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Current FreeBSD problem reports

The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and obsolete releases.

Bugs can be in one of several states:

o - open

A problem report has been submitted, no sanity checking performed.

a - analyzed

The problem is understood and a solution is being sought.

f - feedback

Further work requires additional information from the originator or the community - possibly confirmation of the effectiveness of a proposed solution.

p - patched

A patch has been committed, but some issues (MFC and / or confirmation from originator) are still open.

r - repocopy

The resolution of the problem report is dependent on a repocopy operation within the CVS repository which is awaiting completion.

s - suspended

The problem is not being worked on, due to lack of information or resources. This is a prime candidate for somebody who is looking for a project to do. If the problem cannot be solved at all, it will be closed, rather than suspended.

c - closed

A problem report is closed when any changes have been integrated, documented, and tested -- or when fixing the problem is abandoned.

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Critical problems

Serious problems

S	Submitted	Tracker	Resp.	Description
c	1996/06/03	i386/1288	bde	wdgetctlr (wd.c) return incorrect number of cylinders
c	1999/05/08	bin/11594	des	hang problem in INETD
c	1999/07/01	kern/12479		PATCH Send ICMP_SOURCEQUENCH when packet dropped by dummynet
c	2001/09/27	bin/30864		bootpd/tools/bootptest/print-bootp.c - incorrect printf format
c	2002/06/23	bin/39741	dwmalone	usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c:726: warning: int format, long int arg (arg 8)
c	2002/06/27	bin/39906	johan	cleaning sbin/newfs code from warnings
c	2002/06/30	bin/40051		src/share/mk/bsd.nls.mk not present in cvsup
c	2002/06/30	bin/40052		_PATH_CP not defined in pathnames.h
c	2002/06/30	bin/40054		_PATH_RSH and _PATH_CP not defined in bin/rcp/rcp.c
c	2002/07/03	kern/40157	sound	[PATCH] early locking in pcm/sound's pcm_chn_add()
c	2002/07/05	bin/40209		__dtoa broken with -O2 or -O3 optimisation
c	2002/09/03	bin/42384	bmah	MDXFileChunk may return 0 instead of hash
c	2002/09/14	kern/42770		MUTEX_DEBUG broke CURRENT kernel
c	2002/12/20	kern/46405		[PATCH] Bad VLAN handling on NIC's with VLAN hardware support
c	2004/09/05	kern/71388	rwatson	[panic] due mac_policy_list_conditional_busy called before mac_init
c	2004/09/06	bin/71413		hosts_ctl declaration missing within wrapper's tcp.h
c	2004/09/11	bin/71592	brian	[PATCH] ppp doesn't check mallocs for return of NULL
c	2004/09/11	bin/71594	krion	[patch] pkg_install (sign) - variables may be used unitialized in some cases
o	2004/09/11	bin/71602		[patch] uninitialized "len" used instead of "slen" within setkey(8) code
c	2004/09/12	bin/71651		[PATCH] cron may attept to close unopened file
c	2004/09/12	bin/71670		[PATCH] usr.sbin/asf may use uninialised variables
c	2005/06/02	kern/81813	andre	[ PATCH ] ICMP_UNREACH_NEEDFRAG with unspecified icmp_nextmtu are ignored
c	2005/06/07	kern/81978	yar	[if_vlan] [patch] if_vlan didn't pass the ALLMULTI to the parent interface
c	2005/07/12	bin/83336	delphij	[patch] libc's parse_ncp() don't check malloc/realloc for failures
c	2005/07/12	bin/83338	delphij	[patch] libc's getent() don't check for malloc failure
o	2005/07/12	bin/83340		[patch] setnetgrent() and supporting functions don't check malloc for failures
p	2005/07/12	bin/83344	matteo	[patch] Improper handling of malloc failures within libc's RPC functions
c	2005/07/12	bin/83347		[patch] improper handling of malloc failures within libc's vfprintf
o	2005/07/12	bin/83348		[patch] Improper handling of malloc failures within libc's yp/xdryp.c
