[2025] in Release_7.7_team
Athena 8.3.24 patch release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jan 10 11:20:50 2000
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:20:25 -0500
Message-Id: <200001101620.LAA03488@egyptian-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@MIT.EDU
The Athena 8.3.24 patch release is currently scheduled for the evening
of Monday January 17.
A warning: if you take the update by hand, or if you are watching
while the update happens automatically, you may see your machine panic
with the message "recursive mutex_enter". Simply let the machine
reboot and (if you are updating by hand) restart the update, and all
should be well. The Solaris bug which causes this panic is fixed in
the 8.3.24 patch release, so it shouldn't happen again.
Changes in this patch release include:
* Solaris patch 105529-08 will be applied to prevent recursive
mutex locking panics.
* IRIX patch 3800 will be applied to fix an NFS3 client bug.
* A symlink for the cosmoplayer netscape plugin will be fixed
on IRIX.
* The order of operations in the update has been changed so
that daemons will be killed off before the update touches
the disk.
* There's a fix in krb5.conf for the CYGNUS.COm realm KDCs.
* ftpd -C should work better with local accounts.
* The lprng servers have a workaround for an HP printer
problem.
* On Solaris, the sadmind service will be disabled in
/etc/inet/inetd.conf. (We previously disabled the service
in a non-patch-release by forcing /usr/sbin/sadmind to be
zero-length; that continues to be the case.)
* The zephyr syslogd has a patch to avoid core dumping when
reporting certain errors.
* The masks file has an update for 18.101.
* traceroute has some changes to prevent (unlikely) buffer
overflows and to make it less useful as a packet flooder.
* attach will block several signals while writing out
attachtab files to prevent attachtab corruption.
* attach -o won't free static memory.
* attach won't lose the first character of def_options
strings.
* detach -C won't detach lockers wanted only by the invoking
user.
* A typo in the binhex-decoding rule in the MH MIME
configuration has been fixed.
