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Submit a FreeBSD problem report

Thank you for taking the time to let us know about a problem with FreeBSD.

This form allows you to submit Problem Reports about issues that you believe are actual bugs in either the source, the documentation, or the website itself. If you are having problems with initially installing FreeBSD, or have other questions of the form "why doesn't foo work" or "does FreeBSD work with bar", please ask these questions in the appropriate support forums; see the support page for more information.

Before filling out the form, please take the time to read the Writing FreeBSD Problem Reports guidelines. This may save you time and frustration getting help with your problem. Please check before submitting if your problem has not already been reported or has been noted in the FAQ.

Please fill out the form as completely as possible. Make sure you fill in the "Environment" field as requested with the output from the machine on which the problem occurred.

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Your Electronic Mail Address:


Your Name:


Your Organization or Company:


One line summary of the problem:


Category: advocacy alpha amd64 bin conf docs gnu i386 ia64 java kern misc ports powerpc sparc64 standards threads usb www

Severity: non-critical serious critical

Priority: low medium high

Class: sw-bug doc-bug change-request update maintainer-update

Which FreeBSD Release You Are Using:


Environment (output of "uname -a" on the problem machine):


Full Description:


How to repeat the problem:


Fix to the problem if known:


Finally, please enter the code from the image below to prove you're not a robot: