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