This thread should probably belong under Storage but for discoverability, I'll begin here:
I have a vague recollection of disabling soft update journaling whilst testing for a thread elsewhere. Then maybe an interruption to the system after, or during, initial use of pkg.
The file system is reportedly clean (I forced a check whilst in single user mode), however the installation of pkg is broken.
Worked around:
pkg install xorg
tells us that the most recent version ofpkg
is already installed (and does not install xorg)pkg info
tells us thatpkg
is not yet installed.
- UFS soft updates are enabled (as recommended in the FreeBSD Handbook)
- UFS soft update journaling (not suitably mentioned in the Handbook) is disabled.
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I have a vague recollection of disabling soft update journaling whilst testing for a thread elsewhere. Then maybe an interruption to the system after, or during, initial use of pkg.
The file system is reportedly clean (I forced a check whilst in single user mode), however the installation of pkg is broken.
Worked around:
pkg bootstrap -f