2    Summary of Base Operating System Patches

Patch 1.00

OSF505CDE-001

Patch: CDE does not re-create list of application groups

State: Existing

This patch fixes a problem where the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Application Manager did not re-create the list of application groups at login. After customizing the application groups, users would see the old groups instead of the new groups.

Patch 2.00

OSF505DX-002

Patch: Compaq SNMP subagent core dumps

State: Existing

This patch fixes a problem that causes Compaq SNMP subagent (cpq_mibs) to coredump at boot-up time or when being reinvoked, which results in an invalid display of information on Insight Manager web pages.

Patch 3.00

OSF505DX-003

Patch: Fixes automount problem

State: Existing

This patch fixes a problem that occurs when restarting all NFS daemons with the automount argument set to empty.

Patch 8.00

OSF505X11-001

Patch: Provides missing compose definitions for ISO8859-15

State: Existing

This patch provides missing compose definitions in ISO8859-15-based locales for scaron, Scaron, zcaron, and Zcaron characters.

Patch 10.00

OSF505X11-003A

Patch: Fixes a problem with the svn widget of libDXm.so

State: Existing

This patch fixes a problem in which the svn widget of libDXm.so creates identical backgrounds and foregrounds.

Patch 11.00

OSF505X11-004

Patch: Fix for lbxproxy utility

State: Existing

This patch fixes a problem where the X windows lbxproxy utility that is used to make Low Bandwidth X (LBX) connections to an X server did not accept local connections.

Patch 14.00

OSF505-005

Patch: Updates the Danish (da_DK.ISO8859-1) locale

State: Existing

This patch updates the Danish (da_DK.ISO8859-1) locale to use all lowercase month names.

Patch 15.00

OSF505-006

Patch: Fixes a problem that occurs in multibyte locales

State: Existing

This patch fixes a problem that sometimes occurs when sorting large data files in a multibyte locale such as Japanese.

Patch 23.00

OSF505-014

Patch: Fixes a kernel memory fault when using ATM

State: Existing

This patch fixes a kernel memory fault when using ATM.

Patch 25.00

OSF505-016

Patch: Fix for VMAC functionality when used with NetRAIN

State: Supersedes patch OSF505-011 (20.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Fixes a kernel memory fault in VMAC code if_addnewaddr().

• Adds a fix to VMAC functionality when used with NetRAIN.

Patch 27.00

OSF505-018

Patch: Changes quotactl prototype to meet POSIX standards

State: Existing

This patch changes the quotactl prototype in /usr/include/ufs/quota.h to meet POSIX standards.

Patch 32.00

OSF505-023

Patch: Kernel panics Classical IP over lfa ATM driver

State: Existing

This patch fixes a kernel panic seen when running Classical IP over the lfa ATM driver. This panic would only occur in lockmode 4. If not in lockmode 4, the symptom would be a CPU hang.

Patch 35.00

OSF505-026

Patch: Fixes a problem with the find command

State: Existing

This patch fixes a problem where the find command fails to show filenames that start with a period.

Patch 37.00

OSF505-028

Patch: Fixes a tftpd problem

State: Existing

This patch fixes a tftpd problem. When responding to a broadcast read request and it would add the -b option to control whether to respond to any broadcasts.

Patch 41.00

OSF505-032

Patch: Corrects problem with the fgrep command

State: Existing

This patch corrects a problem with the fgrep command. When fgrep is used with the -s flag, all output is suppressed.

Patch 42.00

OSF505-033

Patch: Fixes problem with the restore command

State: Existing

This patch fixes a problem in which the restore command can fail with the following error:

Cannot malloc space for property list

Patch 47.00

OSF505-038

Patch: UFS disk quotas are not updating automatically

State: Existing

This patch fixes a problem where UFS disk quotas are not updating automatically.

Patch 51.00

OSF505-043

Patch: Provides the latest driver for PowerStorm 4D10T

State: Existing

This patch provides the latest driver for the PowerStorm 4D10T (ELSA Gloria Synergy, SN-PBXGK-BB) graphics card and the latest graphics driver for the PCI To Ethernet/Graphics Combo Adapter (3X-DEPVD-AA).

Patch 53.00

OSF505-045

Patch: Fixes errors seen when compiling with the -om switch

State: Existing

This patch fixes three errors that are occasionally seen when compiling with the -om switch:

om: fast access range error

om: value(0x1201704de) not in range of GP table

core dumping in the routine reloc_abs()

Patch 61.00

OSF505-055

Patch: Hardware manager inaccurately reports CPU speed

State: Existing

This patch fixes a problem where the hardware manager inaccurately reports a CPU speed that was one MHz less than the correct speed.

Patch 62.00

OSF505-056

Patch: Cursor displays incorrectly when image plane is set to 1

State: Existing

This patch fixes a problem where the cursor is displayed incorrectly when the image plane is set to 1 and the mask plane is set to 0.

Patch 64.00

OSF505-058

Patch: Fixes btcreate and btextract problems

State: Existing

This patch fixes the following btcreate and btextract problems:

• The DEFAULT restore fails if disklabel is different.

• The btcreate command does not wait long enough between vdumps for the next tape to be loaded by some media changers.

Patch 65.00

OSF505-059

Patch: Fixes a hang in the shutdown process

State: Existing

This patch fixes a hang in the shutdown process (shutdown now) of a system when a device has flow control switched off.

Patch 66.00

OSF505-060

Patch: Fixes kdbx extensions mount and swap

State: Existing

This patch fixes problems with the kdbx extensions mount and swap. Information about the file system type is incorrect in the mount command. The device name is missing in the swap command.

Patch 67.00

OSF505-062A

Patch: Fixes a problem with routines in the libst library

State: Supersedes patch OSF505-025A (34.00)

This patch corrects the following problems:

• Fixes a problem with two routines in the libst library, st_obj_open() and st_obj_write(). The ability to change a file permission using these two libst routines is denied if group has write permissions.

• Fixes a segmentation fault problem with the profiling tool prof. The problem is in library routines that access the line number information in the symbol table, and can affect other commands that look at the symbol table.

Patch 69.00

OSF505-064

Patch: Updates the lfa ATM device driver to V1.0.17

State: Existing

This patch updates the lfa ATM device driver to V1.0.17 and adds some enhancements as well as a fix for a kernel memory fault seen when either shutting down or restarting the device driver.

Patch 70.00

OSF505X11-003B

Patch: Static library fix for libDXm

State: Existing

This patch fixes a problem in which the svn widget of libDXm.so creates identical backgrounds and foregrounds.

Patch 72.00

OSF505-025B

Patch: Cannot change file permission using libst routines

State: Existing

This patch fixes a problem with two routines in the libst library, st_obj_open() and st_obj_write(). The ability to change a file permission using these two libst routines is denied if group has write permissions.

Patch 73.00

OSF505-062B

Patch: prof profiling tool causes segmentation fault

State: Existing

This patch fixes a segmentation fault problem with the profiling tool prof. The problem is in library routines that access the line number information in the symbol table, and can affect other commands that look at the symbol table.

Patch 74.00

OSF505-030B

Patch: Security (SSRT0636U)

State: Existing

A potential security vulnerability has been discovered where, under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability.

Patch 75.00

OSF505DX-008

Patch: Fix for System Management Station daemon

State: Existing

This patch fixes the following problems with the System Management Station daemon:

• The System Management Station daemon (smsd(8)) will intermittently crash.

• The SysMan Station client will intermittently fail to launch a tool.

Patch 76.00

OSF505X11-006A

Patch: Security (SSRT0656U)

State: Existing

A potential security vulnerability has been discovered where, under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability.

