To: ra.mcs.anl.gov::sun-managers
Subject: SUMMARY: Upgrade 4.1.2 -> 4.1.3, new/non-fixed bugs
Cc: hansen
Last week I asked:
> Does anyone have any knowledge of what has and hasn't been fixed between
> 4.1.2 and 4.1.3? And just as important, what has become broken, which fixes
> are available, which aren't yet, and what are the consequences of this?
Two people replied, below are their replies. Thanks to both of you.
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Mike Raffety writes:
> A complete list of bugs fixed, and patches included, can be found in
> AnswerBook 1.4 (or the printed documentation set, if you're still using
> paper), under the Administrator's Set, Solaris 1.1 Release Manual,
> chapter 6, Bugs Fixes and Patches Provided in Solaris 1.1.
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Carsten Hennig (hennig@darmstadt.gmd.de) sent the following list, which
lists the old patches fixed in the release, (so does the release manual),
and also what *hasn't* been fixed (which the release manual doesn't):
> Es folg eine Uebersicht ueber die Patches und Bugs, die mit Solaris 1.1
> (SunOS 4.1.3) gefixed bzw. integriert sind.
Integrated:
100075-08 1040406 1 3 KLM protocol was changed but the RPC version numb
100075-08 1046373 2 1 a shared or exclusive lock does not work under Su
100075-08 1063692 2 2 deadlock is not detected in nfs lockin
100075-08 1064183 3 3 downgrading of a lock does not grant other read l
100075-08 1071435 1 1 panics: corrupt file lock lis
100075-08 1074757 1 1 rpc.lockd in 4.1.2 grows to few MB ( a memory lea
100075-08 1077402 1 1 A file can get left locked by an exited proces
100075-08 1080359 1 1 Read lock gets stuck in the kernel loc
100188-02 1070495 1 1 programs using pty can get output from previous a
100224-03 1051832 2 3 rmail dumps core on certain (unknown) error
100274-02 1044478 1 1 This bug causes dup biodone related panics with S
100371-01 1044726 2 2 showfh timeouts before accessing nfs file handl
100381-01 1068938 3 2 du does not work with VMS(NFS) filesystem due con
100384-01 1063432 2 2 tip to RFS mounted serial port causes panic: data
100399-01 1066556 1 1 csh malloc memory leak results in Memory Fault er
100402-01 1069046 2 1 cron dumps core on what appears to be correct cro
100408-01 1047916 3 2 keypad() misinterprets function keys when remotel
100408-01 1070312 3 2 terms ins/del line and scroll region capability c
100425-01 1055736 4 3 whois is getting host unknown when it uses the ha
100431-04 1063683 3 3 back facing hollow polygon inconsistent when usin
100431-04 1068120 2 2 Undrawing antialiased lines in QUM mode has no ef
100431-04 1073137 2 2 Back-faceed QUADS are slow on GT when FACE CULLIN
100431-04 1073181 3 2 Performance degrades for polygons following a vie
100431-04 1074981 4 3 The color is sometimes incorrect for clipped, dep
100431-04 1080766 3 3 Non-dot markers are slo
100431-04 1086669 2 2 Performance problem - short triangle strips on th
100453-01 1073672 4 2 Increase the 1.5MB DVMA window available to the G
100456-04 1075220 2 1 mcldup does not block interrupts causing mbuf clu
100469-01 1039388 4 4 cdrom mount error messag
100474-01 1074337 2 2 format: assertion failure on 1.3G elites on sun
100475-01 1073234 2 2 mmap system call fails on galaxy causing unexpect
100484-01 1078167 2 2 SCSI driver for micropolis drive produces message
100490-01 1080928 2 2 nl_langinfor(YESSTR) of libxpg.a caused core dump
100494-01 1074704 1 1 WIDs are freed when cg12 contexts are destroyed e
100494-01 1074822 1 1 munmap'ing ctl register page clobbers shmem buffe
100495-01 1074424 1 1 sybase dataserver crashes 4m 4.1.2_ER machine - x
100502-01 1078920 1 1 Transformation matrix in one static context influ
100505-01 1078521 3 3 Zero length directories can be left when a system
100507-01 1038651 1 2 Using tmpfs ie ram /tmp can cause data initializa
100511-01 1082046 3 3 SunDiag cg6test failed on segmentation violatio
100516-01 1077539 2 1 increase HEAPBYTE
100520-01 1031907 1 1 cron dies when daylight time starts or stop
100521-01 1080702 1 1 4/75GT crash when executing screenload with 24bit
100534-01 1083022 2 1 nettest dies with Segmentation Violation on 4.1.2
100536-01 1066287 3 3 nfs hang when looking at large file being changed
100537-01 1069770 2 1 swapper hangs waiting for page of u-area to come
100537-01 1073679 1 1 async i/o peaks can hang syste
100539-01 1085014 1 1 umount of busy hsfs filesystem succeeds causing p
100542-01 1063059 2 1 ipi driver doesn't return error when it didn't ge
100542-01 1077801 1 1 galaxy with cg6+presto crashes on ip
100542-03 1075751 2 1 VME dropped INT_ACK cycle. Plus Pani
100547-01 1079876 1 1 fputest kvm_open faile
100569-01 1072183 3 3 gttest takes too long to report Firmware failur
100569-01 1083997 1 1 mouse freezes when running OW 3.0 applications on
100569-02 1086614 1 1 X Server window ops become very slow when running
