Re: 4 significant issues with amd64 -current

[Scott Ellis <scotte%warped.com@localhost>]

Scott Ellis wrote:
> Now that the ahcisata issues with the first drive not probing correctly 
> seems to be ironed out (thanks!), I figured I'd update my Feb 11th 
> -current to May 11th.  An install on a VMWare system worked fine, so I 
> had high confidence in it working on my home server.  Unfortunately, I 
> had to roll back to Feb 11, due to the following 4 issues:
>
> Issue 1:
>     Neither root nor a normal user can login.  More precisely, entering 
> proper credentials on either the serial console or via ssh seems to 
> work, insomuch as I see the NetBSD banner, and the requisite "You have 
> new mail" line.  But then instead of a shell prompt, I'm returned to the 
> login prompt.  I can't find anything in authlog (which makes sense, 
> since I did seem to authenticate properly!) or /var/log/messages.  This 
> one has me utterly stumped.
>
> Issue 2:
>     In single-user mode (since I can't login in multi-user...see above), 
> "vipw" reports that it cannot find /usr/bin/vi (no such file or 
> directory).  Of course, "vi" does reside there, and works fine. 
> Comparing a ktrace on my VMWare installation and one on my real system 
> shows everything identical up to:
[snip]

It looks like both of these issues are due to a regression in PAX_ASLR. 
 Setting that to zero works around these two issues.

        ScottE