Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:17:26 -0800 From: Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-update to 9.2-RELEASE-p8 loop Message-ID: <CA%2BE3k92TSyOnFj0YQiT1aAVXJm8jX%2BQBoXJLyAnjpy-mA=kh=Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BE3k93FkNuFW7m9094tKixdfw6CiyczJS1DZq0=bUFL6Z0m2g@mail.gmail.com> References: <20140610195025.af77561acbb2224539762600@mimar.rs> <20140610175315.GR2341@home.opsec.eu> <20140610180515.GA2380@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <CA%2BE3k91fgEWcKgEO_JQ0AG_DXs7SC9S_7suo8=J%2BKy%2BiVJhUBg@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BE3k93FkNuFW7m9094tKixdfw6CiyczJS1DZq0=bUFL6Z0m2g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Michael W. Lucas >> <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com> 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
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