Patch 81.00

OSF505-072

Patch: Fix for dn_setup core dump

State: Existing

This patch fixes a problem where /sbin/dn_setup will core dump during the boot process. The following error is displayed:

/sbin/dn_setup: 1572936 Memory fault - core dumped

Patch 86.00

OSF505-070

Patch: Fix for rm_state_change panic

State: Supersedes patch OSF505-057 (63.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Fixes a problem in the memory channel driver which could result in panics with rm-inconsistent local spinlock structures being logged.

• Fixes a system panic that involves state changes on MC2 virtual Hub configurations. The panic message on the console is:

   rm_state_change: panic (cpu 0): ERROR: DATA APPEARS CORRUPTED
  

Patch 90.00

OSF505-081

Patch: versw command can core dump during rolling upgrade

State: New

This patch fixes a problem where the versw command can core dump during a rolling upgrade.

Patch 95.00

OSF505-082A

Patch: Overlap checking in MKFDMN and NEWFS fails

State: Existing

This patch fixes a problem where overlap checking in MKFDMN and NEWFS would fail for third-party drivers used in a cluster.

Patch 99.00

OSF505-082B

Patch: MKFDMN NEWFS fails for third party drivers in cluster

State: Existing

Fixes a problem where overlap checking in MKFDMN and NEWFS would fail for third party drives used in a cluster.

Patch 100.00

OSF505X11-006B

Patch: Security (SSRT0656U)

State: Existing

A potential security vulnerability has been discovered where, under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability.

Patch 116.00

OSF505-137B

Patch: Fixes a problem in uucp

State: New

This patch fixes a problem in uucp where uucp fails on systems names that are greater than seven characters.

Patch 118.00

OSF505-089

Patch: Corrects a problem in the lat driver

State: New

This patch corrects a problem in the lat driver which caused improper processing of the ioctl TCSBRK as well as the generation of spurious <BREAK> characters when the libc routine tcdrain() was used.

Patch 120.00

OSF505-120

Patch: System panic occurs when auditing is enabled

State: New

This patch fixes the problem where a system may panic with a kernel memory fault when auditing is enabled.

Patch 122.00

OSF505-080

Patch: Fixes a timeout table overflow system panic

State: New

This patch fixes a timeout table overflow system panic, especially in a clustered environment. This occurs when a bus reset in the isp driver did not restore the System Priority Level (spl), leaving it at an elevated level.

Patch 124.00

OSF505X11-008

Patch: Adds support for Euro character to keymap files

State: New

This patch adds support for the Euro character to keymap files.

Patch 128.00

OSF505-139B

Patch: Fix for threads created by taso programs

State: New

This patch ensures that threads created by programs linked -taso run on stacks with addresses that fit in the 31-bit taso range. Prior to this patch threads created by taso programs were run on stacks with non-taso addresses, which could result in truncated address values, and segmentation faults or data corruption depending on whether the truncated address is valid.

Patch 130.00

OSF505-096

Patch: Incorrect warning messages about mounted file systems

State: New

This patch prevents "not currently mounted" warning messages from being displayed for file systems you did not request to umount.

Patch 132.00

OSF505X11-012

Patch: Fix for tclhelp failure

State: New

This patch fixes a problem in which tclhelp and any other tool using #!/usr/bin/wishx as the interpreter fail when additional versions of tcl are installed in /usr/local.

Patch 134.00

OSF505-130

Patch: Fixes problems with vdf

State: New

This patch fixes two separate problems with vdf:

• vdf does not run at non-root level.

• vdf may give incorrect information.

Patch 150.00

OSF505X11-010A

Patch: Fixes a memory leak in Xt

State: New

This patch fixes a memory leak in the X Window System's X Toolkit library (Xt) that could occur when creating and destroying Motif List, Text, and TextField widgets.

Patch 152.00

OSF505X11-010B

Patch: Memory leak when creating and destroying widgets

State: New

This patch fixes a memory leak in the X Window System's X Toolkit library (Xt) that could occur when creating and destroying Motif List, Text, and TextField widgets.

Patch 154.00

OSF505-095

Patch: Improper handling of PCI options cards

State: Supersedes patch OSF505-046 (54.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Provides PCI Resource Management support for the Atalla AXL200 cryptographic accelerator card. It also fixes a problem where genvmunix does not boot on a system with an Atalla AXL200 card installed.

• Fixes the improper handling of PCI options cards that use 64-bit BARs (Base Address Registers).

Patch 163.00

OSF505-087

Patch: Fixes conflicting cuserid declarations

State: New

This patch fixes conflicting cuserid() declarations. It also fixes existing prototype/definition conflicts that cause C++ compiler errors when using this function.

Patch 165.00

OSF505CDE-003

Patch: dtlogin core dumps from XDMCP clients

State: New

This patch fixes a problem where the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) login daemon, dtlogin, core dumps occasionally when servicing requests from XDMCP clients such as X terminals or PCs running X servers.

Patch 167.00

OSF505DX-009

Patch: Fixes incorrect date and time stamp on new directory

State: Supersedes patches OSF505DX-004 (4.00), OSF505DX-005 (5.00), OSF505DX-006 (6.00), OSF505DX-007 (7.00)

This patch corrects the following problems:

• Fixes a situation in which a system running ASU experiences dxaccounts crash problem when a user is deleted from PC User view.

• Fixes the following cli command problems:

  • Incorrect results of usermod -G command.

  • Not setting c2 security attributes values when useradd/usermod commands with -x account_inactive|account_expiration are executed.

  • When running useradd X and useradd Y on the same machine but from separate terminals, two different types of contention error messages are displayed.

  • The following command does not display an error message, which it should when executed from a NIS clent:

    usermod (or useradd) -x local=0' 'groupmod (or groupadd) -x local=0
    

• Fixes the following dxaccount problems:

  • The ability to change root's login/uid through cli/dxaccounts utilities.

  • The -t flag in useradd and usermod commands' usage displays an error message instead of adding or modifying the local user.

  • dxaccounts dialog messages are incorrectly displayed when a user is added with no password entry.

  • Unable to create a new user from the PC Users view on a system with ASU installed.

  • The following problems can occur with the dxaccounts application on ASU systems:

    • dxaccounts crashes when the root icon is double clicked.

    • The full name of a new PC account is not mapped to a UNIX user.

    • Erasing a PC account's fields does not work: the values erased remain.

    • The default values of Home Directory, Login Script, and User Profile Path for a PC user are invalid.

• Fixes a problem where the new home directory for a new user id is created with the date and time stamp of the /usr/skel directory.

Patch 170.00

OSF505-117

Patch: ATM LAN emulation fails with ATM Meteor 351 board

State: New. Supersedes patch OSF505-097 (168.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• When running ATM Lan Emulation, using more than four ATM Netrain interfaces can result in recursive calls causing a kernel stack not valid halt.

• Fixes a problem of ATM LAN emulation failing to come up when the using the ATM Meteor 351 board.

Patch 172.00

OSF505-136

Patch: Fixes problems with the collect command

State: New

This patch fixes several problems with the collect command and adds sysloging when collect suspends, resumes, or receives a signal.

Patch 174.00

OSF505X11-009A

Patch: Fix for memory leaks in Xlib

State: New. Supersedes patch OSF505X11-002 (9.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Fixes a problem in which some 8-bit characters cannot be entered directly from the keyboard when the Caps Lock setting is on.

• Fixes two memory leaks in the X Window System's X library (Xlib) that can occur when creating and destroying Motif List, Text, and TextField widgets.

Patch 176.00

OSF505X11-009B

Patch: Memory leaks occur when creating widgets

State: New

This patch fixes two memory leaks in the X Window System's X library (Xlib) that can occur when creating and destroying Motif List, Text, and TextField widgets.

Patch 178.00

OSF505-110

Patch: Incorrect bcache size returned to kernel from HWRPB

State: New

This patch corrects the following.

