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