Patches released for Open Enterprise Server 11 Support Pack 2 (OES11 SP2).

  • 7014420
  • 16-Jan-2014
  • 07-Jul-2017

Environment

Novell Open Enterprise Server 11 (OES 11) Linux Support Pack 2

Situation

Note 1:
See TID 7008280 for a list of patches released for Open Enterprise Server 11 (OES11).
See TID 7010867 for a list of patches released for Open Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (OES11 SP1).
See TID 7016875 for a list of patches released for Open Enterprise Server 2015 (OES2015).
See TID 7017947 for a list of patches released for Open Enterprise Server 2015 SP1 (OES2015 SP1).

Disclaimer : The list above does not pretend to be a full list of down-loadable software as has been released for the OES11 platform. For that detail, please consult the official Novell download site.
Additional software may have been released, but not be listed here once it is considered to be beyond the scope of what this document tries to provide, being an overview of the bugs fixed with the various patch releases that have been released for OES11 SP2.

Resolution

For the readers convenience, below each released patch, you will find an overview of the bugs that are fixed in that patch for OES11 SP2, and if it is known, a link to the TID that belongs to that bug as well.

I tried to be as complete as possible by also adding the same list of patches and bug fixes for other released iPrint and eDir patches, and have verified accurateness of the same with the respective team members.

  • June 2017 OES 11 SP2 Hot Patch for NCP - 11163

1043217: After applying the latest patches from the channel we have a customer that has its ndsd crash often trying to load a symbol _Z24GetConnSockFDIPAddrandDNiPiPPcPt

  • May 2017 OES11 SP2 eDirectory 8.8 SP8 Patch 10 - 11130

1005358: Searches for subschemaSubentry fail with error: illegal ds name (-610)
1007242: SSL CertificateDNS should have the DNS name in Subject Alternative Names as well
1007687: iManager import/export no longer works after upgrade to patch 8 on Windows
1008673: Index Management plugin should allow creation and modification of compound indexes
1012300: nmasrefresh throws 1644 and does not update the method
1013090: only the first match is returned when rights are assigned via a group
1021511: eDirectory coring on windows 2012 constantly
1022101: NICI 2.7.7 -- Issue with Lock elision and Netiq eDirectory -- Need to use trylock
1022237: JClient.readReference(...) is resulting in a memory buildup
1023742: iMonitor shows same attribute name 3 times in index definition for value indexes on syn_path syntax
1025845: Memory leak happens when multiple LDAP searches are performed on multiple clients generating a CORE
1025849: installer shows 88sp8 pacth9 instead of 88sp8 patch 10 while installing 88sp8 patch 10 on windows 2016 server
1026201: Having (cn=) specified as search filter for a dynamic group member query is causing ndsd to crash.
1026942: SIGSEGV Segmentation fault core is generated while ndsrepair
1027367: ndstrace shows insufficient buffer (-649) while adding index with multiple attributes
1027840: eDirectory dumps core when user tries to create index with multiple attributes
1028637: ndsindex should allow maximum of 5 attributes for compound indexes
1029087: NICI is not upgraded when eDirectory is upgraded from 8.8.8.9 to 8.8.8.10
1030627: Need to change the gui approach while selecting attributes under 'Add index' window
1030713: Indexes is getting created with the unselected attribute in compound index
1030715: Indexes is not getting created when user unselected the attribute from the compound index list
1030717: Height of Add Index page of Index Management plugin should be increased
1030721: Limit number of attributes for compound indexes to 5
1031044: iManager 2.7.7 patch10 Dumping core when user tries to perform 'Repair Default Certificate'
517585: Network address attribute clears on user accounts randomly
825011: Request for ability to change group owner and permissions on xdas-events.log file from the defaults of root and 600
856048: Synchronization breaks with error -608
936829: NDSD crashes in ~NBIteratorHandle on OES 11 SP 2
994830: NDSD crashes in libdsr in DSRTraceString
995354: iMonitor allows MEDIUM strength ciphers by default.
996505: ndsds memory leak/growth on IDM server after upgrading to 888 Patch 8.
997093: LDAP search does not return any results when there is a space or _ in the 33rd byte or 65th byte of an indexed string

  • May 2017 OES 11 SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 11132

894802: iManager replica view does not show all replicas when [Public] is restricted
921592: cores in httpd2-prefork
932196: User Modify task disappears
964172: NSS64 pool rezid action caused folder with many hardlinks to become inaccessible.
981536: Filename or title of the documents on the print queue is visible to all the users through Windows queue
990474: Printer driver DLLs are overwritten during iPrint printer installation
993599: valgrind reports leak in novell-xad-krb5 while running part of CIFS
996784: IdsRequest: Request to IDS failed with 1030 in Apache error_log
1010733: Nessus scan reports in SSL 64-bit Block Size Cipher Suites supported (SWEET32) in iManager 2.7.7 patch8
1016468: Uninstall of the iPrint client removes an extra semicolon on the path variable
1017060: Unable to uninstall 'NetIQ iManager Password Management' plugins from iManager
1017876: Admin Console: User Enumeration via login failure message delay
1019004: Warning message is printed on top of the Policy name
1019023: error 0x00000002 installing PS EFI Fiery driver
1020818: User Printer: Spooler crashes while Auto driver/profile update of a user printer on Windows 10 x86
1020892: ndsd crashes when calling AllocateConnectionSlot()
1021421: Error messages in NPSMMON.LOG for every print job submitted
1021882: Direct Printers looses parts of the printed document if bDirectPrintSpoolJobEnabled is enabled
1023799: OES2015 SP1 POOL_REVISION_CHECK (NCS_CRM_RES_T03:13:255) errors.
1024678: Version change for iManager 2.7.7 Patch10
1026185: Returning improper error when client attempts to set EAs is causing free TIDs to be exhausted
1026516: iPrint Windows client 6.07: Copyright needs to be updated
1026518: iPrint Mac client 6.07: Copyright needs to be updated
1027377: iPrint3.0_LOC:RU: Too big font used in Russian iPrint client
1028999: User Printers: Printer installation fails for a printer which has location or description identifier set on them
1029064: metamig man page issues
1029529: Printing dialog stuck when using iPrint FTF client from bug 1021882
1029621: Unable to online the resource after DST is configured.
1030046: Cluster resources (non nss-pool resources) fails to load with error "POOL_REVISION_CHECK (NCS_CRM_RES_T01:13:255): Cannot online resource '' on node 'blr7-169-107', because NSS on the node may not understand the newer NSS media associated"
1032347: iPrint 3.0 Manufacturer and Model information is not populated
1036008: NDSD dumped core at function ScanDelInfoExists (, , , ) at ../../engine/ncpserv/cmgrTable.cpp:2269
1036267: Error Handling and backward compatibility for 64 bit iNode Salvage or Purge
1039620: About info of iManager should be updated in OES11SP3 May patch
1039626: Plugin upgrade is failing with error message 'Return code = 1' in Catalina.out in OES2015 May patch
1039634: Getting exception in OES11SP3 May patch while trying to perform ICE plugin operation
1039637: Unable to import the certificate in OES11SP3 May patch
1039847: Adding nsscon switch 'ForceEnableZID64' in nssstart.cfg fails nss to load in subsequent reboots, but works with '/ForceEnableZID64'
1040590: Some files are lost from the NSS volume after running rezid on volume with 32 and 64 bit zid
1040595: ravsui man page needs to be updated for default value of --rezid option if 64 bit ZID support is enabled
1041532: Tracker bug for the fix of VUL-0: CVE-2017-7494: samba, in novell-oes-samba

  • March 2017 OES 11 SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 11101

894137: Quota information does not display correctly.
987317: CIFS connections increase after each refresh from a SLED12 client.
1006384: cifsd crashes in some scenarios due to invalid or incompatible parameters for cifs_log().
1015907: OES install always overwrites the eDirectory NMAS methods.
1020869: Scanner fails to scan files with "Cant write to directory" error if the file name is terminated with "/".

  • March 2017 OES 11 SP2 Hot Patch for NCP - 11112

1025803: High CPU utilization and significant memory growth in NDSD after applying the January patch.

  • January 2017 OES 11 SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 11065

907562: OES 2/OES 11 CIFS warnings are polluting the /var/log/messages files
927769: Getting Started section still refers to iManager 2.7.7 Patch 3
948861: iManager upgrade does not backup or restore the key configuration files.
980240: MAC PDE: Driver packages pulled from remote driver store should be cached in the local Appliance
987772: Novell CIFS categorizes too many messages as ERROR level - additional
988188: cifsd does not truncate the file when processing SMB_COM_TRANS2_SET_FILE_INFO of InformationLevel SMB_SET_FILE_ALLOCATION_INFO where AllocationSize is 0.
995808: All Client for OES drive mappings are disconnected and user must reboot workstation to recover when NCP server sends OpLock Break Notification inside another NCP response message.
998727: fallocate support for NSS
1000856: OES CIFS server does not set FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL in SMB_COM_NT_CREATE_ANDX/SMB2 CREATE response when opening an existing file without attributes
1007849: iManager 2.7.7.8 breaks IDM 4.5.4 plugins
1008509: CIFS log getting filled with "NTLM is picked from the mechTypes" messages
1009079: Novell CIFS server returns STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED to SMB2 QUERY_INFO request of FileInfoClass FILE_FS_SIZE_INFORMATION if getxattr() call for User Quota information results in EINVAL.
1020100: iManager cannot be accessed after applying Jan 2017 patches

