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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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1.12 ! ericj 30: <p>
! 31: For more detailed information on install patches to OpenBSD, please
! 32: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
! 33: </p>
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1.1 deraadt 37: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>
38: <ul>
39: <li>One of the install scripts has a flaw that makes the CD-ROM mount fail
40: when using the CD-ROM as the install source media.
41: To workaround this use the following sequence of commands before
42: starting the install script. This must be done each time the install
43: kernel is booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM
44: is the media to install from. Do the following at the shell prompt:
45: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.sub
46: /{_filesystem/s//{_fstype/
47: wq
48: <b>#</b>
49: </pre>
50: For architectures where the install scripts start automatically
51: (like amiga), you need to abort it at the (I)nstall or (U)pdate
52: prompt by pressing Ctrl-C before doing the above command. After
53: that you can restart the install by:
54: <pre><b>#</b> install
55: </pre>
56: </ul>
57: <br>
58: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Alpha</font></h3>
59: <ul>
60: <li>CD2 does not boot on the alpha, as had been planned. Instead, you
61: must use the floppy install method. This is not significantly
62: harder..
63: </ul>
64: <br>
65: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
66: <ul>
67: <li>Some rarer PC BIOS's do not like the hardrive bootblocks when used
68: as a MBR. The symptom is that the BIOS says "READ ERROR" when booting,
69: but everything suggests it should work fine. In those cases, it is
70: sufficient to install OS-BS or some other primary bootloader as the main
71: MBR, then install OpenBSD in a partition all by itself starting at a
72: non-zero offset. For instance, start OpenBSD at next track boundary or so.
73: <li>The i386/X11/SUMS.md5 file contains 4 incorrect MD5 checksums.
74: These have been corrected on the ftp mirrors. The correct lines are:<br>
75: MD5 (X33doc.tgz) = 6aa0be7987f9a3cf32a63b5ea9a83b39<br>
76: MD5 (X33html.tgz) = 6ba39d41aef7c75c35a0533275c6f8c0<br>
77: MD5 (X33ps.tgz) = ea49fc1b12c17fc16ece7d0e4ad4ee06<br>
78: MD5 (RELNOTES) = 689fda20596a4eb82f86ded51efb01f4<br>
79: <li>A lot of people with IDE disk drives fail to read the
80: INSTALL.i386 document, and hence end up with geometry translation
81: problems. Read the document, please.
82: </ul>
83: <br>
84: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Amiga</font></h3>
85: <ul>
86: <li>The amiga install has a flaw wrt Tseng based graphic cards: when entering
87: multiuser mode the console won't get a login prompt. This is due to
88: a problem in the shipped /dev/MAKEDEV script. To fix, enter single
89: user mode and do:
90: <pre><b>#</b> cd /dev
91: <b>#</b> sh MAKEDEV ttye6
92: </pre>
93: </ul>
94: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Sparc</font></h3>
95: <ul>
96: <li>The sparc X11R6.3 xdm-config files reference /usr/X11R6.3/... This is
97: due to X11R6.3's default config file contents. To fix, su and
98: type:
99: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr
100: <b>#</b> ln -s X11R6 X11R6.3
101: </pre>
102: <li>The sparc "single floppy install disk" has a problem when you specify
103: "dumb" in response to the terminal type query. As a work-around
104: first specify an invalid terminal such as "bogus" and when prompted
105: again for a terminal type, enter "dumb" and it will work correctly.
