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1.5 espie 18: This is the OpenBSD 2.1 release errata & patch list:
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21: <hr>
1.11 jason 22: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.24 deraadt 23: <br>
1.25 deraadt 24: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.24 deraadt 25: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
26: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
27: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
28: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
29: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
30: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
31: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
32: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
33: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
34: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.29 deraadt 35: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.30 david 36: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.34 david 37: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.35 ! miod 38: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
! 39: <a href="errata.html">3.6</a>.
1.24 deraadt 40: <br>
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1.12 ericj 43: <p>
1.26 deraadt 44: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.12 ericj 45: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
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1.1 deraadt 48: <br>
1.31 henning 49: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 50: <ul>
51: <li>One of the install scripts has a flaw that makes the CD-ROM mount fail
52: when using the CD-ROM as the install source media.
53: To workaround this use the following sequence of commands before
54: starting the install script. This must be done each time the install
55: kernel is booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM
56: is the media to install from. Do the following at the shell prompt:
57: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.sub
58: /{_filesystem/s//{_fstype/
59: wq
60: <b>#</b>
61: </pre>
62: For architectures where the install scripts start automatically
63: (like amiga), you need to abort it at the (I)nstall or (U)pdate
64: prompt by pressing Ctrl-C before doing the above command. After
65: that you can restart the install by:
66: <pre><b>#</b> install
67: </pre>
68: </ul>
69: <br>
1.31 henning 70: <h3><font color="#e00000">Alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 71: <ul>
72: <li>CD2 does not boot on the alpha, as had been planned. Instead, you
73: must use the floppy install method. This is not significantly
74: harder..
75: </ul>
76: <br>
1.31 henning 77: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 78: <ul>
1.17 jsyn 79: <li>Some rarer PC BIOSs do not like the hardrive bootblocks when used
1.1 deraadt 80: as a MBR. The symptom is that the BIOS says "READ ERROR" when booting,
81: but everything suggests it should work fine. In those cases, it is
82: sufficient to install OS-BS or some other primary bootloader as the main
83: MBR, then install OpenBSD in a partition all by itself starting at a
84: non-zero offset. For instance, start OpenBSD at next track boundary or so.
85: <li>The i386/X11/SUMS.md5 file contains 4 incorrect MD5 checksums.
86: These have been corrected on the ftp mirrors. The correct lines are:<br>
87: MD5 (X33doc.tgz) = 6aa0be7987f9a3cf32a63b5ea9a83b39<br>
88: MD5 (X33html.tgz) = 6ba39d41aef7c75c35a0533275c6f8c0<br>
89: MD5 (X33ps.tgz) = ea49fc1b12c17fc16ece7d0e4ad4ee06<br>
90: MD5 (RELNOTES) = 689fda20596a4eb82f86ded51efb01f4<br>
91: <li>A lot of people with IDE disk drives fail to read the
92: INSTALL.i386 document, and hence end up with geometry translation
93: problems. Read the document, please.
94: </ul>
95: <br>
1.31 henning 96: <h3><font color="#e00000">Amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 97: <ul>
98: <li>The amiga install has a flaw wrt Tseng based graphic cards: when entering
99: multiuser mode the console won't get a login prompt. This is due to
100: a problem in the shipped /dev/MAKEDEV script. To fix, enter single
101: user mode and do:
102: <pre><b>#</b> cd /dev
103: <b>#</b> sh MAKEDEV ttye6
104: </pre>
105: </ul>
1.31 henning 106: <h3><font color="#e00000">Sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 107: <ul>
108: <li>The sparc X11R6.3 xdm-config files reference /usr/X11R6.3/... This is
109: due to X11R6.3's default config file contents. To fix, su and
110: type:
111: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr
112: <b>#</b> ln -s X11R6 X11R6.3
113: </pre>
114: <li>The sparc "single floppy install disk" has a problem when you specify
115: "dumb" in response to the terminal type query. As a work-around
116: first specify an invalid terminal such as "bogus" and when prompted
117: again for a terminal type, enter "dumb" and it will work correctly.