  • January 2017 OES11 SP2 eDirectory 8.8 SP8 Patch 9 - 11066

1000527: VLV request fails if there is just one object matching the query.
1000528: LDAP search result does not have the requested number of entries before the target entry matched by VLV control's attribute assertion value
1000617: flaim able to open DB with invalid password
1001019: LDAP pagedResultsControl is not working after first page.
1001252: VLV control's attribute assertion value that matches first or last entry in reverse sorted list produces incorrect results
1001269: Getting error message in ndstrace while doing LDAP search with sever sort control in descending order.
1002936: eDirectory does not support Server Side Sorting of LDAP Search Results based on multiple sort keys
1002962: eDirectory returns duplicate entries in LDAP search result when SSS control is used with an attribute whose index rule is set to "Substring"
1003162: Getting incorrect ldap search results with VLV controls.
1003163: eDirectory returns incorrect value for targetPosition in VirtualListViewResponse when there is no target entry satisfying the attribute assertion value
1003236: LDAP search with server side sort control succeeds even when user does not have access to the sort key on some objects.
1003238: All security services rpms are having older version.
1003345: Replica addition is failing while secondary server addition.
1003562: Downgrade 902 to 901 is failing
1004328: Not able to browse the tree through iManager.
1004501: Memory leak while uploading object if EA is enabled.
1004526: Unable to connect to iMonitor
1005103: ndsd dumps core while accessing LDAP server through Softerra LDAP administrator Directory management Tool.
1005159: eDirectory sorts results incorrectly when sorting is performed with multiple sort keys and some objects do not have values for first sort key
1006953: LDAP search with SSS control fails if the sort key list has 5 attributes
1007011: ndsrepair -R on a fresh tree throwing error during structure & Index check.
1007193: Request for empty API's for monitoring in eDirectory 8.8.8.x release
1007419: Multiple random issues with compound indexes and LDAP SSS control on Windows
1007456: Unable to associate LDAP server objects with LDAP group object using LDAP iManager plugin
1007997: iManager index manager deletes all compound indexes created
1008676: LDAP server with SSS giving duplicate entries in search results.
1008940: Ldap search with VLV or with paged control creates new iterator everytime which slows down search
1009038: Not throwing any xdas event for anonymous bind.
1009205: eDir VLV/SSS improve first page response time
1009997: targetPosition of VLV response control is unreliable when the new control to disable counting of entries is used
1010007: Memory build up seen in ndsd on performing LDAP search with VLV control from multiple clients
1010014: eDirectory crashed during reliability tests for VLV control.
1010274: eDirectory 9.0.0 Upgrade to 9.0.2 fails when Audit and EBA is enabled.
1010552: eDir is crashing while running ldapsearches with nmas audit enabled.
1012208: Paged search broken after upgrade to 888 patch 9
477443: Certificate Server returns error 49934 trying to create certificates
781103: Ldap search with both paged results and sort control returns no values
849994: The file: icedelim.tmp can not be opened.
883418: PKI: Server Certificate creation fails with error: -1232
907142: ndsd coring in ss_CleanupMutex
927769: Getting started section still refers to iManager 2.7.7 Patch 3
932625: Dhost crashed while adding as secondary server.
934091: Certificates created by PKI does not comply to RFC 5280
939844: IDM engine Security Equals modification loops back on Subscriber channel
952240: RFE: Ability to reissue CRL a few days before expiry (for external storage of CRL)
965402: ndsd cores in FSGetDomain when performing heavy LDAP Writes
969168: ndsd crashes in LDAP with multiple naming attributes
970805: SysAddr for the eDirectory internal events should be populated with valid IP address.
970900: NMAS logs up to 4 events for one Login
971940: Failed LDAP Binds result in 3 events of which 2 are redundant.
972219: Error creating server certificate on non CA server if Tree name starts with Numerica character
981856: Intermittent long delays for normal LDAP searches
983891: OES11SP3 : ndsd crash when the machine was booting and in 'Unused' state after machine was up
985525: Need DS event for "Login Failure".
985785: NDSD should pre-parse the nds.conf and report if there are duplicate entries.
987581: Socket leaks in eDirectory (?) causing CIFS users not being able to access to DFS junctions
987634: XDAS instrumentation truncates DNs at 68 bytes
989742: Sync - Process: End Update failed, no transaction is active (-770) after applying eDirectory 8.8.8 Patch 8
989817: Need ndsrepair switch for -SX -SW to purge local and not sync to help clean up DirXML-EntitlementResult attributes or other custom attrs, And not cause rebuild change cache
992059: DSE_ADD_ENTRY event is incorrectly mapped to CREATE_ACCOUNT event in XDAS.
992676: _EndUpdateReply_V9 is leaking memory in eDirectory 8.8.8.8
993493: memberQueryURL doesn't accept backslashes in filter
993502: Filtering does not work properly if multiple EventHandlers are registered with filtering
994517: Unable to set password with CTR-ALT-DEL when NESCM is set as DEFAULT login method
995909: Installation summary showing wrong version after upgraded to 888Patch9.
996451: CRL Extend Validity enhancement for pki plugin
997890: eDirectory upgrade from 888 patch 8 to 901 hangs during file copy on Windows 2K12 R2
998086: Using LDAP Sort control with descending order fails.
998315: VLV control search with target specified by an attribute assertion value fails with -714 error
998652: Spelling mistake in the error message.
998759: limber run is causing context leak in reliability setup.
999499: Default certificates are not created even after the certificates are revoked.

  • January 2017 OES 11 SP2 Hot Patch for NRM - 11077

1020068: CVE-2017-5182 NRM bug

  • November 2016 OES 11 SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 11031

833701: metamig does not process special charecters in directory names created by TRUSTEE.NLM properly
976906: Sentinel captures an audit event where the trustees are removed and blames the supervisor.
980240: Mac PDE : Driver packages pulled from remote driver store should be cached in the local Appliance
985032: Jetstream timing out intermittently causing failure of I/O on DFS junctions with scaled number of CIFS connections
986069: DDServer in ipsmd.conf not working reliable after daemon boot
990501: New PDF format crashes the quickfinder index
993836: CIFS logging "ERR_INVALID_PATH errcode:156" polluting /var/log/messages.
994688: LDAP result code 49 / NDS return code -669 breaks CIFS subtree search.
995141: nlvm share does not set nssfsShared attribute for pools that have been active on other nodes.
997565: iManager allows non-permissible characters to be part of the printer name while creating a new printer.
997954: Unable to transit DFS Junctions over CIFS due to -625 errors
1009000: Processing of responses containing a DNAME answer can lead to an assertion failure
1011664: Unable to install the printers after updating to 6.05 version of the iPrint client for MAC

  • October 2016 OES 11 SP2 Hot Patch for DSFW - 11021

976098: DFS link is pointing to ADC instead of PDC which is affecting gpupdate.

  • October 2016 OES 11 SP2 iPrint Scheduled Maintenance Update - 11009

994081: Mac OS X Sierra 10.12: Not able to install printers through browser and iprntcmd command

  • October 2016 OES 11 SP2 Hot Patch for novell-bind - 11005

1001910: Buffer overflow error in DNS

  • September 2016 OES 11 SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 10989

838071: namuseradd -a creates incorrectly named der files in /var/lib/novell-lum
927647: "GetSambaShareModeLock" fails with "No such file or subdirectory", since it still uses the former path after a subdirectory is moved to another parent by different LINUX process.
945469: Metamig : Remove invalid trustees mask for -m or --meta option does not work during trustee restore
949984: System unresponsiveness caused by NSS.
957622: NetApp filer fails to join in cluster mode.
960399: NCP segfault in DecrConnectionUseCount(unsigned int, ConnectionObject**) ()
966123: Server becomes unresponsive randomly and ndstat does not come back
979143: Novell CIFS categorizes too many messages as ERROR level
982710: NSS rights utility is not aware of DST.
983674: Display space saved by compression on NSS volumes - NSS utils
985635: Defining a Crawled Index with Advanced Index definition fails
986712: iPrint Client is not detected with Firefox v45.x
987490: When migrating the resources across the cluster, resource goes to an unassigned state.
990041: OES 2015 kernel core in strlen() called from VIGIL_SYS_AUDIT_VIGIL_CLIENT_USER_ClientUserName_Alloc
998558: Man and Help page changes needed for -d option (for DST) in rights utility
1000761: ndsd cores when NetApp filer is tried to join to DSfW domain

  • August 2016 OES11 SP2 eDirectory 8.8 SP8 Patch 8 Hot Patch - 10977

992676: _EndUpdateReply_V9 is leaking memory in eDirectory 8.8.8.8

  • August 2016 OES11 SP2 iPrint Scheduled Maintenance Update - 10955

881229: iPrint client fails to install printers with extended characters
956289: Printer installation/jobs failed on SSL printers with Yosemite having iPrint Mac client 6.0
971736: Uploading driver or printer installation fails on Windows 32-bit OS with IE browser even though iPrint Client is installed
972945: iPrint Windows client 6.04:Copyright needs to be updated
974207: When printer is offline jobs get failed
977792: Some extended characters display as question mark in location field of iPrint Driver Upload page
977799: Failed to upload PDE from iManager on Windows with Non-English language
978590: The dialog "iPrint Driver Upload" is not localized (64-bit only)
978592: Error message "You must specify..." in the "iPrint Driver Upload" dialog (64-bit only) is not localized
978597: Error message is displayed when uploading PPD files (64-bit only)
978637: OpenSSL needs to be updated in client for important security fixes
979638: Mac_Client : Message provided after successful upload mentions PPD even though PDE package is uploaded
979697: Mac_Client : Driver package is downloaded in zip format and not extracted on the user's machine
979698: Mac_Client : Auto trigger the installation of driver package in the user's mac machine
980103: A proper error message must be displayed when invalid driver files are uploaded
980267: Formatting issues in the "The Printer is not Installed" dialog box
980285: Failed to upload PPD if the PPD file is inside a folder with extended characters
981979: Printer name with space is not installed when using IE browser
982330: iPrint MAC client 6.03: Printer installation in Firefox browser displayed "Novell iPrint Printer Installation Utility" in Launch Application dialog box.
984480: PDE upload from Windows is not showing the proper name in the iManager.
986355: Modify UI references of releasing WalkUP jobs using iOS app
987169: Title should be changed for printer authentication failed dialog box in iPrint client 6.06

  • July 2016 OES11 SP2 eDirectory 8.8 SP8 Patch 8 - 10954

635541: After inserting new server with dibclone, each server in the tree does a rebuild of its change cache
870756: Ldap server plugin should either completely refresh or prompt to reload nldap after cipher changes
885138: ndsconfig upgrade causes multiple CRL configuration object DNs to be added to the CA's ndspkiCRLConfigurationDNList
921636: ICE Wizard Error java.lang.NullPointerException
922521: Password expired message returned when user enters bad but not expired password
932501: Index type for ldapAttributeList is moved to System without modification.
937477: ndsimon.conf - Trace Option example
938196: ndsbackup cvfR does fail to connect to remote server when a port is specified
938888: Import schema from remote tree fails with error -699 if attributes have integer64 flag.
944373: Dynamic groups returns inconsistent values. (Request is not going remote even if x-chain is set)
945223: LDAP server does not handle CLDAP requests when UDP datagram size is larger than BER length
945866: nds-install should not degrade eDirectory to lower versions
950336: Unable to install eDirectory on RHEL 7.2
952891: IRFs being incorrectly calculated over LDAP
954030: LDAP password modify extended operation (OID - 1.3.6.1.4.1.4203.1.11.1) fails with ldap error 32 when uid is used as naming attribute
955160: LDAP plugin allows a LDAP server to be associated to a cert in an import state
955344: eDirectory crashes when timestamp is not specified when creating a JCReferenceFilter
955508: nds-install update with LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 doesn't prompt to authenticate and fails to update
957819: httpKeyMaterialObject attribute value is changed to SSLCertificateDNS when 3rd party certificate is used.
958267: XDAS auditing over secure channel does not work with Sentinel 7.3.1.0.
961773: NDSD running out of file descriptors on heavy Write loads
962260: Import user certificate is failing with error message 'PKI-error-1214'
962342: NDSD_AUTOCLEANUP_INVALID_EIDS does not handle invalid EIDs hit during sync
964463: Error 0xFFFDFE0B when restoring eDirectory object
965036: ndsd core in libnldap after DoLBURPOperation
965226: NDSD: High CPU utilization when performing searches for group members and dynamic groups after upgraded to patch6 or patch7 of eDIR8.8.8
966022: Unable to back up some objects from OES11 SP2 server with error about invalid API
967433: dhost.exe crashes in nmasLdap.dll when using NMASLDAP_CHANGE_PASSWORD_REQUEST
969318: Discrepancies in XDAS events while adding member to a group
969544: eDirectory version needs to be updated in install scripts for both Linux and Windows
970056: Unable to perform certificate revocation checks using openssl for certificates and CRLs issued by eDirectory
971094: The "Login Failed" event is missing the correct SourceHost/IP information.
971578: To support IDM 4.5.4 with eDirectory 8.8.8.x and eDirectory 9.x in Windows platform
971582: Unable to install eDirectory with relative path.
971932: eDirectory XDAS instrumentation throws some events unnecessarily
972192: Crash in Windows when trace is enabled and the trace is very verbose
972446: The /instance.0 file is getting corrupted on running nds-cluster-config on node2 for cluster HA
972455: Latest version of java8 should be bundled with eDir 9.0.1 patch and eDir888 Patch8
973978: eDir/data folder is not getting created for the /shared folder of the second node in a cluster setup
974004: dHost is crashing during Reliability test.
974515: ndsd is dumping core while unloading xdas.
975702: Restore operations fail with 'invalid request (-641)' error
975744: iManager XDAS plugin should be enhanced to configure ASSOCIATE_TRUST and DEASSOCIATE_TRUST
975755: Context used for encrypted replication, causes ndsd to core when duplicated.
976630: Not getting "UNAUTHENTICATE_SESSION" event on 888Patch8 server.
977676: eDirectory crash in SizeOfReferral after removing and adding a server back with the same name
977816: LDAP server defaults to export ciphers
979240: ndsd restart on OES2015 SP1 server ( with DUMA installed ) is resulting a segfault
979827: ndsd restart on OES2015 SP1 server ( with DUMA installed ) is resulting a segfault
980493: IDM instrumentation not connecting to Syslog connector
981003: eDir crash after upgrade to 901 SAMLLSMLIN_X64.SO+0x18cad0
982335: Unable to add a server to a eDirectory 888 tree on Windows.
982921: novell-getcore is failing while obtaining the shared libraries listed in core.
986871: Spec file needs to be modified for log4cxx project for OES builds.
989742: Sync - Process: End Update failed, no transaction is active (-770) after applying eDirectory 8.8.8 Patch 8

  • July 2016 OES 11 SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 10956

938353: iManager Plugin: Unable to remove the dash from phone number
940226: OES: In NetStorage the ZIP file is empty when subdirectory name has extended characters
951473: ./dsrzplx32: symbol lookup error: /opt/novell/xtier/lib/libncpl.so: undefined symbol: __sync_bool_compare_and_swap_4
952583: Vlog warnings for OES2015 SP1
957798: Segfault at 24 ip 00007fab65ba2b09 sp 00007fab66300f70 error 4 in libncpengine.so.0.0.0[7fab65b3b000+120000]
964619: Kernel NULL pointer dereference during cluster resource events such as migrating or unloading.
972719: OES11 SP2: CIFS service crashes upon receiving "TRANS2_QUERY_FS_INFORMATION" request for "IPC$" share
974352: Length of NDS read reply exceeds NDS ReplyBufferSize in "Send NDS Fragmented" request from client.
974836: NCPSERV.LOG flooded with messages.
975472: Server crashed with 'unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference' in "ROOT_BST_Destruct" when running pool activate/deactivate test with file IO operations simultaneously

976309: Nessus scan reports in Web Application potentially vulnerable to Clickjacking in iManager

980562: w32tm_client process does not start after DSfW server reboot
980774: ndsd[31682]: segfault at 24 ip 00007fb759f8d079 sp 00007fb74778ef60 error 4 in libncpengine.so.0.0.0[7fb759f25000+122000]
981637: OES2015-May Patch - SMB1: Not listing available shares when server IP is given while mapping from MAC client.
981869: OES11 SP2 displays NSS64 pools are corrupted
984434: OES11 SP2: CIFS service crashed due to memory corruption when client tried to perform DFS junction resolution using DOS names
984515: CIFS[28367]: ERROR: Loading of NCSSDK library failed, error: libncssdk.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
984766: cifsd crashes if invalid user cache is enabled
986616: iManager Framework description still displays Patch 5. It is not updated to Patch 7
986647: On applying May 2016 Update, if DFS is enabled, Windows XP and Windows 2003 fail to connect to OES CIFS share with STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME

  • Enable update to Novell Open Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 - 10949

#986379: enabler patch is needed for OES11SP2 to OES11SP3 channel upgrade

  • oes-build-key update for OES11-SP2 - 10944

#979046: While doing channel upgrade from OES11SP2 to OES2015-SP1 , import untrusted key pop-up is coming for OES2015-SP1 channels

  • May 2016 OES 11 SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 10910

771683: Volume commands are required in the NCS unload scripts.
871494: Linux SMB clients are not able to traverse through DFS junctions using OES CIFS.
881229: iPrint client fails to install printers with extented characters.
899454: AFP Coring on Xen Guest.
909929: OES2015_LOC:ES: Incorrect translations on MyClusters screen.
910081: OES2015_LOC:SK: context issue: option should be in infinitive.
910303: OES2015_LOC:JP: "The list below provides a convenient way to keep track of clusters you frequently manage" is not properly translated.
934714: The error message 'Error removing visibility for a trustee.' is printed in the syslog when a file/folder with trustee is salvaged.
952776: Custom iPrint page returns user to the iPrint default ipp page after printer install if custom map is on iframe.
956255: PA and print manager unknown on the map tool.
957396: "Enable Auditing" option is not greyed out in the PSM status page for "iPrint Direct Printer".
958394: Enabling dynamic-fid-pool option results in CIFS service logging warning messages like "index2Object: Index X is out of range, max table size: Y".
962506: The ipsmd.log does not have enough logging information.
963495: Novell CIFS server occasionally returns ERRHRD/ERRread instead of ERRDOS/ERRnoaccess in response to SMB_COM_READ_ANDX when the byte range has been locked by another process.
964855: Cannot online resource 'DATA_SERVER' on node 'ServerName', because NSS on the node does not understand the newer NSS media associated with the resource.
964984: The printer map does not work properly if it is embedded in an iFrame.
967235: Cluster pool deletion is allowed while the pool is running state.
969404: Need the ability to enable DFS support for CIFS from the command line.
971736: When adding drivers on a Windows X32 OS an error message is displayed that iPrint Client is not installed even if the client is installed.
972133: Using iManager, deleting a cluster pool that is in running state deletes the cluster volumes in it.
974532: After applying the OES 2015 March 2016 Scheduled Maintenance updates, psmstatus shows Warning for printers agents in Energy Saving mode.
977351: Cluster pool deletion is failing, if the cluster pool resource is deleted before deleting the pool.
977971: Skip auto dismount of ncpcon and nss volume if the manual command is present in unload script.
978637: OpenSSL needs to be updated in the Client for important security fixes.
980323: Renaming files and folders is failing after mounting OES volume from a Linux client when DFS is enabled on the server.

  • May 2016 OES11 SP2 Hot Patch for eDirectory 8.8 SP8 Patch 7 - 10908

973961: edirutil fails with "Unable to find JRE" error when run on OES2015SP1
977956: ndsgrepair fails with "Unable to find JRE" error when run on OES2015SP1

  • May 2016 OES 11 SP2 Hot Patch - 10897

967750: NTP 4.2.8 in sles11sp4 fails for w32tm command in DSfW workstation
975111: Merging badlock fixes for samba 3.6.3 code to novell-oes-samba
975927: wbinfo command failed to get sid value from name of Administrator with April '16 hot patch for samba
977661: wbinfo command failed to get sid value from name of Administrator in ADC to FRD

  • March 2016 OES11 SP2 eDirectory 8.8 SP8 Patch 7 - 10867

785204: Multiple issues seen with Server Self Provisioning and CRL distribution point
863308: Issued certificate being created with RSA instead of SHA1
896578: 888 Patch 3: Simple Password Method readme has ConsoleOne instructions
945975: Create Default Certificates task of PKI plugin should create server certificates with CA's signature algorithm if "Follow CA's Signing Algorithm" is enabled
951818: New Servers added to tree do not support Follow CA's signature algorithm feature
952522: NDSD Memory leak when ldap configuration code path is executed.
958930: NTLS vulnerable to CVE-2015-3195
961871: Not able to access PKI plugin

  • March 2016 OES 11 SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 10871

699752: Random error messages are displayed in the cifs.log file.
750144: iPrint client does not work when the user is using grace logins
833708: Printer status does not change to "Error Printing" state when printer is not available
881229: iPrint client fails to install printers with extended characters
913013: nlvm man page needs to be updated for '-p' option
918627: ncpcon NCP_TCP_KEEPALIVE_INTERVAL is not working
921821: iPrint Client iCM functionality needs to include mixed environments of OES and the iPrint Appliance
928560: Move the "Set printer as default" option to the upper left of the iPrint printer install dialog
931113: Mac drivers cached in mod_ipp do not get updated if the driver is updated in the driver store
931784: Print jobs are lost if printer gets paused
932195: nssmu man page update for the option '?' in nssmu
941067: Job submission fails if the user submits the jobs continuously to the direct printer which is not reachable.
943409: Pool Rename and Delete NEB events produced in kernel.
944926: OES:QuickFinder showing invalid characters when using the Portuguese Brasil language
945655: Unable to exclude certain volume in vigil filter.
952776: Custom iPrint page returns user to the iPrint default IPP page after printer install if custom map is on iframe
953218: Unable to install printer on Windows 10 when part of Azure AD
953802: Unable to authenticate to secure printers with mixed case user ID
956289: Backend failed with Yosemite + 6.00 + SSL printers
956291: No printing with iPrint Client for Mac 6.00 + Yosemite + SSL printers
956536: CIFS[]: ERROR: AUTH: SEV maintenance: Failed to get effective privileges of user: 000143105, error:  -625
956589: Copyright string Says " © 2011-2015 Micro Focus Inc. All rights reserved".
956790: Mac_Client: The iPrint listener is not started automatically after logout/login
956937: Secure printer is not installed on Windows client after rebranding changes in iPrint client
957129: Two entries are displayed for Micro Focus iPrint client after installing the rebranded client over existing client of the same version.
957270: Mac_Client: Should notify user when the printer redirection happens in Mac client.
957271: Mac_Client: Should notify user when the driver update happens in Mac client.
957511: [Random]iManager plugin does not detect the iPrint desktop client while trying to upload a driver
957514: Download link for Windows 10 iPrint client is not available on welcome page if the server is installed on localized language
957515: iPrint2.0:Error message about iPrint Client not installed appears when trying to add drivers even though iPrint Client is installed
958387: 'filter', destination' and 'log' statements for CIFS are changed from syslog-ng.conf after patching
958702: iPrint Windows Client: Need to fix the server backward compatibility issue with the latest iPrint Windows client
959529: iPrint 6.01 client fails with "iPrint internal error - iPrint encountered an error -1" on OSX 10.11 (el capitan)
960038: Status of the paused print jobs to the direct printers are not displayed in the iPrint document status
960072: NCP server incorrectly responds with ERR_NO_CREATE_PRIVILEGE to NCP 89,32 and NCP 89,1 during OpLock Break procedure
960533: Unable to rename the folder on a regular basis.
960705: NSS is not updating NSS pools eDirectory attribute "nssfsShared" while marking the device as "Shareable for Clustering"
962317: USERNAME_CN not working with Equitrac
962967: Localization :Changes for Windows 10 in iManager is not included in the January 2016 OES 2015 and OES 11SP2 patch - (Bug957481)
963255: NCS/NSS: Under certain situations /etc/fstab can be corrupted - 0 bytes
963718: nsscon man page update to remove the option /(no)rezid
964141: CIFS generates VIGIL events for directory opens
964583: Merging latest samba 3.6.3 code patches to novell-oes-samba
964984: iPrint map breaks if it is embedded in an iframe
965270: OES2015SP1:Unable to delete files and folders using the CIFS client
967235: Cluster pool deletion is allowed while the pool is in running state
967587: NSSMU is allowing to activate the pools marked with errors by 'ravsui verify'
96802: ndsd dumped core while running sparse replica test (XPOZ)
968168: Cluster pool deletion is allowed while the pool is in running state
968240: NSS is not coming up when upgrading from OES 11 SP2 (fully patched) to OES 2015
968628: nssmu is generating a core when a partition label is modified to a length of 127 characters
971346: Unable to delete a shared pool using iManager
971422: Getting signature error when downloading the iPrint client in IE

