Thank you for sharing! On Fri, Jan 9, 2026, 4:32 AM Gerrit Kühn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >
