pkg won't bootstrap on -current

From: void <void_at_f-m.fm>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 14:08:11 UTC
It seems pkg won't bootstrap on -current, at least not for me on arm64.aarch64
I've not tried yet with just a snapshot.

version is main-n258626-865f46b25559 built today 17th Oct 22.

The error is
# pkg bootstrap
The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:aarch64/latest, please wait...
Verifying signature with trusted certificate pkg.freebsd.org.2013102301... done
Child process pid=10086 terminated abnormally: Segmentation fault

tried installing the port

/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg# make install
===>  Installing for pkg-1.18.4
===>  Checking if pkg is already installed
===>   Registering installation for pkg-1.18.4
Child process pid=37844 terminated abnormally: Segmentation fault
*** Error code 139

Stop.
make[2]: stopped in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg
*** Error code 1

# which pkg-static
/usr/local/sbin/pkg-static

# /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static bootstrap
Child process pid=39006 terminated abnormally: Segmentation fault

There's a core file. lldb is installed. if someone can clue me in to how it's used,
i can supply more info

There's nothing in /var/db/pkg

TIA for any clues