This might be due to cockpit error, but I don't remember the exact history
of this machine. I have a test machine that was running 11.3-RELEASE, and
had been upgraded with freebsd-update. I upgraded it to 11.4-BETA1 last
week, and BETA2 this weekend. Then I tried "pkg upgrade" and got an
error:
vmguest2# pkg upgrade
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
pkg: repository meta /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD.meta has wrong version 2
pkg: Repository FreeBSD load error: meta cannot be loaded No error: 0
Fetching meta.txz: 100% 916 B 0.9kB/s 00:01
pkg: repository meta /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD.meta has wrong version 2
repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings
Fetching packagesite.txz: 100% 6 MiB 651.6kB/s 00:10
pkg: repository meta /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD.meta has wrong version 2
pkg: Repository FreeBSD load error: meta cannot be loaded No error: 0
Unable to open created repository FreeBSD
Unable to update repository FreeBSD
Error updating repositories!
vmguest2# pkg -v
1.10.5
More details in case they are useful:
vmguest2# ll /usr/sbin/pkg
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 33464 May 15 21:15 /usr/sbin/pkg*
vmguest2# ll /usr/local/sbin/pkg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 186920 May 15 2019 /usr/local/sbin/pkg*
vmguest2# ll /var/db/pkg/
total 59204
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 163 May 16 07:39 FreeBSD.meta
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 413696 May 16 03:01 local.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 53915648 Jun 15 2019 repo-FreeBSD.sqlite
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 6141600 May 15 03:07 vuln.xml
ry FreeBSD
Error updating repositories!
vmguest2# pkg info
bash-5.0.3 GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell
gettext-runtime-0.19.8.1_2 GNU gettext runtime libraries and programs
indexinfo-0.3.1 Utility to regenerate the GNU info page index
pkg-1.10.5_5 Package manager
vmguest2# ls -l /usr/local/bin
total 1332
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1157192 May 15 2019 bash
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6774 May 15 2019 bashbug
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 40432 May 15 2019 envsubst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 40416 May 15 2019 gettext
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4629 May 15 2019 gettext.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11496 May 15 2019 indexinfo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 40424 May 15 2019 ngettext
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 May 15 2019 rbash -> bash
Mike