FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE Errata
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This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 6.0-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 6.0-RELEASE will be maintained
until the release of FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE.
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1 Introduction
This errata document contains "late-breaking news" about FreeBSD
6.0-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release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be out of date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
http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/, plus any sites which keep
up-to-date mirrors of this location.
Source and binary snapshots of FreeBSD 6-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
http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/ or
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/.
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2 Update Information
No news.
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3 Security Advisories
No advisories.
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4 Known Problems and Solutions
(2005/10/3) At boot time the FreeBSD/sparc64 GENERIC kernel may
output the following messages when the machine has no framebuffer:
Aug 26 19:31:27 hostname getty[429]: open /dev/ttyv1: No such file or directory
This is because the machine with no supported graphics hardware
does not recognize syscons(4) and /dev/ttyv* device nodes are not
created. This is not a harmful error and can be suppressed by
disabling /dev/ttyv* entries in /etc/ttys.
(2005/10/3) Kernel modules do not work on FreeBSD/sparc64 when the
machine has more than 4GB memory. There is no workaround for this
issue except for compiling the modules statically into your custom
kernel in advance.
(2005/10/3) The kgdb(1) utility does not work properly on
FreeBSD/sparc64 for debugging panics which include traps. As a
workaround you can use devel/gdb53.
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