Trusted Stripe Disappears From the Screen After Resolution Change (6460624)
CDE Removable Media Auto Run Capability Removed (4634260)
Solaris PDASync Cannot Delete Last Entry From the Desktop (4260435)
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
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hat_getkpfnum() DDI Function Is Obsolete (5046984)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
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)
Multiple Input Method Switcher Applications Appear in Trusted Java DS
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
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
Emails Saved As Portable Format
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)
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)
KDC Daemons Fail to Start (6623803)
Nonpassword Logins Fail With pam_ldap Enabled (6365896)
Incorrect Parameters Might Cause Panic in Sun StorEdge T3 (4319812)
Login Prompts Sometimes Appear Before File Systems Are Mounted (5082164)
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
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)
Incomplete List of Contacts in Contact Folder (5088514)
Wrong Help Window Opened For Volume Control (6253210)
Cannot Print Certain Documents From the Mozilla Browser
User Preferences Not Fully Compatible
Problems With Online Registration of StarOffice 7 Software (6208829)
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)
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)
Deferred Activation Patching (6486471)
Possible Error With 32-bit Applications Getting File System State on Large File Systems (6468905)
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)
4. End-of-Software Support Statements
6. What's New in Solaris 10 5/08
A. Table of Integrated Bug Fixes in the Solaris 10 Operating System
The following section describes behavior changes in certain commands and standards in Solaris 10 OS.
The following Solaris Trusted Extensions man pages are revised for this release:
add_allocatable(1M)
remove_allocatable(1M)
label_to_str(3TSOL)
tsol_getrhtype(3TSOL)
tnzonecfg(4)
The revised man pages cannot be viewed using the man command. To view the revised man pages, see the Solaris Trusted Extensions Reference Manual.
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.