update fails on freebsd (but works on ubuntu linux)

[circumspect.readabilities830 at aceecat.org]

So it's the last day of the month, and I update my texlive-2024
installations.

The one on ubuntu worked without any trouble, but on freebsd I got:

... lots of output about hyphenation ...

Transcript written on pdfetex.log.
fmtutil [INFO]: log file copied to: /opt/texlive/2024/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdfetex.log
fmtutil [INFO]: /opt/texlive/2024/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdfetex.fmt installed.
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `xetex -ini   -jobname=xetex -progname=xetex -etex xetex.ini </dev/null' return status: 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: returning error due to option --strict
fmtutil [INFO]: disabled formats: 3
fmtutil [INFO]: successfully rebuilt formats: 11
fmtutil [INFO]: not selected formats: 42
fmtutil [INFO]: failed to build: 1 (xetex/xetex)
fmtutil [INFO]: total formats: 57
fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 1
  OK: luatex.fmt/luatex luajithbtex.fmt/luajithbtex luahbtex.fmt/luahbtex luajittex.fmt/luajittex euptex.fmt/euptex hitex.fmt/hitex pdftex.fmt/pdftex dviluatex.fmt/luatex etex.fmt/pdftex eptex.fmt/euptex pdfetex.fmt/pdftex
  ERROR: xetex.fmt/xetex
running fmtutil-sys --byhyphen "/opt/texlive/2024/texmf-var/tex/generic/config/language.dat.lua" --no-error-if-no-engine=luametatex,luajithbtex,luajittex,mfluajit --status-file=/tmp/vc_adaa71l/5tEgxuJ50e ...
tlmgr: package log updated: /opt/texlive/2024/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log
tlmgr: command log updated: /opt/texlive/2024/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr-commands.log
tlmgr: An error has occurred. See above messages. Exiting.

I upload the 3 logfiles which seem relevant:

https://www.aceecat.org:4443/paste/pdfetex.log
https://www.aceecat.org:4443/paste/tlmgr.log
https://www.aceecat.org:4443/paste/tlmgr-commands.log

Probably doing something wrong, and just need a hint ...

-- 
Ian