Upgrade results in segmentation fault

stonedenali

Hello, I am new here and new to GhostBSD. I am trying to update my laptop install of GhostBSD to the latest version. I am running 25.01-R14.2p2. I am on the amd64 platform. I have tried running both the GUI update from "Update Station" and the text-based update ("sudo pkg update -f", then "sudo pkg upgrade"). I am seeing seeing the update succeed.

jon@jon-ghostbsd ~> sudo pkg update -f
Updating GhostBSD repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100% 178 B 0.2kB/s 00:01
Fetching data.pkg: 100% 7 MiB 7.6MB/s 00:01
Processing entries: 100%
GhostBSD repository update completed. 36042 packages processed.
Updating GhostBSD-base repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100% 178 B 0.2kB/s 00:01
Fetching data.pkg: 100% 37 KiB 38.0kB/s 00:01
Processing entries: 100%
GhostBSD-base repository update completed. 522 packages processed.
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100% 179 B 0.2kB/s 00:01
Fetching data.pkg: 100% 10 MiB 2.7MB/s 00:04
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD repository update completed. 36134 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.

Then when I go to upgrade the packages, I get the following (omitting the information of individual packages):

Number of packages to be removed: 20
Number of packages to be installed: 11
Number of packages to be upgraded: 440
Number of packages to be reinstalled: 18

The process will require 177 MiB more space.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]:

When I try to run the upgrades, it results in a segmentation fault:

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
Child process pid=19383 terminated abnormally: Segmentation fault

Please let me know if any further information is needed to help me resolve this condition. Thanks in advance.

vimanuelt

stonedenali
Thank you for the detailed report. From what you have described, the repository updates are working correctly, but the pkg upgrade command is failing with a segmentation fault. This typically indicates a deeper issue in the system. It may be caused by a corrupted or mismatched pkg binary, an incompatible ABI, or a damaged package database.

First, check that your pkg tool is consistent with your system's ABI. You can run pkg -vv | grep ABI to confirm that the ABI matches your running system, which should be something like FreeBSD:14:amd64. You can also run pkg -N to verify that the pkg database is operational and that there are no internal inconsistencies.

If the pkg tool itself is damaged or misconfigured, you can try reinstalling it using the bootstrap command. Run sudo pkg bootstrap -f to forcibly reinstall the pkg tool.

If that does not resolve the issue, the local package database may be corrupted. You can remove the database files using sudo rm -rf /var/db/pkg/*, then run sudo pkg update -f to rebuild the local package index from the repository. After that, try running sudo pkg upgrade again.

If the segmentation fault continues, you may consider performing the upgrade from a clean environment. You can boot into the latest GhostBSD live ISO, mount your root filesystem, and then chroot into it to perform the upgrade in isolation. After booting the live ISO, mount your root partition (for example, sudo mount /dev/ada0p2 /mnt, adjusting the device name as needed), then run sudo chroot /mnt followed by pkg upgrade.

If none of these steps solve the problem, the system may be in an unrecoverable state. In that case, the best course of action is to perform a clean installation using the latest GhostBSD ISO.

If you would like more targeted help, please provide the output of uname -a, the result of pkg -vv | grep ABI, and whether you have any custom repository configuration files in /etc/pkg.

Let us know how it goes.

stonedenali

vimanuelt

Thanks for the prompt response (unexpected). Running the commands to verify functionality and consistency, I think the response is expected.

jon@jon-ghostbsd ~> uname -a
FreeBSD jon-ghostbsd 14.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC amd64
(there seems to be a mismatch at the quarterly (p) release - I was showing a p2, and my system information is still reflecting that, before I ran the commands below. Could this be causing the issue?)

jon@jon-ghostbsd ~> pkg -vv | grep ABI
ABI = "FreeBSD:14:amd64";
ALTABI = "freebsd:14:x86:64";
jon@jon-ghostbsd ~> sudo pkg -N
Password:
pkg: 1265 packages installed

jon@jon-ghostbsd ~> sudo pkg bootstrap -f
pkg(8) is already installed. Forcing reinstallation through pkg(7).
The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
Bootstrapping pkg from http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest, please wait...
Installing pkg-2.2.0...
package pkg is already installed, forced install
Extracting pkg-2.2.0: 100%

Number of packages to be removed: 20
Number of packages to be installed: 11
Number of packages to be upgraded: 440
Number of packages to be reinstalled: 18

The process will require 177 MiB more space.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
Child process pid=9200 terminated abnormally: Segmentation fault

jon@jon-ghostbsd ~ [SIGSEGV]> sudo rm -rf /var/db/pkg/*
jon@jon-ghostbsd ~> sudo pkg update -f
Updating GhostBSD repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100% 178 B 0.2kB/s 00:01
Fetching data.pkg: 100% 7 MiB 7.6MB/s 00:01
Processing entries: 100%
GhostBSD repository update completed. 36042 packages processed.
Updating GhostBSD-base repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100% 178 B 0.2kB/s 00:01
Fetching data.pkg: 100% 37 KiB 38.0kB/s 00:01
Processing entries: 100%
GhostBSD-base repository update completed. 522 packages processed.
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100% 179 B 0.2kB/s 00:01
Fetching data.pkg: 100% 10 MiB 5.3MB/s 00:02
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD repository update completed. 36134 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.

jon@jon-ghostbsd ~> sudo pkg upgrade
Updating GhostBSD repository catalogue...
GhostBSD repository is up to date.
Updating GhostBSD-base repository catalogue...
GhostBSD-base repository is up to date.
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking for upgrades (0 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (0 candidates): 100%
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Your packages are up to date

jon@jon-ghostbsd ~ [127]> ls -la /etc/pkg
total 14
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 3 Apr 5 16:15 ./
drwxr-xr-x 24 root wheel 110 Jun 28 16:14 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 601 Mar 11 06:30 GhostBSD.conf
jon@jon-ghostbsd ~> cat /etc/pkg/GhostBSD.conf

$GhostBSD$

To disable this repository, instead of modifying or removing this file,

create a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/GhostBSD.conf file:

mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos

echo "GhostBSD: { enabled: no }" > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/GhostBSD.conf

GhostBSD: {
url: "https://pkg.ghostbsd.org/stable/${ABI}/latest",
signature_type: "pubkey",
pubkey: "/usr/share/keys/ssl/certs/ghostbsd.cert",
enabled: yes
}

GhostBSD-base: {
url: "https://pkg.ghostbsd.org/stable/${ABI}/base",
signature_type: "pubkey",
pubkey: "/usr/share/keys/ssl/certs/ghostbsd.cert",
enabled: yes
}⏎

It appears the the system now thinks there are no upgrades available? I will try the live ISO suggestion. I need to DL that before I can try.

Thanks again.