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1.25 deraadt 24: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
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1.75 tj 82: Patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as unified diffs.
83: Each patch contains usage instructions.
84: All the following patches are also available in one
85: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.1.tar.gz">tar.gz file</a>
86: for convenience.
1.59 deraadt 87:
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1.75 tj 89: Patches for supported releases are also incorporated into the
1.76 tj 90: <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>.
1.12 ericj 91:
1.59 deraadt 92: <hr>
93:
1.1 deraadt 94: <ul>
1.82 deraadt 95:
1.83 deraadt 96: <li id="cdrelease1">
1.82 deraadt 97: <strong>001: CD RELEASE WORKAROUND</strong>
1.61 deraadt 98: <i>All architectures</i><br>
99: One of the install scripts has a flaw that makes the CD-ROM mount fail
100: when using the CD-ROM as the install source media.
101: To workaround this use the following sequence of commands before
102: starting the install script. This must be done each time the install
103: kernel is booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM
104: is the media to install from. Do the following at the shell prompt:
1.1 deraadt 105: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.sub
106: /{_filesystem/s//{_fstype/
107: wq
108: <b>#</b>
109: </pre>
110: For architectures where the install scripts start automatically
111: (like amiga), you need to abort it at the (I)nstall or (U)pdate
112: prompt by pressing Ctrl-C before doing the above command. After
113: that you can restart the install by:
114: <pre><b>#</b> install
115: </pre>
1.61 deraadt 116: <p>
1.82 deraadt 117:
1.83 deraadt 118: <li id="cdrelease2">
1.82 deraadt 119: <strong>002: CD RELEASE WORKAROUND</strong>
1.61 deraadt 120: <i>alpha only</i><br>
121: CD2 does not boot on the alpha, as had been planned. Instead, you
122: must use the floppy install method. This is not significantly
123: harder..
124: <p>
1.82 deraadt 125:
1.83 deraadt 126: <li id="bootblock">
1.82 deraadt 127: <strong>003: BOOT BLOCK BUG</strong>
1.61 deraadt 128: <i>i386 only</i><br>
129: Some rarer PC BIOSs do not like the hardrive bootblocks when used
1.1 deraadt 130: as a MBR. The symptom is that the BIOS says "READ ERROR" when booting,
131: but everything suggests it should work fine. In those cases, it is
132: sufficient to install OS-BS or some other primary bootloader as the main
133: MBR, then install OpenBSD in a partition all by itself starting at a
134: non-zero offset. For instance, start OpenBSD at next track boundary or so.
1.61 deraadt 135: <p>
1.82 deraadt 136:
1.83 deraadt 137: <li id="checksums">
1.82 deraadt 138: <strong>004: WRONG CHECKSUMS</strong>
1.61 deraadt 139: <i>i386 only</i><br>
140: The i386/X11/SUMS.md5 file contains 4 incorrect MD5 checksums.
1.1 deraadt 141: These have been corrected on the ftp mirrors. The correct lines are:<br>
142: MD5 (X33doc.tgz) = 6aa0be7987f9a3cf32a63b5ea9a83b39<br>
143: MD5 (X33html.tgz) = 6ba39d41aef7c75c35a0533275c6f8c0<br>
144: MD5 (X33ps.tgz) = ea49fc1b12c17fc16ece7d0e4ad4ee06<br>
145: MD5 (RELNOTES) = 689fda20596a4eb82f86ded51efb01f4<br>
1.61 deraadt 146: <p>
147: A lot of people with IDE disk drives fail to read the
1.1 deraadt 148: INSTALL.i386 document, and hence end up with geometry translation
149: problems. Read the document, please.
