Hackathon 17

The 17th NetBSD hackathon is running from June 14th until June 17th. Our goal is fixing all the bugs that need fixing to get NetBSD-current ready for the creation of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch.

Join us on the IRC channel #netbsd-code on freenode (irc.freenode.net). Just join, have a look around and ask your questions or what work needs to be done.

Release plans for NetBSD-6.0

This file is managed by the release engineering team - please get in touch with them with any feedback.

Will be in 6.0

ZFS - need an update on viability, needs work
in-kernel iSCSI initiator, and user tools - in othersrc, needs to be moved to src
64-bit time_t
rump - pooka has declared interfaces stable
LVM/dmapper and tools
workable MIPS for all
netpgp - agc
able to use external compilers and toolchain
cleaned up files in repos - joerg
support for wide efficient regexps with tre
native X11R7
TLS - joerg
following on from TLS, modern gdb
lua scripting
agreement and communication of tiered port system (before release) - pooka
other enhancements and new functionality in -current
tcp support in libsa? need to merge SoC project
sasl - SoC project was merged
namei changes - dholland
support for resizing ffs - riz
production support for fss
Xen/SMP
Xen suspend/resume
automated test framework for testing releng autobuilds
full functionality for NPF - SMP-aware packet filter - rmind
fixed IPSEC NAT-T
GPT-aware bootloader for i386/amd64 - jakllsch
gcc 4.5
clang - joerg
NetBSD/usermode - jmcneill, reinoud

Possibly in 6.0

mobile IPv6 - we have the mods, need application of same to the repo
kernel modules need work

May not make 6.0

Will not be in 6.0

gaols
sctp
devfs

Alistair Crooks On behalf of core and releng teams

Primary goals

We want NetBSD 6.0 to be the best NetBSD release ever. There are already a lot of great features in it:

Improved kernel performance and scalability
New kernel module framework with automatic module loading
Logical Volume Manager
NetBSD Packet Filter
Xen SMP support
Flash file-system CHFS
Automated Regression Testing
Improved FUSE support
Updated Linux emulation
GCC 4.5.3
Updated X.org X11 distribution
SMTP authentication client built into Postfix (now version 2.8.7)
New and enhanced drivers
... and many other features

To make sure that NetBSD users get the best possible experience of the new release we would like to fix as many as possible of the following bugs. If you are able to help us to fix these bugs by supplying patches or testing fixes please consider to participate. We are also in need of people to supply documentation fixes, preferably in the form of patches. Release notes and/or manual pages!

Critical bugs:

PR 45677: The stress_killer test sometimes does
PR 45708: Unable to read big files from large FFSv2 (12TB), ls out of swap
PR 44788: mlock(2) panic
PR 45187: select(2) sometimes doesn't wakeup
PR 45833: occasional crash of 5.99.59: SPL NOT LOWERED ON TRAP EXIT

Important bugs:

PR 38670: ^Z does not seems to suspend programs that vfork'ed and wait.
PR 38965: ktrace locking issue
PR 39420: stopped processes can hold locks
PR 42663: lwp_exit() might race with lwp_free()
PR 44658: spurious chroot escape warning
PR 34735: diagnostic assertion failed genfs_vnops.c 1123
PR 38760: umount -f /usr panics the system
PR 39548: kernel debugging assertion "(vp->v_flag & VONWORKLST)" failed
PR 30525: remounting ffs read-only (mount -ur) does not sync metadata
PR 39264: newfs can create a filesystem with > 2³¹ inodes, which doesn't work
PR 40562: busy loop in ffs_sync when unmounting a file system
PR 41013: netbsd5-rc2 crash (kernel diagnostic assertion "vp->v_usecount == 1" failed)
PR 39371: wapbl should allow mounting "/" even if journal is hosed
fixed ~~PR 39609: wapbl "replaying log to disk" message is potentially misleading~~
fixed ~~PR 32318: NFS client or server hang~~
PR 39385: unmounting ptyfs with busy ptys causes deadlock in vrele
PR 40388: IPv6 incompatibility with pre-5.99.6 binary
PR 38078: IPFilter lacks documentation almost completely
PR 38457: ipf doesn't handle IPv6 fragments
PR 39066: Tty settings mangled.
PR 4029: Register usage doesn't comply with SPARC ABI
PR 38540: recent i386 GENERIC kernel cannot boot with VIA chipset
PR 38643: (dM) st tape drive loses data
PR 39305: loops through gre(4) cause a hang or crash
PR 42420: $ORIGIN undefined on NetBSD
PR 40066: gcc -O1 generates wrong code in loop optimize
PR 40468: Optimizer bug suspected -- porting devel/libffi to NetBSD/powerpc
PR 30756: gdb not usable for live debugging of threaded programs
PR 41936: gdb does not work for threaded programs on sparc64
PR 41208: objcopy -S -O binary aborts w/ BFD internal error
~~PR 41127: Update/improve newfs docs regarding raw devices~~
fixed: PR 40346: libexpat should be in base.tgz
PR 9582: sysinst doesn't allow source or pkgsrc installation
PR 38571: sysinst runs "postinstall fix"
PR 12769: clarify the upgrade notes for when the sets are on /usr
PR 43314: pc relative relocations are "off by 1*size" on vax
PR 44159: startx (xinit) fails
PR 45155: there are no usb-stick installer images
PR 45439: gcc generates out-of-range branch insn for m68k
PR 45573: internal compiler error when building f2c on sparc64
PR 45620: MAKEDEV failures remains unoticed in miniroot build
PR 45628: acpicpu(4) changes between 5.99.55 and 5.99.56 break amd64
PR 45816: Screen corruption in German sysinst install
PR 45854: vnode clean list corruption?
PR 45974: kernfs mount point directory listing is empty

