Fix pkg on FreeNAS 11.2
I upgraded to FreeNAS 11.2, and then was unable to run pkg with an error about being unable to find the local repo file.
pkg: Repository local load error: access repo file(/var/db/pkg/repo-local.sqlite) failed: No such file or directory
[root@freenas ~]# pkg install ca_root_nss Updating local repository catalogue... pkg: Repository local load error: access repo file(/var/db/pkg/repo-local.sqlite) failed: No such file or directory pkg: file:///usr/ports/packages/meta.txz: No such file or directory repository local has no meta file, using default settings pkg: file:///usr/ports/packages/packagesite.txz: No such file or directory Unable to update repository local Error updating repositories!
This can be fixed by editing the configuration files in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/, setting toggling the “enabled” parameter to “no” for local.conf and to “yes” for FreeBSD.conf.
sed 's/enabled: yes/enabled: no/' /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/local.conf sed 's/enabled: no/enabled: yes/' /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
You should now be able to install and update using pkg.
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Thanks for the hint!
Try the following two commands:
Thanks. I wanted to test the new FreeNAS reporting graphs and couldn’t figure out how to peg the CPU until I used this to be able to install stress
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This solved the issue for me too, but needed to change the yes/no with the text editor ‘nano’
nano /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/local.conf
nano /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
[EFAULT] Exception: CallError:[EFAULT] pkg error: – pkg-static: /var/db/pkg permissions (0777) too lax Please check your network occured, destroyed plex.
Hi Imron – I think that this is a different error than I posted about. A quick search turned up this post which might be helpful though, good luck!
https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/permissions-too-lax.72074/
thank you, pkg wasn’t working inside my jail, edited similar files, now it does.
thank you
Thank you. Been struggling with getting python2 to install in a brand new jail. This instantly fixed my issue.
Yes, this indeed solves the issue, but on the new FreeNAS it isn’t supposed to work this way.
Additional packages should be used in Jails / iocages only.
See this post: https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/new-in-freenas-unable-to-do-pkg-update.49672/#post-342411
I was actually trying to install packages into a jail but it was failing because of the error above. I had to fix it outside the jail, but the packages were ultimately added to the jail, not the base system. Thanks!
This solved the issue for me too, but needed to change the yes/no with the text editor ‘nano’
nano /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/local.conf
nano /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf