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FreeBSD Documentation Project</p>
<p class="PUBDATE">$FreeBSD: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.sgml,v
1.73.2.27 2006/06/17 04:31:40 bmah Exp $<br />
1.73.2.29 2006/08/30 18:03:44 bmah Exp $<br />
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<div class="LEGALNOTICE"><a id="TRADEMARKS" name="TRADEMARKS"></a>
@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ target="_top">SA-06:15.ypserv</a></td>
<td>31&nbsp;May&nbsp;2006</td>
<td>
<p>Inoperative access controls in <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ypserv&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ypserv&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ypserv</span>(8)</span></a></p>
</td>
</tr>
@ -141,6 +141,17 @@ target="_top">SA-06:17.sendmail</a></td>
<p>Incorrect multipart message handling in Sendmail</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:18.ppp.asc"
target="_top">SA-06:18.ppp</a></td>
<td>23&nbsp;August&nbsp;2006</td>
<td>
<p>Buffer overflow in <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sppp&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sppp</span>(4)</span></a></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
@ -164,11 +175,11 @@ that enable the second core of dual-core i386 and amd64 CPUs by default when run
SMP kernel.</p>
<p>(2006/05/13) A change in the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&amp;sektion=4&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ata</span>(4)</span></a> driver in
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable"><span
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ata</span>(4)</span></a> driver in
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE modified a software interface visible from userland programs.
Programs that use the <tt class="LITERAL">IOCATAREQUEST</tt> <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ioctl&amp;sektion=2&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ioctl&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">ioctl</span>(2)</span></a>
interface will need to be recompiled. Typically, these programs communicate directly with
ATA and ATAPI drives, such as CDROM burning or ripping tools, or monitoring utilities.
@ -177,21 +188,21 @@ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/smartmontools/pkg-descr"
class="FILENAME">sysutils/smartmontools</tt></a> port.</p>
<p>(2006/05/27, updated 2006/06/01) On FreeBSD/alpha, <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a>
sometimes does not allow a disk to be labeled. The disk is presented in <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a>
but actions like <span class="GUIMENUITEM">Auto</span> do not result in a disklabel being
presented. One workaround is to boot the install CD, then select <span
class="GUIMENUITEM">Fixit</span>. From the <samp class="PROMPT">Fixit#</samp> prompt, run
<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=disklabel&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">disklabel</span>(8)</span></a>
manually. For example: <tt class="COMMAND">disklabel -rw da1 auto</tt> ensures a valid
disklabel is written onto <tt class="DEVICENAME">da1</tt>. Reboot from the install media.
<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a>
will now detect a valid disklabel on the disk and allow it to be partitioned to your
preference.</p>
@ -202,49 +213,55 @@ source-level compatibility with externally-maintained 10Gb Ethernet network driv
written for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. This change should have been documented in the release
notes.</p>
<p>(2006/06/01, updated 2006/06/07) A bug in the <tt class="FILENAME">rc.d/jail</tt>
<p>(2006/06/01, updated 2006/07/07) A bug in the <tt class="FILENAME">rc.d/jail</tt>
startup script could cause various problems for users attempting to configure <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&amp;sektion=2&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jail</span>(2)</span></a>
environments at system startup time. A fix has been committed to HEAD and RELENG_6; it
will be merged to the RELENG_6_1 errata fix branch after more testing.</p>
environments at system startup time. A fix has been committed to HEAD, RELENG_6, and
RELENG_6_1. More details can be found in errata notice <a
href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-06:01.jail.asc"
target="_top">FreeBSD-EN-06:01.jail</a>.</p>
<p>(2006/06/01) Deadlocks have been observed (and can be reproduced) in some cases where
snapshots and quotas are both being used on a file system. This problem has been fixed on
the HEAD and RELENG_6 branches; more testing is planned before a merge to the RELENG_6_1
errata fix branch.</p>
<p>(2006/06/01, updated 2006/08/30) Deadlocks have been observed (and can be reproduced)
in some cases where snapshots and quotas are both being used on a file system. This
problem has been fixed on the HEAD and RELENG_6 branches.</p>
<p>(2006/06/01, updated 2006/06/16) A bug in the Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP)
<p>(2006/06/01, updated 2006/08/28) A bug in the Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP)
implementation causes spurious error messages for point-to-point IPv6 links on FreeBSD
6.1-RELEASE. This behavior is a regression from FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. A solution for this
problem has been committed to HEAD and is planned for merging to RELENG_6.</p>
problem has been committed to HEAD, RELENG_6, and RELENG_6_1. Further details can be
found in errata notice <a
href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-06:02.net.asc"
target="_top">FreeBSD-EN-06:02.net</a>.</p>
<p>(2006/06/01) Problems have been observed when trying to load packages from multiple
CDROMs inside the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a>
environment. Specifically, the disk-switching functionality in <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a>
seems to become confused about the contents of a disk that has just been requested. This
situation has been seen primarily when installing the base system without Xorg (which
lives on the first CDROM of a multi-disk set), and then later using <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a> to
load some packages (such as the GNOME or KDE desktop environments) from a subsequent
CDROM that depend on Xorg. As a workaround during a new install, one should try to
install Xorg along with the base system, or at least before any other packages that
depend on it.</p>
<p>(2006/06/01, updated 2006/06/07) An error in the statistics-keeping logic in the UMA
<p>(2006/06/01, updated 2006/08/28) An error in the statistics-keeping logic in the UMA
kernel memory allocator has led to the number of <tt class="LITERAL">requests for mbufs
denied</tt> (as reported by <tt class="COMMAND">netstat -m</tt>) to increase erroneously.
A fix for this problem has been committed to HEAD and RELENG_6 and will be merged to the
RELENG_6_1 branch after additional testing.</p>
A fix for this problem has been committed to HEAD, RELENG_6, and RELENG_6_1. More
information is contained in errata notice <a
href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-06:02.net.asc"
target="_top">FreeBSD-EN-06:02.net</a>.</p>
<p>(2006/06/01) A longstanding bug in the i386 bootloader can cause root file system
corruption when the <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nextboot&amp;sektion=8&amp;manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nextboot&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">nextboot</span>(8)</span></a>
utility is used and the <tt class="FILENAME">/boot/nextboot.conf</tt> configuration file
happens to be located after cylinder 1023 on the boot disk. A bugfix has been committed
@ -253,6 +270,12 @@ to HEAD and planned for merging after additional testing.</p>
<p>(2006/06/16) A locking-related bug has been observed to cause noticeable slowdowns in
NFS server performance. A fix has been committed to HEAD and RELENG_6, and is a candidate
for a merge to RELENG_6_1 after additional testing.</p>
<p>(2006/08/28) A local kernel panic in the network stack could be caused by not checking
the validity of a pointer before use. This problem has been fixed on HEAD, RELENG_6, and
RELENG_6_1, as described in <a
href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-06:02.net.asc"
target="_top">FreeBSD-EN-06:02.net</a>.</p>
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</div>