o	2005/07/12	bin/83349		[patch] improper handling o malloc's failures within libc/yp/yplib.c routines
c	2005/07/12	bin/83352	delphij	[patch] Improper malloc failure handling within cam_device_dup()
o	2005/07/12	bin/83359		[patch] improper handling of malloc failures within libdevstat code
c	2005/07/13	bin/83363	stefanf	[patch] Improper handling of malloc's failures within libedit library
o	2005/07/13	bin/83364		[patch] improper handling of malloc failures, bad printf format
o	2005/07/13	kern/83368		[ipx] [patch] incorrect handling of malloc failures within libncp's ncp_open_rcfile()
c	2005/07/13	bin/83369	matteo	[patch] incorrect handling of malloc failures within librpcsvc's xencrypt()/xdecrypt()
o	2005/07/14	kern/83426		[libvgl] [patch] improper handling of malloc failures within libvgl
c	2005/07/14	bin/83452	deischen	[ PATCH ] Unhandled malloc failure within libpthread
c	2005/07/14	bin/83457	deischen	[ PATCH ] Unhandled malloc failure within libpthread's _thr_alloc()
c	2005/07/14	kern/83464	lulf	[geom] [patch] Unhandled malloc failures within libgeom
c	2005/07/14	bin/83467	philip	[patch] Unhandled malloc errors within libbsnmp pf_snmp.c
c	2005/07/14	bin/83476	kientzle	[patch] Too many unhandled malloc errors within libarchive
o	2005/07/16	bin/83558		kernbb(8): usr.sbin/kernbb doesn't compile, and is disconnected
c	2005/08/27	kern/85365	pjd	[ PATCH ] geom_label can cause PANIC during load
c	2005/08/28	kern/85366	delphij	[msdosfs] [patch] MSDOSFS doesn't mark volume "clean" (sometime)
c	2005/10/30	kern/88241	ume	[libc] [patch] Incorrect processing of multiple PTR records
c	2006/01/15	ports/91807	ale	Incorrect pkg-plist for databases/mysql50-(server|client) ports on 4.x system
c	2006/02/04	ports/92815	sem	[ PATCH ] net/freeradius doesn't compile on 4.x
o	2006/05/29	kern/98091	scottl	[mfi] [patch] Makefile style of mfi kernel module broke the WARNS/NO_WERROR logic
c	2006/06/05	ports/98525		[ PATCH ] net/freeradius didn't use non BASE OpenSSL (from ports)
c	2006/08/07	bin/101575	maxim	[patch] Memory overflow "off-by one" in hexdump(1)
c	2006/08/08	ports/101647	ale	MySQL 50 server/client uncompilable with OpenSSL
c	2006/10/30	ports/104946	stas	[ PATCH ] security/pam_af abend
c	2007/03/20	ports/110601	sobomax	[ PATCH ] do you know net/asterisk 1.2.14,15,16 has been released ?
c	2007/04/09	ports/111430		[ PATCH ] security/isakmpd with OpenSSL 0.9.8b and newer
c	2007/08/01	ports/115114	beech	[ PATCH ] www/horde-base - Missing run dependence
c	2007/08/03	ports/115169	sobomax	net/asterisk missing dependence
c	2007/09/02	kern/116034	rwatson	Giant not owned at /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_sack.c:271=tcp_clean_sackreport(tp)
c	2007/12/15	kern/118719	rwatson	[re] 'Giant not owned at ...' with 're' interface
c	2007/12/16	kern/118737	jhb	[cpufreq] [patch] Panic due double free within detach of cpufreq/est
o	2008/01/05	kern/119356	acpi	[acpi]: i386 ACPI wakeup not work due resource exhaustion
c	2008/01/20	ports/119844		security/nmap 4.53 has been released (we missed 4.21,4.22,4.23,4.50,4.51,4.52 already)
o	2008/04/11	kern/122670		[ata] [patch] broken acd_get_progress = ioctl CDRIOCGETPROGRESS logic
c	2008/07/04	ports/125255	pgollucci	migrate away from slang1 to slang2
o	2008/10/21	kern/128260	ipfw	[ipfw] [patch] ipfw_divert damages IPv6 packets
c	2008/12/10	ports/129555	anders	mail/cclient & mail/imap-uw 2006j is buggy and ancient (contain all thinks necesarry for update to 2007d)
c	2009/01/29	ports/131112	ale	[ PATCH ] databases/mysql51-server - Incompatible WITH_OPENSSL in databases/mysql5[01]-server
c	2009/08/30	ports/138356	ruby	ports-mgmt/portupgrade: pkgdb -F + ALT_PKGDEP => broken logic
f	2009/09/02	ports/138469	ale	[ PATCH ] databases/mysql51-{server|client} bad dependency
o	2009/11/07	ports/140365		[patch] databases/firebird20-client coredumps

