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.