aide v0.19 and up doesn't (or can't) access the FreeBSD file-system anymore #208

Hi there.
After updating aide from v0.18.8 to v0.19 (and recently v0.19.2) it doesn't (or can't) access the file-system anymore.
The system is FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE (previously 14.3).
What I found out after about 20 hours of searching the web, fiddling with the "aide.conf", cleaning everything up and (re)installing aide from scratch is this:
In this case the content of the "aide.conf" doesn't matter.
No matter if I use my customized one from v0.18.8, the .sample from v0.19.2 or even a simplyfied one for testing:

#aide.conf for testing:
database_in=file:/var/db/aide/databases/aide.db
database_out=file:/var/db/aide/databases/aide.db.new
num_workers=4
report_url=file:/var/log/aide.log
/ p+u+g+s+ftype+sha3_256

everthing ends in the same result:

check config:

blackfoxx@FASTFOXX:~ $ sudo aide -D -L info
INFO: initialize rule tree
INFO: define default attribute definitions
INFO: define default groups definitions
INFO: read command line parameters
INFO: (--config-check): config check command
INFO: (--log-level): set log level to 'info'
INFO: parse configuration
blackfoxx@FASTFOXX:~ $

initialize new database:

blackfoxx@FASTFOXX:~ $ sudo aide -i -L info
INFO: initialize rule tree
INFO: define default attribute definitions
INFO: define default groups definitions
INFO: read command line parameters
INFO: (--init): database init command
INFO: (--log-level): set log level to 'info'
INFO: parse configuration
INFO: parsed 1 config file [1114 files/s] in 0m 0.0009s
INFO: read new entries from disk (limit: '(none)', root prefix: '')
WARNING: failed to open directory '/' for reading: stat fields changed: (skipping recursion)
INFO: read 1 entry [4509 entries/s] from file system in 0m 0.0002s
INFO: write new entries to database: file:/var/db/aide/databases/aide.db.new
INFO: wrote 1 entry [6508 entries/s] to file:/var/db/aide/databases/aide.db.new in 0m 0.0002s
INFO: generate reports
INFO: exit AIDE with exit code '0'
blackfoxx@FASTFOXX:~ $

Although it creates a new database, this new db is just empty and hence useless.

I already tried some variants with the "root_prefix"-option too, but without any luck:
root_prefix=/root in aide.conf:

WARNING: failed to open directory '/root' for reading: stat fields changed: (skipping recursion)

root_prefix=/home/blackfoxx in aide.conf:

WARNING: failed to open directory '/home/blackfoxx' for reading: stat fields changed: (skipping recursion)

Now I've reached the end of my knowledge, patience and time.
Until v0.19 it worked without any issues and I don't wanna switch to another IDS.
I hope that somebody else around here can help me out of this "misery".
Thanks in advance, blackfoxx.

some additional infos:

blackfoxx@FASTFOXX:~ $ pkg info aide
aide-0.19.2
Name : aide
Version : 0.19.2
Installed on : Sun Dec 21 17:46:04 2025 CET
Origin : security/aide
Architecture : FreeBSD:15:amd64
Prefix : /usr/local
Categories : security
Licenses : GPLv2
Maintainer : [email protected]
WWW : https://aide.github.io/
Comment : File and directory integrity checker
Options :
GCRYPT : on
NETTLE : off
Shared Libs required:
libc.so.7
libe2p.so.2
libgcrypt.so.20
libm.so.5
libpcre2-8.so.0
libthr.so.3
libz.so.6
Annotations :
FreeBSD_version: 1500068
build_timestamp: 2025-12-18T12:48:21+0000
built_by : poudriere-git-3.4.4-15-g61aba751
flavor : default
port_checkout_unclean: no
port_git_hash : 216f935c17e2b4738ea231634f8160e5f7182d48
ports_top_checkout_unclean: no
ports_top_git_hash: f05f83bf9e418b2758b94eecee0176ebfc32c370
repo_type : binary
repository : FreeBSD
Flat size : 247KiB
Description :
AIDE is Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment, a file and
directory integrity checker.