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This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 6.1-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 6.1-RELEASE will be maintained until the release of FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE.
This errata document contains “late-breaking news” about FreeBSD 6.1-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version of this errata document actually distributed with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on the Internet and should be consulted as the “current errata” for this release.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/.
(2006/05/10) The errata file distributed with FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE mistakenly contained the errata applicable to FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE.
(2006/05/10) The release notes for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE gave the wrong name for the KDE port in the item documenting the KDE upgrade. The correct name is x11/kde3.
(2006/05/10) The release notes for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE should have mentioned changes that enable the second core of dual-core i386 and amd64 CPUs by default when running an SMP kernel.
(2006/05/13) A change in the ata(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE modified a software interface visible from userland programs. Programs that use the IOCATAREQUEST ioctl(2) interface will need to be recompiled. Typically, these programs communicate directly with ATA and ATAPI drives, such as CDROM burning or ripping tools, or monitoring utilities. One known example is smartd from the sysutils/smartmontools port.
+ +(2006/05/27) On FreeBSD/alpha, sysinstall sometimes does not allow a disk to be +labeled. The disk is presented in sysinstall but actions like 'A'auto do not result in a +disklabel being presented. Workaround is to boot the install CD, then select Fixit. From +the Fixit prompt run disklabel manually. For example: "disklabel -rw da1 auto" ensures a +valid disklabel is written onto da1. Reboot from the install media. sysinstall will now +detect a valid disklabel on the disk and allow it to be partitioned to your +preference.
+ +(2006/05/27) FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE includes a change to some definitions in src/sys/net/if_media.h (revision 1.30.2.1). This could break +source-level compatibility with externally-maintained 10Gb Ethernet network drivers +written for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. This change should have been documented in the release +notes.
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