70 problems total.

Non-critical problems

S	Submitted	Tracker	Resp.	Description
c	1998/05/06	bin/6529		[ALMOST PATCH] potential timing problem with login after bad password given
c	1999/01/22	bin/9613		[PATCH] IPFW command-line parsing error
c	1999/01/25	bin/9669		ppp
c	1999/05/08	ports/11593	ports	minor bug when config file not found in tacacsd
c	1999/09/09	conf/13652		Bug in /etc/protocols, update request.
c	2000/09/11	misc/21180	n_hibma	New USB device vendor / device (sys/dev/usb/usbdevs)
c	2001/05/23	kern/27598		netsmb can't be kldloaded in SMP environment
c	2001/09/17	docs/30626	doc	Typo in errno(2) manual
o	2001/09/26	bin/30854		bootpd(8) bootpgw change - skip ARP modifications by option
o	2001/09/27	bin/30863		bootpd(8) dovend.c Win95 compatibility improvement and typos in error messages
c	2001/09/27	bin/30865		bootpd->readfile.c missing breaks in switch cause incorrect error report
c	2002/03/13	bin/35836	brian	Typo in ppp's mppe.c MPPEDispOpts output
c	2002/06/25	bin/39816		cleaning sbin/camcontrol code from warnings
c	2002/06/25	bin/39817		cleaning sbin/disklabel code from warnings
c	2002/06/25	bin/39818	harti	cleaning sbin/atm code from warnings
c	2002/06/25	bin/39819		cleaning bin/sh code from warnings
c	2002/06/26	bin/39865	johan	cleaning sbin/fsck code from some warnings
c	2002/06/26	bin/39866	johan	cleaning sbin/fsdb code from warnings
c	2002/06/26	bin/39867	johan	cleaning sbin/mount_cd9660 and sbin/mount_ext2fs code from warnings
c	2002/06/26	bin/39868	johan	cleaning sbin/dump code from warnings
c	2002/06/27	bin/39904	johan	cleaning sbin/sysctl code from warnings
c	2002/06/27	bin/39905		[patch] cleaning restore(8) code from warnings
c	2002/06/27	bin/39907	johan	cleaning sbin/savecore code from warnings
c	2002/06/30	bin/40053		[PATCH] __FBSDID and sys/cdefs.h included twice in chio.c
c	2002/07/08	bin/40340		[PATCH] share/sendmail/Makefile doesn't honor the $COPY
c	2002/09/03	bin/42385	harti	clean libatm code from warnings
o	2002/09/03	kern/42386		[libkvm] [patch] cleaning code from warnings in libkvm
o	2002/09/03	kern/42387		[librpcsvc] [patch] cleaning code of librpcsvc from warnings
c	2002/09/03	bin/42388		cleaning code from warnings in libm
c	2002/12/21	bin/46439	trhodes	[PATCH] sysinstall doesn't know the em device description
c	2004/05/24	ports/67144	dinoex	GD 2.0.24 has been released
c	2004/09/03	kern/71334	antoine	[mem] [patch] mem_range_attr_{set|get} are no longer kernel-callable
o	2004/09/12	bin/71613		[patch] traceroute(8): cleanup of the usr.sbin/traceroute6 code
c	2004/09/12	bin/71614	trhodes	[PATCH] cleanup of the usr.sbin/ugidfw code
c	2004/09/12	bin/71615	usb	[usb] [patch] cleanup of the usr.sbin/usbd code
o	2004/09/12	bin/71616		[patch] [nis] yp_mkdb(8): cleanup of the usr.sbin/yp_mkdb code
o	2004/09/12	bin/71617		[patch] [nis] ypserv(8): cleanup of the usr.sbin/ypserv code
o	2004/09/12	bin/71618		[patch] timed(8): cleanup of the usr.sbin/timed code
