Re: pkg update issue

Thank you for sharing!

On Fri, Jan 9, 2026, 4:32 AM Gerrit Kühn <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>