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3. Oracle Solaris Runtime Issues
The rstchown Parameter is Obsolete
Recommended Adoption of SHA-256 and SHA-512 crypt Plug-ins for Password Encryption
Trusted Stripe Disappears From the Screen After a Resolution Change (6460624)
ZFS Dynamic LUN Expansion Restriction (6241086)
The config/local_only Property in sendmail Must Not Be Set to true (6970172)
x86: ata Driver Timeouts During Boot (6586621)
zoneadm install Command Fails With a ZFS Legacy Mount (6449301)
ZFS and UNIX/POSIX Compliance Issues
fdisk -E Command Can Sweep Disk Used by ZFS Without Warning (6412771)
BrightStor ARCserve Backup Client Agent for UNIX (Solaris) and ZFS Support Issue
ZFS GUI Should Check for /usr/lib/embedded_su Patch at the Beginning of Each Wizard (6326334)
Failure to Synchronize File System on Panic (6250422)
Upgrading From Some Oracle Solaris 10 Releases Requires Remounting of File Systems
NFSv4 Access Control List Functions Might Work Incorrectly
System Crash Dump Fails on Devices Greater Than 1 TByte in Size (6214480)
Hardware-Related Issues and Bugs
SPARC: System Might Hang if the Elastic Policy is Set (6989192)
System Panic Might Occur During DR operations for Crypto (7048323)
SPARC: Disk Warning Is Displayed When Booting the Oracle Solaris OS (7047435)
SPARC: Dynamic Reconfiguration Operations Fail on an OPL Platform (7060498)
x86: System Shuts Down If ata Disks or Controllers Are Replaced on a Running Machine (7059880)
SPARC: System Panic Might Occur When Executing Bulk Crypto Operations on sun4v T3 Machines (7041435)
Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI-X) Cannot Be Retargeted When the apix Module Is Loaded (7058060)
x64: PCI Subsystem ID Changes in ConnectX Firmware 2.6.0 From Mellanox (6810093)
The ZFS ARC Allocates Memory Inside the Kernel Cage Preventing DR (6522017)
mpathadm Command Does Not Display Load-Balance Setting Specific to Device
Registration Tool Prevents Power Management on Some Frame Buffers (6321362)
Certain USB 2.0 Controllers Are Disabled
Supported USB Devices and Corresponding Hub Configurations
x86: Limitations Exist With Certain Device Drivers in the Oracle Solaris 10 OS
DVD-ROM/CD-ROM Drives on Headless Systems
x86: Manual Configuration Required to Specify Non-U.S. English Keyboards
Contention Exists Between Certain Devices That Share the Same Bus (6196994)
Some DVD-ROM and CD-ROM Drives Fail to Boot the Oracle Solaris 10 OS (4397457)
SPARC: Copy Relocation Does Not Work (7083331)
Swedish Software Translations Note
Multiple Input Method Switcher Applications Appear in Trusted Java Desktop System
New ChuYin Input Method Not Supported in Upgrade to IIIMF rev.12 (6492129)
AltGr Key Does Not Work As a Mode Switcher in Some Russian Locales (6487712)
x86: Arabic Text Not Appearing in ar Locales
Several Arabic Fonts Do Not Work in GNOME Desktop (6384024)
Unable to Switch Input Language on Session-Saved Applications (6360759)
Migration Note for UTF-8 Locales
Emails Saved as Portable Format
File Names and Directory Names
Launching Legacy Locale Applications
Hardware for Some Keyboard Layouts Type 6 and 7 Not Available
BIND 9.6 Denies Recursion To Non-Local Networks (7046009)
Configuring Tunnels With the Same Source Address (4152864)
System Domain of Interpretation Is Not Configurable (6314248)
IP Forwarding Disabled by Default in the Oracle Solaris 10 OS
Oracle Solaris Commands and Standards
SPARC: Incorrect Results Are Displayed for the cpustat Command on a T4 1.2 Chip
winbind Command Fetches Only the First 1000 Active Directory Users
Changed Man Pages for Trusted Extensions Are in Reference Manual Only
Bash 3.00 No Longer Sets Some Environment Variables
New ln Utility Requires -f Option
New tcsh Version Rejects setenv Variable Names That Use a Dash or an Equal Sign
STDIO getc Family EOF Condition Behavior Change
Output Columns of the ps Command Have Been Widened
Solaris Volume Manager Does Not Remove Devices Correctly If fdisk Does Not Have Valid Entries
Solaris Volume Manager metattach Command Might Fail
Email and Calendar Application
Problem With Changing Authentication Type (6246543)
Wrong Help Window Opened For Volume Control (6253210)
User Preferences Not Fully Compatible
Nautilus ACL MASK Is Not Synchronized With Group Permissions (6464485)
strftime(3c) Should Support GNU Extension in %-m and %-d (6448815)
x86: Cannot Configure Full-Screen Magnification on Systems With One Video Card
Certain View Options Might Cause File Manager to Fail (6233643)
Package Database Contains Path Names That Do Not Exist (7054481)
SPARC: 64-bit Version of the libsoftcrypto Library Is Slow (7048794)
patchrm Command Is Not Supported After Applying Patch 144500/144501 (7033240)
lucreate Introduces Latency on Slower UFS Systems (7051757)
The Availability Suite Module sdbc Fails to Load During Boot (6952222)
Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Clock Stops on Oracle VM 2.2 (6952499)
SPARC: FKU 137137-xx Patch Does Not Support Third-Party Volume Manager Software
Sun Patch Manager Tool 2.0 Incompatible With Previous Versions of the Tool
Cannot Delete Existing Diskless Clients From the System (6205746)
SPARC: smosservice delete Command Does Not Successfully Remove All Service Directories (6192105)
4. End-of-Software Support Statements
A. Previously Documented Bugs That Were Fixed in the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Release
The following file system bugs apply to this Oracle Solaris 10 release.