c	2004/09/12	bin/71619		[PATCH] cleanup of the usr.sbin/tcpdump code
c	2004/09/12	bin/71620	matteo	[PATCH] sysinstall(8): cleanup of the usr.sbin/sysinstall code
o	2004/09/12	bin/71621		[patch] sliplogin(8): cleanup of the usr.sbin/sliplogin code
o	2004/09/12	bin/71622		[patch] sicontrol(8): cleanup of the usr.sbin/sicontrol code
c	2004/09/12	bin/71623	linimon	[pcvt] [patch] cleanup of the usr.sbin/pcvt code
c	2004/09/12	bin/71624		[PATCH] rtadvd(8): cleanup of the usr.sbin/rtadvd code
o	2004/09/12	bin/71625		[patch] [nis] cleanup of the usr.sbin/rpc.ypupdated code
c	2004/09/12	bin/71626		[PATCH] cleanup of the usr.sbin/rpc.statd code
c	2004/09/12	bin/71627		[PATCH] cleanup of the usr.sbin/rpc.lockd code
o	2004/09/12	bin/71628		[patch] cleanup of the usr.sbin/rpcbind code
o	2004/09/12	bin/71629		[patch] cleanup of the usr.sbin/pppstats code
o	2004/09/12	bin/71630		[patch] cleanup of the usr.sbin/pppd code
o	2004/09/12	bin/71631		[patch] cleanup of the usr.sbin/pppctl code
o	2004/09/12	bin/71632		[patch] cleanup of the usr.sbin/ndp code
c	2004/09/12	ports/71633	bms	[PATCH] cleanup of the usr.sbin/mrouted code
c	2004/09/12	bin/71653		[PATCH] usr.sbin/asf may use uninialised variables
c	2004/09/12	bin/71659		[patch] cleanup of the usr.sbin/mount_portalfs code
o	2004/09/12	bin/71660		[patch] cleanup of the usr.sbin/kgmon code
o	2004/09/12	bin/71661		[patch] cleanup of the usr.sbin/keyserv code
c	2004/09/12	bin/71662		[PATCH] cleanup of the usr.sbin/ifmcast code
c	2004/09/12	bin/71663		[PATCH] cleanup of the usr.sbin/i4b code
o	2004/09/12	bin/71664		[patch] cleanup of the usr.sbin/fwcontrol code
o	2004/09/12	bin/71665		[patch] cleanup of the usr.sbin/dconschat code
c	2004/09/12	bin/71666	delphij	[PATCH] cleanup of the usr.sbin/btxld code
o	2004/09/12	bin/71667		[patch] cleanup of the usr.sbin/bootparamd code
c	2004/09/12	bin/71668		[PATCH] cleanup of the usr.sbin/bluetooth code
c	2004/09/12	bin/71669	linimon	[PATCH] cleanup of the usr.sbin/atm code
o	2004/09/12	bin/71671		[patch] cleanup of the usr.sbin/apmd code
c	2004/09/12	bin/71672	philip	[PATCH] cleanup of the usr.sbin/acpi code
o	2005/03/25	bin/79228	net	[patch] extend arp(8) to be able to create blackhole records
c	2005/03/31	ports/79394	danfe	new version of editors/tea
c	2005/07/02	kern/82882	bms	[patch] ip_mroute abends kernel when interface detached
c	2005/07/02	kern/82908	glebius	[patch] ip_carp should use ifnet_departure_event event
o	2005/07/08	bin/83170		[patch] Allow 'install' to compare files by mtime instead of content
o	2005/07/12	bin/83358		[patch] improper handling of malloc failures within rexec()
o	2005/07/12	bin/83361		[patch] Incorrect malloc failures handling within libdisk code
c	2005/07/13	bin/83419		[ PATCH ] incorrect malloc failures handling within libstand
o	2005/07/14	kern/83424		[libstand] [patch] improper handling of malloc failures within libstand
o	2005/07/14	kern/83451		[libusbhid] [patch] improper handling of malloc failures within libusbhid