• A problem that caused the device_tables.h file to be unusable with C++. This problem occurred on Professional Workstation 900 and 1000 systems and AlphaServer DS10, DS20, DS20E, and ES40 systems.

• A problem that caused an incorrect bcache size to be returned to the kernel from the HWRPB. This problem occurred on Professional Workstation 900 and 1000 systems and AlphaServer DS10, DS20, DS20E, ES40, GS80, GS160, and GS320 systems

Patch 180.00

OSF505X11-011A

Patch: Fixes memory leak in libXm

State: New

This patch fixes various memory leaks in the Motif library (libXm) that could occur when creating and destroying Motif List, Text, and TextField widgets.

Patch 182.00

OSF505X11-011B

Patch: libXm memory leak when creating widgets

State: New

This patch fixes various memory leaks in the Motif library (libXm) that could occur when creating and destroying Motif List, Text, and TextField widgets.

Patch 184.00

OSF505-127

Patch: Bootlink can fail on AlphaStations 600, 600A, 500/400

State: New

This patch fixes a problem in which the bootlink can fail on Alphastations 600, 600A, and 500/400.

Patch 188.00

OSF505-090

Patch: advscan does not display bootable partitions properly

State: Existing

When a disk partition exactly overlaps an AdvFS partition, the advscan utility would erroneously think both partitions belong in the domain. This patch fixes a problem where advscan -a -g does not display bootable partitions properly.

Patch 192.00

OSF505-121

Patch: Fix for what command

State: New

This patch fixes a problem in the what command. This command was unable to process more than one input file at once.

Patch 194.00

OSF505-146

Patch: Fixes potential source code computability problem

State: New

This patch fixes a potential source code computability problem with certain third party (non-Compaq) device drivers.

Patch 196.00

OSF505-107

Patch: Security (SSRT0683U)

State: New

A potential security vulnerability has been discovered where, under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability.

Patch 200.00

OSF505CDE-002

Patch: Fix for dtmail problem

State: New

This patch fixes a dtmail problem in which a From line with quotes in it incorrectly finds the date of the mail message. This error is displayed on the main screen under the header Date and Time and shows up as Dec. 31 or as a blank field.

Patch 205.00

OSF505-125

Patch: Corrects problem with mv command deleting files

State: Supersedes patch OSF505-115 (203.00)

This patch corrects the problem with the mv(1) command deleting files in the directory when the user moves a directory to itself.

Patch 207.00

OSF505-124

Patch: Potential hang on booting a cluster

State: New

This patch is to prevent a potential hang on booting a cluster when more than one node is being booted simultaneously.

Patch 211.00

OSF505-108

Patch: Fixes cron problems

State: Supersedes patch OSF505-042 (50.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Fixes a problem where some crontab jobs would run multiple times in the same minute.

• The cron daemon does intensive logging and fills up the disk.

• Multiple cron daemons continue to run and consume system resources due to the fact that after a user is deleted from the system there are still jobs running on the users behalf.

Patch 213.00

OSF505DX-010

Patch: Fixes problem causing diskconfig to issue error message

State: New

This fixes a problem that was causing diskconfig to issue the following error message upon startup:

can't read "tminor": no such variable

Patch 219.00

OSF505-184

Patch: Corrects voldctl stop command behaviour for clusters

State: New

This patch corrects the voldctl stop command behaviour for cluster support.

Patch 221.00

OSF505-165

Patch: fixso command causes segmentation fault

State: New

This patch fixes a problem with the /usr/ucb/fixso command that can cause a segmentation fault.

Patch 223.00

OSF505-221

Patch: Fix for vdump and vrestore

State: Supersedes patches OSF505-063 (68.00), OSF505-077B (98.00)

This patch fixes the following vrestore problems:

• A previous patch caused incomplete restores.

• A warning message is displayed when the path for the first file in a group of hardlinks is created without using original protection codes and property lists.

• A warning message is displayed and vrestore aborts if it fails to malloc space for a property list.

• A message that had been inserted at the end of the message file had the wrong message category (this could cause messaging confusion).

• An uninitialized variable in the code that restores property lists could cause malloc failures, memory faults, "error setting extended attributes", and infinite loops using the -l option

• Corrupted property list information could cause an infinite loop.

This patch fixes the following pax and vdump problems:

• The pax/tar command opens and truncates pre-existing files when extracting from an archive. This can cause problems when performing an update install.

• The vdump command will backup automount symbolic links as files in a directory section. A restore of this link would then prevent automount from changing a directory file to a symbolic link file.

This patch fixes the following problems with the vdump command:

• Failed to flag compressed extended attributes records that are split across a vdump BLOCK boundary.

• Overrides the -D option when source path describes a root fileset Note: If you want to backup quota files, you must not use the -D option.

• Corrects "Rewinding" message to avoid a segfault with Internationalized messages.

This patch fixes the following problems with the vrestore command:

• Fails to properly handle extended attributes records in compressed archives. This results in malloc failures, proplist inconsistencies, program abort, program crashes due to segfault or invalid memory access, and the display of the error message "error setting extended attributes".

• Fails to set extended attributes due to confusion over selective restore of the file or directory associated. Also results in the display of the error message "error setting extended attributes".

• Selective restore of hardlinked files is incomplete when they exist in different directories (fails to create directory for second occurrence of file with same inode number).

• The -Q option is added to vrestore to allow the user to request ignoring the quota files (thus avoiding the time it takes to process them).

Patch 225.00

OSF505-204

Patch: Fix for threaded applications problem

State: Supersedes patches OSF505-068 (80.00), OSF505-139A (126.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Fixes a problem where threaded applications built on DIGITAL UNIX V3.2-era systems may encounter an unresolved reference to _pthread_init_routine when run on a Tru64 UNIX V5.0A system.

• Ensures that threads created by programs linked -taso run on stacks with addresses that fit in the 31-bit taso range. Prior to this patch threads created by taso programs were run on stacks with non-taso addresses, which could result in truncated address values, and segmentation faults or data inconsistencies depending on whether the truncated address is valid.

• This patch fixes four problems for threaded applications on Tru64 UNIX V5.0A:

  • A memory leak when the pthread_attr_setname_np function is used.

  • pthread_setname_np occasionally returning an EINVAL error.

  • VM subsystem can cause deadlocks on pthread library internal mutexes.

  • Threaded processes looping in internal routine __krnUnlock.

Patch 234.00

OSF505-210

Patch: Security (SSRT0636U)

State: Supersedes patches OSF505-004 (13.00), OSF505-015 (24.00), OSF505-030A (39.00), OSF505-031 (40.00), OSF505-061 (92.00), OSF505-044 (52.00), OSF505-071 (87.00), OSF505-105 (104.00), OSF505-137A (105.00), OSF505-128 (106.00), OSF505-135 (107.00), OSF505-086 (108.00), OSF505-116 (109.00), OSF505-118 (110.00), OSF505-119 (111.00), OSF505-113 (112.00), OSF505-099 (114.00), OSF505-241 (226.00), OSF505-168 (227.00), OSF505-163 (228.00), OSF505-228 (229.00), OSF505-153 (230.00), OSF505-191 (231.00), OSF505-209 (232.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• The regular expression logic used by grep did not identify matches that involved expressions with multiple subexpressions and alternate patterns.

• Corrects the error handling when invalid multibyte sequences are encountered by the vi, ex, or more commands.

• Fixes a problem in libc where gmtime() would return a tm struct containing an incorrect tm_zone abbreviation if previous calls to both gmtime() and localtime() were made.

• A potential security vulnerability has been discovered where, under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability.

• Fixes a problem in libc that affects debugger tracebacks of code containing split procedures.

• Corrects a "permission denied" error when writing to the /var/tcb/files/dblogs/[logfile] while running pop3d and enhanced security.

