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Re: pkg update issue

From Jeff Lloyd@lloydjbl@gmail.com to muc.lists.freebsd.stable on Fri Jan 9 06:00:18 2026

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Thank you for sharing!

On Fri, Jan 9, 2026, 4:32=E2=80=AFAM Gerrit K=C3=BChn <gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg=

wrote:

Hello all,

I think I found and fixed the problem (and of course it was actually
simple and all my fault, sorry for the noise):
I had been running another dhclient manually on a second network
interface on the machine which left the system with two default routes:

---
# netstat -rn
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire
default 192... UGS ice0
default 10... UGS ice1
[...]
---

ssh and other things were still working fine, but pkg obviously wasn't
happy. After removing the extra route it runs fast and without any
error.

I don't know how this messed up pkg, but "No error" was one of the most helpful error messages I've ever seen. ;-)

cu
Gerrit

On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 16:35:18 +0100
Gerrit K=C3=BChn <gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de> wrote:

Hello,

I have two new systems freshly installed (and to my best knowledge identically) with FreeBSD 15.0 (via memstick image using the new
"packaged base"). One updates the pkg database with "pkg update" just
fine (and as expected).
However, the other one complains with something like this (takes ages, obviously running into timeouts):

---
# pkg update
Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue...
pkg: Failed to
fetch https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/meta.conf:
No error pkg: Failed to fetch https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/meta.txz: No error repository FreeBSD-ports has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: Failed to fetch https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/data.pkg: No error
pkg: Failed to fetch https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/data.tzst: No
error pkg: Failed to fetch https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/packagesite.pkg:
No error Unable to update repository FreeBSD-ports Updating FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue.. pkg: Failed to fetch https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/meta.conf:
No error pkg: Failed to fetch https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/meta.txz:
No error repository FreeBSD-ports-kmods has no meta file, using
default settings pkg: Failed to fetch https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/data.pkg:
No error pkg: Failed to fetch https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/data.tzst:
No error pkg: Failed to fetch

https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/packagesite.pk=

g

:

No error pkg: Failed to fetch

https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/packagesite.tz=

st

:

No error Unable to update repository FreeBSD-ports-kmods Updating FreeBSD-base repository catalogue... [...]
---

The machines are on the same network, pkg.freebsd.org is reachable, I cannot see any difference in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf,
/usr/local/etc/pkg.conf and /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
settings (I did not touch any of these after installation, anyway). I
am running a bit out of ideas here, no useful answer from websearch, either. What might be wrong?

cu
Gerrit

--
Dr. Gerrit Kuehn
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik
Albert-Einstein-Institut
Callinstrasse 38
30167 Hannover

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<div dir=3D"auto">Thank you for sharing!</div> <div class=3D"gmail_quote=
gmail_quote_container"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 9=
, 2026, 4:32=E2=80=AFAM Gerrit K=C3=BChn <<a href=3D"mailto:gerrit.kuehn= @aei.mpg.de">gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote cl= ass=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid=
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello all, 

I think I found and fixed the problem (and of course it was actually 
simple and all my fault, sorry for the noise): 
I had been running another dhclient manually on a second network 
interface on the machine which left the system with two default routes: 

--- 
# netstat -rn 
Routing tables 

Internet: 
Destination=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Gateway=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Flags=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Netif Expire default=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 192...=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0= UGS=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ice0 
default=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 10...=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0UGS=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ice1 
[...] 
--- 

ssh and other things were still working fine, but pkg obviously wasn't<=

happy. After removing the extra route it runs fast and without any error. 

I don't know how this messed up pkg, but "No error" was one o=
f the most 
helpful error messages I've ever seen. ;-) 

cu 
=C2=A0 Gerrit 

On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 16:35:18 +0100 
Gerrit K=C3=BChn <<a href=3D"mailto:gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de" target=3D"_= blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de</a>> wrote: 

> Hello, 
> 
> I have two new systems freshly installed (and to my best knowledge > identically) with FreeBSD 15.0 (via memstick image using the new 
> "packaged base"). One updates the pkg database with "pk=
g update" just 
> fine (and as expected). 
> However, the other one complains with something like this (takes ages,=

> obviously running into timeouts): 
> 
> --- 
> # pkg update 
> Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue... 
> pkg: Failed to 
> fetch <a href=3D"https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/me= ta.conf" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://pkg.FreeBS= D.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/meta.conf</a>: 
> No error pkg: Failed to fetch 
> <a href=3D"https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/meta.txz=
" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/F= reeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/meta.txz</a>: No error 
> repository FreeBSD-ports has no meta file, using default settings 
> pkg: Failed to fetch 
> <a href=3D"https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/data.pkg=
" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/F= reeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/data.pkg</a>: No error 
> pkg: Failed to fetch 
> <a href=3D"https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/data.tzs=
t" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/= FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/data.tzst</a>: No 
> error pkg: Failed to fetch 
> <a href=3D"https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/packages= ite.pkg" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://pkg.FreeBS= D.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/packagesite.pkg</a>: 
> No error Unable to update repository FreeBSD-ports Updating 
> FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue.. pkg: Failed to fetch 
> <a href=3D"https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/= meta.conf" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://pkg.Free= BSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/meta.conf</a>: 
> No error pkg: Failed to fetch 
> <a href=3D"https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/= meta.txz" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://pkg.FreeB= SD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/meta.txz</a>: 
> No error repository FreeBSD-ports-kmods has no meta file, using 
> default settings pkg: Failed to fetch 
> <a href=3D"https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/= data.pkg" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://pkg.FreeB= SD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/data.pkg</a>: 
> No error pkg: Failed to fetch 
> <a href=3D"https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/= data.tzst" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://pkg.Free= BSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/data.tzst</a>: 
> No error pkg: Failed to fetch 
> <a href=3D"https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/= packagesite.pkg" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://pk= g.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/packagesite.pkg</a>: 
> No error pkg: Failed to fetch 
> <a href=3D"https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/= packagesite.tzst" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://p= kg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/packagesite.tzst</a>: > No error Unable to update repository FreeBSD-ports-kmods Updating 
> FreeBSD-base repository catalogue... [...] 
> --- 
> 
> 
> The machines are on the same network, <a href=3D"http://pkg.freebsd.or=
g" rel=3D"noreferrer noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">pkg.freebsd.org</a> is r= eachable, I 
> cannot see any difference in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf, 
> /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf and /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf 
> settings (I did not touch any of these after installation, anyway). I<=

> am running a bit out of ideas here, no useful answer from websearch,<b=

> either. What might be wrong? 
> 
> 
> cu 
>=C2=A0 =C2=A0Gerrit 

-- 
Dr. Gerrit Kuehn 
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik 
Albert-Einstein-Institut 
Callinstrasse 38 
30167 Hannover 
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