c	2005/07/16	bin/83553	rodrigc	[patch] vidcontrol can't switch mode and color during one
c	2005/08/30	kern/85468		Memory leak within libpthread
c	2006/05/23	ports/97672	clement	www/apache22 BROKEN on FreeBSD 4
c	2006/05/25	ports/97862	garga	[ PATCH ] no UTF-8 support in libslang on FreeBSD 4.x
c	2006/05/25	ports/97890	gnome	[ PATCH ] un-BROKEn www/seamonkey on FreBSD 4.x
o	2006/06/14	i386/98932	i386	[i386] [patch] Kernel compilation failed on specific PERFMON configuration
c	2006/06/20	docs/99231	keramida	[ PATCH ] malloc(3): options J and Z DOESN'T imply option R
c	2006/08/27	ports/102564	clsung	databases/p5-BerkeleyDB can be compiled again on 4.x
c	2006/09/30	ports/103855		security/amavisd-new & security/amavisd-milter circular dependence
c	2006/10/01	ports/103879	bms	net/xorp: 'package' target broken
o	2007/04/11	bin/111493		[patch] routed(8) doesn't use multicasts for RIPv2 via P2P interfaces
c	2007/05/13	kern/112634		[tty] [patch] tty's driver method t_ioctl() never called
a	2007/09/27	kern/116697	kmacy	[net] [patch] ifconfig's name argument has no effect on /dev/net/
c	2007/12/09	docs/118517	gabor	man page edsc.4 - driver will not first appear in 7.0
c	2007/12/09	docs/118518	gabor	man page snd_envy24.4/snd_envy24ht.4/snd_spicds.4/snd_hda.4 - driver will not first appear in 7.0
c	2007/12/09	docs/118519	gabor	man page mxge.4 - driver will not first appear in 7.0
c	2007/12/09	docs/118520	gabor	man page linsysfs.5 - driver will not first appear in 7.0
c	2007/12/10	docs/118523	gabor	man page ipmi.4 - driver will not first appear in 7.0
o	2007/12/16	kern/118739		[cpufreq] [patch] Allow the cpufreq/p4tcc driver to detach
c	2007/12/29	i386/119126	des	[ichwd] [patch] ICHWD on ICH9 family chip
o	2007/12/30	i386/119175	i386	[busdma] [patch] Typo in bus_dmamem_alloc()
c	2008/01/03	kern/119288		VERBOSE_SYSINIT is MFCed but bug-patch for it not
o	2008/01/05	kern/119358		[kernel] [patch] SYSINIT_VERBOSE can be more verbose
o	2008/01/09	bin/119483		[patch] vidcontrol(1) misses latest VESA mode (off-by-one bug)
c	2008/01/13	ports/119620	cy	x11-wm/fvwm2-devel 2.5.24 released
o	2008/02/11	docs/120539	doc	Inconsistent ipfw's man page
c	2008/07/15	ports/125627	sem	[ PATCH ] ports-mgmt/portupgrade: don't change +CONTENTS mtime when file not changed
c	2008/07/15	ports/125629	x11	[ PATCH ] x11/xorg: use NOPORTDOCS variable, please
c	2008/07/18	docs/125746	trhodes	man 2 socket ERRORS section incomplete
o	2008/07/18	docs/125751	doc	man 3 pthread_getschedparam section ERRORS incomplete
c	2008/11/10	kern/128766	yongari	[patch] vge(4) [rt]xcsum can't be switched off
c	2009/08/30	ports/138355		net/freeradius2 can't install from package when /usr/ports mounted RO
o	2009/11/08	bin/140397		[patch] newsyslog(8) doesn't handle stopped daemons correctly
o	2009/11/10	docs/140435	doc	man ls, section STANDARD: the -A is exception from POSIX also

111 problems total.

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