January 11, 2020

Today I found this annoying situation on FreeBSD 12.1 in a FreeBSD 12.0 jail (neither of which are directly relevant to the problem at hand). [dan@serpico:~] $ sudo pkg audit -F vulnxml file up-to-date pkg: vulnxml parsing error: no element found pkg: cannot process vulnxml After a bit if thinking, I figured the vulnxml file was corrupt. I guessed it might be in /var/db/pkg: [dan@serpico:/var/db/pkg] $ ls -l total 5226 -rw-r–r– 1 root […]