(FreeBSD-EN-21:08.freebsd-update) the stub for Falkon disappears after entry of the user's password (required for download)

[grahamperrin]

Re: #115 (comment) or thereabouts … with an up-to-date OS that originated as EOL FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE

From a four-minute screen recording 2021-02-12 08:27 helloSystem, slim Falkon crashed after entering password.mp4, a handful of frames:

Next steps

Aim to make the bug reproducible with an EOL, non-upgraded installation.

If necessary, intentionally enter an incorrect password.

[grahamperrin]

If the cause of disappearance was an incorrect password, then there's the issue of the lock preventing subsequent use of pkg by the stub.

[probonopd]

non-upgraded installation

Please report only issues with non-upgraded installations for now, as pkg upgrade is not (yet?) supported.

[grahamperrin]

… pkg upgrade is not (yet?) supported.

Please, do you mean that no package should be upgraded?

(What if a user installed Firefox then wishes to upgrade Firefox?)

[grahamperrin]

Adjacent #137 seems to be a consequence of this issue #136

See this morning's screen recording at #115 (comment) in particular:

⚠ /var/log/userlog does not include a [root:useradd] line for cyrus(60) or mysql(88)

[grahamperrin]

From #135 (comment)

… FreeBSD-EN-21:08.freebsd-update fixes the bug that caused #115 #136 and #137 …