Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 12.0-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 12.0-RELEASE from update2.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 2 metadata files... failed fstatat(AT_FDCWD,"718e971f16c45eb004aa2efcddab005c59a0aff000904911eae589db332f4c61.gz",0x7fffffffd918,0x0) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' failed. write(1,"failed.\n",8) = 8 (0x8)
Thank you for the report Jason What version of FreeBSD is currently installed (uname -a) and what was/is the exact/full command used to invoke freebsd-update?
(In reply to Kubilay Kocak from comment #1) FreeBSD safe 12.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p3 GENERIC amd64 /usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch
Figured out why. /etc/services did not contain the "http" tcp service. 35968: execve("/usr/libexec/phttpget",0x800644c40,0x7fffffffea88) = 0 (0x0) 35968: write(2,"phttpget: ",10) = 10 (0xa) 35968: write(2,"host = update1.freebsd.org, port = http: servname not supported for ai_socktype",79) = 79 (0x4f)