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1.5 espie 17: This is the OpenBSD 2.1 release errata & patch list:
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1.11 ! jason 21: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.2 deraadt 22: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.4 deraadt 23: <a href=errata23.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.6 deraadt 24: <a href=errata24.html>For 2.4 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.9 deraadt 25: <a href=errata25.html>For 2.5 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.10 deraadt 26: <a href=errata26.html>For 2.6 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
27: <a href=errata.html>For 2.7 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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1.1 deraadt 32: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>
33: <ul>
34: <li>One of the install scripts has a flaw that makes the CD-ROM mount fail
35: when using the CD-ROM as the install source media.
36: To workaround this use the following sequence of commands before
37: starting the install script. This must be done each time the install
38: kernel is booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM
39: is the media to install from. Do the following at the shell prompt:
40: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.sub
41: /{_filesystem/s//{_fstype/
42: wq
43: <b>#</b>
44: </pre>
45: For architectures where the install scripts start automatically
46: (like amiga), you need to abort it at the (I)nstall or (U)pdate
47: prompt by pressing Ctrl-C before doing the above command. After
48: that you can restart the install by:
49: <pre><b>#</b> install
50: </pre>
51: </ul>
52: <br>
53: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Alpha</font></h3>
54: <ul>
55: <li>CD2 does not boot on the alpha, as had been planned. Instead, you
56: must use the floppy install method. This is not significantly
57: harder..
58: </ul>
59: <br>
60: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
61: <ul>
62: <li>Some rarer PC BIOS's do not like the hardrive bootblocks when used
63: as a MBR. The symptom is that the BIOS says "READ ERROR" when booting,
64: but everything suggests it should work fine. In those cases, it is
65: sufficient to install OS-BS or some other primary bootloader as the main
66: MBR, then install OpenBSD in a partition all by itself starting at a
67: non-zero offset. For instance, start OpenBSD at next track boundary or so.
68: <li>The i386/X11/SUMS.md5 file contains 4 incorrect MD5 checksums.
69: These have been corrected on the ftp mirrors. The correct lines are:<br>
70: MD5 (X33doc.tgz) = 6aa0be7987f9a3cf32a63b5ea9a83b39<br>
71: MD5 (X33html.tgz) = 6ba39d41aef7c75c35a0533275c6f8c0<br>
72: MD5 (X33ps.tgz) = ea49fc1b12c17fc16ece7d0e4ad4ee06<br>
73: MD5 (RELNOTES) = 689fda20596a4eb82f86ded51efb01f4<br>
74: <li>A lot of people with IDE disk drives fail to read the
75: INSTALL.i386 document, and hence end up with geometry translation
76: problems. Read the document, please.
77: </ul>
78: <br>
79: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Amiga</font></h3>
80: <ul>
81: <li>The amiga install has a flaw wrt Tseng based graphic cards: when entering
82: multiuser mode the console won't get a login prompt. This is due to
83: a problem in the shipped /dev/MAKEDEV script. To fix, enter single
84: user mode and do:
85: <pre><b>#</b> cd /dev
86: <b>#</b> sh MAKEDEV ttye6
87: </pre>
88: </ul>
89: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Sparc</font></h3>
90: <ul>
91: <li>The sparc X11R6.3 xdm-config files reference /usr/X11R6.3/... This is
92: due to X11R6.3's default config file contents. To fix, su and
93: type:
94: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr
95: <b>#</b> ln -s X11R6 X11R6.3
96: </pre>
97: <li>The sparc "single floppy install disk" has a problem when you specify
98: "dumb" in response to the terminal type query. As a work-around
99: first specify an invalid terminal such as "bogus" and when prompted
100: again for a terminal type, enter "dumb" and it will work correctly.
