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hat_getkpfnum() DDI Function Is Obsolete (5046984)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
Output Columns of the ps Command Have Been Widened
Command ping -v Does Not Work on IPv6 Addresses (4984993)
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 bugs in Solaris 10 OS apply to the Common Desktop Environment (CDE).
Intel Integrated i810 and i815 Graphics Chipsets are not supported by the Xorg X Window System server. Support is available with the Xsun server. To configure the Xsun server to use these chipsets, follow these steps:
Become superuser.
Run the program to configure keyboard, display, and mouse.
# kdmconfig
On the Introduction and X Server Selection screen, select the Xsun server.
On the View and Edit Window System Configuration screen, Intel i810/i815 (4MB) should be automatically selected and displayed as the Video Device.
If the Intel i810 and i815 Chipsets are not automatically selected, select the Change Video Device/Monitor option.
On the Video Device Selection screen, select the Intel i810/i815 (4MB) option.
Continue to select other kdmconfig options.
If your x86 system is using Xorg as the default Xserver, the Arabic font (iso7759-6) does not appear in the ar locale. This error does not occur if you are using XSun instead of XOrg.
Workaround: Follow these steps.
As superuser, edit /usr/dt/config/Xservers.
Uncomment or add the following line:
:0 Local local_uid@console root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 -nobanner -defdepth 24
Comment out the following line:
:0 Local local_uid@console root /usr/X11/bin/Xorg :0
Reboot the system.
Alternatively, you can log in to ar_EG.UTF-8 or other UTF-8 locales.
Some Compose key sequences might not work in locales that do not use keyboard input methods, such as the C locale. The error occurs if either of the following system configurations is used in those locales:
System using Xorg X server on Solaris 10 for x86
System using Xsun X server with X Keyboard Extension (XKB) enabled on Solaris 10 for both SPARC and x86
Specifically, Compose sequences in these systems fail if the sequence requires the use of the Shift key to type one of the characters.
Workaround: Choose one of the following options:
Use an alternate Compose sequence that does not include the Shift key.
For more information, see Appendix C, Compose Key Sequences, in Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User’s Guide. The appendix provides a list of available sequences, some of which have alternate sequences that do not use the Shift key.
Log in by using a locale that uses keyboard input methods, such as any of the available UTF-8 locales.
If you use the JumpStart installation method, the process might use a system identification configuration (sysidcfg) file. This file is used to generate a specific Xsun configuration file for a system. The Xsun configuration portion of a sysidcfg file is created by the command kdmconfig -d filename. However, on systems that use the default Xorg server, the command does not create a file with any Xorg configuration information. Consequently, you cannot use the JumpStart method on these systems without some additional preparatory steps.
Workaround: Before using the JumpStart installation method on a system that uses the Xorg server, perform the following steps.
Prepare a specific xorg.conf file to be used on the system. Store this file in the JumpStart directory of the JumpStart server.
For instructions to create an xorg.conf file and to access Xorg information, see x86: Program That Configures Keyboard, Display, and Mouse Not Working for X Server (6178669).
Create a finish script that copies the xorg.conf file to the /etc/X11 directory in the system that you want to install. For example, the script might include the following line:
cp ${SI_CONFIG_DIR}/xorg.conf /etc/X11/Xorg.conf
In the custom JumpStart rules file, include the finish script in the rules entry for systems of the type that you want to install.
Perform the custom JumpStart installation.
For instructions about how to perform a custom JumpStart installation, see the Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and Advanced Installations. Chapter 4 includes information about the JumpStart rules file, while Chapter 5 contains a section about finish scripts.
Instructions that are provided in the kdmconfig program to configure the Xorg server are incomplete. The program lists basic instructions to generate an xorg.conf file. However, some relevant information is unavailable. For example, options in the xorg.conf file can be overridden in several places:
Command-line options
Information that is detected by the Xorg server when the server starts
The startup scripts for the Xorg server, which might include passing overriding arguments
Thus, for more information about Xorg configuration, refer to the following sources:
Xorg(1x) man page in the /usr/X11/man directory
Man pages for the desktop systems that use the X server, such as the following:
dtlogin(1X) in the /usr/dt/man directory
gdm(1) in the /usr/share/man directory
If these directories are not in your man path, use one of these options:
Add the directory to the MANPATH environment variable setting.
Use the -M directory option of the man command.
Some scripts that start the Xorg server use smf(5) repository properties. In particular, the FMRI svc:/applications/x11/x11-server is used for storing X server properties. The following properties are relevant to the Xorg server:
options/xserver
options/default_depth
options/server_args
You can set and retrieve these properties by becoming superuser and using the svccfg command, as shown in the following example:
# svccfg svc:> select application/x11/x11-server svc:/application/x11/x11-server> listprop options/default_depth options/default_depth integer 24 svc:/application/x11/x11-server> setprop options/default_depth = 8 svc:/application/x11/x11-server> listprop options/default_depth options/default_depth integer 8 svc:/application/x11/x11-server> end #
In this current Solaris 10 release, the default X server has changed from Xsun to Xorg. The program that configures keyboard, display, and mouse ( kdmconfig ) applies only to the Xsun server. The program has no effect on Xorg server configuration. Consequently, you cannot use kdmconfig to configure the Xorg server. While kdmconfig allows you to select which server to use, kdmconfig only configures the Xsun server.
Workaround: To configure the Xorg server, perform the following steps:
Create an xorg.conf file with one of these commands:
/usr/X11/bin/Xorg -configure
/usr/X11/bin/xorgconfig
/usr/X11/bin/xorgcfg
Edit the resultant xorg.conf file with the necessary changes.
Move the xorg.conf file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
For more details about Xorg configuration, refer to the Xorg man pages in /usr/X11/man. This directory is not in the default man page path. To view these man pages, use one of the following options:
Add the path to the settings of the environment variable MANPATH .
Use the syntax man -M /usr/X11/man.
Note - Xorg command line options can override xorg.conf settings. See the man pages for more details about options to use with Xorg.
The following UTF-8 locales are missing when the login server starts and the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) login service is launched:
ar_SA.UTF-8
el_GR.UTF-8
nl_BE.UTF-8
nl_NL.UTF-8
pt_PT.UTF-8
Workaround: To use these locales, log in to any other UTF-8 locale. Then, set the LC_ALL variable at the command line. For example:
export LC_ALL=ar_SA.UTF-8
Note - The workaround applies only to SPARC based systems. These locales are unavailable in x86 based systems.
The Removable Media auto run capability in the CDE desktop environment has been temporarily removed from the Solaris 10 software.
Workaround: To use the auto run function for a CD-ROM or another removable media volume, you must do one of the following:
Run the volstart program from the top level of the removable media file system.
Follow the instructions that are included with the CD for access from outside of CDE.
After you delete the last item from the desktop, the item is restored from the handheld device to the desktop when you synchronize your handheld device. Examples of items that you might delete, and then have restored, are the last appointment in your Calendar or the last address in the Address Manager.
Workaround: Manually delete the last entry from the handheld device prior to synchronization.
If you exchange multibyte data between a PDA device and Solaris CDE, the data might be corrupted in both environments.
Workaround: Back up your data on your personal computer with the PDA backup utility before you run the Solaris PDASync application. If you accidentally exchange multibyte data and corrupt that data, restore your data from the backup.