brotli-1.2.0,1 making my head explode!!

abpea · Wednesday at 11:34 PM

Every package (emby, git, musicpd, zoneminder, etc) I've tried installing today uses brotli-1.2.0,1. I've tried installing the same packages on both my desktop and laptop and it crashes every time.

Every time it crashes with this info:

[1/28] Installing brotli-1.2.0,1...
[1/28] Extracting brotli-1.2.0,1: 100%
Child process pid=17655 terminated abnormally: Segmentation fault

The log has this entry:

kernel: pid 17655 (pkg), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 11 (no core dump - bad address)

I have been chasing this brotil problem all over the Internet for a few days and haven't found anyway to fix it. Is anyone else having this problem with brotil-1.2.0,1??

ralphbsz · Thursday at 12:47 AM

No problem at all here, last installed a few weeks ago:

Code:

# pkg info brotli
brotli-1.2.0,1
Name           : brotli
Version        : 1.2.0,1
Installed on   : Sat Jan 31 10:06:33 2026 PST
Origin         : archivers/brotli
Architecture   : FreeBSD:13:amd64
Prefix         : /usr/local
Categories     : archivers devel
Licenses       : MIT
Maintainer     : osa@FreeBSD.org
WWW            : https://github.com/google/brotli
Comment        : Generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm
Options        :
    STATIC         : off
Shared Libs required:
    libc.so.7
    libm.so.5
Shared Libs provided:
    libbrotlicommon.so.1
    libbrotlidec.so.1
    libbrotlienc.so.1
Annotations    :
    FreeBSD_version: 1305000
    build_timestamp: 2026-01-15T01:41:26+0000
    built_by       : poudriere-git-3.4.4-15-g61aba751
    cpe            : cpe:2.3:a:google:brotli:1.2.0:::::freebsd13:x64
    port_checkout_unclean: no
    port_git_hash  : 9514ac9990434680c9394df1a07b7b7469198293
    ports_top_checkout_unclean: no
    ports_top_git_hash: 9514ac9990434680c9394df1a07b7b7469198293
    repo_type      : binary
    repository     : FreeBSD
Flat size      : 951KiB

What FreeBSD version and CPU architecture are you running? I'm deliberately on the oldest supported 13.5 version.

Charlie_ · Thursday at 2:03 AM

There is no problem with the 15.0R.

Code:

$ uname -vm
FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p2 GENERIC amd64
$ fetch http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest/All/brotli-1.2.0,1.pkg
brotli-1.2.0,1.pkg                                     388 kB 3044 kBps    00s
$ doas pkg delete -fy brotli
$ doas pkg add brotli-1.2.0,1.pkg
Installing brotli-1.2.0,1...
Extracting brotli-1.2.0,1: 100%
$ rm brotli-1.2.0,1.pkg
$ fetch http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/All/brotli-1.2.0,1.pkg
brotli-1.2.0,1.pkg                                     388 kB  384 kBps    01s
$ doas pkg delete -fy brotli
$ doas pkg add brotli-1.2.0,1.pkg
Installing brotli-1.2.0,1...
Extracting brotli-1.2.0,1: 100%
$ rm brotli-1.2.0,1.pkg

Code:

$ fetch http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/brotli-1.2.0,1.pkg
brotli-1.2.0,1.pkg                                     388 kB  425 kBps    01s
$ doas pkg delete -fy brotli
$ doas pkg add -f brotli-1.2.0,1.pkg
Installing brotli-1.2.0,1...
pkg: wrong architecture: FreeBSD:14:amd64 instead of FreeBSD:15:amd64
Extracting brotli-1.2.0,1: 100%
$ rm brotli-1.2.0,1.pkg
$ fetch http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/quarterly/All/brotli-1.2.0,1.pkg
brotli-1.2.0,1.pkg                                     388 kB 1176 kBps    01s
$ doas pkg delete -fy brotli
$ doas pkg add -f brotli-1.2.0,1.pkg
Installing brotli-1.2.0,1...
pkg: wrong architecture: FreeBSD:14:amd64 instead of FreeBSD:15:amd64
Extracting brotli-1.2.0,1: 100%

Edit: It seems to be resolved.

Making sure you're not a bot!

abpea · Thursday at 2:19 AM

Thank you Charlie_ and ralphbsz for taking the time to check this out. The problem is not with brotli-1.2.0,1, or any other package. My server was setup incorrectly which was causing the problem. Thank you again for your helpful comments, they are much appreciated.

zester · Thursday at 2:36 AM

abpea said:
Every package (emby, git, musicpd, zoneminder, etc) I've tried installing today uses brotli-1.2.0,1. I've tried installing the same packages on both my desktop and laptop and it crashes every time.

Every time it crashes with this info:

[1/28] Installing brotli-1.2.0,1...
[1/28] Extracting brotli-1.2.0,1: 100%
Child process pid=17655 terminated abnormally: Segmentation fault

The log has this entry:

kernel: pid 17655 (pkg), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 11 (no core dump - bad address)

I have been chasing this brotil problem all over the Internet for a few days and haven't found anyway to fix it. Is anyone else having this problem with brotil-1.2.0,1??

Could be a sign of hardware failure.

jwillia3 · Thursday at 3:09 AM

I can think of a couple of tests

Have you tried installing brotli alone as opposed to as a dependency?
If that fails, see if this command fails /usr/sbin/service ldconfig restart
This is not recommended but you can copy the files yourself and edit the package to basically have no files.
Use truss or gdb a coredump to figure out where the error is causing the error

Charlie_ · Thursday at 3:15 AM

See the link in comment #3.
I don't think the OP is looking at this anymore.

astyle · Thursday at 3:33 AM

zester said:
Could be a sign of hardware failure.

Nah.... OP's system probably ran out of RAM.

It's also not out of question that there's an ABI inconsistency between the package and the OS, esp. if repo is incorrectly specified in /usr/local/pkg/FreeBSD.conf. This is why I compile everything from ports, rather than rely on pre-compiled packages.