1.61 deraadt 150: <p>
1.82 deraadt 151:
1.83 deraadt 152: <li id="tseng">
1.82 deraadt 153: <strong>005: RELEASE BUG</strong>
1.61 deraadt 154: <i>amiga only</i><br>
155: The amiga install has a flaw wrt Tseng based graphic cards: when entering
156: multiuser mode the console won't get a login prompt. This is due to
157: a problem in the shipped /dev/MAKEDEV script. To fix, enter single
158: user mode and do:
1.1 deraadt 159: <pre><b>#</b> cd /dev
160: <b>#</b> sh MAKEDEV ttye6
161: </pre>
1.61 deraadt 162: <p>
1.82 deraadt 163:
1.83 deraadt 164: <li id="sparcx">
1.82 deraadt 165: <strong>006: RELEASE BUG</strong>
1.61 deraadt 166: <i>sparc only</i><br>
167: The sparc X11R6.3 xdm-config files reference /usr/X11R6.3/... This is
168: to X11R6.3's default config file contents. To fix, su and
169: type:
1.1 deraadt 170: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr
171: <b>#</b> ln -s X11R6 X11R6.3
172: </pre>
1.61 deraadt 173: <p>
1.83 deraadt 174:
175: <li id="sparcfd">
1.82 deraadt 176: <strong>007: RELEASE BUG</strong>
1.61 deraadt 177: <i>sparc only</i><br>
178: The sparc "single floppy install disk" has a problem when you specify
179: "dumb" in response to the terminal type query. As a work-around
180: first specify an invalid terminal such as "bogus" and when prompted
181: again for a terminal type, enter "dumb" and it will work correctly.
182: <p>
1.82 deraadt 183:
1.83 deraadt 184: <li id="sparctftp">
1.82 deraadt 185: <strong>008: RELEASE BUG</strong>
1.61 deraadt 186: <i>sparc only</i><br>
187: When netbooting an older sparc system such as a Sun4 or Sun4c, the boot
188: may hang up at the end of the tftp transfer of the bootstrap due
189: to the tftp transfer working in 512-byte blocks. If this occurs
190: create a "padded" version of the bootstrap (boot or zboot) as follows:
1.1 deraadt 191: <pre><b>#</b> cd /tftpboot
192: <b>#</b> dd if=boot of=newboot obs=512 conv=osync
193: <b>#</b> mv newboot boot
194: </pre>
1.61 deraadt 195: <p>
1.82 deraadt 196:
1.83 deraadt 197: <li id="sparcboot">
198: <strong>009: RELEASE BUG</strong>
1.61 deraadt 199: <i>sparc only</i><br>
200: The sparc install script has two flaws that make the kernel copy
201: and the bootblock install fail. The kernel copy only fails
202: then installing from CD-ROM. To workaround this use the
203: following sequence of commands before starting the install
204: script. This must be done each time the install kernel is
205: booted if the install script is to be run and the CD-ROM is
206: the media to install from. Do the following at the shell
207: prompt:
208: <p>
209: If you install from CD-ROM do the following:
1.56 deraadt 210: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
211: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd/
212: wq
1.1 deraadt 213: <b>#</b>
214: </pre>
215: ... or if you plan to use the bsd.scsi3 kernel you should use instead:
1.56 deraadt 216: <pre><b>#</b> ed install.md
217: /\/bsd/s//\/mnt2\/2.1\/sparc\/bsd.scsi3/
218: wq
1.1 deraadt 219: <b>#</b>
220: </pre>
1.61 deraadt 221: <p>
222: The following one you'll have to do always (not only then
223: installing from CD-ROM)
1.56 deraadt 224: <pre><b>#</b> ed /usr/mdec/binstall
225: /getopt/,/getopt/+4d
226: wq
1.1 deraadt 227: <b>#</b>
228: </pre>
1.61 deraadt 229: <p>
1.82 deraadt 230:
1.83 deraadt 231: <li id="mkfont">
232: <strong>010: RELEASE BUG</strong>
1.61 deraadt 233: <i>pmax only</i><br>
234: When using the X11R6 binaries from the 2.1 release you will get
1.1 deraadt 235: errors like:
236: <pre><b>#</b> mkfontdir
237: mkfontdir: undefined symbol: 'astpending' 12
238: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
239: </pre>
240: this is due to a little problem affecting the compatibility between
241: the OpenBSD/arc port (on which the X11R6 clients were build) and
242: OpenBSD/pmax. You can work around this problem by using the arc
1.16 miod 243: version of the shared libc instead of the pmax one. Once you have the
244: OpenBSD/arc 2.1 libc.so.16.1, do the following:
1.1 deraadt 245: <pre><b>#</b> cd /usr/lib
246: <b>#</b> mv libc.so.16.1 original_libc.so.16.1
247: <b>#</b> cp /where_you_have_downloaded_it_to/libc.so.16.1 .
