Bug 231270

Summary:	Incorrect Errata item for virtualbox-ose issue
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	rkoberman
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	re
Priority:	---
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description rkoberman 2018-09-09 16:04:51 UTC

The Errata item dated [2018-06-26] is incorret.
"An issue had been discovered late in the release cycle where a system crash could occur after installing emulators/virtualbox-ose from upstream package mirrors via pkg(8).

"Building emulators/virtualbox-ose from the ports(7) collection has been observed to work around the crash."

The problem is with emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod, not emulators/virtualbox-ose and only emulators/virtualbox-ose needs to be built from ports and only until 11.1 reaches EOL at the end of September.

I suggest:
"An issue had been discovered late in the release cycle where a system crash could occur after installing emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod from upstream package mirrors via pkg(8).

"Building emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod from the ports(7) collection has been observed to work around the crash.

"After the first package build after October 1, 2018, this will cease being a problem as hte paskage or FreeBSD-11 will be built on 11.2"

Comment 1 rkoberman 2018-09-09 23:48:43 UTC

After further interaction with ths issue, it has been pointed out to me that the last quarterly for FreeBSD-11 contains virtualbox-ose-5.12 which is not compatible with the version of virtualbox-ose-kmod in ports.

This may be worked around by:
# svnlite up -r 469570 /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod
# svnlite up -r 469570 /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose
# make -C /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod package
# pkg add /usr/ports/packages/All/virtualbox-ose-kmod-5.2.12.txz

This or similar text should be added to the text.

Comment 2 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2018-09-10 22:41:41 UTC

This applies to https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.2R/errata.html#errata , item #6.

Notify re@ who I believe owns this page.

Comment 3 commit-hook freebsd_committer

2018-09-11 15:02:12 UTC

A commit references this bug:

Author: gjb
Date: Tue Sep 11 15:02:02 UTC 2018
New revision: 52245
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/52245

Log:
  Regen after r338587.

  PR:		231270
  Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation

Changes:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/11.2R/errata.html

Comment 4 Glen Barber freebsd_committer

2018-09-11 15:02:47 UTC

Fixed, thank you for the report.