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1.81 ! bentley 19: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
! 20: 2.1 Errata
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1.2 deraadt 23:
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>,
1.36 deraadt 39: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.58 deraadt 40: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
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1.38 deraadt 42: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.39 deraadt 43: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.40 deraadt 44: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.42 merdely 45: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.43 deraadt 46: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.44 deraadt 47: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.46 deraadt 48: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.47 deraadt 49: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.48 deraadt 50: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.49 deraadt 51: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.50 miod 52: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
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1.52 sthen 54: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
1.53 deraadt 55: <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>,
1.54 deraadt 56: <a href="errata52.html">5.2</a>,
1.55 deraadt 57: <a href="errata53.html">5.3</a>,
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1.65 deraadt 61: <a href="errata56.html">5.6</a>,
1.68 deraadt 62: <a href="errata57.html">5.7</a>,
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1.77 deraadt 66: <a href="errata61.html">6.1</a>,
1.78 deraadt 67: <a href="errata62.html">6.2</a>,
1.79 deraadt 68: <a href="errata63.html">6.3</a>,
1.80 deraadt 69: <a href="errata64.html">6.4</a>,
70: <a href="errata65.html">6.5</a>.
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1.59 deraadt 73: <p>
1.75 tj 74: Patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as unified diffs.
75: Each patch contains usage instructions.
76: All the following patches are also available in one
77: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.1.tar.gz">tar.gz file</a>
78: for convenience.
1.59 deraadt 79:
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1.75 tj 81: Patches for supported releases are also incorporated into the
1.76 tj 82: <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>.
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1.59 deraadt 84: <hr>
85:
1.1 deraadt 86: <ul>
1.61 deraadt 87: <li>
1.81 ! bentley 88: <strong>CD RELEASE WORKAROUND</strong>
1.61 deraadt 89: <i>All architectures</i><br>
90: One of the install scripts has a flaw that makes the CD-ROM mount fail
91: when using the CD-ROM as the install source media.
92: To workaround this use the following sequence of commands before
93: starting the install script. This must be done each time the install
94: kernel is booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM
95: is the media to install from. Do the following at the shell prompt:
1.1 deraadt 96: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.sub
97: /{_filesystem/s//{_fstype/
98: wq
99: <b>#</b>
100: </pre>
101: For architectures where the install scripts start automatically
102: (like amiga), you need to abort it at the (I)nstall or (U)pdate
103: prompt by pressing Ctrl-C before doing the above command. After
104: that you can restart the install by:
105: <pre><b>#</b> install
106: </pre>
1.61 deraadt 107: <p>
108: <li>
1.81 ! bentley 109: <strong>CD RELEASE WORKAROUND</strong>
1.61 deraadt 110: <i>alpha only</i><br>
111: CD2 does not boot on the alpha, as had been planned. Instead, you
112: must use the floppy install method. This is not significantly
113: harder..
114: <p>
115: <li>
1.81 ! bentley 116: <strong>BOOT BLOCK BUG</strong>
1.61 deraadt 117: <i>i386 only</i><br>
118: Some rarer PC BIOSs do not like the hardrive bootblocks when used
1.1 deraadt 119: as a MBR. The symptom is that the BIOS says "READ ERROR" when booting,
120: but everything suggests it should work fine. In those cases, it is
121: sufficient to install OS-BS or some other primary bootloader as the main
122: MBR, then install OpenBSD in a partition all by itself starting at a
123: non-zero offset. For instance, start OpenBSD at next track boundary or so.
1.61 deraadt 124: <p>
125: <li>
1.81 ! bentley 126: <strong>WRONG CHECKSUMS</strong>
1.61 deraadt 127: <i>i386 only</i><br>
128: The i386/X11/SUMS.md5 file contains 4 incorrect MD5 checksums.
1.1 deraadt 129: These have been corrected on the ftp mirrors. The correct lines are:<br>
130: MD5 (X33doc.tgz) = 6aa0be7987f9a3cf32a63b5ea9a83b39<br>
131: MD5 (X33html.tgz) = 6ba39d41aef7c75c35a0533275c6f8c0<br>
132: MD5 (X33ps.tgz) = ea49fc1b12c17fc16ece7d0e4ad4ee06<br>
133: MD5 (RELNOTES) = 689fda20596a4eb82f86ded51efb01f4<br>
1.61 deraadt 134: <p>
135: A lot of people with IDE disk drives fail to read the
1.1 deraadt 136: INSTALL.i386 document, and hence end up with geometry translation
137: problems. Read the document, please.
1.61 deraadt 138: <p>
139: <li>
1.81 ! bentley 140: <strong>RELEASE BUG</strong>
1.61 deraadt 141: <i>amiga only</i><br>
142: The amiga install has a flaw wrt Tseng based graphic cards: when entering
143: multiuser mode the console won't get a login prompt. This is due to
144: a problem in the shipped /dev/MAKEDEV script. To fix, enter single
145: user mode and do:
1.1 deraadt 146: <pre><b>#</b> cd /dev
147: <b>#</b> sh MAKEDEV ttye6
148: </pre>
1.61 deraadt 149: <p>
150: <li>
1.81 ! bentley 151: <strong>RELEASE BUG</strong>
1.61 deraadt 152: <i>sparc only</i><br>
153: The sparc X11R6.3 xdm-config files reference /usr/X11R6.3/... This is
154: to X11R6.3's default config file contents. To fix, su and
155: type:
1.1 deraadt 156: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr
157: <b>#</b> ln -s X11R6 X11R6.3
158: </pre>
1.61 deraadt 159: <p>
160: <li>
1.81 ! bentley 161: <strong>RELEASE BUG</strong>
1.61 deraadt 162: <i>sparc only</i><br>
163: The sparc "single floppy install disk" has a problem when you specify
164: "dumb" in response to the terminal type query. As a work-around
165: first specify an invalid terminal such as "bogus" and when prompted
166: again for a terminal type, enter "dumb" and it will work correctly.