  • March 2016 OES 11 SP2 Hot Patch for NSS - 10865

960147: Not able to  migrate the Cluster resources after renaming the Clustered NSS Pool
964855: Cannot online resource 'DATA_SERVER' on node 'oesnode1', because NSS on the node may not understand the newer NSS media associated with the resource.
965160: NSS Returns "NSS_NCS_UNKNOWN_MEDIA_VERSION" Erroneously

  • February 2016 OES 11 SP2 Hot Patch for NCP - 10863

886449: Posix file open calls are not available with NCP.

  • January 2016 OES 11 SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 10861

883478: Buffer overrun (memory corruption) occurs while reading TrusteeInfo.xml file.
954896: Remove the -n or --new-name option from the iPrint man page
886449: The posix file open calls not available with NCP.
894209: The nulluser session does not get closed when it tries to access a valid CIFS share. After 64K sessions, the CIFS server denies new user connections.

903453: In DSFW, the workstation join fails due to corrupted defaultNamingContext.
915463: AFP hangs while waiting for data from the client (forced core).
930527: iprntman psm -l throws an IPP Error: 0x403 with non-admin users.
931841: If vlog is activated while an anti-virus is running, the machine freezes.
934554: NCS should automatically prevent NSS32 AD-media upgraded and NSS64 pools from loading on a server earlier than OES 2015.
939866, 945162: Unable to exclude certain volumes in vigil filter.
940299: Novell CIFS deletes a folder for a file delete command SMB_COM_DELETE.
940783: NSS should provide an API to retrieve the pool version or library version information to cluster.
942749: After upgrading from Novell Client 2 SP3 IR10 to Novell Client 2 SP4, the file open request takes long time.
943408: The pool beast is not invalidated when the current node does not support the pool media that is upgraded by another node in the cluster.
943409:  Address the pool rename and delete NEB events produced in kernel.
947285: iPrint Security Vulnerability:85582 - Web Application Potentially Vulnerable to Click jacking (CVE Number :CVE-2015-5971).
947338: The DircacheMaintenanceEvent() thread takes longe time to release OpenFilesListLock.
950044: OES FTP logins fail if /var/opt/novell/pure-ftpd has 700 permissions.
950781: namcd crashed on prchsocls203 (segfault).
950840: Server coring in ncpengine.
952330: NCS should consume the NEB events once NSS can generate them correctly.
953477: NSS should generate the NEB events correctly when "Sharable for Clustering" flag changes.
953710: NLVM failed to clean a failed pool move.
957725: 0x00000002 error while installing printers with the EFI Fiery driver.
958266: Server crashes whenever vigil tests are run.
958457: NSS reZID does not work.
962505: The ravsui man page should be updated to reflect the correct rezid value.
963354: The SENDFILE_SUPPORT default value must be changed from 0 to 1 in ncpcon set.

  • January 2016 OES11 SP2 eDirectory 8.8 SP8 Patch 6 Hot Patch 1 - 10860

930360: The default certificates are not created with SHA2 signature algorithm when the CA is changed to SHA2.
940809: Add a checkbox that will add a flag on Security Rights Level to follow CA's Signing Algorithm.
945919: The default server certificates do not use CA's signature algorithm if "Follow CA's Signing Algorithm" is enabled after the certificates are regenerated.
949339: OES September 2015 update cannot mint SHA-2 signed default certificate.
956931: NURM login fails after applying the November 2015 eDirectory  patches.

  • November 2015 OES 11 SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 10857

934431: File globbing timeout (GLOB_TIMEOUT) period has been increased to 30 seconds to support file operations on a remote server over NCP, especially if the remote NCP server is on a slow WAN link.
952796: Editing a file from an OES CIFS share throws "modified by another user message/pending" error and fails to sync during the first sync cycle.
857966: DNS/DHCP Management Console for Windows does not import a DNS root zone file correctly.
937291: When joined to ESXi server, DSfW LDAP server does not respond every 2-3 days.
939597: DHCP Java Console stalls when creating or accessing the host entry.
940226: The downloaded ZIP file is empty when subdirectory name has extended characters.
942217: DHCP fails to load when Console allows a host name with a "!" character.
687335: File compression is not getting started as per the value set to the CompressionDailyCheckStartingHour parameter.
927046: With December 2014 patch, if "ChrootEveryone" option is set user is placed in POSSIX home directory rather than eDirectory based home directory.
940783: NSS to provide an API to retrieve the Pool version or library version information to cluster.
943409: Pool rename and delete NEB events are missing in the kernel.
953477: NSS does not generate NEB events correctly when "Sharable for Clustering" flag changes.
914283: Using Mac Client 5.80 when a print is given to an unauthorized printer no error message is displayed
943424: The iPrint client tray displays the held jobs as 'in queue' even after the WalkUp printer is deleted.
943425: Job size is not displayed in the iPrint client tray for the held jobs.
943956: When a job is submitted to a WalkUp or secure printer, the job is available in the jobs queue even without authentication.
946050: If the iPrint Client is not installed when uploading drivers, it displays an error message which includes a wrong link.
949279: Provide a iPrint client that supports OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)
952344: Miggui fails to migrate printers when the option "context same as the source printer context" is selected.

  • September 2015 OES11SP2 Scheduled Maintenance for eDirectory 8.8 SP8 patch 6 - 10852

908834: Illegal attribute error while restoring object in DSfW Enabled Partition using SEP sesam Backup Server Software.
909247: nds utilities treat sadmin user name as case sensitive
918444: ndsconfig cannot set n4u.server.idle-threads above 128
919230: Support for LDAP Password Modify Extended Operation
919270: iMonitor allows attack via XSS for Agent Trigger page.
920207: Need to modify the nds-install script for start & stop the instances on SLES12
921247: eDir does not start start automatically after reboot.
923392: LDAP search request return error on invalid assertion values (not compliant RFC LDAPv3)
924300: SSL CertificateDNS not consistently used as certificate specified for http server httpkeymaterialobject attribute.
927362: Registry leak on Windows after using eDirectory 888 patch 3
927868: Reading the members of a dynamic group causes an endless loop when the group is of a given size
928283: tftp fails to send file over secondary IP on an interface
929640: iMonitor vulnerable to Slowloris DoS
929801: ndsd memory build up using XDAS
933023: Running repair on filtered replica generates large number of "ERROR: Modification time was incorrect, it has been updated" errors
936415: member= queries take a long time when a large number of groups exist under the baseDN
938608: NEW:NDSD Memory leak on OES11SP2 running latest patches May-2015 scheduled maintenance with eDir888patch5
940567: /var/opt/novell/eDirectory/data/getpid() Unix sockets leak resulting in CIFS Scale Test failure
943005: edir is down on RHEL7.1 after restart.
944055: [Password-Policy] NMAS Microsoft Complexity (3 out of 5):  extended characters bypass check

  • September 2015 OES 11 SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 10853

623988: Canon iPF710 driver fails to upload from a Windows 7 64-bit machine.
690832: To avoid issues related to large size driver uploads, iManager should use the functionality of iprntcmd -U.
909851: Translation issue in clustering.
747586: Installing printer on Windows 7 64-bit machine with a user in different context displays HTTP Error code-500.
771283: Error uploading Canon iPF8100 and iPF9100 drivers to the Driver Store.
909451: User Printers are not supported for iPrint Client on Windows 8 and above platforms.
916122: Uploading latest Xerox GPD and HP UPD driver fails from iManager.
931784: Print jobs are lost if the printer is paused.
934009: Ability to submit user name to the printer in CN format.
937840: Client changes to handle Silent job response from the server.
938540: iprintman thows an error javax.naming.NamingException: LDAP response read timed out, timeout used:500ms
938710: Paused jobs are resumed after spooler restarts when third party application resumes the job.
938711: Printer redirection fails on Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit platforms if there are print jobs that are in paused state for that printer.
929659: Restoring data to a NCP exported Linux volume results in SMDR crash.
756123: The server status does not show as running on the DNS DHCP Java Console-> DHCP (OES Linux) Tab.
913741: DNS Root domain should be added to the No-Forward List of DNS Server object in DNS/DHCP Management Console.
916930: The ice ZONE handler configures incorrect ACLs with imported dNIPDNSZone objects.
919970: Cannot expand a particular Zone object with DNS/DHCP Management Console.
937394: The SLES 12 NFS client malfunctions when using NFS mount of an OES NSS volume.
938456: The adminfsd causes server panic when trying to close the adminfsdrv device.
938614: Unable to find matching freespace on the device when creating cluster resources (error 23312).
940441: Resolve the module reference counting problems in NSS modules.
941070: The TrusteeInfo.xml reports mangled results if the application requests read buffer size more than 128 KB and the result of a single file ACL data exceeds 128 KB.
914332: The 2012 Remote Desktop license server does not update the license attributes.
922569: Include CVE-2015-0240 with the OES Samba modules.
943081: The novell-oes-samba packages do not obsolete and require correct packages.
894798: Localization Tracking bug for Novell Client for Linux.
912276: The Nagios disk space checking script hangs intermittently on /var/opt/novell/nclmnt.
914843: The SLP lookup service in xtier must be changed to service:bindery.novell to get right server address.
941264: The Common proxy is listed in dot format in pxylist.txt file and that causes miggui to detect it as service proxy.
848624: When a LUM enabled eDirectory user performs backup from a posix filesystem, but does not have sufficient rights to that posix file ststem, this will result in a segfault of smdr.
874399: NCP verb 22_32 (Scan Volume's User Disk Restrictions) doesn't return all the user quota details if some deleted user contains user quota set on to a volume.
910897: Directory Quota free space reported incorrectly.
917887: Trustee rights disappearing on home directories.
920302: Server becomes unresponsive to client access.
929658: NCP is not able to distinguish the delete event if it is coming from unlink or purge.
930954: Volumes are mounted in NSS with long namespace, but not NCP.
867059: Unable to create two new folder on CIFS Share from a Linux browser without renaming the first one.
906465: CIFS service going down due to SIGIO signal.
928008: CIFS daemon logs "SMB signature verification failed." and returns ERRDOS/ERRnoaccess (Access Denied) in response to any SMB request received after SMB_COM_NT_CANCEL.
935953: MAC clients are unable to copy files larger than 4 GB to OES CIFS servers NSS volume.
757933: Event log entries button is not setting properly at the end of the page while more log entries are listed.
851534: Inconsistent text between the Resource Policies screen of New Resource page and the New Resources Policies help page.
854424: Untranslated string "Stopped" appears in the "My Clusters" help page.
854604: Inconsistent text in the "New resource-Help" "Resource Monitoring-Help" and "Resource Policies-Help" pages.
889229: NCSStrings.java contains duplicate resource IDs.
898398: Inconsistent tarnation between the ?Monitoring? tab and the help page.
898422: The CIFS server name is missing after trying to modify the cluster pool information.
898582: Unexpected "." character appears in the "Cluster Administration Error" page.
903149: The iManager cluster plugin is not allowing to modify the BCC load script.
903949: Cluster repair option is not updated in the iManager help.
904184: Inconsistent translations between the "Clusters > My Clusters > New Resource" and the help page.
904780: String "Resource Mutual Exclusion (RME)" in the cluster reporting window is not localized.
908670: The iManager cluster plugin allows to add more characters that supported.
909870, 909871: Incorrect translations used in clustering.
909925: Incorrect translations in the My Clusters screen.
909946: Inconsistent style in the My clusters screen.
909949: Incorrect style for My Clusters screen instruction line.
909968: Inconsistent terminology in clustering.
910015: Minor grammar issues in the description text.
910050: Inappropriate translation of string.
910062: Inconsistent terminology.
910077: Redundant periods after the error code.
910202: Text incorrectly justified in the BCC Manager tab.
910304: "Up Since" is inappropriately translated.
910305: "Disabled" is inappropriately translated.
870937: The identity manager tasks are greyed out after installing or reinstalling modules into RBS.
867631: The Advanced Selection filter fails to find user objects with Polish characters in their name.
888728: The iManager 277 Cluster plugin errors with ?316009-16 (BROKER_ERROR_NSS_SCHEMA_NOT_FOUND)?.
907024: The javax.servlet.ServletException: File "/fw/OV/TreeResultButtons.jsp" is not found.
912513: In iManager, adding or removing a static member to a nested group removes the security equals to itself for existing users in the member nested group.
919285: Editing or showing rbsMember (RBS) does not show the whole FQDN of the member.
925484: Clicking "Next" on the Browse tab in "View Objects" causes IE to logout.
939782: Change the build version from 2.7.7. 4 to 2.7.7.5
930031: Provide links for the latest iPrint MAC client in the Welcome page.
944335: Include support for the latest platforms under iPrint client software list of the Welcome page.

