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1.10      tron        1: # Hackathon 16
1.1       asau        2: 
1.10      tron        3: The 16th NetBSD hackathon will be run from February 10th to February 12th.
                      4: Our goal is fixing all the bugs that needs fixing to get
1.11      tron        5: [[NetBSD-current|http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/current/]] ready for the
1.10      tron        6: creation of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch.
1.1       asau        7: 
                      8: Join us on the IRC channel #netbsd-code on freenode (irc.freenode.net).
1.10      tron        9: Just join, have a look around and ask your questions or what work needs to
                     10: be done.
1.1       asau       11: 
1.2       asau       12: ## Primary goals
1.1       asau       13: 
1.10      tron       14: We want NetBSD 6.0 to be the best NetBSD release ever. There are already
                     15: a lot of great features in it:
1.1       asau       16: 
1.10      tron       17: * Improved kernel performance and scalibity
                     18: * New kernel module framework with automatic module loading
                     19: * Logic Volume Manager
                     20: * NetBSD Packet Filter
                     21: * Xen SMP support
                     22: * Flash file-system CHFS
                     23: * Automated Regression Testing
                     24: * Improved FUSE support
                     25: * Updated Linux emulation
                     26: * GCC 4.5.3
                     27: * Updated X.org X11 distribution
                     28: * SMTP authentication client built into Postfix (now version 2.8.7)
                     29: * New and enhanced drivers
                     30: * ... and many other features
                     31: 
                     32: To make sure that NetBSD users get the best possible experience of
                     33: the new release we would like to fix as many as possible of the
1.13    ! tron       34: following bugs. If you are able to fix these bugs by supplying patches
        !            35: or testing fixes please consider to participate.
1.10      tron       36: 
                     37: Critical bugs:
1.11      tron       38: 
1.10      tron       39: * [[PR 45677|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45677]]: The stress_killer test sometimes does
                     40: * [[PR 45708|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45708]]: Unable to read big files from large FFSv2 (12TB), ls out of swap
                     41: * [[PR 44788|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/44788]]: mlock(2) panic
                     42: * [[PR 45187|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45187]]: select(2) sometimes doesn't wakeup
                     43: * [[PR 45833|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45833]]: occasional crash of 5.99.59: SPL NOT LOWERED ON TRAP EXIT
1.12      tron       44: 
                     45: Important bugs:
                     46: 
                     47: * [[PR 38670|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/38670]]: ^Z does not seems to suspend programs that vfork'ed and wait.
                     48: * [[PR 38965|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/38965]]: ktrace locking issue
                     49: * [[PR 39420|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/39420]]: stopped processes can hold locks
                     50: * [[PR 42663|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/42663]]: lwp_exit() might race with lwp_free()
                     51: * [[PR 44658|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/44658]]: spurious chroot escape warning
                     52: * [[PR 34735|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/34735]]: diagnostic assertion failed genfs_vnops.c 1123
                     53: * [[PR 38760|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/38760]]: umount -f /usr panics the system
                     54: * [[PR 39548|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/39548]]: kernel debugging assertion "(vp->v_flag & VONWORKLST)" failed
                     55: * [[PR 30525|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/30525]]: remounting ffs read-only (mount -ur) does not sync metadata
                     56: * [[PR 39264|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/39264]]: newfs can create a filesystem with > 2^31 inodes, which doesn't work (?)
                     57: * [[PR 40562|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/40562]]: busy loop in ffs_sync when unmounting a file system
                     58: * [[PR 41013|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/41013]]: netbsd5-rc2 crash (kernel diagnostic assertion "vp->v_usecount == 1" failed)
                     59: * [[PR 39371|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/39371]]: wapbl should allow mounting "/" even if journal is hosed
                     60: * [[PR 39609|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/39609]]: wapbl "replaying log to disk" message is potentially misleading
                     61: * [[PR 32318|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/32318]]: NFS client or server hang
                     62: * [[PR 39385|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/39385]]: unmounting ptyfs with busy ptys causes deadlock in vrele
                     63: * [[PR 40388|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/40388]]: IPv6 incompatibility with pre-5.99.6 binary
                     64: * [[PR 38078|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/38078]]: IPFilter lacks documentation almost completely
                     65: * [[PR 38457|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/38457]]: ipf doesn't handle IPv6 fragments
                     66: * [[PR 39066|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/39066]]: Tty settings mangled.
