Re: Unable to boot after update from within auto-admin
Jason Bacon <[email protected]> Tue, 12 May 2026 06:55:10 -0500
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On 5/12/26 06:28, Tomek CEDRO wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2026, 13:12 Jason Bacon 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. > > -- > Life is a game. Play hard. Play fair. Have fun. > > > are you sure it was not `pkg delete -af` with force option? the issue > was reported last year o_O > > https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkgbase/2025-July/000590.html > <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkgbase/2025-July/000590.html> No, it was "ay". I added the "y" to skip all the "remove vital package from delete list" messages. Besides, as you can see, it only removed the kernels and the pkg package, not everything. -- Life is a game. Play hard. Play fair. Have fun.