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1.5 espie 17: This is the OpenBSD 2.1 release errata & patch list:
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20: <hr>
21: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.4 deraadt 22: <a href=errata23.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.6 deraadt 23: <a href=errata24.html>For 2.4 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.9 deraadt 24: <a href=errata25.html>For 2.5 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.10 ! deraadt 25: <a href=errata26.html>For 2.6 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
! 26: <a href=errata.html>For 2.7 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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1.1 deraadt 31: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>
32: <ul>
33: <li>One of the install scripts has a flaw that makes the CD-ROM mount fail
34: when using the CD-ROM as the install source media.
35: To workaround this use the following sequence of commands before
36: starting the install script. This must be done each time the install
37: kernel is booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM
38: is the media to install from. Do the following at the shell prompt:
39: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.sub
40: /{_filesystem/s//{_fstype/
41: wq
42: <b>#</b>
43: </pre>
44: For architectures where the install scripts start automatically
45: (like amiga), you need to abort it at the (I)nstall or (U)pdate
46: prompt by pressing Ctrl-C before doing the above command. After
47: that you can restart the install by:
48: <pre><b>#</b> install
49: </pre>
50: </ul>
51: <br>
52: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Alpha</font></h3>
53: <ul>
54: <li>CD2 does not boot on the alpha, as had been planned. Instead, you
55: must use the floppy install method. This is not significantly
56: harder..
57: </ul>
58: <br>
59: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
60: <ul>
61: <li>Some rarer PC BIOS's do not like the hardrive bootblocks when used
62: as a MBR. The symptom is that the BIOS says "READ ERROR" when booting,
63: but everything suggests it should work fine. In those cases, it is
64: sufficient to install OS-BS or some other primary bootloader as the main
65: MBR, then install OpenBSD in a partition all by itself starting at a
66: non-zero offset. For instance, start OpenBSD at next track boundary or so.
67: <li>The i386/X11/SUMS.md5 file contains 4 incorrect MD5 checksums.
68: These have been corrected on the ftp mirrors. The correct lines are:<br>
69: MD5 (X33doc.tgz) = 6aa0be7987f9a3cf32a63b5ea9a83b39<br>
70: MD5 (X33html.tgz) = 6ba39d41aef7c75c35a0533275c6f8c0<br>
71: MD5 (X33ps.tgz) = ea49fc1b12c17fc16ece7d0e4ad4ee06<br>
72: MD5 (RELNOTES) = 689fda20596a4eb82f86ded51efb01f4<br>
73: <li>A lot of people with IDE disk drives fail to read the
74: INSTALL.i386 document, and hence end up with geometry translation
75: problems. Read the document, please.
76: </ul>
77: <br>
78: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Amiga</font></h3>
79: <ul>
80: <li>The amiga install has a flaw wrt Tseng based graphic cards: when entering
81: multiuser mode the console won't get a login prompt. This is due to
82: a problem in the shipped /dev/MAKEDEV script. To fix, enter single
83: user mode and do:
84: <pre><b>#</b> cd /dev
85: <b>#</b> sh MAKEDEV ttye6
86: </pre>
87: </ul>
88: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Sparc</font></h3>
89: <ul>
90: <li>The sparc X11R6.3 xdm-config files reference /usr/X11R6.3/... This is
91: due to X11R6.3's default config file contents. To fix, su and
92: type:
93: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr
94: <b>#</b> ln -s X11R6 X11R6.3
95: </pre>
96: <li>The sparc "single floppy install disk" has a problem when you specify
97: "dumb" in response to the terminal type query. As a work-around
98: first specify an invalid terminal such as "bogus" and when prompted
99: again for a terminal type, enter "dumb" and it will work correctly.