• Corrects a problem of the rsh command displaying a warning message instead of the rsh command output when C2 security is configured.

• The sia_get_groups() interface where threads other than the main thread in a multi-threaded programs do not receive the correct values in the returned group list.

• The sia_get_groups() interface where threads other than the main thread in a multi-threaded programs do not receive the correct values in the returned group list.

  it.log: db_load:  /tcb/files/auth.db2: Bad file number
  it.log: db_load:  /var/tcb/files/auth.db2: Bad file number
  

• Fixes a problem that causes rshd and other programs to core dump.h

• Fixes a problem in uucp. uucp fails on systems names that are greater than seven characters.

• Fixes a problem where a TZ environment variable setting of ":" yields incorrect (or missing) time zone information after calling tzset() and incorrect error reporting from mktime().

• Fixes a problem for those applications that assume initial allocations of memory from the C run-time library's malloc() function will return only zero-filled memory.

• Adds a NULL to the resulting string output of swprintf() calls.

Patch 234.00

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• Fixes a problem in libc that affects the mktemp, tmpnam, and tempnam functions. The temporary file names that were generated might contain the # character, which violates the file naming standard and may cause problems if a shell script containing a reference to that filename is generated.

• Corrects a problem in an Enhanced Security configuration where at login time, if it is determined an account's password has expired, the "Old password:" prompt did not appear. Rather, the user is immediately prompted for their new password option and is allowed to change to a new password.

• Fixes a problem in an Enhanced Security configuration. This patch restores the capability of being able to su to a user as root without being prompted or having to know the user's password.

• Fixes a problem for Enhanced Security configurations where the Maximum Login Interval (u_max_login_intvl) field was being ignored for account templates.

• Fixes a problem that occurs when attempting to log in on a system with Enhanced Security. If the login attempt times out or is terminated with a Control C, the following is seen:

  login: n1_1
  Password:
   
  Login timed out
   
  malloc: Interrupted system call
   
  Connection closed by foreign host.
   
  

• Fixes the problem of optimized programs printing incorrect values for long doubles.

• A potential security vulnerability has been discovered where, under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability.

• Corrects a regular expression performance problem in libc.

• Fixes problems with the prpasswdd daemon hanging when there are numerous background processes simultaneously attempting to authenticate users to the system in an Enhanced Security environment.

• Increases the number of places of precision for formatted printing of long doubles.

• Fixes a problem in which the vi editor core dumps when it finds invalid syntax during a substitute operation.

• Restores correct behavior that existed on pre-V5.0 releases for ecvt() and fcvt(). Floating point exceptions and core dumps no longer occur when denormalized values are passed to ecvt() and fcvt().

• Resolves issues with customer applications that experienced floating point exceptions and core dumps when passing denormalized values to ecvt() and fcvt() that subsequently caused INFORMIX databases to crash.

• Fixes regular expression handling with non-default locale settings.

Patch 236.00

OSF505-268

Patch: Fixes a problem with the grep command

State: Supersedes patch OSF505-010 (19.00)

This patch fixes a problem with the grep command in which the options -p -v together do not produce any output.

Patch 238.00

OSF505-152

Patch: Fix for quotacheck command

State: New

This patch fixes a bug where quotacheck -v <filesystem> will report that it has fixed some quotas. If you keep running the command, it will keep reporting the exact same fixes.

Patch 242.00

OSF505X11-018

Patch: X server does not display windows properly

State: New. Supersedes patches OSF505X11-019 (239.00), OSF505X11-015 (240.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Changes the X server to dynamically retrieve its vendor string information when running on COSIX64.

• Fixes a memory leak in the X server that could occur when a client repeatedly created and destroyed buffers for the X Window System Multibuffering Extension (XmbufCreateBuffers/XmbufDestroyBuffers).

• Fixes a problem where the X server does not display windows properly for the 128th and subsequent clients.

Patch 279.00

OSF505-217B

Patch: Support for activating temporary data logging

State: New

This patch provides support for activating temporary data logging on a mount point.

Patch 289.00

OSF505-224

Patch: Fix for pax and vdump problems

State: Supersedes patches OSF505-012 (21.00), OSF505-077A (79.00), OSF505-155 (287.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Fixes a cpio hanging problem in the Japanese locales.

• Fixes the following pax and vdump problems:

  • The pax/tar command opens and truncates pre-existing files while extracting from an archive. This can cause problems when performing an update install.

  • The vdump command will backup automount symbolic links as files in a directory section. A restore of this link would then prevent automount from changing a directory file to a symbolic link file.

• Fixes a problem where the tar -F (Fasttar) option ignores files named err but does not ignore files named errs and directories named SCCS and RCS.

• This patch corrects pax/tar/cpio to properly extract explicitly specified files. When an archive contained a file with extended attributes and a different file (occurring later in the archive) was specified to be extracted, improper buffer pointer management resulted in the following display (the following example uses tar):

  tar: /dev/nrmt0h : This doesn't look like a tar archive
  tar: /dev/nrmt0h : Skipping to next file...
  tar: Memory allocation failed for extended data while reading :
  Not enough space
  

  The directory option was similarly affected. In this case the information for the specified file was not reported.

Patch 291.00

OSF505-174

Patch: Fixes a problem with dlclose

State: Supersedes patch OSF505-085 (97.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Fixes a problem with the dlsym() routine. The problem was that dlsym() would perform a ring search when locating symbols in a library that was linked with the "-B symbolic" linker flag. The dlsym() search in this case should only be a depth search. With this fix, only the selected library and its dependencies will be searched. The search will not continue to the application and its dependencies.

• Fixes a problem with dlclose() that prevented the Apache web server from running on V5.0A.

Patch 293.00

OSF505DX-017

Patch: Updates Netscape Communicator to Version 4.76

State: New

This patch updates Netscape Communicator to Version 4.76 to fix missing default MIME types in Netscape Communicator Version 4.75.

Patch 296.00

OSF505-225

Patch: ksh problems occur in multi-byte Asian locales

State: New. Supersedes patch OSF505-192 (294.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Fixes a possible handling problem with multibyte character boundary conditions in ksh script processing.

• Fixes two ksh problems that occur in multi-byte Asian locales.

Patch 301.00

OSF505-237

Patch: Fixes problems relating to the operation of hsg80

State: Supersedes patches OSF505-036 (45.00), OSF505-037 (46.00), OSF505-035 (44.00), OSF505-073 (82.00), OSF505-101 (102.00), OSF505-133 (159.00), OSF505-075 (85.00), OSF505-098 (103.00), OSF505-145 (186.00), OSF505-066 (83.00), OSF505-244 (297.00), OSF505-196 (298.00), OSF505-172 (299.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Fixes the following two problems in the I/O subsystem:

  • Only the first byte of the HSZ serial number is checked.

  • The time allowed for the command timeout on AIT tape drives is increased to from 5 seconds to 5 minutes.

• Fixes a problem in which a reboot will fail after hwmgr is used to delete or add devices.

• Corrects a kermel memory fault caused by hwmgr.

• When using the hwmgr -edit scsi command to make a non-shared SCSI device have a unique identifier, the SCSI device should be registered with the hardware management code as shared. Prior to this fix, the SCSI device was still being registered as non-shared.

• Fixes a panic during a multi-node reboot. The panic has the following error message:

  panic: lock_write
  

• Prevents an AdvFS Domain Panic from occurring during the boot process following a clu_add_member.

• Fixes the following CAM disk problems that occur occasionally only during heavy IO:

  • EPERM errors are reported to the application when a device is reopened.

  • A device may become unavaliable to DRD and will failover even if there is a viable path to the device.

• Fixes a problem such that when connectivity of a device is restored in a cluster environment, the state of the paths to the device may not be current. The problem symptoms will be one or more of the following:

  • Member node hang for a minute or more.

