FreeBSD 5.0 Open Issues
Open Issues
This is a list of open issues that need to be resolved for
FreeBSD 5.0. If you have any updates for this list, please e-mail
re@FreeBSD.org.
Must Resolve Issues for 5.0-RELEASE
| Issue |
Status |
Responsible |
Description |
| None at this time. |
Desired Features for 5.0-RELEASE
| Issue |
Status |
Responsible |
Description |
| a.out toolchain port |
-- |
-- |
A.out support in the base system was
reduced; the removed build chain components should be made into a
port. |
| NETNCP and nwfs broken |
-- |
-- |
NETNCP and nwfs appear to be as-yet
unadapted for KSE, and hence not working. The build needs fixing
(probably not all that hard) and then it needs to be tested
(harder: few people appear to have Netware servers). |
| No docs for FAST IPSEC |
-- |
-- |
The new "fast ipsec" implementation has
insufficient documentation (man pages, release notes), and this
would be highly desirable to have before 5.0-RELEASE. |
| Race conditions in truss |
Errata candidate |
Robert Drehmel |
Truss appears to contain a race
condition during the start-up of debugging, which can result in
truss failing to attach to the process before it exits. The symptom
is that truss reports that it cannot open the procfs node
supporting the process being debugged. A bug also appears to exist
where in truss will hang if execve() returns ENOENT. A further race
appears to exist in which truss will return "PIOCWAIT: Input/output
error" occasionally on startup. The fix for this sufficiently
changes process execution handling that we will defer the fix to
post-5.0 and consider this errata. |
| Documentation rottage: S/Key |
-- |
-- |
We now use OPIE instead of S/Key. The
handbook doesn't know that yet. |
| Documentation wanted: gdbe |
-- |
Chris Costello |
5.0 includes GDBE, supporting
encryption of swap and storage. It would be nice if that was
documented in the handbook. |
| iir driver fails to probe disks |
-- |
-- |
During the install, the iir controller
appears to correctly probe, but finds no disk devices. The card in
question is an Intel srcu32 RAID controller with 32Mb RAM, Firmware
revision 2.33.01. Direct access to real iir hardware for SCSI
developers would be very helpful in resolving this problem. |
| mly driver hangs during install |
-- |
Scott Long, Jeff Roberson |
Hangs have been reported during the 5.0
snapshot install when installing to mly supported RAID arrays. The
same array appears to work fine with 4.7-RELEASE. The card in
question is a Mylex AcceleRAID 170, 32 Mb RAM, Firmware revision
7.01-00. This is believed to be the same problem as described in PR
45383. |
Areas requiring immediate testing due to 5.0 changes
| Issue |
Status |
Responsible |
Description |
| if_ie, if_le, if_wl network device
drivers |
-- |
Sam Leffler |
Changes made to the ethernet driver
interfaces required sweeping API changes across all ethernet device
drivers. While these changes are largely mechanical, they were not
tested for three less frequently used interface drivers: if_ie,
if_le, and if_wl. They each require testing (and probably fixing)
prior to 5.0-RELEASE. If you have access to devices that use these
drivers, please perform local testing and provide feedback to Sam
Leffler. |
| No console (term) if smbus is enable in
the kernel |
-- |
-- |
There are reports that kernels build
with smbus, viapm, and smb devices may not properly probe and
support the system console following boot. |
Known Issues with 5.0R-RC1 / i386
| Issue |
Status |
Responsible |
Description |
| KDE does not install from ISO |
In Progress |
Murray Stokely |
The kde meta-package is not included on
the ISO, but many of the component kde packages are, so sysinstall
gets confused and installs kde-icontheme instead (more correct
behavior would be to fall back to kdebase if kde package is not
present). |
