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Preface

1.  Installation Issues

2.  Solaris Runtime Issues

Common Desktop Environment

Remote Multilevel Login From the Login Screen Is Not Supported in Solaris Trusted Extensions (6616030)

Trusted Stripe Disappears From the Screen After Resolution Change (6460624)

x86: kdmconfig Command Does Not Create System Identification Configuration File for Xorg X Server (6217442)

CDE Removable Media Auto Run Capability Removed (4634260)

Solaris PDASync Cannot Delete Last Entry From the Desktop (4260435)

File Systems

x86: raidctl Fails to Create VDs on Dell SAS6i/R (6669169)

x86: ata Timeouts During Boot (6586621)

zoneadm install Fails With a ZFS Legacy Mount (6449301)

ZFS and UNIX/POSIX Compliance Issues

fdisk -E Can Sweep Disk Used by ZFS Without Warning (6412771)

ZFS and Third-Party Backup Product Issues

Veritas NetBackup Does Not Back Up and Preserve Files With ZFS/NFSv4 ACLs (6352899)

BrightStor ARCserve Backup Client Agent for UNIX (Solaris) and ZFS Support

ZFS GUI Should Check For /usr/lib/embedded_su at the Beginning of Each Wizard (6326334)

Fails to Sync File System on Panic (6250422)

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

Using mkfs Command to Create File System Might Fail on Very Large Disks (6352813)

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 Issues and Bugs

SPARC: SCSI Second Disk Fails to Attach After Solaris Live Upgrade (6684776)

x86: Cannot Enable MPxIO (6664694)

64-bit SPARC: DR Operations Involving Lowest CPU ID Fail (6663570)

SPARC: 19.55% Performance Regression for the NCP Device Driver (6660074)

64-bit SPARC: Some DR Commands Fail (6614737)

The (ZFS) ARC Allocates Memory Inside The Kernel Cage Preventing DR (6522017)

mpathadm Does Not Display Load-Balance Setting Specific to Device

Registration Tool Prevents Power Management on Some Framebuffers (6321362)

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

SPARC: jfca Driver for Certain Host Bus Adapters That Are Connected to Tape Devices Might Cause Errors (6210240)

Contention Exists Between Certain Devices That Share the Same Bus (6196994)

hat_getkpfnum() DDI Function Is Obsolete (5046984)

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

Issues While Running Debugger

x86: Unexpected SIGTRAP Signal Causes dbx Debugger to Hang (6546562 )

SPARC: Problems With dbx Debugger While Processing 64-bit Objects (6347707)

System Might Loop When Master CPU Is Changed (4405263)

Localization Issues

Multiple Input Method Switcher Applications Appear in Trusted Java DS

Wnn8 Japanese Input Method

Input Method Cannot Be Enabled With Primary Administrator Rights (6475081)

New ChuYin Input Method Not Supported in Upgrade to IIIMF rev.12 (6492129)

AltGr Does Not Work As Mode Switcher in Some Russian Locales (6487712)

Arabic Text Not Appearing in ar Locales

Solaris PDASync Does Not Support Data Exchange With the Multibyte Internationalized PDA Device (4263814)

Several Arabic Fonts Do Not Work in GNOME (6384024)

Unable to Switch Input Language on Session-Saved Applications (6360759)

Keyboard Shortcuts in Mozilla in ES Locale Are Unusual and Ambiguous (6288620)

Migration Note to UTF-8 locales

Microsoft Office Files

HTML Files

Fixing Broken HTML File

Emails Saved As Portable Format

Plain Text Files

File Names and Directory Names

Launching Legacy Locale Applications

Hardware for Some Keyboards Layouts Type 6 and 7 Not Available

Sort Capability in the European UTF-8 Locales Does Not Function Correctly (4307314)

Networking Issues

nxge Driver Panics in nxge_fflp_stat_update (6644276)

SPARC: NFS/RDMA Connection Errors (6229077)

Login Fails on iSCSI Target With Two Portals and One Bad Portal (6476060)

System Domain of Interpretation Is Not Configurable (6314248)

IP Forwarding Disabled by Default in Solaris 10 OS

Zone Not Booting When IP Address Belongs to a Failed IP Network Multipathing Group (6184000)

Intermittent Errors Might Occur With the Use of DataDigests (5108515)

Configuring Multiple Tunnels Between Two IP Nodes With Filtering Enabled Might Result in Packet Loss (4152864)

Security Issues

KDC Daemons Fail to Start (6623803)

Nonpassword Logins Fail With pam_ldap Enabled (6365896)

Incorrect Parameters Might Cause Panic in Sun StorEdge T3 (4319812)

Service Management Facility

Login Prompts Sometimes Appear Before File Systems Are Mounted (5082164)

