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FreeBSD 14 shared object libssl.so.111 not found

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 20:32:28 +1100

FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE just got relesed at the end of last month, and I wanted to upgrade my NAS server running FreeBSD 13.x-RELEASE to 14.0.

Using the installation instruction from [1], I was able to upgrade smoothly without any issues. Here are the steps:

# freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install

# freebsd-update upgrade -r 14.0-RELEASE
# freebsd-update install

Reboot:

# reboot

After rebooting, freebsd-update(8)[2] needs to be run again to install the new userland components:

Looping Through Line in a File in Bash

Sat, 17 Apr 2021 18:39:37 +1000

I wanted to install vim package on FreeBSD 13.0, and did so without realizing that there were over 86 additional dependency packages installed. This was done with pkg install -y vim command.

Anyway, I wanted to clean up by removing vim and those dependencies after all this is a headless server. Removing vim package doesn’t remove the installed dependencies.

Fortunately, I was able to copy and paste the names of dependency packages and save it to a file. My first thought was to just go through each line in that file and run pkg delete -y PACKAGE. In the past I needed to do similar thing in a bash script or command to loop through the content of a file per line. Guess what? I no longer remember how to do that. Hence I’m writing this post to remind my future self in case I need to do this similar thing again.

FreeBSD 12 : Can't update packages size mismatch

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 23:10:26 +0000

It’s another night with another FreeBSD problem. Well, I could just use Linux like Ubuntu or Void, but then things would just work. Where is the fun? 😉

So, I’ve been having problem with upgrading or installing new binary packages on a machine running FreeBSD 12.0 for a few days now.

root@vansota:~ # pkg upgrade
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking for upgrades (13 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (13 candidates): 100%
The following 6 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
	p5-Locale-gettext: 1.07

Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
	xorg-server-1.18.4_6,1 (needed shared library changed)
	xf86-input-synaptics-1.9.0 (options changed)
	texinfo-6.5,1 (options changed)
	m4-1.4.18,1 (options changed)
	help2man-1.47.5 (options changed)

Number of packages to be installed: 1
Number of packages to be reinstalled: 5

The process will require 2 MiB more space.
3 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/6] Fetching xorg-server-1.18.4_6,1.txz: 100%    1 MiB 184.0kB/s    00:08    
pkg: cached package xorg-server-1.18.4_6,1: size mismatch, fetching from remote
[2/6] Fetching xorg-server-1.18.4_6,1.txz:  18%  272 KiB 180.2kB/s    00:08 ETA

First I’d thought it was just some FreeBSD mirrors were out of sync of each others. This happens quite frequently with Ubuntu mirrors. Usually, we give it a bit of time and the problem will fix itself.