Update from 14.3 to 15

[Doug Hardie]

I updated my 14.3 arm64 (Raspberry Pi 4) to 14.3-RELEASE-P6, then ran pkg upgrade where it updated pkg, and then used freebsd-update to install 15.0-RELEASE.

Everything went smooth as it usually does until I tried to use pkg:

test# pkg
ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.9" not found, required by "pkg"
test#

Somehow pkg didn't get updated. Only libutil.so.10 exists. I haven't tried this yet, but I have another arm64 machine running 14.3 that I could copy over that file. I am not sure that is the best approach though.

-- Doug

[Erwan David]

I usually do a `pkg-static install pkg` to get the current pkg when doing a major upgrade. I suppose FreeBSD-15 comes with a newer version of libutils

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[Odhiambo Washington]

I had this as well and as a workaround, I created a symlink to libutil.so.10 for libutil.so.9

And I believe this creates a lot more issues because I have struggled with installing qemu-guest-agent on the server to no avail.

Let me await the correct solution.

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[Doug Hardie]

> pkg-static install pkg worked just fine. I am now updating a large bunch of ports. What fun.

-- Doug

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Doug Hardie <bc...@lafn.org> writes:
> Everything went smooth as it usually does until I tried to use pkg:
>
> test# pkg
> ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.9" not found, required by "pkg"
> test#

Either `/usr/sbin/pkg bootstrap -f` or `pkg-static upgrade -fy pkg`
should fix this.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@FreeBSD.org

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@freebsd.org> wrote:

Doug Hardie <bc...@lafn.org> writes:
> Everything went smooth as it usually does until I tried to use pkg:
>
> test# pkg
> ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.9" not found, required by "pkg"
> test# 

Either `/usr/sbin/pkg bootstrap -f` or `pkg-static upgrade -fy pkg`
should fix this.

Right now I am running 'portupgrade -af'. Once that is done, I will see what happens.

I'll run the proposed fixes and report back.

If all fails, I will once again restore and start over.