                     67: * [[PR 4029|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/4029]]: Register usage doesn't comply with SPARC ABI
                     68: * [[PR 44705|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/44705]]: libc violates sparc ABI by using %g7
                     69: * [[PR 38540|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/38540]]: recent i386 GENERIC kernel cannot boot with VIA chipset
                     70: * [[PR 38643|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/38643]]: (dM) st tape drive loses data
                     71: * [[PR 39305|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/39305]]: loops through gre(4) cause a hang or crash
                     72: * [[PR 42420|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/42420]]: $ORIGIN undefined on NetBSD
                     73: * [[PR 40066|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/40066]]: gcc -O1 generates wrong code in loop optimize
                     74: * [[PR 40468|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/40468]]: Optimizer bug suspected -- porting devel/libffi to NetBSD/powerpc
                     75: * [[PR 30756|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/30756]]: gdb not usable for live debugging of threaded programs
                     76: * [[PR 41936|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/41936]]: gdb does not work for threaded programs on sparc64
                     77: * [[PR 41208|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/41208]]: objcopy -S -O binary aborts w/ BFD internal error
                     78: * [[PR 41127|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/41127]]: Update/improve newfs docs regarding raw devices
                     79: * [[PR 45762|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45762]]: ntpd default config violates pool.ntp.org policy
                     80: * [[PR 40346|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/40346]]: libexpat should be in base.tgz
                     81: * [[PR 9582|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/9582]]: sysinst doesn't allow source or pkgsrc installation
                     82: * [[PR 38571|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/38571]]: sysinst runs "postinstall fix"
                     83: * [[PR 12769|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/12769]]: clarify the upgrade notes for when the sets are on /usr
                     84: * [[PR 43314|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/43314]]: pc relative relocations are "off by 1*size" on vax
                     85: * [[PR 44159|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/44159]]: startx (xinit) fails
                     86: * [[PR 45153|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45153]]: there should be a build.sh target for building live images
                     87: * [[PR 45155|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45155]]: there are no usb-stick installer images
                     88: * [[PR 45439|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45439]]: gcc generates out-of-range branch insn for m68k
                     89: * [[PR 45573|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45573]]: internal compiler error when building f2c on sparc64
                     90: * [[PR 45620|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45620]]: MAKEDEV failures remains unoticed in miniroot build
                     91: * [[PR 45628|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45628]]: acpicpu(4) changes between 5.99.55 and 5.99.56 break amd64
                     92: * [[PR 45816|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45816]]: Screen corruption in German sysinst install
                     93: * [[PR 45854|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45854]]: vnode clean list corruption?
1.13    ! tron       94: 
        !            95: Should be fixed:
        !            96: 
        !            97: * [[PR 37726|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/37726]]: request documentation of 2147 second limit on adjtime(2)
        !            98: * [[PR 19774|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/19774]]: ddb can be entered twice and then you can't get out
        !            99: * [[PR 36526|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/36526]]: ddb(4) doesn't document ddb.commandonenter fully, nor correctly
        !           100: * [[PR 36227|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/36227]]: TRYEMULROOT-related doc issues about absolute symlinks
        !           101: * [[PR 38141|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/38141]]: lookup/vfs_busy acquire rwlock recursively (now, transient unmount failures)
        !           102: * [[PR 38889|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/38889]]: Crash on open/mmap/close of block device
        !           103: * [[PR 45694|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45694]]: update by ./build.sh doesn't complete because of unwriteable /dev
        !           104: * [[PR 38265|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/38265]]: sometimes /kern directory can not be read
        !           105: * [[PR 33642|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/33642]]: Sometimes, creating new users and then chowning directories for them, leads to a panic.
        !           106: * [[PR 32844|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/32844]]: unix domain sockets documentation is incomplete (and see 38993)
        !           107: * [[PR 22522|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/22522]]: connect(2) may fail with EINVAL
        !           108: * [[PR 38668|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/38668]]: fast_ipsec, ipv6 ans socket locking doesn't play well together
        !           109: * [[PR 6536|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/6536]]: wsconsctl metaesc setting is undocumented
        !           110: * [[PR 9725|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/9725]]: GNU autoconf mmap() test causes panic in hp300-based m68k pmap code
        !           111: * [[PR 34100|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/34100]]: keyboard not working on my Compaq Presario V2658US notebook
        !           112: * [[PR 39275|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/39275]]: HEAD amd64 kernel hang at uhub5 at usb5 vendor 0x1002 EHCI ...
        !           113: * [[PR 32830|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/32830]]: sd(4) contains incorrect & incomplete information
        !           114: * [[PR 42596|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/42596]]: getopt_long(3) manual does not mention + and - leading character in optstring parameter
        !           115: * [[PR 41891|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/41891]]: our pthread doesn't like wine 1.1.27
        !           116: * [[PR 20272|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/20272]]: No daily checks for disk quotas
        !           117: * [[PR 8282|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/8282]]: PSD for make not in sync with program and manpage
        !           118: * [[PR 41652|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/41652]]: newfs neither respects nor updates the block and frag sizes in disklabel
        !           119: * [[PR 26835|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/26835]]: cgd.conf handled incorrectly in case cgd on cgd
        !           120: * [[PR 28624|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/28624]]: cgdconfig with no keygen entry fails silently
        !           121: * [[PR 36243|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/36243]]: cgdconfig manual page correction: document -n flag; add -V to -g case; omit -n in -g case
        !           122: * [[PR 14578|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/14578]]: sh(1) doesn't explain emacs editing mode
        !           123: * [[PR 35227|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/35227]]: /bin/sh does not clean up zombies under certain circumstances
        !           124: * [[PR 36532|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/36532]]: fix for a core dump in /bin/sh dotrap()
        !           125: * [[PR 40554|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/40554]]: >& -operator incorrectly documented in sh(1) man page
        !           126: * [[PR 32591|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/32591]]: cap_mkdb(1) does not update properly db files?