  • Member node does not become a server for the device.

  • Persistent reservation not re-applied to the device.

• Fixes a problem in 5.0A Initial Patch Kit where disks can become inaccessible on a cluster node with the following message:

  DRD barrier failed against 219 returned 60 (=ETIMEDOUT)
  

• Fixes a problem in which the SCSI_MC_GENERIC-READ_ELEMENT_STATUS fails with an ioctl return status of -1 and "i/o error".

• Fixes the inconsistencies of the CAM hardware database when using hwmgr. This typically can result in a kernel memory fault when the database is being written to disk after a hwmgr operation.

Patch 301.00

continued

• Fixes multiple problems with SCSI tape handling including improvements to backup procedures, SCSI passthrough, an increase to the local IO size for transfers, a fix for a system crash that can occur during a bus reset and a fix for a panic with the following panic string:

  PWS_CCB_QUE_REMOVE: CCB NOT ON ANY LIST
  

• Fixes a problem in which data can become corrupted on hardware configurations that use multiported parallel Fibre Channel storage arrays.

• Fixes problems relating to the operation of hsg80s.

Patch 307.00

OSF505-255

Patch: Updates emx Fiber Channel driver to Revision 1.22

State: Supersedes patches OSF505-053 (59.00), OSF505-141 (161.00), OSF505-140 (215.00), OSF505-227 (302.00), OSF505-235 (303.00), OSF505-195 (304.00), OSF505-142 (305.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Updates the emx Fiber Channel driver to Revision 1.22 which corrects a Data Error that is seen when running with the latest Emulex firmware. This error corrupts data when reading from the disk. This revision also fixes an error that causes performance degradation.

• This patch fixes the following DE600/DE602 10/100 Ethernet adapter problems:

  • The primary CPU may appear hung on networks where switches send Flow Control Pause frames if they become overloaded.

  • Transmit timeout messages appearing in the console log due to the driver timing out a frame.

• Provides support for the DEGPA-TA (1000BaseT) Gigabit Ethernet device.

• Fixes a problem where cascaded switches can hang the system at failover time.

• Fixes kernel build failures due to an undefined ss_sched function.

• Addresses two problems with the ee driver for DE60x Ethernet cards. These problems affect all Tru64 systems containing ee cards:

  • A fix for a race condition where the card could stop receiving packets from the network under rare circumstances.

  • A fix for the lan_config user options -x and -s.

• Provides the device driver support for 3DLabs Oxygen VX1 graphics adapter.

• Fixes a problem with the driver for Gigabit Ethernet adapters (DEGPA-FA and DEGPA-TA) which prevented its use in a NetRAIN (Redundant Array of Independent Network Adapters) set.

Patch 309.00

OSF505X11-016

Patch: Fixes a memory leak in the X server

State: Supersedes patch OSF505X11-005 (12.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Fixes a problem where, on systems with a PowerStorm 4D10T (ELSA Gloria Synergy, SN-PBXGK-BB) graphics card or a PCI To Ethernet/Graphics Combo Adapter (3X-DEPVD-AA), sometimes lines and images are not drawn correctly in scrolled windows.

• Fixes synchronization and drawing problems in the X server for the PowerStorm 4D10T (ELSA Gloria Synergy, SN-PBXGK-BB) graphics card.

• Fixes a memory leak in the X server on systems with a PowerStorm 4D10T (ELSA Gloria Synergy, SN-PBXGK-BB) graphics card that could occur when a client repeatedly created and destroyed buffers for the X Window System Multibuffering Extension (XmbufCreateBuffers/XmbufDestroyBuffers).

Patch 312.00

OSF505X11-016

Patch: Security (SSRT1-19U)

State: New. Supersedes patch OSF505-214 (310.00)

A potential security vulnerability has been discovered where, under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability.

Patch 315.00

OSF505X11-017

Patch: Corrects blocks of erroneous pixels

State: New. Supersedes patch OSF505X11-013 (313.00)

This patch provides the Xserver library for the new 3Dlabs OXYGEN VX1 PCI graphics card.

This patch corrects blocks of erroneous pixels left behind when dragging CDE Application Manager icons on the desktop.

Patch 317.00

OSF505X11-007

Patch: X server grows excessively when accessing fonts

State: New

This patch fixes a problem where the X server can grow excessively when accessing certain fonts.

Patch 319.00

OSF505-220A

Patch: Fix for EVM daemon, evmd

State: Supersedes patch OSF505-013A (22.00)

This patch corrects the following

• Fixes the following EVM problems on some Alpha EV6 systems:

  • evmshow and the event viewer will display timestamps that are incorrect by one hour for binlog events when Daylight Savings Time is in effect.

  • When a binlog event is being displayed on a system located in a different time zone from the system that originally posted the event, the time may be displayed as local time for the posting system. This is inconsistent with the way time is displayed by other utilities, including DECevent and Compaq Analyze.

• Fixes two problems with the EVM daemon, evmd. The EVM daemon will crash under the following conditions:

  • There are blank lines in the /etc/rc.config file.

  • The EVM daemon tries to retrieve events using a cluster local memory channel. This would happen when executing a command such as evmget -h systemA-mc0 | evmshow.

Patch 321.00

OSF505-220B

Patch: Static library fix for libevm

State: Supersedes patch OSF505-013B (71.00)

This patch corrects the following

• Fixes the following EVM problems on some Alpha EV6 systems:

  • evmshow and the event viewer will display timestamps that are incorrect by one hour for binlog events when Daylight Savings Time is in effect.

  • When a binlog event is being displayed on a system located in a different time zone from the system that originally posted the event, the time may be displayed as local time for the posting system. This is inconsistent with the way time is displayed by other utilities, including DECevent and Compaq Analyze.

• Fixes two problems with the EVM daemon, evmd. The EVM daemon will crash under the following conditions:

  • There are blank lines in the /etc/rc.config file.

  • The EVM daemon tries to retrieve events using a cluster local memory channel. This would happen when executing a command such as evmget -h systemA-mc0 | evmshow.

Patch 326.00

OSF505-164

Patch: New JJ printcap parameter

State: Supersedes patches OSF505-017 (26.00), OSF505-092 (101.00), OSF505-104 (155.00), OSF505-144 (157.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Fixes the following printing problems:

  • When using the I18N ya option, the queue daemon filters will terminate after 32 jobs.

  • Under certain circumstances, print jobs are terminated when printing to certain printers that are connected to a DECserver through TCP/IP.

  • The read-backs for remote connections cause an additional 2-second time out which may cause a job-submit failure on the job-number wraparound.

  • A user is unable to delete a print job from a remote system with a hostname greater than 32 characters because the hostname was truncated.

  • When a TCP/IP connection fails, the retry algorithm would take longer to print jobs due to a long retry interval.

  • A timing hole during lpd last-job completion and shutdown needed to be closed.

  • It was not possible to print to the lpd queue using Windows 2000.

• Corrects a problem in which, under certain conditions, unnecessary error messages are written to the lpr.log file.

• Introduces the JJ /etc/printcap parameter, which allows the user to choose either one TCP/IP connection for all jobs in the print queue (JJ=1), or a TCP/IP connection for each job in the print queue (JJ=0).

Patch 328.00

OSF505DX-014

Patch: dop tool causes segmentation fault

State: New

This patch fixes a problem in which the dop tool would cause a segmentation fault when a non-root user entered the root password.

Patch 330.00

OSF505CDE-005

Patch: Fixes a problem on multi-head systems

State: New

This patch fixes a problem on multi-head systems in which the unlock display only works if the default display is screen 0.

Patch 332.00

OSF505-109

Patch: ATM setup script fails when configuring ELAN

State: New

This patch fixes a problem of the ATM setup script failing when configuring an ELAN if the lane subsystem is not loaded.

