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18   <info>
19     <title>&os; &release; Errata</title>
20
21     <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author>
22
23     <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
24
25     <copyright>
26       <year>2017</year>
27
28       <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
29         Project</holder>
30     </copyright>
31
32     <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
33       &tm-attrib.freebsd;
34       &tm-attrib.intel;
35       &tm-attrib.sparc;
36       &tm-attrib.general;
37     </legalnotice>
38
39     <abstract>
40       <para>This document lists errata items for &os; &release;,
41         containing significant information discovered after the
42         release or too late in the release cycle to be otherwise
43         included in the release documentation.  This information
44         includes security advisories, as well as news relating to the
45         software or documentation that could affect its operation or
46         usability.  An up-to-date version of this document should
47         always be consulted before installing this version of
48         &os;.</para>
49
50       <para>This errata document for &os; &release; will be maintained
51         until the release of &os; &release.next;.</para>
52     </abstract>
53   </info>
54
55   <sect1 xml:id="intro">
56     <title>Introduction</title>
57
58     <para>This errata document contains <quote>late-breaking
59         news</quote> about &os; &release; Before installing this
60       version, it is important to consult this document to learn about
61       any post-release discoveries or problems that may already have
62       been found and fixed.</para>
63
64     <para>Any version of this errata document actually distributed
65       with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be
66       out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on
67       the Internet and should be consulted as the <quote>current
68         errata</quote> for this release.  These other copies of the
69       errata are located at <link
70         xlink:href="https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/" />, plus any
71       sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location.</para>
72
73     <para>Source and binary snapshots of &os; &release.branch; also
74       contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of
75       the snapshot).</para>
76
77     <para>For a list of all &os; CERT security advisories, see <link
78         xlink:href="https://www.FreeBSD.org/security/"/>.</para>
79   </sect1>
80
81   <sect1 xml:id="security">
82     <title>Security Advisories</title>
83
84     &security;
85   </sect1>
86
87   <sect1 xml:id="errata">
88     <title>Errata Notices</title>
89
90     &errata;
91   </sect1>
92
93   <sect1 xml:id="open-issues">
94     <title>Open Issues</title>
95
96     <itemizedlist>
97       <listitem>
98         <para>&os;/&arch.i386; installed on ZFS may crash during boot
99           when the ZFS pool mount is attempted while booting an
100           unmodified <literal>GENERIC</literal> kernel.</para>
101
102         <para>A system tunable has been added as of revision
103           <literal>r286584</literal> to make the
104           <literal>kern.kstack_pages</literal> tunable configurable
105           without recompiling the kernel.</para>
106
107         <para>To mitigate system crashes with such configurations,
108           choose <literal>Escape to loader prompt</literal> in the
109           boot menu and enter the following lines from &man.loader.8;
110           prompt, after an <literal>OK</literal>:</para>
111
112         <screen>set kern.kstack_pages=4
113 boot</screen>
114
115         <para>Add this line to
116           <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> for the change to
117           persist across reboots:</para>
118
119         <programlisting>kern.kstack_pages=4</programlisting>
120       </listitem>
121
122       <listitem>
123         <para>[2017-07-21] Due to a bug in earlier versions of
124           &man.clang.1; that is difficult to work around in the
125           upgrade process, to upgrade the system from sources via
126           buildworld to -CURRENT or &release;, it is necessary to
127           upgrade machines running 9.x to at least revision r286035,
128           or machines running 10.x to revision r286033.  Source-based
129           upgrades from 10.3-RELEASE are not affected.  This differs
130           from the historical situation where one could generally
131           upgrade from anywhere on earlier stable branches, so caution
132           should be exercised.</para>
133       </listitem>
134
135       <listitem>
136         <para>[2017-07-25] &os;/&arch.arm64; currently lacks
137           <acronym>EFI</acronym> real-time clock
138           (<acronym>RTC</acronym>) support, which may cause the system
139           to boot with the wrong time set.</para>
140
141         <para>As a workaround, either enable &man.ntpdate.8; or
142           include <literal>ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"</literal> in
143           &man.rc.conf.5;.</para>
144       </listitem>
145
146       <listitem>
147         <para>[2017-07-25] A late issue was discovered with
148           &os;/&arch.arm64; and &quot;root on
149           <acronym>ZFS</acronym>&quot; installations where the root
150           <acronym>ZFS</acronym> pool would fail to be located.</para>
151
152         <para>There currently is no workaround.</para>
153       </listitem>
154
155       <listitem>
156         <para>[2017-07-26] Note for those upgrading from 11.1-RC2 in
157           <application>VirtualBox</application>:</para>
158
159         <para>If system panics were experienced when upgrading from
160           11.1-RC1 to 11.1-RC2, and the <filename
161             role="package">emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions{,-nox11}</filename>
162           port was built locally as a resolution, the port will either
163           need to be rebuilt when upgrading from 11.1-RC2 to
164           11.1-RELEASE, or reinstall the package from the pkg(8)
165           mirrors using either:</para>
166
167         <screen> &prompt.root; <userinput>pkg install -f virtualbox-ose-additions</userinput></screen>
168
169         <para>or</para>
170
171         <screen> &prompt.root; <userinput>pkg install -f virtualbox-ose-additions-nox11</userinput></screen>
172
173         <para>To ensure the system does not panic after rebooting into
174           the updated kernel, it is recommended to disable the
175           <literal>vboxguest</literal> service in &man.rc.conf.5;
176           prior to rebooting the system if possible, or use
177           &man.pkg.8; to forcefully reinstall the package.</para>
178
179         <para>Systems being upgraded from 11.1-RC1 and earlier and
180           11.1-RC3 to 11.1-RELEASE should be unaffected.</para>
181       </listitem>
182
183       <listitem>
184         <para>[2017-07-27] The release notes erroneously state
185           revision <literal>r315330</literal> was sponsored by Rubicon
186           Communications, LLC (Netgate), when in fact this work was
187           done by Hiroki Mori independently.</para>
188       </listitem>
189
190       <listitem>
191         <para>[2017-08-09] The release notes stated the
192           &man.ruptime.1;, &man.rwho.1;, and &man.rwhod.8; utilities
193           have been marked &quot;deprecated&quot;, however this change
194           was reversed in 12.0-CURRENT.</para>
195
196         <para>The other utilities mentioned in the entry in the
197           release notes, however, are unchanged.</para>
198       </listitem>
199
200       <listitem>
201         <para>[2017-11-06] An issue with &os; virtual machines with
202           <application>vagrant</application> was discovered that
203           affects the <application>VirtualBox</application> where the
204           virtual machine will not start on the initial boot invoked
205           with <literal>vagrant up</literal>.</para>
206
207         <para>The issue is due to the virtual machine
208           <acronym>MAC</acronym> being unset, as &os; does not provide
209           a default <filename>Vagrantfile</filename>.</para>
210
211         <para>It has been observed, however, that a subsequent
212           invocation of <literal>vagrant up</literal> will allow the
213           virtual machine to successfully boot, allowing access via
214           <literal>vagrant ssh</literal>.</para>
215       </listitem>
216     </itemizedlist>
217   </sect1>
218
219   <sect1 xml:id="late-news">
220     <title>Late-Breaking News</title>
221
222     <para>No news.</para>
223   </sect1>
224 </article>