revisiting a TrueOS of unknown state, HP EliteBook 850 G2

# date ; uname -v
Sat Oct  7 13:40:55 BST 2017
FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #16 2b3a1daf1(drm-next): Sat Jun 24 21:47:25 UTC 2017     root@chimaera:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
# beadm list
BE                              Active Mountpoint  Space Created
failsafe                        -      -           17.8G 2017-03-08 02:52
12.0-CURRENT-up-20170706_182321 -      -           13.3G 2017-07-06 18:22
20170730-0503                   -      -           66.9M 2017-07-30 05:03
20170730-0523                   NR     /           74.7G 2017-07-30 05:23
# pkg -vv
Version                 : 1.10.99.4
PKG_DBDIR = "/var/db/pkg";
PKG_CACHEDIR = "/usr/local/tmp";
PORTSDIR = "/usr/ports";
INDEXDIR = "";
INDEXFILE = "INDEX-12";
HANDLE_RC_SCRIPTS = false;
DEFAULT_ALWAYS_YES = false;
ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES = false;
REPOS_DIR [
    "/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos",
]
PLIST_KEYWORDS_DIR = "";
SYSLOG = true;
ABI = "FreeBSD:12:amd64";
ALTABI = "freebsd:12:x86:64";
DEVELOPER_MODE = false;
VULNXML_SITE = "http://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/vuln.xml.bz2";
FETCH_RETRY = 3;
PKG_PLUGINS_DIR = "/usr/local/lib/pkg/";
PKG_ENABLE_PLUGINS = false;
PLUGINS [
]
DEBUG_SCRIPTS = false;
PLUGINS_CONF_DIR = "/usr/local/etc/pkg/";
PERMISSIVE = false;
REPO_AUTOUPDATE = true;
NAMESERVER = "";
HTTP_USER_AGENT = "pkg/1.10.99.4";
EVENT_PIPE = "";
FETCH_TIMEOUT = 30;
UNSET_TIMESTAMP = false;
SSH_RESTRICT_DIR = "";
PKG_ENV {
}
PKG_SSH_ARGS = "";
DEBUG_LEVEL = 0;
ALIAS {
}
CUDF_SOLVER = "";
SAT_SOLVER = "";
RUN_SCRIPTS = true;
CASE_SENSITIVE_MATCH = false;
LOCK_WAIT = 1;
LOCK_RETRIES = 5;
SQLITE_PROFILE = false;
WORKERS_COUNT = 0;
READ_LOCK = false;
PLIST_ACCEPT_DIRECTORIES = false;
IP_VERSION = 0;
AUTOMERGE = true;
VERSION_SOURCE = "";
CONSERVATIVE_UPGRADE = true;
PKG_CREATE_VERBOSE = false;
AUTOCLEAN = false;
DOT_FILE = "";
REPOSITORIES {
}
VALID_URL_SCHEME [
    "pkg+http",
    "pkg+https",
    "https",
    "http",
    "file",
    "ssh",
    "ftp",
    "ftps",
    "pkg+ssh",
    "pkg+ftp",
    "pkg+ftps",
]
ALLOW_BASE_SHLIBS = false;
WARN_SIZE_LIMIT = 1048576;
METALOG = "";
NFS_WITH_PROPER_LOCKING = false;


Repositories:
  trueos-base: {
    url             : "http://pkg.cdn.trueos.org/unstable/amd64-base",
    enabled         : yes,
    priority        : 0,
    signature_type  : "FINGERPRINTS",
    fingerprints    : "/usr/local/etc/pkg/fingerprints/trueos"
  }
  trueos-major: {
    url             : "http://pkg.cdn.trueos.org/unstable/amd64",
    enabled         : yes,
    priority        : 0,
    signature_type  : "FINGERPRINTS",
    fingerprints    : "/usr/local/etc/pkg/fingerprints/trueos"
  }
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