Hello all, I think I found and fixed the problem (and of course it was actually simple and all my fault, sorry for the noise): I had been running another dhclient manually on a second network interface on the machine which left the system with two default routes:
--- # netstat -rn Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire default 192... UGS ice0 default 10... UGS ice1 [...] --- ssh and other things were still working fine, but pkg obviously wasn't happy. After removing the extra route it runs fast and without any error. I don't know how this messed up pkg, but "No error" was one of the most helpful error messages I've ever seen. ;-) cu Gerrit On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 16:35:18 +0100 Gerrit Kühn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have two new systems freshly installed (and to my best knowledge > identically) with FreeBSD 15.0 (via memstick image using the new > "packaged base"). One updates the pkg database with "pkg update" just > fine (and as expected). > However, the other one complains with something like this (takes ages, > obviously running into timeouts): > > --- > # pkg update > Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue... > pkg: Failed to > fetch https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/meta.conf: > No error pkg: Failed to fetch > https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/meta.txz: No error > repository FreeBSD-ports has no meta file, using default settings > pkg: Failed to fetch > https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/data.pkg: No error > pkg: Failed to fetch > https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/data.tzst: No > error pkg: Failed to fetch > https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/quarterly/packagesite.pkg: > No error Unable to update repository FreeBSD-ports Updating > FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue.. pkg: Failed to fetch > https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/meta.conf: > No error pkg: Failed to fetch > https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/meta.txz: > No error repository FreeBSD-ports-kmods has no meta file, using > default settings pkg: Failed to fetch > https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/data.pkg: > No error pkg: Failed to fetch > https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/data.tzst: > No error pkg: Failed to fetch > https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/packagesite.pkg: > No error pkg: Failed to fetch > https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_quarterly_0/packagesite.tzst: > No error Unable to update repository FreeBSD-ports-kmods Updating > FreeBSD-base repository catalogue... [...] > --- > > > The machines are on the same network, pkg.freebsd.org is reachable, I > cannot see any difference in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf, > /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf and /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf > settings (I did not touch any of these after installation, anyway). I > am running a bit out of ideas here, no useful answer from websearch, > either. What might be wrong? > > > cu > Gerrit -- Dr. Gerrit Kuehn Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik Albert-Einstein-Institut Callinstrasse 38 30167 Hannover
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