Patch 334.00

OSF505-219

Patch: Corrects problem with inetd

State: New

This patch corrects a problem with inetd which could result in its termination without notice and without a core file.

Patch 336.00

OSF505-230

Patch: OSF505-230

State: New

This patch corrects a problem where attaching to a program with a debugger will cause periodic timers to be lost and will make the program hang.

Patch 338.00

OSF505-240

Patch: Kernel memory fault in systems running RMS software

State: New

This patch fixes a kernel memory fault and invalid memory ifetch panic which can occur in systems running Quadrics' RMS software.

Patch 340.00

OSF505-176

Patch: Fix for newgrp command failure

State: New

This patch corrects the problem where newgrp(1) fails if the file /etc/group contains multiple lines for one group.

Patch 342.00

OSF505DX-015

Patch: Fixes a problem in diskconfig

State: New

This fixes a problem in diskconfig where partitions with an offset and size of zero cannot be selected. It also fixes a problem where overlapping partitions cannot be adjusted if the existing partitions are not in alphabetical order.

Patch 348.00

OSF505-177

Patch: Security (SSRT0672U)

State: New

A potential security vulnerability has been discovered where, under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability.

Patch 350.00

OSF505-208

Patch: Fixes automount handling of the nogrpid option

State: Supersedes patch OSF505-022 (31.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Prevents the message "nfscast: select: Invalid argument" message from appearing in the daemon.log when the server is not available.

• Changes the "trymany: servers not responding: RPC: Unable to receive" message to an informational rather than an error message.

• Fixes the automount handling of the nogrpid option.

Patch 352.00

OSF505-154

Patch: Fixes a problem in rpc.lockd

State: New

This patch fixes a problem in rpc.lockd where the FCNTL () function fails to lock NFS mounted directories.

Patch 354.00

OSF505DX-013

Patch: Security (SSRT0654U, SSRT0662U, SSRT0663U)

State: New

A potential security vulnerability has been discovered where, under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability.

Patch 357.00

OSF505-242

Patch: Upgrades sys_check utility to version v120

State: Supersedes patches OSF505-131 (202.00), OSF505-190 (355.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Upgrades sys_check utility to version 119 and provides the following changes:

  • Utilizes Compaq Analyze when available.

  • Utilizes storages new cliscript tool in place of hszterm.

  • Provides an updated ASU section.

• Upgrades sys_check to V120.

• Fixes errors generated by syscheck when NFS is not configured.

Patch 359.00

OSF505DX-012

Patch: Fix for bindconfig

State: New

This patch fixes the problem of OutOfOrder hide stack trace, which occurs when invalid domain name or invalid server information is entered during bindconfig.

Patch 361.00

OSF505-201

Patch: Replaces declarations of wcstok and wcsftime

State: New

This change replaces declarations of wcstok() and wcsftime() interfaces with the correct declarations defined in ISO/IEC 9899:1990/Amendment 1:1994(E).

Patch 363.00

OSF505CDE-006

Patch: Fix for dtpad

State: New

This patch fixes a problem where, if dtpad cannot allocate enough memory, it will exit and leave a zero-length file in place of the file being edited.

Patch 365.00

OSF505-157

Patch: Corrects a stack overflow panic

State: New

This patch corrects a stack overflow panic encountered during the startup of the system management deamon(smsd) on configurations with more than 255 devices.

Patch 367.00

OSF505-254

Patch: Fix for ksh hang

State: New

This patch fixes a problem where the Korn shell (ksh) could hang if the user pasted a large number of commands to it when it was running in a terminal emulator window (such as an xterm).

Patch 371.00

OSF505-173

Patch: Fix for ATM signalling problem

State: New. Supersedes patch OSF505-024 (33.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Fixes a problem in which the system may panic with the error message "simple lock: time limit exceeded" when running ATM.

• Fixes a problem of ATM signalling going into "connection released" after a system reboot.

Patch 373.00

OSF505-193

Patch: Corrects memory leak in XTI socket code

State: New

This patch corrects a memory leak in the XTI socket code.

Patch 375.00

OSF505-158

Patch: Fix for fsx

State: New

This patch corrects a problem in which fsx would disregard the -s flag.

Patch 377.00

OSF505-182

Patch: Fix for data structure inconsistencies

State: New

This patch prevents a panic on TurboLaser systems with a DE600 in pci slot 0. Mis-identification of the DE600 in pci slot 0 causes data structure inconsistencies.

TurboLaser systems include the following:

AlphaServer 8200
AlphaServer 8400
AlphaServer GS60
AlphaServer GS60E
AlphaServer GS140

A DE600 is a single-port 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet NIC.

Patch 379.00

OSF505-238

Patch: Fixes possible EVM configuration problems

State: New

This patch fixes possible EVM configuration problems during a cluster rolling upgrade.

Patch 383.00

OSF505-189

Patch: Fixes linker (ld) problems

State: Supersedes patches OSF505-029 (38.00), OSF505-213 (380.00), OSF505-194 (381.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Linking large applications with -om -call_shared with very large numbers of external symbols sometimes failed to link.

• Fixes a problem where the linker defined symbol _fpdata would end up being undefined if it was referenced by a program but not used by the linker.

• Fixes two problems in the linker where it would erronously report "multiply defined symbol" errors or "unresolved symbol" errors.

  • Modifies the linker's symbol resolution to enable it to recognize when a reference to a symbol defined in a shared library is replaced by a symbol defined in an object file or archive.

  • Modifies the linker to cause it to rescan shared libraries before reporting unresolved symbols.

• Fixes two errors that occur when using the -f switch with the linker (ld):

  • Using the -f switch produces link errors.

  • Any unsupported switch beginning with -f gets interpreted to mean -f.

Patch 385.00

OSF505-246

Patch: Security (SSRT1-15, SSRT0713U)

State: New

A potential security vulnerability has been discovered where, under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability.

Patch 387.00

OSF505-179

Patch: rdist utility causes segmentation faults

State: New

This patch corrects a problem in the rdist utility which was causing segmentation faults on files with more than one link.

Patch 389.00

OSF505-160

Patch: KMF occurs while using tablet instead of mouse

State: Supersedes patch OSF505-049 (57.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Fixes a "lock_terminate: lock held" panic when deleting a process group.

• Fixes a kernel memory fault which occurs while using a tablet instead of a mouse.

Patch 391.00

OSF505-229

Patch: Fixes DS10/DS20 performance problems

State: New

This patch fixes DS10/DS20 performance problems introduced with the i2c driver by using thread blocking, rather than event_timeout() and DELAY().

Patch 393.00

OSF505-170

Patch: Fix for system panic

State: New

This patch fixes a problem in which the system may panic with the panic string "Unaligned kernel space access from kernel mode".

Patch 396.00

OSF505-186

Patch: Security (SSRT0664U)

State: New. Supersedes patch OSF505-149 (394.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• A potential security vulnerability has been discovered where, under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability.

• Corrects a problem with the ftpd daemon which could result in PC ftp clients hanging when transferring some files in ASCII mode.

Patch 403.00

OSF505-207

Patch: CDFS media burned in 2001 shows the wrong dates

State: New

CDFS media burned in 2001 shows the wrong dates.

Patch 405.00

OSF505-212

Patch: Fix for joind

State: New

This patch corrects a problem with joind which caused it to respond to certain client dhcp requests via the wrong port.

Patch 407.00

OSF505-200

Patch: Potential system crash when accessing the FDI floppy

State: Supersedes patches OSF505-074 (84.00), OSF505-166 (217.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Corrects a hardware probe time hang that maybe encountered when booting.

