OpenBSD Errata: October 26, 2025 (syspatch)

27 October, 2025 by bluhm@openbsd.org | openbsd

Errata patch for syspatch has been released for OpenBSD 7.8.

syspatch(8) is confused by aliased /dev/*rootdisk nodes in the database
generated by dev_mkdb(8).  If syspatch fails (probably because /usr
is not a seperate filesystem), perform these steps:

  sed -e 's/.checkfs/#checkfs/g' /usr/sbin/syspatch > /root/syspatch
  ksh /root/syspatch
  syspatch # re-run new syspatch command as instructed
  rm /root/syspatch
  dev_mkdb

Binary updates for the amd64, arm64 and i386 platform are available
via the syspatch utility.  Source code patches can be found on the
respective errata page:

  https://www.openbsd.org/errata78.html