Solved pkg crashing with segfault

[cbrace]

Hi all,
I am running FreeBSD on a HP Microserver on my LAN. At some point in the past year, I broke something and certain pkg commands no longer run, but terminate in a segmentation fault. My guess is that the ports database is corrupted, but I'm not entirely sure. I've googled the problem various times but haven't found a fix. Any ideas for me?

TIA

$ sudo pkg upgrade
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.txz: 100%    916 B   0.9kB/s    00:01   
Fetching packagesite.txz: 100%    6 MiB   2.2MB/s    00:03   
Processing entries: 100%
Child process pid=16623 terminated abnormally: Segmentation fault

$ pkg info pkg
pkg-1.15.4

$ uname -r
12.2-RELEASE

 

[a6h]

1. freebsd-update fetch install
2. pkg delete -f pkg
3. /usr/sbin/pkg
4. Test again and report back.

 

[SirDice]

2. pkg delete -f pkg
3. /usr/sbin/pkg

pkg bootstrap -f; if the database is indeed corrupt the pkg-delete(8) is likely to fail too.

     bootstrap
             This is for compatibility with the pkg(7) bootstrapper.  If pkg
             is already installed, nothing is done.

             If invoked with the -f flag an attempt will be made to reinstall
             pkg from remote repository.

My guess is that the ports database is corrupted, but I'm not entirely sure.

What happens if you use pkg-static version -v? Does it crash too? Use pkg-static(8) to rule out any issues with libraries and such.

 

[cbrace]

Deleting and reinstalling fixed it. Many thanks!