Solved KiCad 6 - 3D viewer just gives "unknown error"?

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As part of my last package upgrade, I finally got KiCad 6 - yay! The program appears to work, both eeschema and pcbnew. But - when I start the 3D viewer I just get "unknown error", see attached screenshot. Tried on a few projects, happens on all of them.
Is 3D viewer working for other KiCad 6 and FreeBSD users?
Details:
Code: 
root@kg-core2:~ # freebsd-version -ku
13.0-RELEASE-p11
13.0-RELEASE-p11
root@kg-core2:~ # uname -a
FreeBSD kg-core2.kg4.no 13.0-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p11 #0: Tue Apr  5 18:54:35 UTC 2022     root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC  amd64
KiCad (and everything else) installed from packages
Code: 
root@kg-core2:~ # pkg -vv | grep url
    url             : "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/quarterly",
root@kg-core2:~ # pkg info kicad\*
kicad-6.0.4,2
kicad-library-footprints-6.0.4
kicad-library-packages3d-6.0.4
kicad-library-symbols-6.0.4
kicad-library-tmpl-6.0.4
 

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Update: I also tried deleting KiCad's config directory $HOME/.config/kicad just in case. No change.
 
According to that issue it might be fixed in the master branch.

If you can't (or simply don't want to) wait for the next release of KiCAD as well as the subsequent port update you can update the cad/kicad-devel to the latest master and compile it.
 
I finally got a KiCad update through packages.
Code: 
root@kg-core2:~ # pkg info kicad\*
kicad-6.0.6,2
kicad-library-footprints-6.0.6
kicad-library-packages3d-6.0.6
kicad-library-symbols-6.0.6
kicad-library-tmpl-6.0.6
the 3D viewer now works again.
 
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