Upgrade to GhostBSD 26.1-R15.0p2 broke my system

frantic

Yesterday when the new GhostBSD 26.1-R15.0p2 release came out, I upgraded. It required me to reboot, so I did, but the screen remained black - only the mouse cursor was seen. So I used F1 to into the terminal, and log in there. Tried to startx but got the error that no screens were found, some kind of a problem with NVIDIA. This happened before, so I did what I suspected would work, and what the announcement post also suggested: sudo pkg upgrade --force
It did work - to some degree. After a reboot, X was running again, so I could log in to the desktop environment. But now I see that there is no man anymore:

man man
# fish: Unknown command: man

sudo pkg install man
# pkg: No packages available to install matching 'man' have been found in the repositories

sudo find / -name "man"
# /compat/linux/usr/share/man
# /usr/share/openssl/man
# /usr/share/man
# /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/man
# /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/cssesc/man
# /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.36/perl/man
# /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.42/perl/man
# /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/man
# /usr/local/openjdk8/man
# /usr/local/openjdk21/man
# /usr/local/man
# /usr/local/share/fish/man
# /usr/local/share/man
# /usr/local/openjdk17/man

As you can see, no man binary is found. And there is no Emacs either, not even in the pkg repository, which is odd, because it would mean other people can also not install it:

emacs
# fish: Unknown command: emacs

sudo pkg install emacs
# pkg: No packages available to install matching 'emacs' have been found in the repositories

When I run pkg search emacs I do see a whole bunch of emacs packages, but none of them are the base one. The one that comes closest is emacs-devel-31.0.50.20260316,3 which I haven't tried yet, and it doesn't seem normal that I would have to install the development version instead of the stable release.

Some system info:

uname -a
# FreeBSD matt-ghostbsd 15.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p2 n230752-16dcabacd5f2 GENERIC amd64

ghostbsd-version -fkov
# 15.0-RELEASE-p2
# 1500068
# 26.1-R15.0p2
# 26.1-R15.0p2

Since I rely heavily on emacs and man is an important base utility on FreeBSD, can someone please tell me what I need to do to get these working again? Also: how can I guard myself against this happening again, and how can I diagnose my system if there are other things also missing that I don't yet know about?

frantic

Here's what I did as a kind of hotfix to get things working again:

Fixing the graphics driver
As mentioned sudo pkg upgrade --force took care of it.

Installing emacs

For some reason emacs is currently missing from the GhostBSD packages. So I put the FreeBSD pkg repository config /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf

FreeBSD: { 
    url             : "pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest",
    enabled         : yes,
    priority        : 0,
    mirror_type     : "SRV",
    signature_type  : "FINGERPRINTS",
    fingerprints    : "/usr/share/keys/pkg"
  }

Then updated the package database with sudo pkg update --force and then the emacs package did show up as part of the FreeBSD repo, so I was able to install it from there - even though the installation displayed some errors, it still worked somehow.

Installing man
I downloaded the source code of FreeBSD:

sudo mkdir /usr/src
sudo git clone -o freebsd -b releng/15.0  https://git.FreeBSD.org/src.git  /usr/src

Then I was able to manually build and install man from there:

cd /usr/src/usr.bin/man
sudo make
sudo make install

And that's it. But I'm wondering if I did it the right way or there is a better way of doing it... Anyways, let's hope this won't happen again.

ericbsd

frantic Installing emacs

For some reason emacs is currently missing from the GhostBSD packages. So I put the FreeBSD pkg repository config /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf

FreeBSD: {
url : "pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest",
enabled : yes,
priority : 0,
mirror_type : "SRV",
signature_type : "FINGERPRINTS",
fingerprints : "/usr/share/keys/pkg"
}
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Then updated the package database with sudo pkg update --force and then the emacs package did show up as part of the FreeBSD repo, so I was able to install it from there - even though the installation displayed some errors, it still worked somehow.

This is a bad idea. GhostBSD is not FreeBSD. GhostBSD is a tracking fork of FreeBSD.

If packages are missing, report it.

ericbsd

frantic Installing man
I downloaded the source code of FreeBSD:
sudo mkdir /usr/src
sudo git clone -o freebsd -b releng/15.0 https://git.FreeBSD.org/src.git /usr/src
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Then I was able to manually build and install man from there:
cd /usr/src/usr.bin/man
sudo make
sudo make install
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And that's it. But I'm wondering if I did it the right way or there is a better way of doing it... Anyways, let's hope this won't happen again.

The package for the man is GhostBSD-mandoc.

sudo pkg install GhostBSD-mandoc

teekay

I did the upgrade last night from 25.02-R14.3p8. I encountered the following issues:

My mouse (E-Signal USB Gaming Mouse) stopped working. In dmesg, it is detected, but I don't see the "hms" driver being loaded. I plugged in an old HP optical mouse, and it worked, however everytime I unplug that mouse, my PC reboots instantly.
man and mixer commands not found (maybe others too but these are the ones I noticed), so looks like some packages were removed.

I have rebooted into the older version for now until I can figure out how to fix those issues.

teekay

teekay Correction to the above, the "hms" driver was being loaded but the mouse wasn't working. I fixed the mouse issue by installing xlibre as per https://forums.ghostbsd.org/d/658-is-switching-to-xlibre-recommended/5

ericbsd

teekay man and mixer commands not found (maybe others too but these are the ones I noticed), so looks like some packages were removed.

It is possible that GhostBSD-sound is missing.

ericbsd

danielsanchez

Seems like people have a hard time with this part.

ericbsd This is a bad idea. GhostBSD is not FreeBSD. GhostBSD is a tracking fork of FreeBSD.

If packages are missing, report it.

Do not mix GhostBSD with FreeBSD.

danielsanchez Second check in FreeBSD repo, if it's there install it.

If a package is missing that is on freshports.org, report it to GhostBSD.

teekay

Installing GhostBSD-mandoc and GhostBSD-sound fixed the missing man and mixer commands, thank you!

danielsanchez

Hi,

when should I install a package from GhostBSD repo and when from FreeBSD one?
1
First check in GhostBSD-<package> name, if it's there install it.
Second check in FreeBSD repo, if it's there install it.
If package isn't in both repo, report it?

2
Once it's not in GhostBSD repo, report it?

Thanks in advance.