Smart Card

System Does Not Respond to Smart Card (4415094)

Solaris Commands and Standards

Changed Man Pages for Solaris Trusted Extensions Are in Reference Manual Only

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

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)

Hot Spares Do Not Work Correctly When Solaris Volume Manager RAID-1 (Mirror) or RAID-5 Volumes Are Created in Disk Sets Built on Soft Partitions (4981358)

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)

Sun Java Desktop System

Email and Calendar

Problems With Using Multiple Attachments (6260583)

Problem With Changing Authentication Type (6246543)

Incomplete List of Contacts in Contact Folder (5088514)

Login Issues

Login Error Message

Help System

Wrong Help Window Opened For Volume Control (6253210)

Online Help Freezes (5090731)

Mozilla Browser

Cannot Print Certain Documents From the Mozilla Browser

System-Level Issues

User Preferences Not Fully Compatible

Problems With Online Registration of StarOffice 7 Software (6208829)

Problems With Sound Recorder

Nautilus ACL MASK is Not in Sync 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

x86: Problems Configuring USB Mouse Device as Extension Device for Use With GNOME On-Screen Keyboard

Certain View Options Might Cause File Manager to Fail (6233643)

Problems Creating Certain Types of Archives (5082008)

System Administration

SPARC: Solaris Volume Manager GUI Fails to Start (6671736)

Cannot Log In to Solaris Management Console After Enabling Solaris Trusted Extensions (6639493)

zoneadm attach Command Might Fail (6550154)

Solaris is Unable to Handle Mode Switches Between Legacy and AHCI Modes for the SATA Controller (6520224)

Deferred Activation Patching (6486471)

Possible Error With 32-bit Applications Getting File System State on Large File Systems (6468905)

Using patchadd With the -R Option To Specify an Alternative Root Path From Systems That Are Not Zones Aware Should Be Restricted (6464969)

Sun Patch Manager Tool 2.0 Not Compatible With Previous Versions

Cannot Delete Existing Diskless Clients From the System (6205746)

SPARC: smosservice delete Command Does Not Successfully Remove All Directories (6192105)

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)

Some com.sun Application Programming Interface Method Invocations Fail Under XML/HTTP Transport Protocol (4497393, 4497399, 4497406, 4497411)

3.  System-Specific Issues

4.  End-of-Software Support Statements

5.  Documentation Issues

6.  What's New in Solaris 10 5/08

A.  Table of Integrated Bug Fixes in the Solaris 10 Operating System

B.  Solaris 10 Operating System Patch List

File Systems

The following file system bugs apply to the Solaris 10 release.

x86: raidctl Fails to Create VDs on Dell SAS6i/R (6669169)

Dell SAS 6 HBA (LSI 1068) firmware versions starting with 0.20.46.00-IR introduce an incompatibility which might prevent lsiutil and raidctl(1M) commands from successfully configuring virtual drives. After the failure, the physical drives will enter an offline state and not be accessible. The raidctl(1M) which is included with the Solaris 10 5/08 release is affected as well as lsiutil from version 5.07.04 of the ITImpt package.

The following error message is displayed:

# /usr/sbin/raidctl -C "0.3.0 0.4.0" -s 64k 0
Creating RAID volume will destroy all data on spare space of member
disks, proceed (yes/no)?

Operation failed

Workaround: Configure virtual drives using the SAS configuration utility. To access the SAS configuration utility, enter Control-C when prompted during the BIOS boot sequence.

x86: ata Timeouts During Boot (6586621)

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, 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 .


zoneadm install Fails With a ZFS Legacy Mount (6449301)

If a non-global zone is initially configured with a ZFS file system to be mounted with the `add fs subcommand and 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 and UNIX/POSIX Compliance Issues

ZFS is designed to be a POSIX compliant file system and in most situations, ZFS is POSIX compliant. However, two edge case conditions exist when ZFS does not meet the POSIX compliance tests:

  1. Updating ZFS files system capacity statistics.

  2. Modifying existing data with a 100 percent full file system.

Related CRs:

fdisk -E Can Sweep Disk Used by ZFS Without Warning (6412771)

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.

ZFS and Third-Party Backup Product Issues

The following are the issues with the Veritas NetBackup and Brightstor ARCserve Backup products.

Veritas NetBackup Does Not Back Up and Preserve Files With ZFS/NFSv4 ACLs (6352899)

The Veritas NetBackup product can be used to back up ZFS files, and this configuration is supported. However, this product does not currently support backing up or restoring NFSv4-style ACL information from ZFS files. Traditional permission bits and other file attributes are correctly backed up and restored.