• Compaq has determined in laboratory testing that there is a theoretical possibility that during read and write operations to the floppy disk on DS10, DS10L and ES40 AlphaServers and VS10 and XP900 AlphaStations, a single byte of data may be inaccurately read or written without notice to the user or system. The potential for this anomaly exists only if floppy data read and write operations are attempted while there is extremely heavy traffic on these Alpha systems' internal input/output busses. Although Compaq has observed the anomaly only in laboratory tests designed to create atypical system stresses, including almost constant use of the floppy disk drive, we are supplying this patch to address this potential issue.

• Corrects a potential system crash when accessing the FDI floppy.

Patch 409.00

OSF505CDE-007

Patch: CDE window manager loops when creating workspaces

State: Supersedes patch OSF505CDE-004 (209.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Fixes a problem in which the Window Manager (dtwm) intermittently hangs on a system which uses multiple displays.

• Fixes a problem where the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) window manager loops or aborts when creating and deleting workspaces or when displaying the CDE Window List.

Patch 411.00

OSF505-247

Patch: Security (SSRT0713U)

State: New

A potential security vulnerability has been discovered where, under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability.

Patch 414.00

OSF505-180

Patch: sysman utility reports syntax error

State: New. Supersedes patch OSF505-222 (412.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Fixes a problem with the installation process rejecting a subset name with an underscore character on a V5.0A system (specifically, when a user was trying to install the IBM MQSeries Documentation Base subset, MQS_HTML_PUBS).

• Fixes an issue with the sysman utility reporting a syntax error on a V50A system with Multimedia_Service.

Patch 418.00

OSF505-211

Patch: Fixes problems in the Compaq C compiler

State: Supersedes patches OSF505-021 (30.00), OSF505-129 (198.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• A virtual memory exhausted error when compiling the Open Source encryption library OpenSSL.

• An optimizer problem in loop unrolling that caused an incorrect result under certain conditions.

• Various compiler crashes under certain conditions.

• An optimizer problem that caused the exception handling programs in Chapter 11 of the Programmer's Guide to fail.

• An optimizer problem that caused a Perl validity test to fail when using a long double NaN.

• An optimizer problem that caused the wrong answer to be produced for a program involving tail recursion.

• A problem in bounds checking that caused a compilation to fail with a virtual memory exceeded error.

Patch 420.00

OSF505-293A

Patch: Fix for parallel processing support library

State: New

This patch fixes a problem in the parallel processing support library (libots3) that caused incorrect run-time results for an OpenMP program.

Patch 422.00

OSF505-293B

Patch: Fix for libots3 static library

State: New

This patch fixes the following problems:

• A problem in the Compaq C compiler in bounds checking that caused a compilation to fail with a virtual memory exceeded error.

• A problem in the parallel processing support library (libots3) that caused incorrect run-time results for an OpenMP program.

Patch 426.00

OSF505-262B

Patch: Fix for bad frag free list AdvFS panic

State: New

This patch modifies AdvFS kernel code and several utilities. AdvFS will no longer panic with the following error:

ADVFS EXCEPTION : panic cpu(0) : bad frag free list

The code is modified so that during frag allocation when AdvFS determines that the frag group header's free list has been corrupted, it stops using it and marks it BAD. It is then removed from the free list so no more allocations can take place and no deallocations are performed. The verify, shfragbf, and vfragpg programs are modified to report BAD frag groups.

Patch 428.00

OSF505-300

Patch: Security (SSRT0676U SSRT0700U)

State: Supersedes patches OSF505-040 (91.00), OSF505-102 (142.00), OSF505-091 (143.00), OSF505-088 (144.00), OSF505-093 (145.00), OSF505-134 (146.00), OSF505-123 (148.00), OSF505-151 (280.00), OSF505-206 (281.00), OSF505-232 (282.00), OSF505-231 (283.00), OSF505-245 (284.00), OSF505-027 (36.00), OSF505-019 (28.00), OSF505-020 (29.00), OSF505-034 (43.00), OSF505-041 (49.00), OSF505-047 (55.00), OSF505-048 (56.00), OSF505-050 (58.00), OSF505-007 (16.00), OSF505-008 (17.00), OSF505-009 (18.00), OSF505-065 (93.00), OSF505-079 (88.00), OSF505-083 (94.00), OSF505-084 (96.00), OSF505-114 (135.00), OSF505-126 (136.00), OSF505-138 (137.00), OSF505-094 (138.00), OSF505-103 (139.00), OSF505-112 (141.00), OSF505-039 (48.00), OSF505-067 (77.00), OSF505-111 (190.00), OSF505-054 (60.00), OSF505-076 (89.00), OSF505-187 (243.00), OSF505-218 (244.00), OSF505-183 (245.00), OSF505-223 (246.00), OSF505-233 (247.00), OSF505-253 (248.00), OSF505-159 (249.00), OSF505-148 (250.00), OSF505-236 (251.00), OSF505-203 (252.00), OSF505-215 (254.00), OSF505-162 (255.00), OSF505-150 (256.00), OSF505-234 (257.00), OSF505-249 (258.00), OSF505-197 (259.00), OSF505-156 (260.00), OSF505-198 (261.00), OSF505-226 (262.00), OSF505-188 (263.00), OSF505-262 (264.00), OSF505-263 (265.00), OSF505-217A (266.00), OSF505-181 (267.00), OSF505-239 (268.00), OSF505-147 (269.00), OSF505-185 (270.00), OSF505-169 (271.00), OSF505-248 (272.00), OSF505-199 (273.00), OSF505-175 (274.00), OSF505-251 (275.00), OSF505-205 (277.00), OSF505-202 (286.00), OSF505-216 (416.00), OSF505-262A (424.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Fixes a problem where the operating system only looks in slot 0 for the primary CPU.

• Fixes a problem that causes inconsistencies in the floating point registers whereby the flag fields nxm_fp_owned are overwritten with 0s.

• Fixes "can_replace: slot replacement mismatch" panics which can occur when running multithreaded applications.

• Fixes a problem in which metadata buffers are being written asynchronously instead of on a delayed basis.

• Fixes a problem in which the POSIX interval timer is not resilient to clock slowdown, caused either by NTP or by a backward change of the clock.

• Fixes a problem where, if the size of the message queue was increased, writers to the queue that were blocked would not wake up for processing.

• Fixes a problem where the system appears to hang. A child process is holding a lock too long and preventing other processes from doing work.

• Fixes an "unaligned kernel space access from kernel mode" panic when doing a malloc from kmembucket 26, 896 byte bucket. The faulting virtual address will be the lock signature for thread_deallocate().

• Fixes a "simple_lock time limit exceeded" panic due to an SMP race condition in namecache.

• Fixes a bug such that, when user -k is issued on a dismounted NFS mount point in which a process is running, a hang will occur,

• Fixes a race condition in the UBC code where a lookup is done on a page being invalidated (freed).

• Fixes a hang or simple_lock_state_violation panic in biodone.

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• Fixes a system panic in cfs_unmount. The panic string is: cfs_:unmount: panic("VFS_UNMOUNT failed ")". This is caused by a race condition in ubc_invalidate() where pages could be missed if they transition from the clean list to the dirty list.

• Fixes "simple_lock: time limit exceeded" system panic either from cache_lookup() or cache_enter(). This is caused by the namecache LRU list getting corrupted.

• Fixes a binary compatibility problem for the four system calls sendmsg, nsendmsg, recvmsg, and nrecvmsg were not preserved between V4.0x and V5.x releases.

• This patch fixes two panics that have the following error messages:

  simple_lock: time limit exceeded
  

  simple_lock: lock already owned by cpu
  

• Corrects a problem where there is a potential for a system panic in routine sbflush() if there is an attempt to flush a socket buffer while it is locked by another thread.

• Fixes panics and memory inconsistencies in setuid/setgid.

• This is a kernel patch that addresses a binary compatibility problem seen with four networking system calls: sendmsg, osendmsg, recvmsg, and orecvmsg. In certain cases, executables compiled on other versions of Tru64 UNIX will not work correctly when using these system calls.

