This is a list of open issues that need to be resolved for FreeBSD &local.rel;. If you have any updates for this list, please e-mail re@FreeBSD.org.
| Issue | Status | Responsible | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Possible named(8) resolving bug | -&status.unknown; | +&status.deferred; | &a.ume;, &a.hrs; | Multiple, independent reports have been made of problems with named(8) occasionally not resolving names correctly. Although these reports seem to indicate a real problem, not much is known about root cause or a solution. Discussion of this issue is taking place - on the current@ mailing list. | + on the current@ mailing list. + UPDATE: Further investigation has narrowed the likely + cause to a single nameserver, which has been taken out of + service. At this point, it is likely that neither the resolver + nor BIND are responsible for these failures and that this issue + is not likely to be a release blocker.|
| ggated(8) | &status.wip; | &a.pjd; | ggated(8) has some fairly serious problems, as reported in PR kern/104829. A fix has been committed to HEAD and is planned for a merge to RELENG_6. |
| Issue | Status | Responsible | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| bce(4) stability fixes | &status.untested; | &a.scottl; | Several stability fixes for bce(4) were merged from HEAD to RELENG_6 around 20061024. Initial testing results have been promising, but more testing reports would be useful. |
| em(4) stability fixes | &status.untested; | &a.scottl;, &a.jfv;, &a.glebius;, &a.kris; | Several difficult-to-diagnose stability issues have been observed in the em(4) driver since August. As of 20061027, a newer driver provided by Intel (version 6.2.9) has been committed to RELENG_6 for testing. If this version of the em(4) driver does not perform satisfactorily, it may be necessary to revert the driver to its prior state (approximately that of 6.1-RELEASE). |
| sysinstall(8) kernel selection fix | &status.untested; | &a.erwin; | A bug in sysinstall(8) could result in it failing to install a kernel on a new disk if the user did not choose a distribution from the distribution menu. This is believed to have been fixed as of 20061029, but could use more testing. |
The system is continuously being subjected to Peter Holm's Kernel Stress Test Suite. The following issues have recently been discovered from this test suite.
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