118: <li>When netbooting an older sparc system such as a Sun4 or Sun4c, the boot
119: may hang up at the end of the tftp transfer of the bootstrap due
120: to the tftp transfer working in 512-byte blocks. If this occurs
121: create a "padded" version of the bootstrap (boot or zboot) as follows:
122: <pre><b>#</b> cd /tftpboot
123: <b>#</b> dd if=boot of=newboot obs=512 conv=osync
124: <b>#</b> mv newboot boot
125: </pre>
126: <li>The sparc install script has two flaws that make the kernel copy
127: and the bootblock install fail. The kernel copy only fails
128: then installing from CD-ROM. To workaround this use the
129: following sequence of commands before starting the install
130: script. This must be done each time the install kernel is
131: booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM is
132: the media to install from. Do the following at the shell
133: prompt:
134: if you install from CD-ROM do the following:
135: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
136: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd/
137: wq
138: <b>#</b>
139: </pre>
140: ... or if you plan to use the bsd.scsi3 kernel you should use instead:
141: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
142: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd.scsi3/
143: wq
144: <b>#</b>
145: </pre>
146: The following one you'll have to do always (not only then
1.27 david 147: installing from CD-ROM)
1.1 deraadt 148: <pre><b>#</b> ed /usr/mdec/binstall
149: /getopt/,/getopt/+4d
150: wq
151: <b>#</b>
152: </pre>
153: </ul>
1.31 henning 154: <h3><font color="#e00000">Pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 155: <ul>
156: <li> When using the X11R6 binaries from the 2.1 release you will get
157: errors like:
158: <pre><b>#</b> mkfontdir
159: mkfontdir: undefined symbol: 'astpending' 12
160: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
161: </pre>
162: this is due to a little problem affecting the compatibility between
163: the OpenBSD/arc port (on which the X11R6 clients were build) and
164: OpenBSD/pmax. You can work around this problem by using the arc
1.16 miod 165: version of the shared libc instead of the pmax one. Once you have the
166: OpenBSD/arc 2.1 libc.so.16.1, do the following:
1.1 deraadt 167: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr/lib
168: <b>#</b> mv libc.so.16.1 original_libc.so.16.1
169: <b>#</b> cp /where_you_have_downloaded_it_to/libc.so.16.1 .
170: <b>#</b> chown root.bin libc.so.16.1
171: <b>#</b> chmod 444 libc.so.16.1
172: </pre>
173: Please be careful while doing this - because the libc is a very
174: sensitive part of the system. You can remove the original_libc.so.16.1
175: after the next reboot if everything is working fine.
176: </ul>
177: <p>
1.31 henning 178: <h3><font color="#e00000">Mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 179: <ul>
180: <li>The installer generates incorrect /etc/fstab files causing messages such as "file system read-only" on bootup.
181: To correct, boot to single-user mode (by clicking that checkbox in the Booter's Booting:Options dialog) and do the following:
182: <pre>
183: <b>#</b> mount /dev/sd0a /
184: <b>#</b> ed /etc/fstab
185: 1,$s/ ufs / ffs /
186: 1,$s/ ro / rw /
187: w
188: q
189: </pre>
190: Alternately, simply invoke vi or another editor and change the root filesystem
191: to be of type ffs rather than ufs and be rw (read-write) rather than ro
192: (read-only). In either case, you'll need to reboot the system afterwards.
193: Make this correction as soon as possible after installing the system.
194: The installer should not have specified the filesystem as the old
195: "ufs" type; the "ffs" type is more correct.
196:
197: <li>The installer forgets to install the kernel onto the filesystem.
198: This is because the installer expects all packages including the kernel to
199: be tar'ed and gzip'ed. The kernel was not shipped that way. Therefore, you
200: must make this correction <em>before attempting to boot the system</em>.
201: To correct, use the Installer mini-shell and do the following:
202: <pre>
203: > cpin :[internal-macos-path]:bsd-generic bsd
204: </pre>
205: This should place the kernel as /bsd on the filesystem. You should
206: replace the above string with the colon-delimited path from your desktop to
207: wherever you have placed the kernel. If possible, it is easiest to drag the
208: kernel into the same folder as the Installer, so you can simply issue a
209: command without leading colon(s) like:
210: <pre>
211: > cpin bsd-generic bsd
212: </pre>
213: Good luck.
214: </ul>
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216: <hr>
1.8 deraadt 217:
1.11 jason 218: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.24 deraadt 219: <br>
1.25 deraadt 220: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.24 deraadt 221: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
222: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
223: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
224: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
225: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
226: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
227: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
228: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
229: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
230: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.29 deraadt 231: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.30 david 232: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.34 david 233: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.35 ! miod 234: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
! 235: <a href="errata.html">3.6</a>.
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