I'm using 14.3R. Infinity loop is occured by 'pkg upgrade'. # pkg info -a | grep pkg | grep '^pkg-' # pkg-2.1.4 Package manager # pkg upgrade Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... Fetching data.pkg: 100% 10 MiB 10.5MB/s 00:01 Processing entries: 100% FreeBSD repository update completed. 35981 packages processed. Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue... FreeBSD-kmods repository is up to date. Updating FreeBSD-latest repository catalogue... Fetching data.pkg: 100% 10 MiB 10.6MB/s 00:01 Processing entries: 100% FreeBSD-latest repository update completed. 36097 packages processed. All repositories are up to date. New version of pkg detected; it needs to be installed first. Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) Your packages are up to date. Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up to date. Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue... FreeBSD-kmods repository is up to date. Updating FreeBSD-latest repository catalogue... FreeBSD-latest repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. New version of pkg detected; it needs to be installed first. Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) Your packages are up to date. Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up to date. Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue... FreeBSD-kmods repository is up to date. Updating FreeBSD-latest repository catalogue... FreeBSD-latest repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. New version of pkg detected; it needs to be installed first. Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) Your packages are up to date. Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up to date. Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue... FreeBSD-kmods repository is up to date. Updating FreeBSD-latest repository catalogue... FreeBSD-latest repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. New version of pkg detected; it needs to be installed first. Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) Your packages are up to date. ... (infinity repetition) ^C So I upgraded to pkg-2.2.0 from 2.1.4 by pkg add -f as follows. # pkg fetch pkg Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up to date. Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue... FreeBSD-kmods repository is up to date. Updating FreeBSD-latest repository catalogue... FreeBSD-latest repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. The following packages will be fetched: New packages to be FETCHED: pkg: 2.2.0 (12 MiB: 100.00% of the 12 MiB to download) Number of packages to be fetched: 1 The process will require 12 MiB more space. 12 MiB to be downloaded. Proceed with fetching packages? [y/N]: y Fetching pkg-2.2.0.pkg: 100% 12 MiB 12.6MB/s 00:01 # cd /var/cache/pkg # pkg add -f pkg-2.2.0.pkg
(In reply to Masachika ISHIZUKA from comment #0) I haven't experienced this, upgrading from pkg 2.1.4 to 2.2.0 (using Latest) on my 14.3-R. On my system I cannot reproduce this when again starting with pkg 2.1.4 (with a clean pkg cache); however, your environment will no doubt be different. Your command # pkg upgrade tries to consider upgrading every installed package. This might have resulted in comparing quite a number of installed packages with the packages available remotely; also a lot of dependencies may have been involved and might have caused the infinite loop, though I cannot corroborate that. AFAIK the running pkg (that is 2.1.4 in this case) is first trying to upgrade itself (to 2.2.0 here); I don't know how much 'other processing' is undertaken before pkg tries to upgrade itself. Your solution/workaround seems to have worked effectively. As alternatives to this 'pkg add' route, users facing the same problem in trying to get pkg upgraded to 2.2.0 might consider trying: # pkg upgrade pkg or even: # pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD pkg thereby limiting this to upgrading only the pkg package.
(In reply to Masachika ISHIZUKA from comment #0) uname -mv pkg repos -e