudriere:/home/dmahoney # pkg upgrade
>> ELF interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found, error 2
>> Abort
>> (double crap)
>
> Yes, I had the same issue yesterday evening. When the system was back, I was
> too tired to summarize and send something to the mailing list.
>
> FWIW, I revived the system by deleting all newer packages rm
> /var/cache/pkg/*snap20250808* and just untaring the stuff in /var/cache/pkg
> to /
>
> cd / ; for i in `/rescue/ls -1 /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-* ` ; do /rescue/tar
> xvzf $i ; done
>
> After that, I resorted to building from source and installing to get the
> system into a half way consistent state with a chance of surviving a reboot.
>
> When starting my upgrade I saw that it wanted to remove a lot of non pkgbase
> packages (how are we doing to differentiate pkgbase packages and "ports"
> packages in the future?). I thought this might be related to the krb5 thing,
> so I created an up to date poudriere jail via pkgbase method and rebuilt all
> my pkgs, but even then I saw the same thing as Den, that pkg wanted to remove
> a lot of ports pkgs, as this system is not important I thought I can resolve
> that after the pkgbase upgrade and started the upgrade.
>
> I didn't save scroll back. In my case I saw at the top the first ~100 pkg
> transactions were uninstalling pkgbase pkgs, then it upgraded some, then pkg
> exited with a segfault.
>
> Leaving me with ELF interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found, error 2
>
> One thing I checked was /libexec/ was completely empty.
>
> Florian
Florian,
I'm sorry you hit this issue as well, but I feel a bit less crazy now. At
least, about this. I'm also glad I was able to capture something you weren't.
Long live "gnu screen" being my primary window manager.
I myself had a standby VM from before we converted to pkgbase, so it's a little
old, and we might need to re-create a poudriere jail or two, but I'm currently
building world as well (pkgbase is in time-out, mister!). Nothing is lost
here, but if any devs would like me to run more commands, or catch more
forensics, please let me know. I suspect this might need to wait for bapt to
come back, but I'm not sure.
I'm not trying to get into the recent (ahem) lively discussion thread -- but I
am interested in helping solve a problem in any way. Anyone, free to email me
directly, or Paeps has my mobile number and can ping me out of band. Since I
have that other VM, I'm going to leave this VM as-is other than doing a few
ls'es to figure out which jails/ports trees I need to re-create. Sadly, I
don't have a snapshot of just before the failure to try to reproduce.
-Dan
