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

linuxblood <[email protected]> Tue, 12 May 2026 11:23:24 +0000

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On Tuesday, May 12th, 2026 at 11:12 AM, Jason Bacon <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> Did you by chance run "pkg remove -a" at any time?
> 
> I coincidentally discovered a problem while working with a pkgbased VM,
> where "pkg remove -a" removed my kernels.  This is a bug in the
> packages, which should be marked "vital" so they cannot be removed.
[...]

Thanks for asking. No, I didn't, but auto-admin did remove a *few* packages when it ran, the text went by so fast I couldn't read it. The only part I remember was near the end, where it cleaned the pkg cache and gave a choice on restarting services and/or rebooting. Also, I was not running a VM, if that makes a difference. :)