If a user tries to back up or restore ZFS files, the NFSv4-style ACL information from ZFS files is silently dropped. There is no error message indicating that the ACL information from ZFS files has been dropped.

Support for ZFS/NFSv4 ACLs is under development and is expected to be available in the next Veritas NetBackup release.

Workaround 1:

As of the Solaris 10 8/07 release, both the tar and cpio commands correctly handle ZFS files with NFSv4-style ACLs.

Use the tar command with the -p option or the cpiocommand with the -P option to write the ZFS files to a file. Then, use the Veritas NetBackup to back up the tar or cpio archive.

Workaround 2:

As an alternative to using Veritas NetBackup, use the ZFS send and receive commands to back up ZFS files. These commands correctly handle all attributes of ZFS files.

BrightStor ARCserve Backup Client Agent for UNIX (Solaris) and ZFS Support

The BrightStor ARCserve Backup (BAB) Client Agent for UNIX (Solaris) can be used to backup and restore ZFS files.

However, ZFS NFSv4-style ACLs are not preserved during backup. Traditional UNIX file permissions and attributes are preserved.

Workaround: If you want 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 backup the tar or cpio archive.

ZFS GUI Should Check For /usr/lib/embedded_su at the Beginning of Each Wizard (6326334)

If you add the SUNWzfsg package from a Solaris 10 8/07 or Solaris 10 5/08 release to a system that runs a pre-Solaris 10 6/06 release, which 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 pre-Solaris 10 6/06 release.

Fails to Sync File System on Panic (6250422)

If a host panics with file system I/O occurring to a target, which is connected by using the 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 the journaling file system like UFS. Starting with Solaris 10, UFS logging is enabled by default. For more information about UFS, see What’s New in File Systems? in System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems.

Upgrading From Some Solaris Express or Solaris 10 Releases Requires Remounting of File Systems

After you upgrade an NFSv4 server from Solaris Express 6/05 to Solaris Express 7/05 or later (including all Solaris 10 updates), 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. In case unmounting fails, you might need to forcibly unmount the file system by using umount -f. Alternatively, you can also reboot the client.

NFSv4 Access Control List Functions Might Work Incorrectly

NFSv4 Access Control List (ACL) functions might work improperly if clients and servers in the network are installed with different previous Solaris 10 releases. The affected ACL functions and command-line utilities that use these functions are the following:

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:

The following table illustrates the results of the ACL functions in client-server configurations with different Solaris 10 releases.

Operation
Client S10 OS
Server S10 OS
Result
get ACL
S10 Beta
S10 OS
fabricated ACL *
get ACL
S10 OS
S10 Beta
works ok
set ACL
S10 Beta
S10 OS
works ok
set ACL
S10 OS
S10 Beta
Error: EOPNOTSUP

Workaround: For the NFSv4 ACL functionality to work properly, perform a full installation of the Solaris 10 OS on both the server and the client.

Access Problems Between Solaris NFSv4 Clients and NFSv4 Servers

In the current Solaris 10 version, Solaris implementation of NFSv4 Access Control Lists (ACL) is now compliant with RFC 3530 specifications. However, errors occur for NFSv4 clients that use the Solaris 10 Beta 2 or Beta 1 versions. These clients cannot create files in the NFSv4 servers that are using the current Solaris 10 release. The following error message is displayed:

NFS getacl failed for server_name: error 9 (RPC: Program/version mismatch)

Workaround: None.

Using mkfs Command to Create File System Might Fail on Very Large Disks (6352813)

The mkfs command might be unable to create a file system on disks with a certain disk geometry and whose sizes are greater than 8 Gbytes. The derived cylinder group size is too large for the 1-Kbyte fragment. The large size of the cylinder group means that the excess metadata cannot be accommodated in a block.

The following error message is displayed:

With 15625 sectors per cylinder, minimum cylinders
per group is 16. This requires the fragment size to be
changed from 1024 to 4096.
Please re-run mkfs with corrected parameters.

Workaround: Use the newfs command instead. Or, assign a larger fragment size, such as 4096, when you use the mkfs command.

System Crash Dump Fails on Devices Greater Than 1 TByte (6214480)

The system cannot generate a dump on a partition that is equal to or greater than 1 Tbyte in size. If such a device is on a system, the following might occur after the system boots subsequent to a system panic:

Workaround: Configure the size of your system's dump device to less than 1 Tbyte.

Using smosservice Command to Add OS Services Results in Insufficient Disk Space Message (5073840)

If you use the smosservice command to add OS services to a UFS file system, a message that there is insufficient disk space available is displayed. This error is specific to UFS file systems on EFI-labeled disks.

Workaround: Complete the following workaround.

  1. Apply the SMI VTOC disk label.

  2. Re-create the file system.

  3. Rerun the smosservice command.