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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.sgml index 8c006b6..ee3f514 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.sgml @@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ <sect1 id="late-news"> <title>Late-Breaking News</title> + <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GEOM</bridgehead> + <para>The &man.geom.4;-based disk partitioning code in the kernel will not allow an open partition to be overwritten. This usually prevents the use of <command>disklabel -B</command> to @@ -124,6 +126,8 @@ blocks are stored. A suggested workaround is to boot from an alternate disk, a CDROM, or a fixit floppy.</para> + <bridgehead renderas="sect3">&man.dump.8;</bridgehead> + <para>When using disk media with sector sizes larger than 512 bytes (for instance, &man.gbde.4; encrypted disks), the &man.dump.8; program fails to respect the larger sector size and @@ -138,17 +142,26 @@ <para>A simpler workaround is to use &man.tar.1; or &man.cpio.1; to make backup copies.</para> + <bridgehead renderas="sect3">&man.mly.4;</bridgehead> + <para>Hangs have been reported during &os; 5.0 snapshot installations when installing to &man.mly.4;-supported RAID arrays, in hardware configurations that appear to work fine under &os; 4.7-RELEASE.</para> + <bridgehead renderas="sect3">NETNCP/Netware File System + Support</bridgehead> + <para>NETNCP and nwfs appear to be as-yet unadapted for KSE, and hence not working.</para> + <bridgehead renderas="sect3">&man.iir.4; controller</bridgehead> + <para>During installation, the &man.iir.4; controller appears to probe correctly, but finds no disk devices.</para> + <bridgehead renderas="sect3">&man.truss.1; race condition</bridgehead> + <para>&man.truss.1; appears to contain a race condition during the start-up of debugging, which can result in &man.truss.1; failing to attach to the process before it exists. The symptom is that @@ -161,17 +174,23 @@ for this sufficiently changes process execution handling that it has been deferred until after 5.0.</para> + <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Disk Partitioning in Installer</bridgehead> + <para>Some bugs have been reported in &man.sysinstall.8; disk partitioning. One observed problem on the i386 is that &man.sysinstall.8; cannot recalculate the free space left on a disk after changing the type of an FDISK-type partition.</para> + <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Stale Documentation</bridgehead> + <para>In some case, documentation (such as the FAQ or Handbook) has not been updated to take into account &os; &release.prev; features. Examples of areas where documentation is still needed include &man.gbde.8; and the new <quote>fast IPsec</quote> implementation.</para> + <bridgehead renderas="sect3">SMB File System</bridgehead> + <para>Attempting to unmount smbfs shares may fail with <errorname>Device busy</errorname> errors even when the mount-point is not really busy. A workaround is to keep trying @@ -182,6 +201,8 @@ shares may cause a kernel panic. This bug has been fixed in &release.current;.</para> + <bridgehead renderas="sect3">&man.fstat.2;</bridgehead> + <para>When called on a connected socket file descriptor, &man.fstat.2; is supposed to return the number of bytes available to read in the <varname>st_size</varname> member of @@ -190,6 +211,8 @@ <literal>0</literal> on TCP sockets. This bug has been fixed in &release.current;.</para> + <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Kernel Event Queues</bridgehead> + <para>The &man.kqueue.2; <literal>EVFILT_READ</literal> filter erroneously indicates that <literal>0</literal> bytes are available to be read on TCP sockets, regardless of the number of @@ -198,6 +221,8 @@ <literal>EVFILT_READ</literal> is also broken on TCP sockets. This bug has been fixed in &release.current;.</para> + <bridgehead renderas="sect3">POSIX Named Semaphores</bridgehead> + <para>&os; &release.prev; introduced support for POSIX named semaphores but the implementation contains a critical bug that causes &man.sem.open.3; to incorrectly handle the opening of the same @@ -205,6 +230,9 @@ &man.sem.close.3; to crash calling programs. This bug has been fixed in &release.current;.</para> + <bridgehead renderas="sect3"><filename>/dev/tty</filename> + Permissions</bridgehead> + <para>&os; &release.prev; has a minor bug in how the permissions of <filename>/dev/tty</filename> are handled. This can be triggered by logging in as a non-<username>root</username>, @@ -214,6 +242,8 @@ fail because it cannot open <filename>/dev/tty</filename>. This bug has been fixed in &release.current;.</para> + <bridgehead renderas="sect3">&man.growfs.8;</bridgehead> + <para>&man.growfs.8; no longer works on &man.vinum.4; volumes (and presumably, on &man.geom.4; entities) since these subsystems no longer fake disklabels, but &man.growfs.8; insists on examining |