  • OES11 SP2 Patch for Blocking Migration to SLES 11 SP4 - 10849

939117 - [TRACKERBUG] Product-specific migration blockers (11-SP3 -> 11-SP4)

  • July 2015 OES 11 SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 10820

907565: novcifs throws "Invalid configuration option is requested" error, even though it successfully enables or disables dynamic file handle pool.
911157: Deadlock in Novell CIFS Opportunistic Locking leads to degrade in Windows client performance.
922090: NCP write performace is slower on large files in comparison to CIFS
926697: NCP server should display proper error messages to the client if reading and sending data to the client fails.
930223: Using the "ncpcon quotas sync ALL NSSVOL d" command creates empty directories on the shadow volumes.
933038: NCP server crashes when trying to de-reference the connection object.
914408, 921671, 922185: In iPrint Windows Client, the tabs "Terminal Services", "Passwords", and "About" of the "iPrint Client Settings" dialog boxes overlaps for the following languages: zh_CN, zh_TW, and JA.
917438: On upgrading to 5.80 clients, printing fails.
919792: iPrint Direct and User printers installed on Windows 2008 R2 displays the status as "Paper Out".
922673: The last page fails to print when printed using iPrint direct and RAW.
923143: Printing labels fail intermittently when printed using iPrint direct and RAW.
923886: iPrint Client 6.0.0 fails to create driver profiles on Non-English Windows OS (64-bit only).
924863: FAX Printer Status in Winword "Nicht bereit" (not ready).
924873: Print jobs to direct iPrint printers are not part of the print queue on workstation when printer is powered of
925372: Using Windows client 6.00, Mac drivers cannot be uploaded from Windows 64-bit machine.
926595: Installation of iPrint client version 6.0.0 triggers "Unquoted Service Path Enumeration" detection.
926717: Labels are printed out of order.
927403: The iPrint client plugin is blocked by Chrome version 42.
929064: Using iPrint Client 6.0, modification of printer driver profile fails.
929615: Printer installation fails for a newly created Mac local user. It works only after the user logs off and logs in again.
929669: For iPrint Mac Client 6.0, the printer installation after a client uninstallation is not handled properly in the same browser session.
931984: Using the "iprintman" command, adding same printer to multiple pools should not be allowed.
932587, 932588, 932591: The "iprintman" command must have the following options:  "--list", "--info", and options to select the profile to be copied.
933505: After installing the May patch for OES 11 SP2, the print manager is not accessible due to a certificate error.
933585: In iPrint Windows client, garbage characters appear in EULA for the following languages :zh_CN and zh_TW.
933596, 933600, 933706: In iPrint Windows client, the following dialog boxes of the "iPrint Client Settings" overlap: "About" tab for JA; "iCM" tab for JA and zh_CN; and "Tray Icon" tab for zh_CN.
933719: In iPrint Windows client, over localized strings "ABOUT, PROXY,PASSWORD..." for the following languages: ES and zh_TW.
933729: In the "iprintman" command, the profile copy feature should work with all the platform versions.
926925: The sync operation hangs when the Migration tool is used.
929097: The "smdrd.conf" is referring to a wrong path /etc/opt/novell/sms/smdrd.conf.
930989: On renaming the junction target folder, the junction status displays as 'Available' instead of 'Broken' even after performing scan.
834305: The metamig restore does not handle special characters.
857905: The visibility right on the parent directories is preserved until the file or directory is purged.
890396: Unable to change the "Times to shred data" attribute for a volume using NSSMU.
926931: The VLOG filter file and output redirection to the CSV file do not work as expected for CIFS access.
930563: Kernel core in VLOG "RIP: 0010:[] [] strcmp+0xc/0x30".
931471: Information related to the snapshot feature must be removed from the help and man pages.
896994: User password change from the Kanaka client on Mac does not update the Universal Password.
904882, 651268:  While migrating large number of pools and volumes, the adminusd may get hung due to race conditions between pool, volume and superblock locks.

  • July 2015 OES11 SP2 eDirectory 8.8 SP8 Patch 5 Hot Patch 2 - 10846

937295: OES11 SP2 July 2015 update is not applying the latest NTLS - vulnerability still present
934666: Fix OpenSSL vulnerabilities disclosed at https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150611.txt

  • July 2015 OES11 SP2 eDirectory 8.8 SP8 Patch 5 Hot Patch - 10828

934666: Fix OpenSSL vulnerabilities disclosed at https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150611.txt

  • May 2015 OES 11 SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 10648

894359:  Back up and restore of user quota greater than 8 TB quota size does not work properly.
918774: Migration tool synchronizes all the data in a volume instead of the modified data.
924475: Backing up user quota greater than 8 TB size on the OES 2015 volume and restoring it on the OES 11 SP2 volume does not work properly.
918306: In the Manage Junctions page, the junction status displays as Broken.
872780: NSS Audit populates the /var/log/message with “COMN_Open: 2925357760 Error initializing audit messages”.
907395: Menu changes in NSSMU.
911963 and 923105: Multiple issues related to resizing the NSSMU screens.
912631: Creating RAID0 devices with more segments causes segmentation fault in NSSMU and NLVM.
916456: The NFS client malfunctions when NSS volume is mounted using NFS mount.
916789: Renaming a volume or volume mount point changes the permissions on /etc/fstab from 644 to 600.
918047: The deleted volumes page does not get updated when the volumes are purged from NSSMU.
920872: NSSMU and NLVM failed to dismount the volume when pool is deactivated.
925106: Disable the unsupported file snapshot (File COW) feature in NSSCON.
910280: When a printer is created with profiles using the iprntman command, the printer fails to install, displaying a Windows Socket error. A restart of the print manager is required to successfully install the printer.
915560: iprntman fails to accept the certificate if there is a mismatch in the server name URL.
918269: Printers having driver and driver profiles assigned to them display incorrect information when generating a report from the PsmStatus page.
923001: Installing the printer agents fail with Windows Socket error if the driver store is not reachable.
923115: Copying the driver profile from source to target causes reinstallation of the printers due to change in the timestamps.
926371: New printer pool management capabilities with the iprntman command: adding a pool, deleting a pool, adding printers to a pool, and deleting printers from a pool.
926504: While executing the iprntman command across the eDirectory tree, it displays the IPPTrustManager error if the certificate is not present in the iprntman keystore.
916021: The McAfee Web Gateway Appliance fails to join the DSfW domain.
712498: The "Options" column in the Available DHCP Options list of the Java Management Console is not expandable.
844026: Unable to set the DHCP Option 121 using Java Console.
874529: The DHCP option 121 does not accept duplicate values of IP address.
668859:  Incorrect free space is displayed for a sub directory.
912794:  Occasionally, listing of directory never completes when browsed through Novell Client.
914349: The renamed subdirectory on a DST volume is temporarily listed twice in Windows Explorer.
915203: Copying large files using Novell Client is slower than CIFS clients.
918049: NDSD crashes in NCP whenever the rename operation is performed.
926998: Files that have file names greater than 128 characters become invalid. No file operations - such as copy, move, edit, open, and so forth can be performed on them.
892956: Non-root users have read, write permissions on CIFS configuration file.
921848: User name mismatch errors appear in cifs.log file.
922187: The CIFS service is stopped gracefully if NCS-SDK registration fails.
922528: Users are not able to delete a read-only subdirectory from an SMB client.
909245: Installation of OES 11 SP2 creates actual certificates in /etc/sfcb instead of softlinks pointing to the /etc/ssl/servercerts locations.

926799: The NCS hashed queue could overwrite the messages in some rare conditions and that could lead to NCS killing the node with a message.

