From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 19:17:48 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D16C7182 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:17:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x22d.google.com (mail-la0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::22d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 571D62943 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:17:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f45.google.com with SMTP id s18so4245441lam.4 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:17:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:content-type; bh=oKB/8RWkxp9U37ESdKEaBdsTKFZbJoSZkCfXc42C/oI=; b=u33atSIB4E3QxAvaRL74z51sKsKZUE/Gfx47opJhrhbZ41BTtiUqBZyo9v2o0TrN5Y WQVRgBH/VpUzR/NpkKTR/PPGHfLfz0HbjmNXYv36+1iAKM+juMZJxUaaWOqofYIT7uxI UDUjaaZ5AGGSdUpdOKBkAeWC9vDIqDmVHWmjmURaBg9i63OBfJf3GbcMvw+PNsDJgQuw WNIRtQndn7SDPxWZkTyMwHZhH7aIw04gEVh7bv4HTba5J3hNfl78LNWhc0Q4nFygCMUm La8Ana8MOMZKJG8ldSCm2njh32S/IwuhWDOyDVv8ayoDDr04LCEMo/YuzCjceItvF8SJ qP9Q== X-Received: by 10.112.118.197 with SMTP id ko5mr22716969lbb.23.1402427866179; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:17:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: royce.williams@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.17.133 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:17:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20140610195025.af77561acbb2224539762600@mimar.rs> <20140610175315.GR2341@home.opsec.eu> <20140610180515.GA2380@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> From: Royce Williams Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:17:26 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: KjD8fxNDCG_tB0gNvYCGakVhFzA Message-ID: Subject: Re: freebsd-update to 9.2-RELEASE-p8 loop To: freebsd-stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:17:49 -0000 On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Royce Williams wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Royce Williams wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Michael W. Lucas >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 07:53:15PM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote: >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> > I used freebsd-update to update from 9.2-RELEASE-p7 to 9.2-RELEASE-p8 >>>> > and rebooted. >>>> > >>>> > After reboot, uname -a shows 9.2-RELEASE-p7, but I've seen this before >>>> > and consider it normal. >>>> >>>> p8 did not touch the kernel, therefore there is no update in the uname output. >>>> >>>> Why it again and again updates linker.hints, I don't know. >>> >>> linker.hints should be added to /etc/freebsd-update.conf IgnoreFiles, i.e.: >>> >>> IgnorePaths /boot/kernel/linker.hints >>> >>> linker.hints is dynamically generated, and freebsd-update shouldn't >>> touch it. Yes, it's a bug. >> >> More background in this forums thread: >> >> https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?&t=1362 >> >> Also, I've found that just adding the IgnorePaths line may be >> necessary, but is not sufficient. I have added that line, but >> freebsd-update continues to detect linker.hints as a needed update: >> >> $ grep linker /etc/freebsd-update.conf >> IgnorePaths /boot/kernel/linker.hints >> >> $ sudo freebsd-update fetch >> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. >> Fetching metadata signature for 8.4-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... done. >> Fetching metadata index... done. >> Inspecting system... done. >> Preparing to download files... done. >> >> The following files will be updated as part of updating to 8.4-RELEASE-p12: >> /boot/kernel/linker.hints > > Better reference on freebsd-questions, but it raises more questions > than it answers: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2014-May/257950.html > > Specifically, multiple users appear to still be experiencing this, > even after applying the fix for this erratum: > > http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-14:04.kldxref.asc ... and there an open PR here, with folks still unable to ignore linker.hints, even after applying EN-14:04.kldxref. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189249 ... and another thread from May 27 that went quiet after someone still had the problem after applying the erratum fix: https://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-security@freebsd.org/msg05027.html Royce