Re: pkg update broke

Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[email protected]> Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:05:00 +0200

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"William F. Dudley Jr." <[email protected]> writes:
> I am running "FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p16 amd64".
>
> I did "freebsd-update fetch" followed by "freebsd-update install", and
> the power (and my UPS) failed, I think, during the "freebsd-update
> install" step.

Assuming a standard ZFS install, I would strongly advise that you roll
back to the snapshot that was created at the start of `freebsd-update
install` and re-run `freebsd-update install`.

> Now, when I run "pkg update", I get this:
>
> pkg: Failed to fetch
> https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly/meta.conf: SSL peer
> certificate or SSH remote key was not OK

This can most likely be fixed by running `certctl rehash` as root.

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