FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE Errata

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Last modified on 2018-06-27 13:27:44 EDT by gjb.

Abstract

This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE, + “®” symbol.

Last modified on 2018-06-27 13:29:28 EDT by gjb.

Abstract

This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE, containing significant information discovered after the release or too late in the release cycle to be otherwise included in the release documentation. This information includes security advisories, as well as news relating to the software or documentation that could affect its operation or usability. An up-to-date version of this document should always be consulted before installing this version of FreeBSD.

This errata document for FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE will be maintained until the release of FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Security Advisories
3. Errata Notices
4. Open Issues
5. Late-Breaking News

1. Introduction

This errata document contains “late-breaking news” about FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE. Before installing this version, it is important to consult this document to learn about any post-release discoveries or problems that may already have been found and fixed.

Any version of this errata document actually distributed with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on the Internet and should be consulted as the “current errata” for this release. These other copies of the errata are located at https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/, plus any sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location.

Source and binary snapshots of FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE also contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of the snapshot).

For a list of all FreeBSD CERT security advisories, see https://www.FreeBSD.org/security/.

2. Security Advisories

Advisory	Date	Topic
No advisories

3. Errata Notices

Errata	Date	Topic
No erratas

4. Open Issues

FreeBSD/i386 installed on ZFS may crash during boot when the ZFS pool mount is attempted while booting an unmodified GENERIC kernel.
A system tunable has been added as of revision r286584 to make the kern.kstack_pages tunable configurable without recompiling the kernel.
To mitigate system crashes with such configurations, choose Escape to loader prompt in the boot menu and enter the following lines from loader(8) prompt, after an OK:
```
set kern.kstack_pages=4
 boot
```
Add this line to /boot/loader.conf for the change to persist across reboots:
```
kern.kstack_pages=4
```
[2017-07-25] FreeBSD/arm64 currently lacks EFI real-time clock (RTC) support, which may cause the system to boot with the wrong time set.
As a workaround, either enable ntpdate(8) or include ntpd_sync_on_start="YES" in rc.conf(5).
[2017-07-25] A late issue was discovered with FreeBSD/arm64 and "root on ZFS" installations where the root ZFS pool would fail to be located.
There currently is no workaround.
[2017-11-06] An issue with FreeBSD virtual machines with vagrant was discovered that affects the VirtualBox where the virtual machine will not start on the initial boot invoked with vagrant up.
The issue is due to the virtual machine MAC being unset, as FreeBSD does not provide a default Vagrantfile.
It has been observed, however, that a subsequent invocation of vagrant up will allow the virtual machine to successfully boot, allowing access via vagrant ssh.
[2018-06-21] An issue had been discovered late in the release cycle where removing ZFS vdevs from a pool under certain conditions would cause a system crash when zfsd(8) is enabled in rc.conf(5).
At present, it is believed to be limited to removal of a mirror vdev from a pool consisting of multiple mirror vdevs.
See PR 228750 for more information and updates as the issue is investigated.
[2018-06-26] An issue had been discovered late in the release cycle where a system crash could occur after installing emulators/virtualbox-ose from upstream package mirrors via pkg(8).
Building emulators/virtualbox-ose from the ports(7) collection has been observed to work around the crash.
See PR 228535 for more information.
[2018-06-26] It was discovered after the releng/11.2 branch was tagged for FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE that a few device drivers were missing from the hardware page. The missing drivers, alc(4), cxgbev(4), liquidio(4), and mos(4) were added to the 11-STABLE hardware page.
[2018-06-26] The URL to the instructions for source-based upgrades in UPDATING incorrectly points to a page that no longer exists. The correct URL is https://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html.
[2018-06-27] The announcement email for FreeBSD 11.2 incorrectly states the ocs_fw(4) driver had been added; this should have stated ocs_fc(4).

5. Late-Breaking News

No news.

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