From 8800e37beca3e347399e302e260f61685527d702 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gjb Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 16:31:49 +0000 Subject: Reapply 'Open Issues' to the 10.1-RELEASE errata page, which was only added to releng/10.1, not stable/10. Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 93 insertions(+) (limited to 'release') diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml index 5d1736c..d122cb5 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml @@ -119,6 +119,99 @@ boot instability may be present on virtual machines running on other hypervisors, such as Xen or KVM. + + + &os;/&arch.i386; 10.1-RELEASE configured with + a multi-disk ZFS dataset (mirror, raidz1, raidz2, raidz3) + may crash during boot when the ZFS pool mount is attempted + while booting an unmodified GENERIC + kernel. + + As described in /usr/src/UPDATING + entry 20121223, rebuilding the kernel + with options KSTACK_PAGES=4 has been + observed to resolve the boot-time crash. This, however, is + not an ideal solution for inclusion in the + GENERIC kernel configuration, as + increasing KSTACK_PAGES implicitly + decreases available usermode threads in an environment that + is already resource-starved. + + Taking into account the heavy resource requirements of + ZFS, in addition to the &arch.i386;-specific tuning + requirements for general workloads, using ZFS with the + &os;/&arch.i386; GENERIC kernel + is strongly discouraged. + + + It is extremely important to take note that, by + default, &man.freebsd-update.8; will install the + GENERIC kernel configuration, and + as such, &man.freebsd-update.8; consumers are strongly + encouraged to avoid &os;-provided kernel binary upgrades + with such configurations. + + + + Although there is slight change in how the crash + manifests on &os;/&arch.i386; between 10.0-RELEASE and + 10.1-RELEASE, and given the date of the + /usr/src/UPDATING entry, there is no + evidence suggesting this is a regression between + &os; 10.0-RELEASE and &os; 10.1-RELEASE + directly. + + + + + Due to an incompatibility between &man.bsdconfig.8; + and &man.pkg.8; version 1.3, packages included on the + &os; dvd installer will not be recognized by + &man.bsdconfig.8;. + + To install packages from the dvd1.iso + installer, create the /dist target directory, and + manually mount the dvd1.iso + ISO: + + &prompt.root; mkdir -p /dist +&prompt.root; mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /dist + + + Be sure to use the correct /dev device path for the + dvd1.iso ISO + installer. + + + Next, set REPOS_DIR to the path of the + repos/ directory + within the installer so &man.pkg.8; will use the correct + repository metadata. + + If using &man.sh.1;: + + &prompt.root; export REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos + + If using &man.csh.1;: + + &prompt.root; setenv REPOS_DIR /dist/packages/repos + + + Keep in mind that REPOS_DIR will need + to be set again after the current shell session is + terminated, if continuing to use the packages provided on + the dvd1.iso installer. + + + Finally, bootstrap &man.pkg.8; from the + ISO, and install required + packages: + + &prompt.root; pkg bootstrap +&prompt.root; pkg install xorg-server xorg gnome2 [...] + -- cgit v1.1