A logical unit number (LUN) does not expand dynamically in an existing ZFS storage pool. To dynamically expand a LUN in an existing ZFS storage pool by using the autoexpand property or the zpool online -e command, you must contact My Oracle Support for the required patches.
Workaround: Consider the following workarounds:
Attach a larger LUN to the pool by using the zpool attach command. After the larger LUN is resilvered, detach the smaller LUN by using the zpool detach command.
Replace the smaller LUN with a larger LUN by using the zpool replace command.
The sendmail patch 142436–03 and its revisions 04 to 08, modifies the config/local_only property to true.
$ svcprop -p config/local_only smtp:sendmail true
This modification allows sendmail to accept requests only from the local host.
Workaround: After adding patch 142436–03 or its revisions 04 to 08, in order for sendmail to accept requests from other hosts, make the following changes:
Reset the config/local_only property to false.
# svccfg -s svc:/network/smtp:sendmail setprop config/local_only=false
Refresh and restart the sendmail service.
# svcadm refresh smtp:sendmail # svcadm restart smtp:sendmail
ata driver timeouts might occur during system boot on Intel multiprocessor systems. These timeouts occur when the root device is on a drive with the HBA controller bound to the legacy ata driver. These timeouts lead to a momentary hang, a hard hang, or a panic during system boot with console messages similar to the following:
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0 (ata0): timeout: reset bus, target=0 lun=0 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0 (ata0): timeout: early timeout, target=0 lun=0 gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0/cmdk@0,0 (Disk0): Error for command 'read sector' Error Level: Informational gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Sense Key: aborted command gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Vendor 'Gen-ATA ' error code: 0x3 gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0/cmdk@0,0 (Disk0): Error for command 'read sector' Error Level: Informational gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Sense Key: aborted command gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Vendor 'Gen-ATA ' error code: 0x3 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0 (ata0): timeout: abort request, target=0 lun=0 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0 (ata0): timeout: abort device, target=0 lun=0 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0 (ata0): timeout: reset target, target=0 lun=0 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0 (ata0): timeout: reset bus, target=0 lun=0 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0 (ata0): timeout: early timeout, target=0 lun=0 gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0/cmdk@0,0 (Disk0): Error for command 'read sector' Error Level: Informational gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Sense Key: aborted command gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Vendor 'Gen-ATA ' error code: 0x3 gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0/cmdk@0,0 (Disk0):
Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds.
Note - To avoid performance degradation, Workaround 3 or Workaround 4 should only be used temporarily until Workaround 5 can be used .
Workaround 1: Enable AHCI in BIOS if available on the system. Enabling this setting requires a reinstallation of the Oracle Solaris OS.
Workaround 2: Install the Oracle Solaris OS on a disk on a controller that does not use the ata driver.
Workaround 3: Disable MP in the BIOS setup so that a single processor is active.
Workaround 4: Disable MP in the Oracle Solaris OS so that a single processor is active. Perform the following steps from the GRUB menu:
Type e to edit your selected entry.
Navigate to the line that begins with “kernel.”
Type e to switch to GRUB edit mode.
Append -kd to the line.
Press Enter to accept the change.
Type b to boot the selected entry.
