1. Updates to Solaris 10 Release
x86: Support for Intel Integrated i810 and i815 Graphics Chipsets
Arabic Text Not Appearing in ar Locales
Compose Key Sequences Might Not Work When You Use X Keyboard Extension in Some Locales (6219932)
x86: kdmconfig Instructions to Configure Xorg X Server Are Incomplete (6205881)
x86: Program That Configures Keyboard, Display, and Mouse Not Working for X Server (6178669)
SPARC: Some UTF-8 Locales Are Unavailable in the Common Desktop Environment Login Service (5042573)
CDE Removable Media Auto Run Capability Removed (4634260)
Solaris PDASync Cannot Delete Last Entry From the Desktop (4260435)
SUNWsdocs Package Needed to Remove Other Documentation Packages
European Locale PDF Documents Available Only Through C Locale (4674475)
Upgrading From Some Solaris Express or Solaris 10 Releases Requires Remounting of File Systems
NFSv4 Access Control List Functions Might Work Incorrectly
Access Problems Between Solaris NFSv4 Clients and NFSv4 Servers
System Crash Dump Fails on Devices Greater Than 1 TByte (6214480)
Using smosservice Command to Add OS Services Results in Insufficient Disk Space Message (5073840)
Hardware-Related Issue and Bugs
SPARC: Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 Board Versions 1.0 and 1.1 Not Supported in Solaris 10 OS
Certain USB 2.0 Controllers Are Disabled
Supported USB Devices and Corresponding Hub Configurations
x86: Limitations Exist With Certain Device Drivers in Solaris 10 OS
DVD-ROM/CD-ROM Drives on Headless Systems
x86: Manual Configuration Required to Specify Non-US English Keyboards
Using USB 2.0 Hubs With USB 1.x Devices Might Cause System Panic (6209619)
x86: EHCI Driver Unusable in Certain Motherboards (6204987)
Using FireWire-1394 Storage Devices Might Cause System Panic (6203680)
Pausing USB Audio Devices During Play or Record Operation Might Cause System Deadlock (6200924)
Contention Exists Between Certain Devices That Share the Same Bus (6196994)
Some Keyboard Keys Not Functioning With Num Lock Key On (6173972)
hat_getkpfnum() DDI Function Is Obsolete (5046984)
Some Systems With USB 2.0 Hardware Might Hang or Panic (5030842)
x86: Soft System-Shutdown is Not Supported in Solaris OS on x86 (4873161, 5043369)
Some DVD and CD-ROM Drives Fail to Boot Solaris (4397457)
iPlanet Directory Server 5.1 Issues
Installing Directory Server 5.1
Migrating to the Sun Java System Directory Server 5 2005Q1
SPARC: Systems With Active Kernel Debugger Might Panic During Suspend/Resume Cycles (5062018)
System Might Loop When Master CPU Is Changed (4405263)
Login Screen Marks UTF-8 Locales as Recommended
Emails Saved As Portable Format
File Names and Directory Names
Launching Legacy Locale Applications
Cannot Print Documents in Portable Document Format (6239307, 6218079)
x86: Login Process Might Hang in Certain Asian Non-UTF-8 Locales (6215527)
localeadm -l Does Not List Installed Korean Locale Packages (6189823)
Special Keyboard Keys Do Not Work (5077631)
Modifier Keys Do Not Function Correctly (4996542)
Chinese and Korean Characters Are Printed In a Box (4977300)
Sort Capability in the European UTF-8 Locales Does Not Function Correctly (4307314)
SPARC: RTM_IFINFO Message Has Different Sizes on 32-bit and 64-bit Compilations
IP Forwarding Disabled by Default in Solaris 10 OS
Zone Not Booting When IP Address Belongs to a Failed IP Network Multipathing Group (6184000)
ATM LANE Subnets for IPv4/IPv6 Might Not Complete Initialization (4625849)
Nonpassword Logins Fail With pam_ldap Enabled
New Versions of encrypt() and decrypt() Are Not Backward Compatible
Incorrect Parameters Might Cause Panic in Sun StorEdge T3 (4319812)
svccfg import Subcommand Does Not Refresh Dependent Services (6221374)
Print Services Have Offline Settings by Default (5100134)
keyserv Daemon Disables Some File System Services (5084183)
Login Prompts Sometimes Appear Before File Systems Are Mounted (5082164)
System Does Not Respond to Smart Card (4415094)
Edit Config File Menu Item in Smartcards Management Console Does Not Work (4447632)
Solaris Commands and Standards
Bash 2.0.5b No Longer Sets Some Environment Variables
New ln Utility Requires -f Option
New tcsh Rejects setenv Variable Names That Use a Dash or an Equals Sign
STDIO getc Family EOF Condition Behavior Change
Solaris Volume Manager metattach Command Might Fail
Solaris Volume Manager metassist Command Fails in Non-English Locales (5067097)
Volume Creation Fails in Systems With Unformatted Disks (5064066)
Solaris Volume Manager metadevadm Command Fails if Logical Device Name No Longer Exists (4645721)
Solaris Volume Manager metarecover Command Fails to Update metadb Namespace (4645776)
Problems With Using Multiple Attachments (6260583)
Problem With Changing Authentication Type (6246543)
Problems When Saving Attachments With Localized Content (6204976)
Incomplete List of Contacts in Contact Folder (5088514)
Remote Connection Problems (6203727)
Wrong Help Window Opened For Volume Control (6253210)
Cannot Print Certain Documents From the Mozilla Browser
Cannot Specify User Preferences for Roaming Access in Mozilla Browser (6200999)
Keyboard Shortcuts Fail (6192644)
User Preferences Not Fully Compatible
