I installed from packages - commands in the last paragraph above. I haven't installed anything from source, so no mixed install on the system. Weird, I installed the same and from the terminal for both calibre & ebook-viewer; [rodney@watton] calibre failed to authenticate magic 1 failed to load...

How did you install calibre?

pkg or source?

do you mean logging in via the log in manager? not allowed.

if root has no password, as your user, do the following in a terminal;

sudo passwd root <enter>

enter the password.

to get into the root account, in a terminal type

su -

one of your re-installs over wrote the boot/eif

quickest way, reinstall refind

Try this link

https://youtu.be/uJtLJGujjhM?si=DM9Kdw5XKggv4jmR

what video card?

How did you try and upgrade?

"software Station" or some other way

pkg prime-list > ~HOME/Desktop/ghostBSD_pkglist

yevrowl wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 12:24 pm

RodMyers wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 6:51 am FreeBSD itself has dropped i386 support

This is logical when past versions are not supported. But why did they delete all the disk images of operating systems?!

probably a support issue.

If they offered ISO images, they would be required to offer support

FreeBSD itself has dropped i386 support