248: <b>#</b> chown root.bin libc.so.16.1
249: <b>#</b> chmod 444 libc.so.16.1
250: </pre>
251: Please be careful while doing this - because the libc is a very
252: sensitive part of the system. You can remove the original_libc.so.16.1
253: after the next reboot if everything is working fine.
254: <p>
1.82 deraadt 255:
1.83 deraadt 256: <li id="fstab">
257: <strong>011: RELEASE BUG</strong>
1.61 deraadt 258: <i>mac68k only</i><br>
259: The installer generates incorrect /etc/fstab files causing messages such
260: as "file system read-only" on bootup. To correct, boot to single-user
261: mode (by clicking that checkbox in the Booter's Booting:Options dialog)
262: and do the following:
1.1 deraadt 263: <pre>
264: <b>#</b> mount /dev/sd0a /
265: <b>#</b> ed /etc/fstab
266: 1,$s/ ufs / ffs /
267: 1,$s/ ro / rw /
268: w
269: q
270: </pre>
1.56 deraadt 271: Alternately, simply invoke vi or another editor and change the root filesystem
1.1 deraadt 272: to be of type ffs rather than ufs and be rw (read-write) rather than ro
273: (read-only). In either case, you'll need to reboot the system afterwards.
274: Make this correction as soon as possible after installing the system.
275: The installer should not have specified the filesystem as the old
276: "ufs" type; the "ffs" type is more correct.
1.61 deraadt 277: <p>
1.82 deraadt 278:
1.83 deraadt 279: <li id="mac68kzip">
280: <strong>012: RELEASE BUG</strong>
1.61 deraadt 281: <i>mac68k only</i><br>
282: The installer forgets to install the kernel onto the filesystem.
1.56 deraadt 283: This is because the installer expects all packages including the kernel to
1.1 deraadt 284: be tar'ed and gzip'ed. The kernel was not shipped that way. Therefore, you
285: must make this correction <em>before attempting to boot the system</em>.
286: To correct, use the Installer mini-shell and do the following:
287: <pre>
288: > cpin :[internal-macos-path]:bsd-generic bsd
289: </pre>
290: This should place the kernel as /bsd on the filesystem. You should
291: replace the above string with the colon-delimited path from your desktop to
292: wherever you have placed the kernel. If possible, it is easiest to drag the
293: kernel into the same folder as the Installer, so you can simply issue a
294: command without leading colon(s) like:
295: <pre>
296: > cpin bsd-generic bsd
297: </pre>
1.61 deraadt 298: <p>
299:
1.85 schwarze 300: <li>
301: <strong>SECURITY VULNERABILITY</STRONG> in 4.4BSD procfs<br>
302: <a href="advisories/procfs.txt">OpenBSD advisory</a> (June 24, 1997)
303: <p>
304:
305: <li>
306: <strong>SECURITY VULNERABILITY</STRONG> in 4.4BSD rfork<br>
307: <a href="advisories/rfork.txt">OpenBSD advisory</a> (August 2, 1997)
308: <p>
309:
310: <li>
311: <strong>SECURITY VULNERABILITY</STRONG> in vacation<br>
312: <a href="advisories/sni_18_vacation.txt">Secure Networks advisory 18</a>
313: (September 1, 1997)
314: <p>
315:
316: <li>
317: <strong>SECURITY VULNERABILITY</STRONG> in I/O Signal Handling<br>
318: <a href="advisories/signals.txt">OpenBSD advisory</a> (September 15, 1997)
319: <p>
320:
321: <li>
322: <strong>SECURITY VULNERABILITY</STRONG> in lpd<br>
323: <a href="advisories/sni_19_lpd.txt">Secure Networks advisory 19</a>
324: (October 2, 1997)
325: <p>
326:
327: <li>
328: <strong>SECURITY VULNERABILITY</STRONG> in tgetent<br>
329: <a href="advisories/sni_20_tgetent.txt">Secure Networks advisory 20</a>
330: (October 21, 1997)
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332:
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