  • March 2015 OES 11 SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 10332

818535: Clicking the Clear History button under the iPrint Document status does not remove the history.
841509: When installing a secure printer, the iPrint client displays an error message if the Fully Qualified Distinguished Name that has been provided is wrong.
917356: On iPrint client 5.99, temporary user credentials are not getting removed from the Passwords tab under iPrint settings.
785315: NCP combines unrelated directories and files that do not exist in primary and shadow volumes, and displays them as an entity.
888015: NCP logs too many error messages.
852793: Cluster resources take minutes to mount. Due to long mount delays, the resources go into a comatose state on fail-over.
898634: ncpcon output redirection does not work as expected.
866069: Novell CIFS on an OES11 SP2 cluster node still shares volumes of resources, where CIFS protocol has not been enabled.
891987: Novell CIFS (Novell-cifs-1.3.2-0.90.9) on an OES11 SP2 server consumes about 7 GB of memory after applying the May 2014 scheduled maintenance update.
905286: Novell CIFS crashes while mounting or dismounting continuously from a Linux client.
907498: Links created on CIFS shares from a Windows Client are hidden, because the Novell CIFS server was not setting the archive attribute while creating a new file using SMB_COM_NT_CREATE_ANDX.
872558: The afp_create_proxy_user.sh script does not provide the log filename and its path. The script does not provide an example of the input and proxy _fdn and bind_fdn format.
910784: When the IP address of a cluster resource is changed, it is not reflected in the nfapCIFSAttach attribute of the Virtual NCP Server object.
909927: In NSSMU, the deleted volumes are not displayed when there is a faulty pool.
870053: In NSSMU, the F9(Deleted Vols) option lists the deleted volumes from all pools.
908489: Unable to activate the pool on RAID 5 devices.
917997: Incorrect header information is displayed in the create new volume window.
858107: The file overwrite vulnerability: Using the schema plug-in, a user can overwrite any file that belongs to the novlwww user.
858132: The XSS vulnerability exists in the schema plug-in for iManager.
865164: The iManager group plug-in throws an error when there are unspecified addresses in the ldapInterfaces attribute of the LDAP server.
903969: The RegEX validation on multivalued attributes is applied to the wrong attributes.
904674: Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability: Multiple reflected cross-site scripting vulnerabilities allow effective attacks of administrative and SSLVPN sessions.
904679: Cross-Site Request Forgery: The Admin Console password can be changed via URL.
907640: A change in build version numbers from 2.7.7. 3 to 2.7.7.4.
918810: naudit does not work on iManager 2.7.7.4.
864053: The DNS/DHCP Java Management Console fails to set a pool's Range Type value to "Excluded" and defaults to "DHCP."
878375: The DNS/DHCP Java Management Console fails to import Class Declarations from the dhcpd configuration file.
893246: Having multiple zones and allow-recursion values leads to a DNS server crash.
904854: The DNS server crashes with an Assertion Failure during dynamic reconfiguration when the Zone Type is toggled between Primary and Secondary servers.
913626: The DNS/DHCP Java Management Console deletes the "option space" dhcpOption from the dhcpService object.
899196: Logging in to a DSfW domain from Mac 10.10 prompts for a password reset.
896356: After upgrading to OES 11 SP2 QuickFinder, the Document Index is causing Tomcat to crash.
911382: Links in the Search Results page for a few non-English file names are not working.
920201: QuickFinder Admin login fails after installing a patch.
891911: Trustees are not syncing when the "Copy Trustees Only at the Directory Level" option is enabled for migrating data.
908968: SMS fails to restore the user quota when the data backed up on the OES 2015 NSS-AD volume is restored to the OES 11 SP2 NSS volume.
901710: DFS junctions stop working.
912706: NRM is not using the ?secure? attribute for any cookies sent over an SSL connection.
922187: The Novell CIFS service fails when NCS is installed and not configured.

  • March 2015 OES11SP2 Scheduled Maintenance for eDirectory 8.8 SP8 patch 5 - 10291

635541: After inserting new server with dibclone, each server in the tree does a rebuild of its change cache
831483: ndsd coring in flmIxKeyOutput
838211: segfault at ffffffff0074e7d0 is seen in syslog file after installing OES11SP2preview6 (Integrated install)
873294: DXEVENT is not reporting removed attribute value only when xdasauditds is loaded
901422: NEW:IMonitor Authentication dn limited to 128 char where as iManager authentication dn allows 256
902051: Option to disable SSLv3 through LDAP Plugin
904640: Not able to start second instance of eDirectory service in SLES-12
905570: groupmembership=queries with high number of objects with groupmembership attribute fails to return and causes high utilization
907581: Injecting large integer value into iMonitor trace configuration options parameter crashes ndsd
908352: ndsd crash in SAL_AtomicIncrement()
908552: Unable to stop ndsd server using "ndsmanage" tool on SLES12.
908745: 888 Patch 4: installer not creating /var/opt/novell/eDirectory/data/SSCert.der
909201: Inconsistent results on LDAP search when using uniqueID index
913600: RFE: Support password as byte array for edir login using NPKI API
916542: ice failing with "ldap_simple_bind failed"
921506: OpenSSL FREAK vulnerability per CVE-2015-0204
921524: NTLS is vulnerable to the FREAK vulnerability described in CVE-2015-0204
923353: NTLS vulnerable to multiple issues disclosed by OpenSSL
923389: Fix OpenSSL vulnerabilities disclosed at https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150319.txt

  • January 2015 OES 11 SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 10105

523289: Hard link upgrade fails on a specific volume.
747464: Re-import of already exported DHCP configuration renames custom named pools.
788727: Clicking Clear Password button under the iPrint Settings does not remove the saved passwords.
818535: Clicking the Clear History button under the iPrint Document Status does not remove the history.
827902: On OES 11 SP2, executing the iprntcmd -v command does not show the correct server version.
828646: The Passwords tab under iPrint Settings incorrectly displays the LDAP User Name.
829459: Provisioning of a DSfW user group with Solid works EPDM tool fails as DSfW is failing for "queryuseraliases domain/builtin" commands in smb.
845513: Print spooler crashes when the IPP-enabled iPrint Direct printers are installed through the iprntcmd command.
871841: Upgrade of DSfW servers from OES 2 SP1 to OES 11 SP2 fails as the server object is in a mapped container instead of ou=OESSystemObject inside mapped container.
879896: iPrint client on OES 11 SP2 sometimes displays Interactive Services Detection dialog box.
882261: iPrint client 5.96 and Novell Client 2 SP3 IR7a are not sharing the credentials, resulting in authentication failure.
883347: NCP server is coring as NCP engine is closing the connection by one thread while another thread is in progress to reply on the same socket.
885817: Managing large quotas results in iManager 2.7.7 storage error.
886080: After restarting the iPrint client, cores in iPrint gateway are reported.
887541: With iPrint client 5.98 installed, after a print job is submitted, the values in the Handles column of iprntctl.exe increases significantly.
888099: NSSMU user experience for popular Windows SSH clients needs improvement.
889080: The OES server slows down due to memory pressure.
890147: Transfer ID fails during preparation phase in the Migration Tool Utility.
892064: /proc/nll/statistics NLS_KmallocSize reports erratic memory values intermittently.
894207: Getting 20801 errors when accessing Volumes with DST configured.
894546: LockCache Errors in the CIFS log while performing file I/O in the scale setup.
895572: NCP segfaults in EnumConnectionInformation() function while a connection being enumerated and if the connection is removed at the same time.
897052: The OES server crashes due to the Watchdog timer overflow.
897999: Invalid Message: Failed to Delete Directory. CIFS does not log proper messages with proper log levels.
898634: NCPCON output redirection is not working as expected.
898966: Deletor Name "Not Available" with salvageable files deleted by CIFS users.
899008: On Mac OS X, the iPrint client fails to print to secure printers after saving the iPrint credentials to the keychain.
899520: While responding to the NCPCON request, the NCP server will overwrite the default reply buffer size of 64k if the response size is more than the default buffer size that causes ndsd to core.
900261: cifsd does not respond with STATUS_DIRECTORY_NOT_EMPTY when client marks a subdirectory with entries for deletion per SMB_COM_TRANS2_SET_FILE_INFORMATION2 of InformationLevel SMB_SET_FILE_DISPOSITION_INFO.
900643: Quota management using iManager results in Order 5 page allocation failures for adminusd.
900751: Some NSSMU screens do not get resized properly.
900927: Upgrading from OES 11 SP1 to OES 11 SP2 on a volume with DIR QUOTAS _disabled_ causes the nvm_quota_limit to change.
900930: Upgrading from OES 11 SP1 to OES 11 SP2 on a volume with DIR QUOTAS _disabled_ causes the nvm_quota_limit to change.
901286: CIFS strings need to be changed for command line error and success cases.
901445: change_proxy_pwd.sh script causes 255 error if LUM is not configured to use proxy user.
901978: Allow users to select a specific size multiplier in lists using the nlvm utility.
902194: Cannot copy files from a CIFS share if the directory structure is not DOS (8.3 filename regulations).
904193: The iPrint Mac client 5.78 on Yosemite 10.9 and 10.10 fails to print to SSL-enabled printers with the error message "Backend failed".

904293: The iPrint Mac client 5.78 on Yosemite fails to print to SSL-enabled Printer Agents whose names are longer than 20 characters.

904630: The NSSMU man page must be updated to include the latest shortcut keys.

905094: Remove the inappropriate error message "NLL::/usr/src/packages/BUILD/nss/modules-build/nsslnxlib/nssLnxLibLKM.c[115] counts are (621,184)" that gets added to the messages file every time the statistics file is read.

905717: Novell Remote Manager displays incorrect message when files are listed by using the "View File system > View File System Listing" option.

906115: After an upgrade to OES 11 SP2, the system is unable to allocate memory and OOM killer is invoked.

906596: Novell Remote Manager does not display partition size correctly when the volume size is greater than 2 TB.

908316: Common proxy scripts return 255 or -1 instead of positive values for certain services.

  • December 2014 OES11 SP2 Hot Patch - 10084

896331: count.txt becomes wrong after nwlogin error
904669: XML eXternal Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability: Authenticated administrative users can download arbitrary files from the Access  Manager administration interface as the user "novlwww"
907953: VUL-0: CVE-2014-3566: OES-pure-ftpd: FTP susceptible to SSLV3 vulnerability (POODLE)
908355: Conflict of command line option with suse:pure-ftpd and oes:pure-ftpd
908537: L3: IBM java-1_6_0-ibm-1.6.0_sr16.2-0.3.1 (patch  9992) breaks SFCB SSL connections.
908988: 'ciphers' for SSL/TLS is been added by suse:ftp hence oes:ftp should present this switch during ftp upgrade.

