[ERROR] Unhandled error! with -b

[Alexander88207]

Hello,

since the last version (3.4.3) the option “-b” to pull the dependencies from the FreeBSD repository seems to bring poudriere into panic.

Below an snipped of the log (already with -vv)

Reverting back to 3.4.2 seems to workaround the problem at the moment that i needed that option.

[00:00:09] Trimming IGNORED and blacklisted ports
[00:00:09] Package fetch: Looking for missing packages to fetch from pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest
[00:00:09] Packge fetch: bootstrapping pkg
Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest, please wait...
Verifying signature with trusted certificate pkg.freebsd.org.2013102301... done
[143Samd64-default] Installing pkg-2.2.1...
[143Samd64-default] Extracting pkg-2.2.1: 100%
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
[143Samd64-default] Fetching meta.conf: 100%    179 B   0.2kB/s    00:01    
[143Samd64-default] Fetching data.pkg: 100%   10 MiB   2.7MB/s    00:04    
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD repository update completed. 36462 packages processed.
FreeBSD is up to date.
[ERROR] Unhandled error!
[00:00:24] Cleaning up
[00:00:24] Unmounting file systems
Exiting with status 1

How it should look:

[00:00:09] Trimming IGNORED and blacklisted ports
[00:00:09] Package fetch: Looking for missing packages to fetch from pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest
[00:00:09] Packge fetch: bootstrapping pkg
Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest, please wait...
Verifying signature with trusted certificate pkg.freebsd.org.2013102301... done
[143Samd64-default] Installing pkg-2.2.1...
[143Samd64-default] Extracting pkg-2.2.1: 100%
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
[143Samd64-default] Fetching meta.conf: 100%    179 B   0.2kB/s    00:01    
[143Samd64-default] Fetching data.pkg: 100%   10 MiB   1.8MB/s    00:06    
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD repository update completed. 36462 packages processed.
Updating FreeBSD-kmods repository catalogue...
[143Samd64-default] Fetching meta.conf: 100%    179 B   0.2kB/s    00:01    
[143Samd64-default] Fetching data.pkg: 100%   29 KiB  30.2kB/s    00:01    
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD-kmods repository update completed. 208 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.
[00:00:50] Package fetch: Will fetch 191 packages from remote or local pkg cache
Updating database digests format: 100%
The following packages will be fetched:

Thank you in advance.

[ohaucke]

Have the same issue - as far as i could see, it fails at this line:

poudriere/src/share/poudriere/common.sh

Line 3875 in 7c80ce1

remote_pkg_ver=$(injail ${pkg_bin} rquery -U %v ${P_PKG_PKGBASE:?})

[pgauret]

Also impacted here. As a workaround installing port ‘poudriere-devel’ instead of ‘poudriere’ works.

Edit: poudriere-devel does not give the error and works, but does not fetch any prebuilt packages

[bdrewery]

Also impacted here. As a workaround installing port ‘poudriere-devel’ instead of ‘poudriere’ works.

Edit: poudriere-devel does not give the error and works, but does not fetch any prebuilt packages

Can you run with -v and see what decision it has about not fetching?

[pgauret]

[143x64-HEAD] Fetching data.pkg: 100%   10 MiB   1.2MB/s    00:09    
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD repository update completed. 36496 packages processed.
FreeBSD is up to date.
[00:00:28] Package fetch: Failed to fetch package repository.
[00:00:28] Checking packages for incremental rebuild needs
[00:00:30] Checking packages for missing dependencies
[00:00:30] Deleting stale symlinks... done
[00:00:30] Deleting empty directories... done
[00:00:30] Checking for stale cache files
[00:00:31] Unqueueing existing packages
[00:00:31] Unqueueing orphaned build dependencies
[00:00:31] Sanity checking build queue
[00:00:31] [143x64-HEAD] [2025-08-04_19h20m58s] [pkgqueue_sanity_check] Time: 00:00:28
           Queued: 169 Inspected: 0 Ignored: 0 Built: 0 Failed: 0 Skipped: 0 Fetched: 0 Remaining: 169 ```

[bdrewery]

Thanks. I see a few other issues related to fetching that I need to review.

[alexdupre]

The issue has been introduced by this commit: b3127a3

Reverting it, package download works again. I suspect the issue may be related to the fact that since FreeBSD 14.3 there are two default repositories: FreeBSD and FreeBSD-kmods.

[zhelezov]

Reverting the line referenced above doesn't seem to work for me. If I revert it on v3.4.3, I still get unhandled error. If I revert it with poudriere-devel, all packages are still built instead of being fetched.

And pkg itself is bootstrapped on each run. Shouldn't that persist on consecutive runs?

With b3127a3 reverted:

[00:00:02] [Dry Run] Package fetch: Looking for missing packages to fetch from pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest
[00:00:02] [Dry Run] Packge fetch: bootstrapping pkg
...
[00:00:10] [Dry Run] Package fetch: Not fetching as remote repository is unavailable.
[00:00:10] [Dry Run] pkg bootstrap missing: unable to inspect existing packages, cleaning all packages... done

Without reverting the commit:

[00:00:01] [Dry Run] Package fetch: Looking for missing packages to fetch from pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest
[00:00:01] [Dry Run] Packge fetch: bootstrapping pkg
...
[00:00:11] [Dry Run] Package fetch: Failed to fetch package repository.
[00:00:11] [Dry Run] pkg bootstrap missing: unable to inspect existing packages, cleaning all packages... done

[fullermd]

The issue has been introduced by this commit: b3127a3

Manually rolling this back made things work again for me on two 14.3 systems that were broken as well.