100575-02 1080798 1 1 IPI disk runs slower on a 4/670 then a 4/47
100575-02 1086143 1 1 Galaxy system crashes with a watchdog reset - INS
100591-01 1089381 1 1 unimp_ins trap trashes %g[123] on MP system
100597-01 1075751 2 1 VME dropped INT_ACK cycle. Plus Pani
100618-01 1074668 1 1 Kernel panics when running sunvision 1.1 as super
100636-01 1082229 1 1 fork creates duplicate PID
100644-01 1068571 1 1 Double buffered, depth cued markers and lines inc
100644-01 1069371 1 1 Lights in one context modified by changes to othe
100644-01 1078920 1 1 Transformation matrix in one static context influ
100654-01 1090369 1 2 It takes a very long time to terminate a b
Rejected:
100342-02 1046416 1 1 NIS client takes a long time to recover if the se
Not integrated:
100249-03 1044048 2 2 Automounter grows in memory & the system runs out
100249-03 1083225 2 1 automount can hang NFS serve
100283-01 1028094 3 3 in.routed mishandles active gateway file entry fr
100296-02 2000680 3 1 rpc.mountd could falsely acknowledge netgroup
100303-02 1053503 2 2 Connecting to a locally bound socket hangs the s
100305-07 1081850 3 1 It is possible to delete a file with lpr -r that
100311-01 1047769 4 4 In restore i, wildcard chars. can't be used when
100338-04 1047951 2 1 assertion failed: vp->v_stream == stp,file: os/st
100342-02 1046416 1 1 NIS client takes a long time to recover if the se
100347-02 1065543 1 1 writing to named pipe can cause pani
100359-04 1044100 1 1 Mouse tracking los
100359-04 1058097 2 2 in msgdsize, message block b_datap pointers are g
100359-04 1068158 2 1 panic: assertion failed: vp->v_strea
100383-04 1069497 1 1 user can gain root access using rdist
100383-04 1074961 1 1 Rdist can be used to create a setuid shel
100407-03 1042248 1 1 accounting files are corrupted when commands are
100407-03 1047705 3 3 several accounting scripts check /usr rather
100407-03 1066375 2 2 'cpkacct' checks the size of /usr, while it
100407-03 1069434 3 3 acctcms generates negative value
100407-03 1070431 3 3 wtmp file not updated properly by runacct
100413-01 1067839 3 3 tar fills out the last block of a tarfile with no
100416-01 1042381 4 3 Sun manual misconfigures Telebit modems for ti
100424-02 1063470 1 1 Serious NFS security hole
100457-01 1039221 3 3 bar core dumps with -x or -t option on a Sun3
100457-01 1048339 3 1 bar(1) with "Z" option cannot handle files with l
100457-01 1058869 3 1 Z option of bar writes a zero length file to the
100457-01 1066617 3 3 Include file option in bar utility has a limit of
100457-01 1071068 3 1 bar increments volume number on erro
100457-01 1073572 3 3 bar's include file option (I) causes segmentation
100458-01 1076393 2 1 A setitimer call will fail to deliver a SIGALRM a
100468-01 1075044 2 2 rcp/rsh should use setsockopt SO_KEEPALIVE to det
100476-01 1062394 1 2 setsockopt() with TCP_NODELAY can cause panic:Dat
100476-01 1077939 1 1 Bus Trap during getsockopt()
100496-01 1077163 3 3 ptrace called with address = 3mod4 causes memory
100513-01 1008324 1 1 TIOCCONS is a security hol
100513-01 1040722 2 1 Pseudo-ttys become attached to other users or han
100513-01 1048128 1 1 xon flow control problems on serial i/
100513-01 1060689 2 1 DTR is not always reasserted for a dialin/dialout
100513-01 1064320 3 2 In a 4/110 with ALM-2, null characters are not ec
100513-01 1069768 1 1 Sun doesn't respond on xoff at the and of a print
100527-01 1017537 2 1 rsh uses old-style selects instead of 4.0 select
100531-04 1041424 3 3 initgroups failes under SysV - problem with getgr
100531-04 1072740 1 1 strcoll() .... strxfrm() dumps core for locale ><
100531-04 1087375 2 2 opendir() hangs when passed the name of a named p
100531-04 1088455 3 1 strcoll returns bad results when collating spec e
100536-01 1066287 3 3 nfs hang when looking at large file being changed
100548-01 1075369 1 2 ufs_setattr() always trunc ups to > 2^31 size
100556-02 1043181 3 1 Several problems with cpio
100564-01 1043667 1 1 rpc.yppasswdd uses incorrect lockfile (/etc/passw
100564-01 1058378 1 1 rpc.pwdauthd logs cleartext passwords via audit
100564-01 1059261 2 1 NIS & C2 SECURITY/PASSWD.ADJUNCT FILE CAN GET OV
100564-01 1063796 3 3 when running C2 with NIS, yppasswd from client sy
100567-01 1087460 2 2 panic in m_freem() called by icmp_error(
100570-01 1054014 2 2 misaligned frames from ie controller during heavy
100577-01 1087264 2 2 atomic swap command fails only on IPC running 4.1
100579-01 1070377 1 1 makedbm on /etc/group file may cause coredum
100579-01 1080353 2 2 ypserv dumps core on a sun3 4.1.1 secondary name
100581-02 1079953 2 1 st driver doesn't allow accessing data past a dou
100581-02 1082324 3 3 st: there is no way to skip over media error
New patches available for SunOS 4.1.3:
100527-03
100536-02
100557-02
100567-03
100692-01
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