Re: pkg update issue

Hello all,

I think I found and fixed the problem (and of course it was actually
simple and all my fault, sorry for the noise):
I had been running another dhclient manually on a second network
interface on the machine which left the system with two default routes:

---
# netstat -rn
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags         Netif Expire
default            192...     UGS            ice0
default            10...         UGS            ice1
[...]
---


ssh and other things were still working fine, but pkg obviously wasn't
happy. After removing the extra route it runs fast and without any
error.

I don't know how this messed up pkg, but "No error" was one of the most
helpful error messages I've ever seen. ;-)


cu
  Gerrit



On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 16:35:18 +0100
Gerrit Kühn <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have two new systems freshly installed (and to my best knowledge
> identically) with FreeBSD 15.0 (via memstick image using the new
> "packaged base"). One updates the pkg database with "pkg update" just
> fine (and as expected).
> However, the other one complains with something like this (takes ages,
> obviously running into timeouts):
> 
> ---
> # pkg update
> Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue...
> pkg: Failed to
> fetch https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/meta.conf:
> No error pkg: Failed to fetch
> https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/meta.txz: No error
> repository FreeBSD-ports has no meta file, using default settings
> pkg: Failed to fetch
> https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/data.pkg: No error
> pkg: Failed to fetch
> https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/data.tzst: No
> error pkg: Failed to fetch
> https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/packagesite.pkg:
> No error Unable to update repository FreeBSD-ports Updating
> FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue.. pkg: Failed to fetch
> https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/meta.conf:
> No error pkg: Failed to fetch
> https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/meta.txz:
> No error repository FreeBSD-ports-kmods has no meta file, using
> default settings pkg: Failed to fetch
> https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/data.pkg:
> No error pkg: Failed to fetch
> https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/data.tzst:
> No error pkg: Failed to fetch
> https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/packagesite.pkg:
> No error pkg: Failed to fetch
> https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/packagesite.tzst:
> No error Unable to update repository FreeBSD-ports-kmods Updating
> FreeBSD-base repository catalogue... [...]
> ---
> 
> 
> The machines are on the same network, pkg.freebsd.org is reachable, I
> cannot see any difference in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf,
> /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf and /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
> settings (I did not touch any of these after installation, anyway). I
> am running a bit out of ideas here, no useful answer from websearch,
> either. What might be wrong?
> 
> 
> cu
>   Gerrit


-- 
Dr. Gerrit Kuehn
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik
Albert-Einstein-Institut
Callinstrasse 38
30167 Hannover