        !           127: * [[PR 34890|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/34890]]: ldd(1) receives SIGSEGV when called for certain files
        !           128: * [[PR 29719|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/29719]]: confusing passwd(1) warning w/ short password and PAM
        !           129: * [[PR 11223|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/11223]]: POSIX.2: ps -G <grouplist> not supported (committable patch)
        !           130: * [[PR 37288|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/37288]]: su fails if home on nfs without root privileges
        !           131: * [[PR 18936|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/18936]]: syslogd should call initgroups()
        !           132: * [[PR 19722|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/19722]]: fix for 3 uncompress(1) bugs that delete/truncate the wrong file
        !           133: * [[PR 39428|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/39428]]: wpa_supplicant.conf(5) describes `ap_scan' option vaguely
        !           134: * [[PR 32519|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/32519]]: ypbind spams syslog if it loses connectivity
        !           135: * [[PR 41266|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/41266]]: build.sh invoked mkisofs has wrong path for iso image
        !           136: * [[PR 43272|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/43272]]: no nbsed after first release build
        !           137: * [[PR 9904|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/9904]]: sysinst sometimes doesn't store network config
        !           138: * [[PR 37415|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/37415]]: sysinst should be available after installation
        !           139: * [[PR 10277|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/10277]]: i386 floppies have slip but not ppp support
        !           140: * [[PR 39697|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/39697]]: no raidframe support in sysinst
        !           141: * [[PR 43357|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/43357]]: initial security run output is too large
        !           142: * [[PR 43361|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/43361]]: no IPv6 network installation on some boot media
        !           143: * [[PR 13533|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/13533]]: there should be a PDF version of the INSTALL notes
        !           144: * [[PR 42495|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/42495]]: Corrupt db files created by cross-built pwd_mkdb and cap_mkdb
        !           145: * [[PR 43322|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/43322]]: netbsd-5 tools compat build does not respect TOOLDIR
        !           146: * [[PR 44578|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/44578]]: cross-building netbsd5 on current-amd64 is missing /var/db/libc.tags
        !           147: * [[PR 45473|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45473]]: Please fix "build tools" on OpenIndiana 151a
        !           148: * [[PR 45560|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45560]]: Unable to cross build HEAD kernel on MacOS X 10.7
        !           149: * [[PR 45673|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45673]]: gcc 4.6 on i386 current generates bad code for assembler code in lock.h
        !           150: * [[PR 45697|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45697]]: build.sh fails to build tools with gcc (the one coming with FreeBSD)
        !           151: * [[PR 45846|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45846]]: pf(4) re-directs broken
        !           152: 
        !           153: It would also be nice to fix the following bugs:
        !           154: 
        !           155: * [[PR 2512|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/2512]]: fuword() definition problem
        !           156: * [[PR 28448|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/28448]]: stackable filesystems locking breakage when looking up DOTDOT
        !           157: * [[PR 32367|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/32367]]: umount -f deadlock
        !           158: * [[PR 37706|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/37706]]: Forced unmount of file systems is unsafe
        !           159: * [[PR 40681|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/40681]]: possible data loss path in the buffer cache code
        !           160: * [[PR 12189|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/12189]]: vnd-caused deadlock in buffer cache
        !           161: * [[PR 12404|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/12404]]: panic: ffs_alloccg: map corrupted
        !           162: * [[PR 19110|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/19110]]: nullfs mounts over NFS cause lock manager problems
        !           163: * [[PR 22725|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/22725]]: kernel panic while attempting mkfifo on (localhost, userlevel) NFS volume
        !           164: * [[PR 41874|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/41874]]: in-kernel NFS server hates network interface aliases
        !           165: * [[PR 13861|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/13861]]: nullfs can't be remounted ro/rw
        !           166: * [[PR 25810|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/25810]]: ipf4 ftp proxy has problems with long 221- lines
        !           167: * [[PR 34452|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/34452]]: Freecom USB HDD which worked with 2.x doesn't work with 3.1_RC1, 4.0_BETA or 4.99.1
        !           168: * [[PR 32344|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/32344]]: atu(4) makes kernel crash
        !           169: * [[PR 32938|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/32938]]: PCMCIA cards with fixed IO addresses are not working.
