The &os; Project $FreeBSD$ 2014 The &os; Documentation Project &tm-attrib.freebsd; &tm-attrib.intel; &tm-attrib.sparc; &tm-attrib.general; This document lists errata items for &os; &release.current;, 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.current; will be maintained until the release of &os; &release.next;. This errata document contains late-breaking news about &os; &release.current; 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version of this errata document actually distributed with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on the Internet and should be consulted as the current errata for this release.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 . Advisory Date Topic No advisories.     &os;/&arch.i386; &release.current; running as a guest operating system on VirtualBox can have a problem with disk I/O access. It depends on some specific hardware configuration and does not depend on a specific version of VirtualBox or host operating system. It causes various errors and makes &os; quite unstable. Although the cause is still unclear, disabling unmapped I/O works as a workaround. To disable it, choose Escape to loader prompt in the boot menu and enter the following lines from &man.loader.8; prompt, after an OK: set vfs.unmapped_buf_allowed=0 boot Note that the following line has to be added to /boot/loader.conf after a boot. It disables unmapped I/O at every boot: vfs.unmapped_buf_allowed=0 [2014-04-03 update] It has been reported that instability may be present on virtual machines running on other hypervisors, such as Xen or KVM. &os;/&arch.i386; &release.current; 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 &release.prev; and &release.current;, and given the date of the /usr/src/UPDATING entry, there is no evidence suggesting this is a regression between &os; &release.prev; and &os; &release.current; 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 [...] No news.