Re: Unable to boot after update from within auto-admin

On Friday, May 8th, 2026 at 10:57 PM, Mark G. <[email protected]> wrote:

> I had never heard of auto-admin, but if you want to learn
> and understand FreeBSD, I would ditch it and just use the
> tools FreebSD gives you for managing the system.  
[...]
> Is auto-admin something that came with OpenBox?  It is not
> part of the FreeBSD base system and seems to originate
> from the sysutils/auto-admin port.

I reinstalled and all is good. ^_^

It appears "auto-admin" is pulled in with or during the process of "desktop-installer."

After I completed using "desktop-installer" to install XFCE, I manually removed "auto-admin" and two other packages related to it, one with some type of notification program, which explains the stupid pop-up from/for "auto-admin."

Mystery solved.

I can't be the only one out there using "desktop-installer" and then receiving desktop notifications for updates being available via "auto-admin." I guess there's not enough people using "desktop-installer" noticing this and complaining to upstream about it.

I don't have anything else to say right now, except thanks again to you and the other kind fellow for the help.

AUTO-ADMIN MUST PERISH IN FLAMES!!!!!!!! :-)