        !           170: * [[PR 19085|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/19085]]: Belkin switchboxes bust PS/2 mouse probe (see 24063?)
        !           171: * [[PR 24363|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/24363]]: PS/2 mouse code could be a bit smarter (see 19085?)
        !           172: * [[PR 34822|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/34822]]: libossaudio ignores mixer class
        !           173: * [[PR 8156|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/8156]]: step/next in gdb do not work on arm32
        !           174: * [[PR 44829|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/44829]]: gdb -q prints bogus messages
        !           175: * [[PR 20993|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/20993]]: .USE rules don't mix with .SUFFIXES
        !           176: * [[PR 45027|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45027]]: make: yacc/mkdep build race
        !           177: * [[PR 35547|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/35547]]: add timeout to cgdconfig
        !           178: * [[PR 30771|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/30771]]: patch to add -m option to calendar(1)
        !           179: * [[PR 20663|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/20663]]: temporary system errors can cause cron jobs to hang forever
        !           180: * [[PR 30295|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/30295]]: getty accepts too few letters after username prompt
        !           181: * [[PR 4617|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/4617]]: inetd -l option is too broad a brush
        !           182: * [[PR 20264|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/20264]]: lint(1) has problems with named member initialization
        !           183: * [[PR 22119|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/22119]]: lint segv on malformed function pointer cast
        !           184: * [[PR 22500|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/22500]]: lint breakage for named initializers
        !           185: * [[PR 38542|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/38542]]: lint does not grok complex designated initializers
        !           186: * [[PR 42654|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/42654]]: Coverity Scan Issues on ls.c
        !           187: * [[PR 35460|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/35460]]: man(1) and catman(1) don't honour '\" first line comment
        !           188: * [[PR 11219|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/11219]]: less(1) is not compatible with POSIX.2 "more"
        !           189: * [[PR 30420|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/30420]]: chrooted named does not work out of the box.
        !           190: * [[PR 44889|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/44889]]: netstat -d option is broken
        !           191: * [[PR 19468|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/19468]]: pr(1) does not support -f or -p options
        !           192: * [[PR 12266|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/12266]]: ps on a dump prints command line from live system
        !           193: * [[PR 18257|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/18257]]: POSIX.2-1992: ps(1)'s TIME column has the wrong format
        !           194: * [[PR 40813|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/40813]]: bad ps/ptyfs interaction
        !           195: * [[PR 23847|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/23847]]: route add 10.10.10/21 dest results in 10/21 to dest
        !           196: * [[PR 37876|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/37876]]: rpcbind(8) and related services should be able to bind(2) to a specific interface
        !           197: * [[PR 6832|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/6832]]: savecore could be better
        !           198: * [[PR 30324|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/30324]]: BSD sed wraps the regexp when it's too long.
        !           199: * [[PR 34560|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/34560]]: Basic regexes go wrong when combining bound and backref
        !           200: * [[PR 11904|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/11904]]: tail segfaults and core dumps on I/O error
        !           201: * [[PR 38066|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/38066]]: tar doesn't dearchive correctly long symlinks
        !           202: * [[PR 41049|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/41049]]: usermod -g =uid testuser does not create group as indicated by man page
        !           203: * [[PR 41526|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/41526]]: re-support /usr/bin/vi's -F option
        !           204: * [[PR 43839|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/43839]]: vi can't resize in -current
        !           205: * [[PR 45006|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45006]]: nvi gives nonsense error when TERM environment variable unset
        !           206: * [[PR 5034|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/5034]]: the num lock light doesn't change when switching to X (also, 9127)
        !           207: * [[PR 9127|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/9127]]: CapsLock not properly handled between virtual consoles with X (also, 5034)
        !           208: * [[PR 42569|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/42569]]: Please import xf86-input-usbtablet driver from OpenBSD xenocara
        !           209: * [[PR 43320|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/43320]]: build.sh fails on Cygwin 1.7.2
        !           210: * [[PR 9900|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/9900]]: sysinst only uses 1 drive
        !           211: * [[PR 12020|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/12020]]: Sysinst refuses upgrade unnecessarily (overzealous fscking)
        !           212: * [[PR 17593|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/17593]]: suggestions to improve sysinst wrt disk handling
        !           213: * [[PR 17801|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/17801]]: sysinst doesn't correctly handle changing mount points or conflicting mount points
        !           214: * [[PR 35066|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/35066]]: sysinst should save media options in an ifconfig.if(5) file
        !           215: * [[PR 35538|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/35538]]: sysinst duplicates hostname on upgrade
        !           216: * [[PR 39352|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/39352]]: sysinst enhancement suggestion: file browser
        !           217: * [[PR 13532|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/13532]]: the HTML generated for INSTALL.html is atrocious