Solved Problem with KDE system after freebsd-update -r 13.1 upgrade

[Vull]

Had a working KDE system running on FreeBSD 13.0 but when I upgraded to 13.1, started getting the following message:

Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings
Unable to update repository FreeBSD
Error updating repositories!

... after running:

freebsd-update -r 13.1 upgrade
/usr/sbin/freebsd-update install
*reboot*
/usr/sbin/freebsd-update install
pkg update
pkg upgrade

I've also been using lightdm-gtk-greeter to auto-login to KDE from my user account, but, after the upgrade it no longer works right, and, instead, it takes me to the lightdm KDE user login screen. When I login it goes through the motions but, right at the moment when the desktop should appear, it returns me to the login screen. This cycle repeats no matter how many times I retry.

Next I attempted to disable lightdm and login with a virtual terminal with the user account using startx but it errors out right before displaying the desktop.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

 

[richardtoohey2]

Not sure about the bottom half of your message, but others reporting DNS issues: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/pkg-system-outage.87235/

 

[Vull]

Not sure about the bottom half of your message, but others reporting DNS issues: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/pkg-system-outage.87235/

Thanks! I don't believe it is a DNS issue. But I'll take a look, and thanks.

 

[Vull]

Not sure about the bottom half of your message, but others reporting DNS issues: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/pkg-system-outage.87235/

Working backwards to find the issue, I think you're probably correct. I'm unable to access download.freebsd.org and it's probably related to the problem.