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

Jason Bacon <[email protected]> Tue, 12 May 2026 06:55:10 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.questions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.

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