Should be fixed:

PR 37726: request documentation of 2147 second limit on adjtime(2)
PR 19774: ddb can be entered twice and then you can't get out
fixed ~~PR 36526: ddb(4) doesn't document ddb.commandonenter fully, nor correctly~~
PR 36227: TRYEMULROOT-related doc issues about absolute symlinks
PR 38141: lookup/vfs_busy acquire rwlock recursively (now, transient unmount failures)
PR 38889: Crash on open/mmap/close of block device
PR 45694: update by ./build.sh doesn't complete because of unwriteable /dev
PR 38265: sometimes /kern directory can not be read
PR 33642: Sometimes, creating new users and then chowning directories for them, leads to a panic.
PR 32844: unix domain sockets documentation is incomplete (and see 38993)
PR 22522: connect(2) may fail with EINVAL
PR 38668: fast_ipsec, ipv6 ans socket locking doesn't play well together
PR 6536: wsconsctl metaesc setting is undocumented
PR 9725: GNU autoconf mmap() test causes panic in hp300-based m68k pmap code
PR 34100: keyboard not working on my Compaq Presario V2658US notebook
PR 39275: HEAD amd64 kernel hang at uhub5 at usb5 vendor 0x1002 EHCI ...
PR 32830: sd(4) contains incorrect & incomplete information
PR 42596: getopt_long(3) manual does not mention + and - leading character in optstring parameter
PR 41891: our pthread doesn't like wine 1.1.27
PR 20272: No daily checks for disk quotas
PR 8282: PSD for make not in sync with program and manpage
PR 41652: newfs neither respects nor updates the block and frag sizes in disklabel
PR 26835: cgd.conf handled incorrectly in case cgd on cgd
PR 28624: cgdconfig with no keygen entry fails silently
PR 36243: cgdconfig manual page correction: document -n flag; add -V to -g case; omit -n in -g case
PR 14578: sh(1) doesn't explain emacs editing mode
PR 35227: /bin/sh does not clean up zombies under certain circumstances
PR 36532: fix for a core dump in /bin/sh dotrap()
PR 40554: >& -operator incorrectly documented in sh(1) man page
PR 32591: cap_mkdb(1) does not update properly db files?
PR 34890: ldd(1) receives SIGSEGV when called for certain files
PR 29719: confusing passwd(1) warning w/ short password and PAM
PR 11223: POSIX.2: ps -G not supported (committable patch)
PR 37288: su fails if home on nfs without root privileges
PR 18936: syslogd should call initgroups()
PR 19722: fix for 3 uncompress(1) bugs that delete/truncate the wrong file
PR 39428: wpa_supplicant.conf(5) describes `ap_scan' option vaguely
PR 32519: ypbind spams syslog if it loses connectivity
PR 41266: build.sh invoked mkisofs has wrong path for iso image
PR 43272: no nbsed after first release build
PR 9904: sysinst sometimes doesn't store network config
PR 37415: sysinst should be available after installation
PR 10277: i386 floppies have slip but not ppp support
PR 39697: no raidframe support in sysinst
PR 43357: initial security run output is too large
PR 43361: no IPv6 network installation on some boot media
PR 13533: there should be a PDF version of the INSTALL notes
PR 42495: Corrupt db files created by cross-built pwd_mkdb and cap_mkdb
PR 43322: netbsd-5 tools compat build does not respect TOOLDIR
PR 44578: cross-building netbsd5 on current-amd64 is missing /var/db/libc.tags
PR 45473: Please fix "build tools" on OpenIndiana 151a
PR 45560: Unable to cross build HEAD kernel on MacOS X 10.7
PR 45673: gcc 4.6 on i386 current generates bad code for assembler code in lock.h
PR 45697: build.sh fails to build tools with gcc (the one coming with FreeBSD)
PR 45846: pf(4) re-directs broken