  • December 2014 OES 11 SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 9879

846006: When migrating resources (unloading volumes), the system generates a kernel core.
856749: During a RAID operation (create/delete) using iManager, parallel access to the RAID device using NSSMU results in kernel core.
892365: NLVM rescan of RAID devices hangs intermittently.
888099, 902892, 904630: Enhance the NSSMU user experience by adding short-cut keys so that NSSMU is easy to work using popular Windows SSH clients.
895488: Unable to create a pool snapshot that is greater than 2 TB.
897237: 'nlvm expand pool' allows a pool to expand using the partition that is used by the same pool or other pools.
899518: Deleting an NSS volume through NSSMU changes the permissions on /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab from 644 to 600.
900643: Quota management using iManager results in “adminusd: page allocation failure: order:5”.
894753: Server crashes with out_of_memory when a snapshot is created for snapshot using NLVM.
865938: The Object Selector and History buttons are missing after applying the iManager 2.7.7.1 patches.
894364: Change the build version from iManager 2.7.7 Patch2 to iManager 2.7.7 Patch 3.
904669: XML eXternal Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability: Authenticated administrative users can download the arbitrary files from the Access Manager administration interface as "novlwww" user.
906293: The java.lang.NumberFormatException :For input string: "7.3" error is printed in the catalina.out log file.
656527: When installing a printer, you might see a message “Reading driver file failed with 0” despite the printer getting successfully installed.
819805: If the iPrint Client and server are not configured for the same language, you might experience incorrect output of your banner pages such as the job name being printed incorrectly.
889375: Installing the OES 11 SP2 May 2014 patch causes high utilization of CPU when the print server handles non-English characters on audit-enabled printers.
886150: Redirection of the direct printer to any other IPP printer fails on the iPrint Mac client 5.76.
895034: The iPrint Mac client fails to print jobs submitted to the secure printer on OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
901330: While submitting print job requests, the iPrint client on Xclient sends the authorization credentials in a Base64 encoded text for some non-https connection.
901412: The iPrint Mac client fails to uninstall the iPrint Direct printers automatically if they are deleted from the iPrint Server, and it sometimes results in non-responsive Apache server for Novell iPrint.
903212: The SSL port must be disabled in the  iPrint Server because of the POODLE security vulnerability.
808199: Remote file operations fail because of synchronization issue caused when the scripts use the same FTP user account to login or logout of the FTP server in a very quick succession.
838414: Unable to add a CIFS share via novcifs if the sharepath length is longer than 75 characters.
848628: pure-ftpd processes the LIST command incorrectly if the pathname argument contains a space character.
849659: Server becomes unresponsive as the NCP threads are in busy loop.
867137: AFP service crashes due to improper handling of queued requests.
867635: AFP service cores due to improper lock sequence while removing the expired sessions.
870067: The NCP server renames a file in Long namespace when the request is to rename it in DOS namespace.
873552: The novcifs -sap command does not return proper error messages while adding a share with the sharename that already exists and removing a share that no longer exists. The novcifs -sap command does not add a share if the sharepath has the "/" character at the end.
876396, 876397: AFP cores frequently due to improper handling of file Handle IDs.
877030: CIFS incorrectly registers Work Group or Domain Name as NetBIOS service types 0x00 (Workstation Service) and 0x20 (Server Service) when it is configured to use a WINS server for registrations.
882418: File operations on an .odt file fails if the share mount point is some folder inside a volume and if the file is moved to shadow volume.
882952: Space restrictions are not reported correctly for quotas greater than 2 TB.
889387: Novell CIFS server returns duplicate search identifier in SMB_COM_TRANS2_FIND_FIRST2 response causing the Windows Explorer to show files of another subdirectory.
893032: NCPCON connection list shows wrong time as 12:00 AM when a user logs in at the noon hour.
895949: When the file name does not exist, pure-ftpd does not handle the LIST FILENAME using ftp-tls.
896192: Cat'ting through the /admin/Novell/Cluster/EventLog.xml file crashes the cluster node.
899748: CIFS service does not accept new connections after running for a while with September 2014 maintenance patch.
900400: pure-ftpd processes the LIST command incorrectly if the pathname argument contains a space character.
897010: The NCP server returns an incomplete list of files and folders, when you have viewed and modified a folder content using Novell Client, and then revisit the same folder using Novell Client. This is because of saving the wrong context of file or directory sequence.
903956: The POODLE vulnerability is seen in NCP with a modified libnds library (to enable SSLv3 as default) while doing Encrypted Replication sync between replicas (which can be configured from iManager).
877492: The smdrd daemon crashes with segmentation fault.
902594: Novell Remote Manager (NRM) vulnerable to POODLE security issue.
902839: Storage Management Services (SMS) vulnerable to POODLE security issue.
878879: Novell Remote Manager returns HTTP error 400 when checking the properties of a file in a subdirectory with more than 2000 files.
828600: XTier is coring in Filr server.
849216: Remote Desktop Login from a Windows workstation to a DSfW domain fails when domain credentials are specified in lower case.
879530: If the master DNS server is a Microsoft DNS server and the OES 11 SP2 DNS server is secondary, the zone represented by these servers will not load.
886467: Memory leak fixes in novell-named.
890617: Adding the "Domain Admins" group from an AD server to "cn=Administrators,cn=Builtin,dc=dsfwtrust,dc=edu" on a OES 11 SP2 DSfW server fails in a cross-forest trust environment.
894284: Domain Services for Windows Daemon crashes frequently.
895254: Creation of clone fails in VMware view 5.3.0 for a DSfW environment while changing the password for a workstation when the LANMAN password is disabled.
903956: Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption attack through SSLv3(CVE-2014-3566)
838320: The "Nagios User Management" strings in the NRM help files are not localized.

  • December 2014 OES11SP2 Scheduled Maintenance for eDirectory 8.8 SP8 patch 4 - 9923

783040: xdasauditds.dlm fails to initialize completely during initial eDirectory startup
884033: Free space incorrectly displayed for volumes >16 Terabyte
884503: Failed to install eDirectory Garuda Build on RHEL 7.0 and SLE-12
889439: NEW:iMonitor Agent health shows marginal for Readable Replica Count and subordinate count
890950: New:LDAP returns duplicate entry's with differn't Page sizes (Using page control)
892988: Existence of value index is causing performance decrease for complex ldap query
893637: NetWare server reboots cause 8.8.8.2 CA holder to core
893940: Slow synchronization due to change cache timing
895424: CORE: NDSD cores in WPutInt32 (libnds.so)
895604: dsbk log messages are being written to the dib
901680: To support eDirectory on SLES 12, RHEL 7 platforms
901952: Security - remove any file from the server via iMonitor
902043: Secruity - iMonitor buffer overflow.
902049: Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption attack through SSLv3(CVE-2014-3566)
903995: Failed to upgrade from 8.8.8 to 8.8.8.4
904134: Potential Security Vulnerbility:  iMonitor Allows attack via XSS
904135: Potential Security Vulnerbility:  iMonitor memory disclosure
905570: groupmembership= queries with high number of objects with groupmembership attribute fails to return and causes high utilization
906342: Injecting arbitrary data into iMonitor search request page causes ndsd to crash

  • September 2014 OES 11 SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 9650

753235: Unable to read login scripts greater than 512 MB in size when a workstation logs in to a system.
810250: Performance of NetStorage server gradually scales down.
847302: IDM iManager plug-in stops responding after an upgrade from v10.7.20120601 to 10.7.20130307.
849216: Remote Desktop Access to a workstation fails with lowercase characters in domain names.
854834: The NSS volume mount operation becomes very slow while processing purge log.
865164:  iManager groups plug-in throws an error if there are unspecified addresses in the ldapInterfaces attribute of the LDAP server.
866556: Software installation using GPO fails.
872284: iManager build version numbers has to be modified from 2.7.7 Patch1 to 2.7.7 Patch 2.
874117: ncpcon man page updates in the scripting section.
876213: NLVM fails to handle loop devices correctly.
876657: Copying a folder fails in nautilus - Linux file browser, when it is mapped via SMB.
876890: OES 2 SP3 to OES 11 SP2 DNS and DHCP proxy user migration using move_to_common_proxy.sh fails.
877015: The receive buffer becomes NULL unexpectedly causing NDSD to crash.
880036: The help icon on the Login page does not link to the iManager help.
880099: Windows Explorer does not display a complete list of sub directories when browsing a large directory on a CIFS share.
880398: Copying multiple files to an NSS volume is very slow when User Quota has been configured.
880970: Zero byte packets cause CIFS server to go down.
881940: In a different tree scenario, when a user maps a file or folder with no trustee rights, the migration GUI throws an exception.
882504: Novell Remote Manager removes packages without performing a proper dependency check.
883301: Users not able to access their home directories after a prolonged CIFS session.
883315: Kernel core is seen in the node 2 when RAID5 restripe tests are done on node1.
884106: The nagiosadmin user fails to log in using a password with special characters.
884412: CIFS cores at random, terminates with signal 6.
886815: The OES 11 SP2 server crashes with a Kernel OOPS error.
887444: Job gets canceled when accounting module changes the job size.
888007: Moving or renaming a folder on an NSS volume causes NCP and NSS trustee files to get out of sync.
888539: OES 11 SP2 NCS and clustered LDAP (no SBD and NSS) does not fence nodes.
888696: System with NCS, but without NSS installed reports nlvm Error 20897 when NCS is running.
888796: The NRM File System Management page displays no data, if the NFS share is not mounted.
889413: Default password policy not properly configured.
890686: Using EAS 4.5, no event sources are connected for iManager, eDirectory, and NMAS.

  • September 2014 OES11SP2 Scheduled Maintenance for eDirectory 8.8 SP8 patch 3 - 9593

655907: XDAS Auditing does not allow deselection of both components
820767: Workstation join fails to join DSfW domain with libdsearch-plugin.
854851: "Upgrade XDAS configuration" link should not be displayed for the eDirectory server version 888 and later.
856649: "UnAuthenticate Session" is not mapped with logout event.
863843: Zero file descriptor seems to get closed in an abnormal scenario

869035: Schema definition doesn't modify DESC field with ldif to modify the definition

869207: NEW:LDAP still communicates on secure port 636 after deleting the KMO even after ndsd restart

869483: Ndsrepair writes bogus referrals if IPv6 addr is not within brackets in hosts.nds

869667: Running repair nw addresses on Win writes IPv6 link local addresses to the referrals

872362: ndsd.log shows Listener port 389 / 636 is already in use while loading nldap module.

876430: When using XDAS audit service in eDirectory, the Sentinel eDirectory collector does not parse events correctly

876468: ICE binary segfaults upon invalid IP address input

877650: ldif2dib utility crashes when -w option is used.

880523: maximumSpace attribute of NWFileDosEntryInfo class needs change

881899: NDSSNMP won't load

882920: ndsd cores in srtlen_sse42 while running ndstrace and troubleshooting script.

883546: iManager 277 patch1 login fails with the "NTLS" hotfix provided for imanager

884033: Free space incorrectly displayed for volumes >16 Terabyte

885290: ndsd crashes in libpkiserver.so when ndsconfig is run during upgrade to OES11SP2.

886144: iMonitor throws random errors while using proxy mode.

889285: XDAS Auditing does not allow deselection of both components
889744: With SAL_LogLevels=LogAll enabled in ndsd start up script quitting ndstrace hangs with vcln flag.

890598: libnldapx.so provided by novell-ldapextd rpm for OES links to non-threadsafe version of openldap.