100: <li>When netbooting an older sparc system such as a Sun4 or Sun4c, the boot
101: may hang up at the end of the tftp transfer of the bootstrap due
102: to the tftp transfer working in 512-byte blocks. If this occurs
103: create a "padded" version of the bootstrap (boot or zboot) as follows:
104: <pre><b>#</b> cd /tftpboot
105: <b>#</b> dd if=boot of=newboot obs=512 conv=osync
106: <b>#</b> mv newboot boot
107: </pre>
108: <li>The sparc install script has two flaws that make the kernel copy
109: and the bootblock install fail. The kernel copy only fails
110: then installing from CD-ROM. To workaround this use the
111: following sequence of commands before starting the install
112: script. This must be done each time the install kernel is
113: booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM is
114: the media to install from. Do the following at the shell
115: prompt:
116: if you install from CD-ROM do the following:
117: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
118: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd/
119: wq
120: <b>#</b>
121: </pre>
122: ... or if you plan to use the bsd.scsi3 kernel you should use instead:
123: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
124: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd.scsi3/
125: wq
126: <b>#</b>
127: </pre>
128: The following one you'll have to do always (not only then
129: installing from from CD-ROM)
130: <pre><b>#</b> ed /usr/mdec/binstall
131: /getopt/,/getopt/+4d
132: wq
133: <b>#</b>
134: </pre>
135: </ul>
136: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Pmax</font></h3>
137: <ul>
138: <li> When using the X11R6 binaries from the 2.1 release you will get
139: errors like:
140: <pre><b>#</b> mkfontdir
141: mkfontdir: undefined symbol: 'astpending' 12
142: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
143: </pre>
144: this is due to a little problem affecting the compatibility between
145: the OpenBSD/arc port (on which the X11R6 clients were build) and
146: OpenBSD/pmax. You can work around this problem by using the arc
147: version of the shared libc instead of the pmax one. You may get a copy
148: of the OpenBSD/arc 2.1 libc.so.16.1 from <a
149: href=ftp://miranda.rz-berlin.mpg.de/pub/OpenBSD/pmax/fixes/libc.so.16.1>
150: here </a>. Simply download it and do the following:
151: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr/lib
152: <b>#</b> mv libc.so.16.1 original_libc.so.16.1
153: <b>#</b> cp /where_you_have_downloaded_it_to/libc.so.16.1 .
154: <b>#</b> chown root.bin libc.so.16.1
155: <b>#</b> chmod 444 libc.so.16.1
156: </pre>
157: Please be careful while doing this - because the libc is a very
158: sensitive part of the system. You can remove the original_libc.so.16.1
159: after the next reboot if everything is working fine.
160: </ul>
161: <p>
162: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Mac68k</font></h3>
163: <ul>
164: <li>The installer generates incorrect /etc/fstab files causing messages such as "file system read-only" on bootup.
165: To correct, boot to single-user mode (by clicking that checkbox in the Booter's Booting:Options dialog) and do the following:
166: <pre>
167: <b>#</b> mount /dev/sd0a /
168: <b>#</b> ed /etc/fstab
169: 1,$s/ ufs / ffs /
170: 1,$s/ ro / rw /
171: w
172: q
173: </pre>
174: Alternately, simply invoke vi or another editor and change the root filesystem
175: to be of type ffs rather than ufs and be rw (read-write) rather than ro
176: (read-only). In either case, you'll need to reboot the system afterwards.
177: Make this correction as soon as possible after installing the system.
178: The installer should not have specified the filesystem as the old
179: "ufs" type; the "ffs" type is more correct.
180:
181: <li>The installer forgets to install the kernel onto the filesystem.
182: This is because the installer expects all packages including the kernel to
183: be tar'ed and gzip'ed. The kernel was not shipped that way. Therefore, you
184: must make this correction <em>before attempting to boot the system</em>.
185: To correct, use the Installer mini-shell and do the following:
186: <pre>
187: > cpin :[internal-macos-path]:bsd-generic bsd
188: </pre>
189: This should place the kernel as /bsd on the filesystem. You should
190: replace the above string with the colon-delimited path from your desktop to
191: wherever you have placed the kernel. If possible, it is easiest to drag the
192: kernel into the same folder as the Installer, so you can simply issue a
193: command without leading colon(s) like:
194: <pre>
195: > cpin bsd-generic bsd
196: </pre>
197: Good luck.
198: </ul>
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