Well, the problem went away on its own. I decided to try again. I ran the command-line forced update, as above. There were some messages at the beginning about setting something about OS version dependence, which I didn't change. The command ran all the way through! Now Update Station says the system is up to date.
I'm going to play around with GBSD for a while, then I think I'll try setting it up as a dual boot system with Haiku OS again.
Cannot update after install
Re: Cannot update after install
I have rebuilt the pearl package, I am happy that it did fix it for you. Thanks for sticking with the problem as soon I saw the error I knew I had to rebuild the package.