It would also be nice to fix the following bugs:

(no PR): dump, restore, tar, cpio, scp, sftp, rcp do not copy extended attributes
PR 2512: fuword() definition problem
PR 28448: stackable filesystems locking breakage when looking up DOTDOT
PR 32367: umount -f deadlock
PR 37706: Forced unmount of file systems is unsafe
PR 40681: possible data loss path in the buffer cache code
PR 12189: vnd-caused deadlock in buffer cache
PR 12404: panic: ffs_alloccg: map corrupted
PR 19110: nullfs mounts over NFS cause lock manager problems
PR 22725: kernel panic while attempting mkfifo on (localhost, userlevel) NFS volume
PR 41874: in-kernel NFS server hates network interface aliases
PR 13861: nullfs can't be remounted ro/rw
PR 25810: ipf4 ftp proxy has problems with long 221- lines
PR 34452: Freecom USB HDD which worked with 2.x doesn't work with 3.1_RC1, 4.0_BETA or 4.99.1
PR 32344: atu(4) makes kernel crash
PR 32938: PCMCIA cards with fixed IO addresses are not working.
PR 19085: Belkin switchboxes bust PS/2 mouse probe (see 24063?)
PR 24363: PS/2 mouse code could be a bit smarter (see 19085?)
PR 34822: libossaudio ignores mixer class
PR 8156: step/next in gdb do not work on arm32
PR 44829: gdb -q prints bogus messages
PR 20993: .USE rules don't mix with .SUFFIXES
PR 45027: make: yacc/mkdep build race
PR 35547: add timeout to cgdconfig
PR 30771: patch to add -m option to calendar(1)
PR 20663: temporary system errors can cause cron jobs to hang forever
PR 30295: getty accepts too few letters after username prompt
PR 4617: inetd -l option is too broad a brush
PR 20264: lint(1) has problems with named member initialization
PR 22119: lint segv on malformed function pointer cast
PR 22500: lint breakage for named initializers
PR 38542: lint does not grok complex designated initializers
PR 42654: Coverity Scan Issues on ls.c
PR 35460: man(1) and catman(1) don't honour '\" first line comment
PR 11219: less(1) is not compatible with POSIX.2 "more"
PR 30420: chrooted named does not work out of the box.
PR 44889: netstat -d option is broken
PR 19468: pr(1) does not support -f or -p options
PR 12266: ps on a dump prints command line from live system
PR 18257: POSIX.2-1992: ps(1)'s TIME column has the wrong format
PR 40813: bad ps/ptyfs interaction
PR 23847: route add 10.10.10/21 dest results in 10/21 to dest
PR 37876: rpcbind(8) and related services should be able to bind(2) to a specific interface
PR 6832: savecore could be better
PR 30324: BSD sed wraps the regexp when it's too long.
PR 34560: Basic regexes go wrong when combining bound and backref
PR 11904: tail segfaults and core dumps on I/O error
PR 38066: tar doesn't dearchive correctly long symlinks
PR 41049: usermod -g =uid testuser does not create group as indicated by man page
PR 41526: re-support /usr/bin/vi's -F option
fixed ~~PR 43839: vi can't resize in -current~~
fixed in HEAD in 2009 ~~PR 45006: nvi gives nonsense error when TERM environment variable unset~~
PR 5034: the num lock light doesn't change when switching to X (also, 9127)
PR 9127: CapsLock not properly handled between virtual consoles with X (also, 5034)
PR 42569: Please import xf86-input-usbtablet driver from OpenBSD xenocara
PR 43320: build.sh fails on Cygwin 1.7.2
PR 9900: sysinst only uses 1 drive
PR 12020: Sysinst refuses upgrade unnecessarily (overzealous fscking)
PR 17593: suggestions to improve sysinst wrt disk handling
PR 17801: sysinst doesn't correctly handle changing mount points or conflicting mount points
PR 35066: sysinst should save media options in an ifconfig.if(5) file
PR 35538: sysinst duplicates hostname on upgrade
PR 39352: sysinst enhancement suggestion: file browser
PR 13532: the HTML generated for INSTALL.html is atrocious

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