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&os; &release.bugfix; Errata The &os; Project $FreeBSD$ 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 The FreeBSD Documentation Project &tm-attrib.freebsd; &tm-attrib.intel; &tm-attrib.sparc; &tm-attrib.general; This document lists errata items for &os; &release.bugfix;, 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 &os;. This errata document for &os; &release.bugfix; will be maintained until the release of &os; &release.bugfix.next;. Introduction This errata document contains late-breaking news about &os; &release.bugfix;. 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version of this errata document actually distributed with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on the Internet and should be consulted as the current errata for this release.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 , plus any sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location. Source and binary snapshots of &os; &release.branch; also contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of the snapshot). For a list of all &os; CERT security advisories, see or . Security Advisories No advisories. Open Issues (31 Oct 2004) Sometimes the performance of the &man.re.4; and &man.em.4; drivers can become poor under heavy load. Especially, there are reports of &man.em.4; on the IBM ThinkPad T40 locking up under such conditions. (31 Oct 2004) There are reports of the &man.sk.4; driver locking up under heavy load, especially when on-board NICs of ASUStek motherboards are used. To clear the condition, bringing the interface down then back up and/or rebooting the system are needed. (31 Oct 2004) The &man.burncd.8; utility is functional but may behave erratically on some systems. Reported symptoms include that &man.burncd.8; can appear to hang up and never complete while the operation actually does complete, and the progress indicator does not show the correct value. Workarounds include: Eject and re-insert a media after burning a CD. Press Ctrl-C when &man.burncd.8; appears to hang up in spite the access LED goes inactive. (31 Oct 2004) When the user/group rule modificators in &man.pf.4; and &man.ipfw.4; are used, the loader tunable debug.mpsafenet must be set to 0 (this is 1 by default). For example, the following rules are affected: for &man.ipfw.4;: count ip from any to 192.168.2.1 uid root for &man.pf.4;: block log quick proto { tcp, udp } all user root To set debug.mpsafenet to 0 on every boot, add the following line into /boot/loader.conf: debug.mpsafenet=0 More specifically, the group and user filter parameters in &man.pf.4;, and the gid, jail, and uid rule options in &man.ipfw.4; are relevant. If debug.mpsafenet is set to 1, the system can hang up when the rule is evaluated due to a lock order reversal with the socket layer. More details can be found in the &man.ipfw.8; and &man.pf.conf.5; manual pages. (31 Oct 2004) The &man.vinum.4; subsystem works fine on 5.3, but it can cause a system panic at boot time. As a workaround you can add vinum_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf. As an alternative you can also use the new, &man.geom.4;-based &man.vinum.4; subsystem. To activate the &man.geom.4;-aware vinum at boot time, add geom_vinum_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf. While some sort of uncommon configurations such as multiple vinum drives in a disk are not supported, it is basically backward compatible. Note that for the &man.geom.4;-aware vinum the new userland control program, gvinum should be used, and it still lacks some functionality. (31 Oct 2004) The results of netstat -m can become incorrect on SMP systems when debug.mpsafenet is set to 1 (default). This is an error in the statistics gathering because of a race condition in the counters, not an actual memory leak. (31 Oct 2004, updated on 5 Nov 2004) For &os;/i386 and &os;/amd64, when installing &os; 5.3 using an USB keyboard the keyboard will stop working once the kernel boots, because a PS/2 keyboard is always attached. As a workaround, select Escape to loader prompt in the boot loader menu and enter the following lines at the prompt: set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1" boot Note that if you use the boot floppies, this is set by default. After the installation, add the following line into /boot/loader.conf: hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1" (1 Nov 2004) The ULE scheduler described in the release note has been completely disabled to discourage its use because it has several stability problems. (1 Nov 2004) Programs linked with libpthread may not report any CPU usage statistics according to &man.top.1;, while ones linked with libthr have the correct statistics. (1 Nov 2004) When CMD649 or SiI0680 ATA controller is used, the ATA RAID support of &man.ata.4; (ataraid) on 5.3 can corrupt the existing RAID configuration which was created on 5.2 or prior. The ATA RAID support for these controllers is non-functional for this release. (3 Nov 2004) For &os;/i386 and &os;/amd64, the SMP support in the GENERIC kernel has been disabled by default because the SMP kernel can degrade the performance on UP machines. A kernel configuration file SMP which can be used to enable the SMP support has been added. More details on building the custom kernel can be found in . (4 Nov 2004) The &man.tar.1; (also known as &man.bsdtar.1;) utility does not detect the end of a recording medium such as a tape and a floppy disk properly when it is specified in the option. As an alternative &man.gtar.1; (GNU tar) can be used. (9 Nov 2004) The &man.geom.4;-aware &man.vinum.4; subsystem does not work for RAID5 volumes on machines with a single processor. The configurations other than RAID5 (such as RAID1) should work correctly. This problem has been fixed on the RELENG_5 branch. (9 Nov 2004) The &os; 5.3-RELEASE Migration Guide should have stated that /usr/sbin/nslookup and /usr/sbin/nsupdate included in BIND 8 have to be removed during the source-based upgrade procedure. + + (9 Nov 2004) The &os; 5.3-RELEASE Release Notes should have stated + that net/mpd which was compiled + on the old systems prior to 5.3-RELEASE must be recompiled. Late-Breaking News No news.