recent 14.3 upgrade - no packages available to install

[Graham Menhennitt]

Hello all,

I recently upgraded a box from 14.2-p2 to 14.3-RELEASE-p7 using freebsd-update. Everything appeared to go smoothly.

But now, there don't seem to be any packages available to install - pkg says "No packages available to install". Although it does attempt to upgrade one of my existing packages.

My /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf is the same as the one distributed with 14.3-RELEASE for quarterly packages. The directory /usr/local/etc/pkg does not exist.

Below is a log of my attempts at update/upgrade/install. I've tried to install various packages other than gnucash - all with the same result.

Thanks for any help,

    Graham

# pkg -d update
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
DBG(1)[10719]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD
DBG(1)[10719]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD/db'
DBG(1)[10719]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly/meta.conf
DBG(1)[10719]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https
DBG(1)[10719]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly/data.pkg
DBG(1)[10719]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue...
DBG(1)[10719]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD-kmods
DBG(1)[10719]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-kmods/db'
DBG(1)[10719]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/kmods_quarterly_3/meta.conf
DBG(1)[10719]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https
DBG(1)[10719]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/kmods_quarterly_3/data.pkg
DBG(1)[10719]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https
FreeBSD-kmods repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
# pkg -d upgrade
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
DBG(1)[10720]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD
DBG(1)[10720]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD/db'
DBG(1)[10720]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly/meta.conf
DBG(1)[10720]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https
DBG(1)[10720]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly/data.pkg
DBG(1)[10720]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue...
DBG(1)[10720]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD-kmods
DBG(1)[10720]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-kmods/db'
DBG(1)[10720]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/kmods_quarterly_3/meta.conf
DBG(1)[10720]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https
DBG(1)[10720]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/kmods_quarterly_3/data.pkg
DBG(1)[10720]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https
FreeBSD-kmods repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
DBG(1)[10720]> (db) want to get an advisory lock on a database
Checking for upgrades (1 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (1 candidates): 100%
The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
       virtualbox-ose-kmod-6.1.50.1403000_1 [FreeBSD-kmods] (options changed)

Number of packages to be reinstalled: 1

149 KiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: n
DBG(1)[10720]> (db) release an advisory lock on a database
# pkg -d install gnucash
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
DBG(1)[10721]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD
DBG(1)[10721]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD/db'
DBG(1)[10721]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly/meta.conf
DBG(1)[10721]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https
DBG(1)[10721]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly/data.pkg
DBG(1)[10721]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue...
DBG(1)[10721]> PkgRepo: verifying update for FreeBSD-kmods
DBG(1)[10721]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-kmods/db'
DBG(1)[10721]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/kmods_quarterly_3/meta.conf
DBG(1)[10721]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https
DBG(1)[10721]> (fetch) Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/kmods_quarterly_3/data.pkg
DBG(1)[10721]> (fetch) Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https
FreeBSD-kmods repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
DBG(1)[10721]> (db) want to get an advisory lock on a database
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'gnucash' have been found in the repositories
DBG(1)[10721]> (db) release an advisory lock on a database
# pkg search gnucash
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[Simon Wollwage]

Graham Menhennitt <gra...@menhennitt.com.au> writes:

First, I'd start checking with

$ sqlite3 /var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD/db "SELECT name FROM packages WHERE name='gnucash';"

to check if it is actually there.
If not, maybe try "pkg update -f"

Best regards,
Simon

[Graham Menhennitt]

Thanks for replying, Simon.

Yes, that "-f" made all the difference. All working now.

Thanks again,

    Graham

[Anton Shepelev]

Graham Menhennitt:

> Yes, that "-f" made all the difference. All working now.

While upgrading from 14.1 to 14.3, I too had to use
`pkg upgrade -f', although the Handbook instructions do not
mention that flag.

[Jin Guojun[VFF]]

When upgraded Firefox, the pkg process also upgraded the Thunderbird
from 146.0 to 147.0.1_1, which stops asking password for local IMAP server.

Thunderbird still asks password for remote Imap server. After
downgrading Thunderbird to 146.0 (just Thunderbird), Thunderbird still
does not ask password. This looks like that this problem is not in
Thunderbird itself, but from some dependent libraries.

Has anyone noticed this problem and any idea how to fix it?

-Jin