At the kbmd prompt, type the following command:
use_mp/W 0 :c
If you are performing a system boot, proceed to Step 10. Otherwise, install the Solaris 10 10/09 software.
At the end of the installation, reboot the system. Repeat steps 1 through 7.
To make this change permanent so that the above steps do not need to be repeated for subsequent boots, do the following:
Become the superuser when the system boot is completed.
Open the /etc/system file.
Add the following line:
set use_mp = 0
Workaround 5: Disable the microcode update. Type the following command:
# mv /platform/i86pc/ucode /platform/i86pc/ucode.disabled
The microcode update can be invoked manually after the system is up by typing the following command:
# ucodeadm -u /platform/i86pc/ucode.disabled/intel-ucode.txt
If a non-global zone is initially configured with a ZFS file system to be mounted with the add fs subcommand and the configuration specifies mountpoint=legacy, the subsequent zone installation fails. The following error message is displayed:
ERROR: No such file or directory: cannot mount </zones/path/root/usr/local> in non-global zone to install: the source block device or directory </path/local> cannot be accessed
Workaround: Add access to a ZFS file system after installing the non-global zone.
ZFS is designed to be a POSIX compliant file system and, in most situations, ZFS is POSIX compliant. However, ZFS does not meet the POSIX compliance tests under the following conditions:
Updating ZFS files system capacity statistics.
Modifying existing data with a 100 percent full file system.
Related CRs:
6362314
6362156
6361650
If you use the fdisk -E command to modify a disk that is used by a ZFS storage pool, the pool becomes unusable and might cause an I/O failure or system panic.
Workaround: Do not use the fdisk command to modify a disk that is used by a ZFS storage pool. If you need to access a disk that is used by a ZFS storage pool, use the format utility. In general, disks that are in use by file systems should not be modified.
The BrightStor ARCserve Backup (BAB) Client Agent for UNIX (Solaris) can be used to back up and restore ZFS files.
However, ZFS NFSv4-style ACLs are not preserved during backup. Traditional UNIX file permissions and attributes are preserved.
Workaround: To preserve ZFS files with NFSv4-style ACLs, use the tar command with the -p option or the cpio command with the -P option to write the ZFS files to a file. Then, use BAB to back up the tar or cpio archive.
If you add the SUNWzfsg package from a Solaris 10 10/09 release to a system that runs a release prior to the Solaris 10 6/06 release that does not have the embedded_su patch, the ZFS Administration application wizards are not fully functional.
If you attempt to run the ZFS Administration application on a system without the embedded_su patch, you will only be able to browse your ZFS configuration. The following error message is displayed:
/usr/lib/embedded_su: not found
Workaround: Add the embedded_su patch (119574-02) to the system that runs a release prior to the Solaris 10 6/06 release.
If a host panics when file system I/O is being sent to a target that is connected by using the Oracle Solaris iSCSI software initiator, the I/O might not be able to flush or sync to the target device. This inability to flush or sync might cause file system corruption. No error message is displayed.
Workaround:
Use a journaling file system such as UFS. Starting with the Oracle Solaris 10 OS, UFS logging is enabled by default. For more information about UFS, see What’s New in Oracle Solaris File Systems? in System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems.
For all Oracle Solaris 10 releases, after you upgrade an NFSv4 server, your programs might encounter EACCES errors. Furthermore, directories might erroneously appear to be empty.
To prevent these errors, unmount and then remount the client file systems. If the unmounting fails, you might need to forcibly unmount the file system by using the umount -f command. Alternatively, you can reboot the client.
NFSv4 access control list (ACL) functions might work incorrectly if clients and servers in the network are installed with different Oracle Solaris 10 releases. The affected ACL functions and command-line utilities that use these functions are the following:
acl()
facl()
getfacl
setfacl
For more information about these functions and utilities, see their respective man pages.
For example, errors might be observed in a network that includes the following configuration:
A client that is running Oracle Solaris 10 Beta software
A server that is running Oracle Solaris 10 software
The following table illustrates the results of the ACL functions in client-server configurations with different Oracle Solaris 10 releases.
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Workaround: For the NFSv4 ACL functionality to work properly, perform a full installation of the Oracle Solaris 10 OS on both the server and the client.
A system cannot generate a crash dump on a partition that is equal to or greater than 1 Tbyte in size. If a partition of this size is on a system, the following might occur after the system boots following a system panic:
The system does not save the dump.
The following message is displayed:
0% done: 0 pages dumped, compression ratio 0.00, dump failed: error 6
Workaround: Configure the size of your system's dump device to less than 1 Tbyte.