I took the more drastic step and attempted to upgrade to 11 beta. But, failed
at the following snippet.
The installation I had was built from source in a pkgsrc environment that had
the previous jpeg library.
Is there a way to make this come up as 11 beta after reboot?
# sysupgrade etcupdate
sysupgrade: I: Upgrading /etc interactively
*** Creating /tmp/temproot
*** Populating /tmp/temproot from /var/cache/sysupgrade/etc.tar.xz
*** Populating /tmp/temproot from /var/cache/sysupgrade/xetc.tar.xz
*** Ignoring files: /etc/group /etc/master.passwd
*** Checking for new directories
[1] Bad system call (core dumped) /usr/sbin/etcupdate -a -l ${sflags}
# sysupgrade postinstall
...
postinstall checks failed: defaults fontconfig makedev mtree periodic
ptyfsoldnodes rc
To fix, run:
sh /usr/sbin/postinstall -s /var/cache/sysupgrade/etc.tar.xz -s
/var/cache/sysupgrade/xetc.tar.xz -d / fix defaults fontconfig makedev mtree
periodic ptyfsoldnodes rc
# sh /usr/sbin/postinstall -s /var/cache/sysupgrade/etc.tar.xz -s
/var/cache/sysupgrade/xetc.tar.xz -d / fix defaults fontconfig makedev mtree
periodic ptyfsoldnodes rc
...
ptyfsoldnodes fix:
[1] Bad system call ${HOST_SH} "${MAKEDEV_DIR}/MAKEDEV" -s pty0
2>...
Done ${AWK} "\
BEGIN { before_re = \".*device=...
Cannot find device major numbers for pty master and slave
...
postinstall fixes passed: defaults fontconfig makedev mtree periodic rc
postinstall fixes failed: ptyfsoldnodes
RVP <r...@sdf.org> writes:
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>
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2025, Van Ly wrote:
>
>> The daily `makemandb -Q' drops core and gdb reads as follows.
>>
>> Could that #2 line item be related to pkgsrc? as I've had to reset pkgsrc db
>> and re‑install in response to `pkgin ug' dropping core.
>>
>
> That's very likely a function called by parse_escape[1] which abort()s.
>
>> Core was generated by `makemandb'.
>> Program terminated with signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0 0x00007030ab57eeea in _lwp_kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
>> #1 0x00007030ab5846e0 in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
>> #2 0x0000000185249cf5 in ?? ()
>> #3 0x000000018522b165 in parse_escape ()
>> #4 0x000000018522b307 in append ()
>> #5 0x000000018522b826 in pman_parse_node ()
>> #6 0x000000018522ac19 in proff_node ()
>> #7 0x000000018522abe2 in proff_node ()
>> #8 0x000000018524af12 in main ()
>>
>
> Can you unpack the debug set (even makemandb alone might do) and then run this
> command:
>
> ```
> # makemandb -fv > /tmp/m.txt 2>&1
> ```
>
> That should show what file it's choking on.
>
> Do the backtrace with the debug symbol unpacked, too.
>
> -RVP
>
> [1]:
> https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/trunk/usr.sbin/makemandb/makemandb.c#L1995
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