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<h1 class="TITLE"><a id="AEN2" name="AEN2">FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE Errata</a></h1>
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<h3 class="CORPAUTHOR">The FreeBSD Project</h3>
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<p class="COPYRIGHT">Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 The
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FreeBSD Documentation Project</p>
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<p class="PUBDATE">$FreeBSD: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.sgml,v
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1.73.2.51 2007/11/30 05:55:05 bmah Exp $<br />
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<div class="LEGALNOTICE"><a id="TRADEMARKS" name="TRADEMARKS"></a>
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<p>FreeBSD is a registered trademark of the FreeBSD Foundation.</p>
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<p>Intel, Celeron, EtherExpress, i386, i486, Itanium, Pentium, and Xeon are trademarks or
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registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and
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other countries.</p>
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<p>Sparc, Sparc64, SPARCEngine, and UltraSPARC are trademarks of SPARC International, Inc
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in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based
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upon architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.</p>
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<p>Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their
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products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this document, and
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the FreeBSD Project was aware of the trademark claim, the designations have been followed
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by the “™” or the “®” symbol.</p>
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<blockquote class="ABSTRACT">
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<div class="ABSTRACT"><a id="AEN23" name="AEN23"></a>
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<p>This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, containing significant
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information discovered after the release or too late in the release cycle to be otherwise
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included in the release documentation. This information includes security advisories, as
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well as news relating to the software or documentation that could affect its operation or
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usability. An up-to-date version of this document should always be consulted before
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installing this version of FreeBSD.</p>
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<p>This errata document for FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE will be maintained until the release of
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FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<div class="SECT1">
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<hr />
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<h2 class="SECT1"><a id="INTRO" name="INTRO">1 Introduction</a></h2>
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<p>This errata document contains “late-breaking news” about FreeBSD
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6.2-RELEASE. Before installing this version, it is important to consult this document to
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learn about any post-release discoveries or problems that may already have been found and
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fixed.</p>
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<p>Any version of this errata document actually distributed with the release (for
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example, on a CDROM distribution) will be out of date by definition, but other copies are
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kept updated on the Internet and should be consulted as the “current errata”
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for this release. These other copies of the errata are located at <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/"
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target="_top">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/</a>, plus any sites which keep up-to-date
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mirrors of this location.</p>
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<p>Source and binary snapshots of FreeBSD 6-STABLE also contain up-to-date copies of this
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document (as of the time of the snapshot).</p>
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<p>For a list of all FreeBSD CERT security advisories, see <a
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href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/" target="_top">http://security.FreeBSD.org/</a> or <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/"
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target="_top">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/</a>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="SECT1">
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<hr />
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<h2 class="SECT1"><a id="LATE-NEWS" name="LATE-NEWS">2 Late-Breaking News and
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Corrections</a></h2>
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<p>[20070116] The release notes should have mentioned that a separate ISO image has been
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created with readable documentation files. It contains renderings of the documention for
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all supported languages; the last several FreeBSD releases only contained English
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documents due to space limitations.</p>
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<p>[20070116] Some versions of the release announcement contained an incorrect manual
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page reference for the GELI disk encryption subsystem. The correct manual page is <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geli&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geli</span>(8)</span></a>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="SECT1">
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<hr />
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<h2 class="SECT1"><a id="SECURITY" name="SECURITY">3 Security Advisories</a></h2>
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<p>The following security advisories pertain to FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. For more
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information, consult the individual advisories available from <a
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href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/" target="_top">http://security.FreeBSD.org/</a>.</p>
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<div class="INFORMALTABLE"><a id="AEN48" name="AEN48"></a>
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<th>Advisory</th>
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<th>Date</th>
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<th>Topic</th>
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<td><a href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:02.bind.asc"
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target="_top">SA-07:02.bind</a></td>
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<td>9 February 2007</td>
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<td>
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<p>Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities in <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=named&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">named</span>(8)</span></a></p>
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</td>
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<td><a href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:03.ipv6.asc"
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target="_top">SA-07:03.ipv6</a></td>
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<td>26 April 2007</td>
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<td>
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<p>IPv6 Routing Header 0 is dangerous</p>
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</td>
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<td><a href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc"
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target="_top">SA-07:05.libarchive</a></td>
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<td>12 July 2007</td>
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<td>
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<p>Errors handling corrupt tar files in <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=libarchive&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
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class="REFENTRYTITLE">libarchive</span>(3)</span></a></p>
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</td>
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<td><a href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:09.random.asc"
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target="_top">SA-07:09.random</a></td>
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<td>29 November 2007</td>
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<td>
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<p>Random value disclosure</p>
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</div>
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<hr />
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<h2 class="SECT1"><a id="KNOWN-PROBLEMS" name="KNOWN-PROBLEMS">4 Known Problems and
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Solutions</a></h2>
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<p>[20070116] As mentioned in the release notes, the <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=arcmsr&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">arcmsr</span>(4)</span></a> driver
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was updated for FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. Some isolated crash problems were noted after this
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update, although the driver in general tends to work quite well for many testers, and it
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seems to be “better” in general in terms of functionality and supported
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hardware. Users having problems may wish to consider backing out the driver update or
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installing a version of this driver <a
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href="ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/FreeBSD/DRIVER/SourceCode/"
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target="_top">directly from Areca</a>. Further investigation is continuing into these
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issues.</p>
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<p>[20070116] FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE has been diagnosed with kernel bug related to
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UNIX-domain sockets. A <a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/unp_gc.patch"
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target="_top">patch</a> for this problem has been committed to HEAD and RELENG_6, and is
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a candidate for an errata patch to RELENG_6_2 after further testing.</p>
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<p>[20070116, update 20070212] Systems with very heavy network activity have been
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observed to have some problems with the kernel memory allocator. Symptoms are processes
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that get stuck in zonelimit state, or system livelocks. One partial workaround for this
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problem is to add the following line to <tt class="FILENAME">/boot/loader.conf</tt> and
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reboot:</p>
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<pre class="SCREEN">
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kern.ipc.nmbclusters="0"
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</pre>
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<p>Other workarounds have been discussed on the <tt class="LITERAL">freebsd-current@</tt>
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and <tt class="LITERAL">freebsd-stable@</tt> mailing lists.</p>
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<p>A bugfix has been committed to HEAD and has been merged to RELENG_6.</p>
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<p>[20070123, updated 20070307 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE does not properly add a host route to
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the destination of a <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gif&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable"><span
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class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gif</span>(4)</span></a> interface
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configured as an IPv6 point-to-point interface. This makes it impossible to send traffic
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across the tunnel. A workaround is to add the required route manually. If the <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gif&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable"><span
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class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gif</span>(4)</span></a> interface was
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configured as:</p>
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<pre class="SCREEN">
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<samp class="PROMPT">#</samp> ifconfig gif0 <tt
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class="REPLACEABLE"><i>ADDRESS</i></tt>/128 <tt
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class="REPLACEABLE"><i>DESTINATION</i></tt>
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</pre>
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<p>then the correct route can be added with this command:</p>
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<pre class="SCREEN">
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<samp class="PROMPT">#</samp> route add -host -inet6 <tt
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class="REPLACEABLE"><i>DESTINATION</i></tt> -iface gif0 -llinfo -nostatic
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</pre>
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<p>A fix for this problem has been committed to HEAD, RELENG_6, and RELENG_6_2. Further
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details are given in FreeBSD Errata Notice <a
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href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-07:02.net.asc"
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target="_top">EN-07:02.net</a>.</p>
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<p>[20070307] Under certain circumstances, a failed <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jail</span>(8)</span></a> startup
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may cause some undesired changes to a host's network interface configuration, due to a
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bug in the <tt class="FILENAME">rc.d/jail</tt> startup script. This problem has been
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corrected on HEAD, RELENG_6, and RELENG_6_2, and is documented in FreeBSD Errata Notice
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<a href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-07:03.rc.d_jail.asc"
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target="_top">EN-07:03.rc.d_jail</a>.</p>
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<p>[20070318] The <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=freebsd-update&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable">
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<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span
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class="REFENTRYTITLE">freebsd-update</span>(8)</span></a> client included in FreeBSD
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6.2-RELEASE does not properly update SMP kernels. This bug has been fixed on HEAD,
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RELENG_6, and RELENG_6_2, as described in FreeBSD Errata Notice <a
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href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-07:05.freebsd-update.asc"
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target="_top">EN-07:05.freebsd-update</a>.</p>
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<p align="center"><small>This file, and other release-related documents, can be
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downloaded from <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/snapshots/">http://www.FreeBSD.org/snapshots/</a>.</small></p>
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<p align="center"><small>For questions about FreeBSD, read the <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html">documentation</a> before contacting <<a
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href="mailto:questions@FreeBSD.org">questions@FreeBSD.org</a>>.</small></p>
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<p align="center"><small>All users of FreeBSD 6-STABLE should subscribe to the <<a
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href="mailto:stable@FreeBSD.org">stable@FreeBSD.org</a>> mailing list.</small></p>
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<p align="center"><small>For questions about this documentation, e-mail <<a
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href="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">doc@FreeBSD.org</a>>.</small></p>
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