890684: 4.5 EAS no event sources connected for iManager, eDir, & NMAS using build 80
891107: CORE: NMAS cores in libnmas.so when writing intruder lockout info to ndsd.log

891646: Move object operation not notifiy external reference servers during obituary process when eDir 8.8.8 is Master

892895: CVE-2014-3508 vulnerability
893314: August 2014 Security Advisories reported against OpenSSL - In CLDAP SDK
893751: Upgrade hangs during schema extenstion on Windows 2012 R2

  • August 2014 OES 11 SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 9413

792583: Get file or directory information verb from NCP returns a long name instead of a DOS      name for directories when the target name space requested is DOS.
818564: Delete driver profile error message does not reflect the printer agents associated with the driver profile.
820645: Missing help for 'iPrint Manager Accounting Status' page.
837155: Removal of cache entry from NCP cache and failure to remove cache from the open file list leads to a crash.
842642: Cluster resource fails to register with SLP.
844132: When using shadow volumes and CIFS on Windows 7, files become unaccessible.
847008: Change in the OES 11 getfattr implementation results in backup errors while trying to access the /var/opt/novell/nclmnt/ folder.
853700: For the ncpcon commands executed, no validation is done against input data entered by the user which eventually resulted in core.
854672: The rights command with -S option fails to work for broken softlinks.
863260: The iprintman printer --info command does not prompt for a certificate.
868979: The novcifs command manpage does not describe the --share-vols-default option adequately.
869184: Filenames that are long and contain Cyrillic characters cannot be deleted from the volume.
870070: Recovered directories become invisible after salvaging, unless touched by another API.
870386: Trust between an Active Directory domain and a DSfW domain is broken every 30 days.
872108: While using the iprintman --grant-access option, the printer FDN fails to resolve.
873058: Cleanup of the modified system objects is not successful when the pool expansion fails.

873212: Missing ACLs on Computer objects are causing secure channel to break.
873283: Managing user quotas using iManager 2.7.7 on a Volume that is hosted on a  OES 2 SP3 server leads to error.
874287: While migrating data between volumes, stopping the migration fails to terminate nbackup jobs.
875846: The /var/log/messages file floods with buffer overflow messages.
876738: Modified retrive_proxy_cred to read as retrieve_proxy_cred.
878131: Copying a file from Mac 10.9 to a volume shared using CIFS for a user without delete rights leads to a samba lock on the file that cannot be released.
879891: Incomplete listing of sub directories on a DST shadow volume since shadow path is not generated properly if mount point is other than root volume.
881269: New iPrintman option added to set auto-driver update during printer creation and Printer modification through iPrintman.
884695: NSS volumes mounted in UNIX name space losing trustee assignments.
885791: Unprivileged users get privilege access over _ADMIN volume on OES using CIFS.
887128: Unable to manage OES using iManager after applying tomcat 6.0.41 security patch.
889783: iManager fails to launch after 'novell-tomcat6' goes to 'DEAD' state.

  • July 2014 OES11SP2 eDirectory 8.8 SP8 Patch 2 Hot Patch - 9407

881950: June 2014 Security Advisories reported against OpenSSL
881975: June 2014 Security Advisories reported against OpenSSL - In CLDAP SDK

  • July 2014 OES11 SP2 Hot Patch for iPrint Client - 9479

845513: Random issue:Print spooler is crashing when installing ipp direct printers through iprntcmd command
857992: printers installed to Mac auto delete with blank database
858272: Dell Printer install with profile crashed the windows spooler in XP
858447: PaperCut Direct Print Accounting failed
859473: Windows client -papercut:Accounting not working while installing printer through iprntcmd in standard windows user account
859685: (Random)Windows client for papercut:Printers not getting installed through icm settings .
860065: iPrint Client 5.95: Copyright need to be updated
860068: (Random)Windows client 5.95 for papercut:Accounting not working after installing direct printer in windows 8.1
861064: Windows client 5.95:Installation of printer fails while reconnecting to  remote desktop session
863255: iPrint Mac client 5.74:(Macintosh 10.9)Not able to print to printers having space in its name .
863561: The TraceLevel text under About | Configuration is incorrect
865327: iprint client 5.94 slow updating windows printer properties page.
867351: LdapImport_AD_Realm:Secure Printer installation asks for authentication even after connecting Desktop to same Realm
873926: iPrint Mac client 5.76:Copyright need to be updated.
874560: iPrint Mac client 5.74:Updating from 5.74 client to 5.76 client removes printers which has space in its name
875127: MSR Multi Driver: Auto driver update is failing for MSR drivers if multple drivers (of different Windows flavours) are associated with a PA.
881998: iPrint windows client need to rebuild with new OpenSSL library i.e OpenSSL v0.9.8za
883514: Installation of latest iPrint client (5.98) fails with error saying "The Program can't start because SSLEAY32.dll is missing from your computer"e

  • May 2014 OES11SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 9157

778627: Empty IRM Rights not getting populated for root directory on the volume
823951: Trustee assignments are constantly getting out of sync
842213: Clicking the IP/Cluster_name of the mapped CIFS server on MAC 10.9 would fail to access the mapped volume
843854: For DST configured Volume, opening new directory is causing error.
845142: Linux workstations/servers error out while trying to join a DSfW domain
850529: CIFS NMAS Authentication Method for Linux fails authentication when user password has expired, but user still has remaining grace logins
852321: bad status code (0x400) from iprintman when creating printer
853391: Old NetBIOS Name (nfapCIFSServerName) remains in NODE STATUS RESPONSE (NBSTAT) after having renamed the CIFS Server Name in iManager
857388: ndsd core GetVolumeFlags
858886: Can not specify full context in the apple login for user lookup and authentication
859412: change_proxy_pwd.sh fails when ran via cron, "NDS error failed authentication -669"
860485: Folder gets created in wrong case when volume mounted in long name space
861618: pure-ftpd processes LIST command with absolute path in pathname argument incorrectly when "ChrootEveryone" is "no".
861900: iPrint Appliance fails to write all data to padbtxt.xml
862261: CIFS core on startup 1.3.1-35.52.69.1 core analysis
863188: syslog is getting filled with XTCOM pam authentication failure every half an hour
864018: OES11SP1 - continued order 4 & 5 page allocation failures
864421: Calling the YaST module 'inst_oes_preconfig has failed.
868625: Placeholder bug regarding 3rd party vendor problems following tsands branding change.
868796: csmport -i fails with "Cluster ID doesn't match"
869970: Security Vuln -  iPrint Directory traversal Vuln
869975: Security Vuln -  iPrint stored XSS Vuln
870766: "xtier seg faulting"
872182: Short (DOS) names are not returned when queried
872914: merging apr,2014 samba sles11sp3 patch to novell-oes-samba on oes11sp2 patch
879413: Post Patch build update Netstorage Server received internal error

  • May 2014 OES11SP2 Scheduled Maintenance for eDirectory 8.8 SP8 patch 2 - 9156

627162: Improve usability of Attribute and Class Map tabs
653702: ndsd coring in F_Rfl::positionTo trying to process invalid memory address
782375: DSFW: Samify populates samAccountName with users old name
795332: NDS Password Expiration is not maintained when using the NESCM method
838211: segfault at ffffffff0074e7d0  is seen in syslog file after installing OES11SP2preview6 (Integrated install)
841299: NMAS server incorrectly fails authenitcation with error -1688 NMAS_E_CONCURRENT_LOGIN
848871: Need option to remove "time" from password expiration
854704: Keys of principals linked to a user object are not updated by the KPA when user's UP is changed if "krbPrincipalReferences" on the user does not have the principal's DN
854929: MSGW driver does not stop when commanded
855318: Needs to mention the schema file name to be extended for XDAS.
860969: Encrypted Attribute Policy and inability to move users between OUs
862788: imanager ice remote buff overflow
863460: memory leak when doing paged search
866899: Provide support for  XDAS logging in Ldap Proxy
868667: ndsconfig fails with "Failed to configure SAS service: no such entry err=-601" error during DSfW ADC installation.
868818: Enabling a subnet as IP based network restrictions prevent a succesful login for all workstations that qualify the criteria
869829: NDSD consuming memory on OES11SP1 with iPrint running
870257: ndsd crashes in findInRdnCache()
870258: ndsd core coming up through AddDNToQueue
870298: Placeholder bug regarding 3rd party vendor problems following tsands branding change.
871233: CORE: NDSD cores in libnldap.so
871234: Rights being incorrectly calculated over LDAP
871312: IPv6 changes in apache log4cxx module in XDASEventslog project is not present in 888 line
872158: CORE: NDSD cores in libnldap.so
872160: ndsconfig does not consume password stored with ndspassstore
874801: ndsd dumping core while doing page search with base scope.
876319: ndsd crashes when concurrent searches are performed against it from multiple threads
878146: eDirectory 888 install fails if IPv6 is disabled and no IPv6 address is assigned

  • April 2014 OES11SP2 Hot Patch for NCL - 9163

- 872796: Using nwrights to set file scan rights, sets supervisor right

  • April 2014 OES11SP2 Hot Patch - 9140

- 868625: Placeholder bug regarding 3rd party vendor problems following tsands branding change.
- 870298: Placeholder bug regarding 3rd party vendor problems following tsands branding change.

  • March 2014 OES11SP2 Scheduled Maintenance Update - 8934

- 804813: OES:iFolder Reports use US date format regardless of system locale
- 827306: Winbind crashes in dcerpc_lsa_lookup_sids () in ADC
- 838472: Client trying to delete print job fails: Samba returns: WERR_INVALID_PRINTER_NAME
- 844720: VUL-0: CVE-2013-4408: samba: DCERPC frag_len not checked
- 845531: CIFS very slow in listing files in directory with 240000 files
- 845999: SMB client occasionally shows duplicate files when listing a subdirectory on an OES CIFS share
- 848101: VUL-0: CVE-2013-4475: samba: No access check verification on stream files.
- 848628: pure-ftpd processes LIST command incorrectly when pathname argument contains a space character
- 849226: upstream fixes tracker bug for Oct/Nov 2013 update
- 851118: OES11 CIFS logging " Invalid Patth" instead of  "Invalid Path"
- 851121: OES11 CIFS Time to build trustees in micro-seconds is inaccurate.
- 852364: iprintman is unable to delete Printer in eDir
- 853021: libsmbclient0 package description contains comments
- 853347: VUL-0: CVE-2012-6150: samba: winbind pam security problem
- 853958: oes pure-ftpd count.txt reached negative count
- 854520: upstream fixes tracker bug for Dec 2013 update
- 855593: ""AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: dash lengths all zero" Exception thrown while opening saved project in miggui
- 856008: NRM: NCP Inventory Reports Page and Help - Contains information about sending email based on Email Notification commands in the httpstkd.conf file
- 857184: NRM:Ganglia "Server health values" is not displaying the graph for the current server
- 857595: NRM: NCP Trustee Reports Page and Help - Contains information about sending email based on Email Notification commands in the httpstkd.conf file
- 857665: ndsd crashes in libxadsdk.so with empty SID in ldapsearch.
- 857825: NRM: Group Operations Configuration page and Help - Contains information about sending email based on Email Notification commands in the httpstkd.conf file
- 859134: Default value for novcifs --csc option should be change to '0' in novcifs man page.
- 859839: OES11SP2_LOC:GMC1:JA:Truncated string in DSFW Configuration screen
- 861198: Vlog:  Man page of VLOG needs correction to read Modify event as "MODIFY" and not "MODIFYMETADATA "
- 861245: OES11SP2 - novcifs -h refers to 'sharepoint' and not 'share point'
- 862283: For March,2014 Patch - Merging sles11sp3 / sles11sp2 samba security patch to novell-oes-samba in oes11sp2 / oes11sp1
- 862793: AFP is dumping core when afptcpd service is restarted

  • February 2014 OES11SP2 eDirectory 8.8 SP8 Patch 1 Hot Patch - 8911

- 861711 - After upgrade to OES11 SP2, server crashes often in LDAP