167: <p>
168: <li>
1.81 ! bentley 169: <strong>RELEASE BUG</strong>
1.61 deraadt 170: <i>sparc only</i><br>
171: When netbooting an older sparc system such as a Sun4 or Sun4c, the boot
172: may hang up at the end of the tftp transfer of the bootstrap due
173: to the tftp transfer working in 512-byte blocks. If this occurs
174: create a "padded" version of the bootstrap (boot or zboot) as follows:
1.1 deraadt 175: <pre><b>#</b> cd /tftpboot
176: <b>#</b> dd if=boot of=newboot obs=512 conv=osync
177: <b>#</b> mv newboot boot
178: </pre>
1.61 deraadt 179: <p>
180: <li>
1.81 ! bentley 181: <strong>RELEASE BUG</strong>
1.61 deraadt 182: <i>sparc only</i><br>
183: The sparc install script has two flaws that make the kernel copy
184: and the bootblock install fail. The kernel copy only fails
185: then installing from CD-ROM. To workaround this use the
186: following sequence of commands before starting the install
187: script. This must be done each time the install kernel is
188: booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM is
189: the media to install from. Do the following at the shell
190: prompt:
191: <p>
192: If you install from CD-ROM do the following:
1.56 deraadt 193: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
194: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd/
195: wq
1.1 deraadt 196: <b>#</b>
197: </pre>
198: ... or if you plan to use the bsd.scsi3 kernel you should use instead:
1.56 deraadt 199: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
200: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd.scsi3/
201: wq
1.1 deraadt 202: <b>#</b>
203: </pre>
1.61 deraadt 204: <p>
205: The following one you'll have to do always (not only then
206: installing from CD-ROM)
1.56 deraadt 207: <pre><b>#</b> ed /usr/mdec/binstall
208: /getopt/,/getopt/+4d
209: wq
1.1 deraadt 210: <b>#</b>
211: </pre>
1.61 deraadt 212: <p>
213: <li>
1.81 ! bentley 214: <strong>RELEASE BUG</strong>
1.61 deraadt 215: <i>pmax only</i><br>
216: When using the X11R6 binaries from the 2.1 release you will get
1.1 deraadt 217: errors like:
218: <pre><b>#</b> mkfontdir
219: mkfontdir: undefined symbol: 'astpending' 12
220: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
221: </pre>
222: this is due to a little problem affecting the compatibility between
223: the OpenBSD/arc port (on which the X11R6 clients were build) and
224: OpenBSD/pmax. You can work around this problem by using the arc
1.16 miod 225: version of the shared libc instead of the pmax one. Once you have the
226: OpenBSD/arc 2.1 libc.so.16.1, do the following:
1.1 deraadt 227: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr/lib
228: <b>#</b> mv libc.so.16.1 original_libc.so.16.1
229: <b>#</b> cp /where_you_have_downloaded_it_to/libc.so.16.1 .
230: <b>#</b> chown root.bin libc.so.16.1
231: <b>#</b> chmod 444 libc.so.16.1
232: </pre>
233: Please be careful while doing this - because the libc is a very
234: sensitive part of the system. You can remove the original_libc.so.16.1
235: after the next reboot if everything is working fine.
236: <p>
1.61 deraadt 237: <li>
1.81 ! bentley 238: <strong>RELEASE BUG</strong>
1.61 deraadt 239: <i>mac68k only</i><br>
240: The installer generates incorrect /etc/fstab files causing messages such
241: as "file system read-only" on bootup. To correct, boot to single-user
242: mode (by clicking that checkbox in the Booter's Booting:Options dialog)
243: and do the following:
1.1 deraadt 244: <pre>
245: <b>#</b> mount /dev/sd0a /
246: <b>#</b> ed /etc/fstab
247: 1,$s/ ufs / ffs /
248: 1,$s/ ro / rw /
249: w
250: q
251: </pre>
1.56 deraadt 252: Alternately, simply invoke vi or another editor and change the root filesystem
1.1 deraadt 253: to be of type ffs rather than ufs and be rw (read-write) rather than ro
254: (read-only). In either case, you'll need to reboot the system afterwards.
255: Make this correction as soon as possible after installing the system.
256: The installer should not have specified the filesystem as the old
257: "ufs" type; the "ffs" type is more correct.
1.61 deraadt 258: <p>
259: <li>
1.81 ! bentley 260: <strong>RELEASE BUG</strong>
1.61 deraadt 261: <i>mac68k only</i><br>
262: The installer forgets to install the kernel onto the filesystem.
1.56 deraadt 263: This is because the installer expects all packages including the kernel to
1.1 deraadt 264: be tar'ed and gzip'ed. The kernel was not shipped that way. Therefore, you
265: must make this correction <em>before attempting to boot the system</em>.
266: To correct, use the Installer mini-shell and do the following:
267: <pre>
268: > cpin :[internal-macos-path]:bsd-generic bsd
269: </pre>
270: This should place the kernel as /bsd on the filesystem. You should
271: replace the above string with the colon-delimited path from your desktop to
272: wherever you have placed the kernel. If possible, it is easiest to drag the
273: kernel into the same folder as the Installer, so you can simply issue a
274: command without leading colon(s) like:
275: <pre>
276: > cpin bsd-generic bsd
277: </pre>
1.61 deraadt 278: <p>
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