101: <li>When netbooting an older sparc system such as a Sun4 or Sun4c, the boot
102: may hang up at the end of the tftp transfer of the bootstrap due
103: to the tftp transfer working in 512-byte blocks. If this occurs
104: create a "padded" version of the bootstrap (boot or zboot) as follows:
105: <pre><b>#</b> cd /tftpboot
106: <b>#</b> dd if=boot of=newboot obs=512 conv=osync
107: <b>#</b> mv newboot boot
108: </pre>
109: <li>The sparc install script has two flaws that make the kernel copy
110: and the bootblock install fail. The kernel copy only fails
111: then installing from CD-ROM. To workaround this use the
112: following sequence of commands before starting the install
113: script. This must be done each time the install kernel is
114: booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM is
115: the media to install from. Do the following at the shell
116: prompt:
117: if you install from CD-ROM do the following:
118: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
119: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd/
120: wq
121: <b>#</b>
122: </pre>
123: ... or if you plan to use the bsd.scsi3 kernel you should use instead:
124: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
125: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd.scsi3/
126: wq
127: <b>#</b>
128: </pre>
129: The following one you'll have to do always (not only then
130: installing from from CD-ROM)
131: <pre><b>#</b> ed /usr/mdec/binstall
132: /getopt/,/getopt/+4d
133: wq
134: <b>#</b>
135: </pre>
136: </ul>
137: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Pmax</font></h3>
138: <ul>
139: <li> When using the X11R6 binaries from the 2.1 release you will get
140: errors like:
141: <pre><b>#</b> mkfontdir
142: mkfontdir: undefined symbol: 'astpending' 12
143: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
144: </pre>
145: this is due to a little problem affecting the compatibility between
146: the OpenBSD/arc port (on which the X11R6 clients were build) and
147: OpenBSD/pmax. You can work around this problem by using the arc
148: version of the shared libc instead of the pmax one. You may get a copy
149: of the OpenBSD/arc 2.1 libc.so.16.1 from <a
150: href=ftp://miranda.rz-berlin.mpg.de/pub/OpenBSD/pmax/fixes/libc.so.16.1>
151: here </a>. Simply download it and do the following:
152: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr/lib
153: <b>#</b> mv libc.so.16.1 original_libc.so.16.1
154: <b>#</b> cp /where_you_have_downloaded_it_to/libc.so.16.1 .
155: <b>#</b> chown root.bin libc.so.16.1
156: <b>#</b> chmod 444 libc.so.16.1
157: </pre>
158: Please be careful while doing this - because the libc is a very
159: sensitive part of the system. You can remove the original_libc.so.16.1
160: after the next reboot if everything is working fine.
161: </ul>
162: <p>
163: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Mac68k</font></h3>
164: <ul>
165: <li>The installer generates incorrect /etc/fstab files causing messages such as "file system read-only" on bootup.
166: To correct, boot to single-user mode (by clicking that checkbox in the Booter's Booting:Options dialog) and do the following:
167: <pre>
168: <b>#</b> mount /dev/sd0a /
169: <b>#</b> ed /etc/fstab
170: 1,$s/ ufs / ffs /
171: 1,$s/ ro / rw /
172: w
173: q
174: </pre>
175: Alternately, simply invoke vi or another editor and change the root filesystem
176: to be of type ffs rather than ufs and be rw (read-write) rather than ro
177: (read-only). In either case, you'll need to reboot the system afterwards.
178: Make this correction as soon as possible after installing the system.
179: The installer should not have specified the filesystem as the old
180: "ufs" type; the "ffs" type is more correct.
181:
182: <li>The installer forgets to install the kernel onto the filesystem.
183: This is because the installer expects all packages including the kernel to
184: be tar'ed and gzip'ed. The kernel was not shipped that way. Therefore, you
185: must make this correction <em>before attempting to boot the system</em>.
186: To correct, use the Installer mini-shell and do the following:
187: <pre>
188: > cpin :[internal-macos-path]:bsd-generic bsd
189: </pre>
190: This should place the kernel as /bsd on the filesystem. You should
191: replace the above string with the colon-delimited path from your desktop to
192: wherever you have placed the kernel. If possible, it is easiest to drag the
193: kernel into the same folder as the Installer, so you can simply issue a
194: command without leading colon(s) like:
195: <pre>
196: > cpin bsd-generic bsd
197: </pre>
198: Good luck.
199: </ul>
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1.11 ! jason 204: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.2 deraadt 205: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.4 deraadt 206: <a href=errata23.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.6 deraadt 207: <a href=errata24.html>For 2.4 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.9 deraadt 208: <a href=errata25.html>For 2.5 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.10 deraadt 209: <a href=errata26.html>For 2.6 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
210: <a href=errata.html>For 2.7 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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