GNU Image Manipulation Program Missing From the Graphics Menu (6209566)
Problems With Online Registration of StarOffice 7 Software (6208829)
Volume Control Option Not Working
Problems When Using Keyboard Indicator (6245563)
Certain View Options Might Cause File Manager to Fail (6233643)
Cannot Delete Files Outside of Home Directory (6203010, 5105006)
Problems Creating Certain Types of Archives (5082008)
Cannot Type Multibyte Characters in Text Editor 2.9.1 (4937266)
Sun Patch Manager Tool 2.0 Not Compatible With Previous Versions
Sun Remote Services Net Connect Supported Only in the Global Zone
Solaris Product Registry Administration Utility Fails to Launch in a Zone (6220284)
patchadd Fails to Reapply Patches to Newly Installed Packages (6219176)
Cannot Delete Existing Diskless Clients From the System (6205746)
Net Connect 3.1.1 Installation Fails (6197548)
x86: Default C Library Might Cause Boot Failure When You Install Solaris Flash Archives (6192995)
SPARC: smosservice delete Command Does Not Successfully Remove All Directories (6192105)
patchadd Command Does Not Support Installing Patches From an NFS Server (6188748)
lucreate Command Does Not Create RAID-1 Volumes (5106987)
SPARC: Panics That Occur During Suspend and Resume Cycles Might Cause the System to Hang (5062026)
SPARC: Stopping the System by Using Keyboard Sequences Might Cause a System Panic (5061679)
Using the ipfs Command With -W Option Fails (5040248)
Permissions for Mount Points Not Preserved in Created Boot Environment (4992478)
kill -HUP Does Not Always Cause the Agent to Reread the snmpd.conf Configuration File (4988483)
x86: Pressing the F4 Key During BIOS Bootup Fails to Boot the Service Partition (4782757, 5051157)
5. End-of-Software Support Statements
A. Table of Integrated Bugs in the Solaris 10 Operating System
The following section describes behavior changes in certain commands and standards in Solaris 10 OS.
Solaris 10 OS includes Bash 2.0.5b. This shell no longer automatically exports the following variables to the environment:
HOSTNAME
HOSTTYPE
MACHTYPE
OSTYPE
This new behavior applies even if the shell assigns default values to these variables.
Workaround: Export these variables manually.
The behavior of /usr/bin/ln has changed to adhere to all of the standards from SVID3 through XCU6. If you use the ln command without the -f option to link to an existing target file, the link is not established. Instead, a diagnostic message is written to standard error, and the command proceeds to link any remaining source files. Finally, the ln command exits with an error value.
For example, if file b exists, the syntax ln a b generates the following message:
ln: b: File exists
This behavior change affects existing shell scripts or programs that include the ln command without the -f option. Scripts that used to work might now fail in Solaris 10 OS.
Workaround: Use the -f option with the ln command. If you have existing scripts that execute the link utility, make sure to modify these scripts to comply with the command's new behavior.
In Solaris 10 OS, tcsh has been upgraded to version 6.12. This version no longer accepts environment variables whose names use a dash or an equals sign. Scripts that contain setenv lines and that work in earlier Solaris versions might generate errors in the current Solaris 10 release. The following error message is displayed:
setenv: Syntax error
For more information, refer to the tcsh man page for the Solaris 10 OS.
Workaround: Do not use the dash or equals sign in names for environment variables.
Applications that were built in strict standard C conformance mode are affected by the behavior changes of certain library functions. An example is applications that were compiled by using the cc -Xc or c89 compilation mode. The behavior has changed for the following library functions:
fgetc()
fgets()
fgetwc()
fgetws()
getc()
getchar()
gets()
getwc()
getwchar()
getws()
A formal interpretation of the 1990 C Standard requires that after an end-of-file condition is set, no more data is returned from the file on subsequent input operations. The exception is if the file pointer is repositioned or the error and end-of-file flags are explicitly cleared by the application.
The behavior for all other compilation modes remains unchanged. Specifically, the interfaces can read additional newly written data from the stream after the end-of-file indicator has been set.
Workaround: Call fseek() or clearerr() on the stream to read additional data after the EOF condition has been reported on the stream.
Due to larger UIDs, processor ids, and cumulative execution time, the columns of the ps command output have been widened. Customer scripts should not assume fixed output columns.
Workaround: Scripts should use the -o option of the ps command.
For more information, see the ps(1) man page.
The command ping -v fails when the command is applied to addresses that use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). The following error message is displayed:
ping: setsockopt IPV6_RECVRTHDRDSTOPTS Invalid argument
Workaround: None. To obtain the same ICMP packet information that ping -v provides, use the snoop command.