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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook V4.1-Based Extension//EN" [
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<!ENTITY % man PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Manual Page Entities//EN">
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<article>
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<articleinfo>
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<title>&os;
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&release.next;
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Errata</title>
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<corpauthor>
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The &os; Project
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</corpauthor>
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<pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
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<copyright>
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<year>2000</year>
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<year>2001</year>
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<year>2002</year>
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<year>2003</year>
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<holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder>
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</copyright>
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</articleinfo>
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<abstract>
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<para>This document lists errata items for &os;
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&release.next;,
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containing significant information discovered after the release.
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This information includes security advisories, as well as news
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relating to the software or documentation that could affect its
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operation or usability. An up-to-date version of this document
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should always be consulted before installing this version of
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&os;.</para>
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<para>This errata document for &os;
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&release.next;
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will be maintained until the release of &os; 5.1-RELEASE.</para>
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</abstract>
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<sect1 id="intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>This errata document contains <quote>late-breaking news</quote>
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about &os;
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&release.next;.
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Before installing this version, it is important to consult this
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document to learn about any post-release discoveries or problems
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that may already have been found and fixed.</para>
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<para>Any version of this errata document actually distributed
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with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be
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out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on
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the Internet and should be consulted as the <quote>current
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errata</quote> for this release. These other copies of the
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errata are located at <ulink
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url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/"></ulink>, plus any sites
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which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location.</para>
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<para>Source and binary snapshots of &os; &release.branch; also
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contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of
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the snapshot).</para>
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<para>For a list of all &os; CERT security advisories, see <ulink
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url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/"></ulink> or <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/"></ulink>.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="security">
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<title>Security Advisories</title>
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<para>No active security advisories.</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="late-news">
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<title>Late-Breaking News</title>
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<para>The &man.geom.4;-based disk partitioning code in the kernel
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will not allow an open partition to be overwritten. This
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usually prevents the use of <command>disklabel -B</command> to
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update the boot blocks on a disk because the
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<literal>a</literal> partition overlaps the space where the boot
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blocks are stored. A suggested workaround is to boot from an
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alternate disk, a CDROM, or a fixit floppy.</para>
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<para>When using disk media with sector sizes larger than 512
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bytes (for instance, &man.gbde.4; encrypted disks), the
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&man.dump.8; program fails to respect the larger sector size and
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cannot dump the partition. One possible workaround is to copy
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the entire file system in raw format and dump the copy. It is,
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for instance, possible to dump a file system stored in a regular
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file:</para>
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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=/dev/ad0s1d.bde of=/junk/ad0.dd bs=1m</userinput>
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&prompt.root; <userinput>dump 0f - /junk/ad0.dd | ...</userinput></screen>
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<para>A simpler workaround is to use &man.tar.1; or &man.cpio.1;
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to make backup copies.</para>
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<para>Hangs have been reported during &os; 5.0 snapshot
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installations when installing to &man.mly.4;-supported RAID
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arrays, in hardware configurations that appear to work fine
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under &os; 4.7-RELEASE.</para>
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<para>NETNCP and nwfs appear to be as-yet unadapted for KSE, and
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hence not working.</para>
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<para>During installation, the &man.iir.4; controller appears to
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probe correctly, but finds no disk devices.</para>
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<para>&man.truss.1; appears to contain a race condition during the
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start-up of debugging, which can result in &man.truss.1; failing
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to attach to the process before it exists. The symptom is that
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&man.truss.1; reports that it cannot open the &man.procfs.5;
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node supporting the process being debugged. A bug also appears
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to exist wherein &man.truss.1; will hang if &man.execve.2;
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returns <literal>ENOENT</literal> A further race appears to
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exist in which &man.truss.1; will return <errorname>PIOCWAIT:
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Input/output error</errorname> occasionally on startup. The fix
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for this sufficiently changes process execution handling that it
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has been deferred until after 5.0.</para>
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<para>Some bugs have been reported in &man.sysinstall.8; disk
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partitioning. One observed problem on the i386 is that
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&man.sysinstall.8; cannot recalculate the free space left on a
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disk after changing the type of an FDISK-type partition.</para>
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<para>In some case, documentation (such as the FAQ or Handbook)
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has not been updated to take into account &os; &release.current;
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features. Examples of areas where documentation is still
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needed include &man.gbde.8; and the new <quote>fast
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IPsec</quote> implementation.</para>
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</sect1>
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</article>
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