106: <li>When netbooting an older sparc system such as a Sun4 or Sun4c, the boot
107: may hang up at the end of the tftp transfer of the bootstrap due
108: to the tftp transfer working in 512-byte blocks. If this occurs
109: create a "padded" version of the bootstrap (boot or zboot) as follows:
110: <pre><b>#</b> cd /tftpboot
111: <b>#</b> dd if=boot of=newboot obs=512 conv=osync
112: <b>#</b> mv newboot boot
113: </pre>
114: <li>The sparc install script has two flaws that make the kernel copy
115: and the bootblock install fail. The kernel copy only fails
116: then installing from CD-ROM. To workaround this use the
117: following sequence of commands before starting the install
118: script. This must be done each time the install kernel is
119: booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM is
120: the media to install from. Do the following at the shell
121: prompt:
122: if you install from CD-ROM do the following:
123: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
124: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd/
125: wq
126: <b>#</b>
127: </pre>
128: ... or if you plan to use the bsd.scsi3 kernel you should use instead:
129: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
130: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd.scsi3/
131: wq
132: <b>#</b>
133: </pre>
134: The following one you'll have to do always (not only then
135: installing from from CD-ROM)
136: <pre><b>#</b> ed /usr/mdec/binstall
137: /getopt/,/getopt/+4d
138: wq
139: <b>#</b>
140: </pre>
141: </ul>
142: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Pmax</font></h3>
143: <ul>
144: <li> When using the X11R6 binaries from the 2.1 release you will get
145: errors like:
146: <pre><b>#</b> mkfontdir
147: mkfontdir: undefined symbol: 'astpending' 12
148: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
149: </pre>
150: this is due to a little problem affecting the compatibility between
151: the OpenBSD/arc port (on which the X11R6 clients were build) and
152: OpenBSD/pmax. You can work around this problem by using the arc
153: version of the shared libc instead of the pmax one. You may get a copy
154: of the OpenBSD/arc 2.1 libc.so.16.1 from <a
155: href=ftp://miranda.rz-berlin.mpg.de/pub/OpenBSD/pmax/fixes/libc.so.16.1>
156: here </a>. Simply download it and do the following:
157: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr/lib
158: <b>#</b> mv libc.so.16.1 original_libc.so.16.1
159: <b>#</b> cp /where_you_have_downloaded_it_to/libc.so.16.1 .
160: <b>#</b> chown root.bin libc.so.16.1
161: <b>#</b> chmod 444 libc.so.16.1
162: </pre>
163: Please be careful while doing this - because the libc is a very
164: sensitive part of the system. You can remove the original_libc.so.16.1
165: after the next reboot if everything is working fine.
166: </ul>
167: <p>
168: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Mac68k</font></h3>
169: <ul>
170: <li>The installer generates incorrect /etc/fstab files causing messages such as "file system read-only" on bootup.
171: To correct, boot to single-user mode (by clicking that checkbox in the Booter's Booting:Options dialog) and do the following:
172: <pre>
173: <b>#</b> mount /dev/sd0a /
174: <b>#</b> ed /etc/fstab
175: 1,$s/ ufs / ffs /
176: 1,$s/ ro / rw /
177: w
178: q
179: </pre>
180: Alternately, simply invoke vi or another editor and change the root filesystem
181: to be of type ffs rather than ufs and be rw (read-write) rather than ro
182: (read-only). In either case, you'll need to reboot the system afterwards.
183: Make this correction as soon as possible after installing the system.
184: The installer should not have specified the filesystem as the old
185: "ufs" type; the "ffs" type is more correct.
186:
187: <li>The installer forgets to install the kernel onto the filesystem.
188: This is because the installer expects all packages including the kernel to
189: be tar'ed and gzip'ed. The kernel was not shipped that way. Therefore, you
190: must make this correction <em>before attempting to boot the system</em>.
191: To correct, use the Installer mini-shell and do the following:
192: <pre>
193: > cpin :[internal-macos-path]:bsd-generic bsd
194: </pre>
195: This should place the kernel as /bsd on the filesystem. You should
196: replace the above string with the colon-delimited path from your desktop to
197: wherever you have placed the kernel. If possible, it is easiest to drag the
198: kernel into the same folder as the Installer, so you can simply issue a
199: command without leading colon(s) like:
200: <pre>
201: > cpin bsd-generic bsd
202: </pre>
203: Good luck.
204: </ul>
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1.11 jason 209: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.2 deraadt 210: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.4 deraadt 211: <a href=errata23.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.6 deraadt 212: <a href=errata24.html>For 2.4 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.9 deraadt 213: <a href=errata25.html>For 2.5 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.10 deraadt 214: <a href=errata26.html>For 2.6 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
215: <a href=errata.html>For 2.7 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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