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Which is also documented and therefore intended.


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Franco

No, you just get the popup during upgrades when the package manager removes vital files for a second before putting them back and the GUI needing them to render the page. It's not easily fixable, but also almost always benign.

We could hide the error, but at the cost of hiding real errors.


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Franco

> fixed for good in releng/14

You mean stable/14?

releng/14.3 is likely not getting any better, but releng/14.4 could given stable/14 is complete ;)


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Franco

I wanted to talk to Patrick about this, too. Our own testing was inconclusive.


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Franco

No, 2.3.1 is our version. FreeBSD has 2.4.2 and it's broken in that regard.

We may update to 2.4.2 ourselves, but it's not necessary at the moment. And even then: do NOT use the FreeBSD version.


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Franco

PS: It's this bug and nobody cares https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2191

And here's the proof you caught a FreeBSD pkg version:

> pkg: warning: database version 37 is newer than libpkg(3) version 36, but still compatible

But you've already rolled back and the segfault is gone.

So that's good.


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Franco

I meant the GUI check for updates log. Running arbitrary commands doesn't offer a good density of where the issue is.

But

# pkg info pkg

would also work for the suspicion here.


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Franco

You cut the update log short, which means context could be missing. A bug exists in FreeBSD pkg using HTTPS since libcurl was added. FreeBSD has no HTTPS repositories but we do. We also have a fix.


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Franco

When the bubble bursts we will have all the cheap enterprise grade RAM we need. "Yay".  ;)


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Franco

> I'm deducing that the maximum download exceeded is due to the firewall making multiple attempts to download the file

Yes, because it stopped being able to read the file yesterday:

2025-12-04T11:41:01    Error    firewall    geoip update failed : File is not a zip file
2025-12-03T11:40:08    Notice    firewall    geoip updated (files: 496 lines: 5785121)

Whether or not that's because of the update I doubt at this point. It seems circumstantial.


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Franco

> geoip update failed : File is not a zip file

but the code didn't change? if they offer a gz file with a zip ending that's not good.


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Franco

> geoip update failed : File is not a zip file

but the code didn't change? if they offer a gz file with a zip ending that's not good.


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Franco

Best ask them directly.


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Franco

Try the plugin at 1.8 via 25.7.9.