just following up on myself for anyone who might make the same mistake... turns out i had not read-recently or forgotten how to "follow -current" correctly... https://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html
in particular, i had downloaded a snapshot and dd'ed onto a usb-stick but chosen (I)nstall when booting from the stick - which apparently is totally wrong... always do an (U)pgrade to a currently running system - doh... i had wiped my hdd completely beforehand - oops... i went back, read the FAQ completely, followed the simpler solution which is to use the release-image on USB, (I)nstall to the hdd, syspatch up to -stable (maybe not necessary?), and then just did a "sysupgrade -s" and voia - everything just worked fine... sorry for the noise - thank you for the clear man-pages/faqs and im back to a happy camper ! sincerely, harold. On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 3:46 AM harold felton <[email protected]> wrote: > symptom: did a "pkg_add wget" on a recent-snapshot fails with bad-major > c++ errors... am i being impatient also ? > > i remember reading (07-08 jan) that the pkg_add compiles were taking > awhile to grind thru... it is also quite-possible that i have hit a gap > between the snapshot i downloaded and the matching build - for my amd64 > machine... > > either way, i finally got my fairly new apu4d4 to stop its reboot-loop by > unplugging the installer usb-key i used... i think there might have been > something about the bios setting up the numbering for sd0/sd1 wrong - but > regardless... until a few days ago - i had been running a successful > 6.7-stable, and then 6.8-stable (i think it was sysupgrade, but maybe i > re-installed) on this hw... i will attach my dmesg, but i doubt it is > important to this question... > > i tried to do a simple "pkg_add wget" after the snapshot had been running > for a few hours safely - and received the complaint about c++ libraries > having a bad-major (which i thought i remembered from earlier messages)... > i have NOT tried any of the unique ideas that were mentioned (and > discouraged) on the list... > > [snip] >