• Gixes a panic in the UFS filesystem which has the following error message:

  blkfree: freeing free block
  

• Fixes a system hang that can occur during an NFS operation on a system running granularity hints.

• Fixes a problem where the output of a ps command, the PAGEIN column, reports 0 for all processes.

• Fixes an AdvFS problem where, under the right conditions, a Kernel Memory Fault panic can occur while writing to an Atomic Data Logging file.

• Corrects a problem whereby under certain unlikely conditions, a b-tree index for a directory could become corrupted.

• Fixes a kernel memory fault in u_anon_faultpage() when it accesses the backing object for the anonymous page.

• Fixes a situation in which adding swap space results in system instability.

• Fixes a hang seen while running collect and the vdump utility.

• Prevents the hang in tok_wait from occurring.

• Fixes an issue with lightweight wiring of pages and shared memory regions.

• Fixes inaccuracy problems when using setrlimit/getrlimit with a threaded application.

• Fixes a system hang caused by netisr queue inconsistencies due to a race condition that is primarily encountered by third party drivers and layered products that call schednetisr_nospl().

• Fixes a problem where threads can hang in x_load_inmem_xtnt_map().

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• Fixes a timing window where flushing data to disk can be incomplete when a system is going down, if more than one thread calls reboot() without first going through shutdown, /sbin/reboot, or /sbin/halt.

• Fixes a problem in which the wrong status was returned from EEROM read.

• Adds a tunable parameter non_preempt_limit into the generic section for sysconfig. The parameter is used to debug certain long running and non-preemptible kernel threads on a system.

• Fixes a hang in the UFS filesystem.

• Fixes a kernel memory fault when writing to /proc, while anon_rss_enforce is set to 2.

• A potential security vulnerability has been discovered where, under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability.

• Fixes a problem in UFS. The O_SYNC does not work properly causing the inode update to fail on a synchronous write.

• Updates to an AdvFS file via directIO may not correctly merge the old data and the new data if 1) the write is to the frag and 2) the write does not completely overwrite all the old data. This fixes that symptom.

• Fixes a problem that causes Tarantella Enterprise 1.41 not to install on Tru64 UNIX.

• Fixes a potential problem flushing data to disk when using data logging with sparse files.

• Prevents stat(), lstat(), fstat(), statfs(), fstatfs(), getmntinfo(), and getfsstat() from returning EOVERFLOW errors for programs compiled on Tru64 UNIX V4.0n or earlier.

• Fixes a performance problem in AdvFS. Checksum calculation loops were removed to speed up performance.

• In laboratory testing, Compaq has observed that under certain circumstances, a possibility exists that inconsistent data may be written to disk on some Tru64 UNIX V5.0A and V5.1 systems running AdvFS and direct I/O. Compaq became aware of this possibility only during laboratory testing. To our knowledge, no customer has experienced this problem. Compaq is alerting customers to this potential problem as a precautionary measure.

  The conditions under which this potential problem may occur are as follows:

  • An application writes to a file using AdvFS direct I/O and the file had previously been opened for normal I/O (which by default is cached).

  • Some but not all of the pages are still resident in Unified Buffer Cache (UBC) memory.

  Invalid data could occur when a single direct I/O write spans multiple AdvFS pages, and some, but not all, of the pages are still in the UBC. If the file has been opened only for direct I/O and remains open for direct I/O, the problem does not exist.

  Applications that use direct I/O, such as Oracle, could be affected.

• Fixes a problem where the setgid bit of a directory was not being set when created, if its parent directory has the setgid bit set.

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• Fixes an issue with some remote ioctls for tape/changer drivers not working in a cluster.

• Modifies advfs kernel code and several utilities. AdvFS will no longer panic with the following error:

  ADVFS EXCEPTION : panic cpu(0) : bad frag free list.
  

  The code is modified so that during frag allocation when advfs determines that the frag group header's free list has been corrupted, it stops using it and marks it BAD. It is then removed from the free list so no more allocations can take place AND no deallocations are performed. The verify, shfragbf and vfragpg programs are modified to report BAD frag groups.

• Fixes several virtual memory algorithms related to the allocation and freeing of pages within the kernel.

• Provides support for activating temporary data logging on a mount point.

• Fixes a problem in which the system call fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD, 15) fails with "too many files" even after fd limits have been increased.

• Corrects the behavior of the FIONBIO, FIOASYNC, and FIONREAD ioctls in a cluster environment. These commands would fail, returning ENOTTY, when they should have succeeded.

• Fixes a kernel memory fault from ufs_mount().

• Resolves hang-like behavior when LSM volumes are used to create AdvFS domain volumes. The default preferred IO byte transfer size may be too large and needs to be set lower.

• This patch corrects an AdvFS panic which can occur during a rmfset operation with the panic string:

  rbf_delete_int: can't find bf attributes
  

• Fixes a "u_anon_free: page busy" panic.

• Fixes a kernel memory fault from quotaUndo.

• Fixes panics which can occur if a signal is sent to a multi-threaded task in which one or more threads are calling exit() or exec().

• Fixes a problem where under certain circumstances, a Tru64 UNIX system can panic with the string: "lock_write: simple lock owned" in the if_slowtimo() routine.

• Fixes a problem that has the potential to cause a noticeable performance degradation in the Cluster File System on systems that perform large writes. This patch is to prevent a deadlock in NFS over TCP that could occur if the client is not responding properly. The hang will be seen in the nfs tcp threads in rrok3free().

• Prevents an sbdrop panic from occurring.

• Fixes a panic in in_pcbfree() when NFS is implemented over TCP.

• Corrects a problem which could cause the system to spend excessive time in the internet checksum routine, resulting in a degradation of system performance.

• Corrects the problem with write errors seen on soft mounted NFS filesystems. The error received is:

  NFS3 RFS3_WRITE failed for server ncinfs: RPC: Server can't decode arguments
  

• Increases speeed of large NFS client I/O.

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• Prevents a possible NFS over TCP hang. NFS TCP threads will be blocked in sosbwait() causing the system to appear to be hung.

• Fixes a problem where some network based multimedia applications will cause a kernel memory fault when exiting.

• Corrects a problem where a directory entry may be attempted to be changed to "." and the code checks for this prevents it from happening.

• Corrects a hang that can be seen on multi-CPU systems using NFS-over-TCP. THE SMP race is seen between the nfs_tcp_input and the nfs_tcp_thread functions.

• Corrects a problem where a race condition in NFS can result in a kernel memory fault.

• Fixes a problem where threads can hang while renaming files on NFS mounted filesystems.

• Fixes a panic which can occur on a V5.0A TruCluster system.

• Corrects the problem with write errors seen on soft mounted NFS filesystems. The error received is: "NFS3 RFS3_WRITE failed for server ncinfs: RPC: Server can't decode arguments". This is the second part of the fix for this issue.

• Fixes a kernel memory fault panic in anon_getpage(), _ms_free(), and locking issues regarding the vm_kanon hash list. Incorrect locking around the vm_kanon hash list searching and removal could lead to kernel memory faults, simple lock timeouts, or corrupted kernel data.

• fFixes a "simple_unlock: lock not owned by cpu" panic in the biodone routine.

Patch 430.00.00

OSF505-243

Patch: Fix for kernel memory fault on EV6 systems

State: Supersedes patches OSF505-261 (322.00), OSF505-303 (324.00)

This patch corrects the following:

• Fixes a problem that can cause a simple lock timeout or a kernel memory fault on EV6 systems using the itpsa driver.

• Fixes a problem with some slower tape devices serviced by the itpsa driver by lengthening the timeout value used.

• Fixes a kernel memory fault that can occur when performing disk I/O.