Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 01:33:57 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Avoid kernels between r224778 and r224841; bug causes buildworld failure Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108150130240.63057@fledge.watson.org>
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Dear all:
As you may have seen from current@ traffic, a bug crept in during the Capsicum
merge, introduced by the infamous Last Minute Cleanup and not caught in
pre-commit testing. The most noticed effect of the bug is to cause buildworld
to fail due to a problem with /dev/{stdin,stdout,stderr} when running an
affected kernel. The bug doesn't break buildkernel, so it's possible to
update from bad revisions by doing that (or rolling back to a pre-update
kernel). The problem appeared in r224778 (11 August), and was fixed in
r224842 (13 August), so it's a pretty short window and hopefully the problem
will scroll out quickly.
I'm currently awaiting approvel from re@ to commit a note to UPDATING saying
the above.
Sorry about that!
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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