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Preface
Chapter 1 Installation Issues
Issues You Need to Know About Before Starting an Interactive Installation From the Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 CD
Locale Install Mechanism Change
Installation Bugs That Occur During an Interactive Installation
Installation Progress Bar May Be Inaccurate (1266156)
Warnings May Occur When Creating a File System (4189127)
No Error Occurs If # Is Included In A Path (4294586)
Custom JumpStart Does Not Prompt for the Solaris 8 Software 2 of 2 CD (4304912)
Wizard Stops If You Insert the Solaris 8 Software 2 of 2 CD When the 1 of 2 CD Is Requested (4306752)
An Arithmetic Exception Occurs When a Zip Drive is Attached With No Media in a Drive (4307035)
Cannot Perform a JumpStart Installation From a CD on the sun4us Platform (4309047)
CD-ROM-Based Installation From the Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 CD With Selection of DHCP Fails (4310705)
Upgrade Issues
Solaris Easy Access Server (SEAS)
Priority Paging Is Not Needed With the New Solaris 8 Caching Architecture
Installation Bugs That Occur During an Upgrade
When Using Already Installed Patches for Sun Microelectronics Platforms During an Upgrade to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (4240147), the System Fails to Boot
Relocated CDE from the Solaris 2.5.1 Operating Environment Orphaned By An Upgrade to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (4260819)
Upgrading the Solaris 7 Operating Environment With Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) 1.0 to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment Causes WBEM 2.0 to Not Work (4274920)
Disk Space Requirements Can Be Exaggerated by the Upgrade Process (4041733)
SUNWeeudt Partially Fails to Install During an Upgrade (4304305)
64-Bit Solaris Issues
Sun UltraSPARC System (sun4u) May Need Boot Flash PROM Upgrade
Localization Bugs
Some Error Messages and Dialogs Are Not Localized and Display Only in English (4283839)
Installation Of European Software (4299758)
Swedish Locale: Unlocalized Dialogs Are Displayed During Installation (4300655)
French and Italian Install Wizards May Display {0} Instead of the CD Title (4302549)
Motif suninstall Fails in de_AT.ISO8859-15 and fr_BE.ISO8859-15 Locales (4305420)
German Locale: Add and Cancel Buttons in the Proxy Kiosk Screen are Labeled as Undefined (4306260)
Chapter 2 Solaris Runtime Issues
Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Issues
User Settings For Screen Blank, Also Known As Monitor Power Saver, Are Ignored
Common Desktop Environment Bugs
dtmail Does Not Produce a Core File By Default (4249157)
PDASync Cannot Delete Last Entry From the Desktop (4260435)
PDASync Does Not Support Data Exchange With the Multibyte Internationalized PDA Device (4263814)
Compiling Motif Programs on the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (4172061)
File System Bugs
ufsdump(1M) Displays This Error: xtrmap: too many map entries (4297558)
System Administration Bugs
Exception: PS_UNAVAILABLE: 1 (out of memory) Error Occurs When Trying To Add Instances With WBEM (4284874)
WBEM Common Information Model Object Manager Crashes When Solaris_FileSystem Instances Are Requested (4301275)
Java Runtime Issues
Java Plug-in Support
Java Runtime Bugs
Warning Messages Are Displayed When Running Java2 Applications In UTF-8 Locales (4254198)
libjvm.so Does Not Function Correctly When Using dlopen (4270715)
AnswerBook2 Bugs
The ab2admin Command Intermittently Indicates command failed Even Though the Command Succeeded (4242577)
ab2cd Script Displays an Erroneous Error Message (4256516)
Localization Bugs
Some Greek Characters Are Not Available in CDE (4179411)
Cannot Print Extended Characters in Calendar Manager in All Partial Locales (4285729)
Cutting and Pasting Text Between Arabic and UTF-8 English Does Not Work (4287746)
The Extras Drop-Down Menu Is Not Available for European Locales (4298547)
CTL Is Not Supported in Japanese and Asian UTF-8 Locales (4300239)
Screens in Several Applications Have Not Been Localized (4301212, 4301555, 4299487, 4301507, 4304495)
Cannot Read Arabic Messages Correctly When Using dtmail Between the Solaris Operating Environment and Microsoft Windows (4301870)
Cannot Add, Remove, or Modify Users in Solstice AdminTool in the Greek Locale (4302983)
Font Downloader Add and Cancel Buttons Are Incorrectly Labeled (4303549)
Missing Arabic Characters and Incompatibility Between the Sun Arabic Keyboard and the Microsoft Arabic Keyboard (4303879)
Use Font Downloader to Print From Any Non-ISO8859-1 Locale (4304493)
Unlocalised Messages Displayed in SEAM Application (4306619)
The Euro Currency Symbol Is Not Adequately Supported in the UTF-8 and Greek Locales (4306958, 4305075)
Sorting in the European UTF-8 Locales Does Not Function Correctly (4307314)
Hexadecimal Support No Longer Works Correctly in dtcalc With Swedish Localization (4308864)
Chapter 3 Late-Breaking News
PIM Kernel Support
Configuring Runtime Search Paths
Chapter 4 End-of-Software Support Statements
Current Release
HotJava Browser
Solaris Java Development Kit: JNI 1.0 Interface
Solstice AdminSuite 2.3/AutoClient 2.1
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Client Library
F3 Font Technology
XGL
Derived Type paddr_t
Changes to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for User Accounting Data
The sysidnis(1M) System Identification Program
Sun4c-Based Systems
SPARCstation Voyager
SPARC Xterminal 1
Future Releases
Solstice AdminTool
Solstice Enterprise Agents
XIL
crash(1M) Utility
Kerberos Version 4 Client
adb(1) Map Modifiers and Watchpoint Syntax
OpenWindows Toolkits For Developers
OpenWindows Environment For Users
Federated Naming Service (FNS)/XFN Libraries and Commands
Solaris ipcs(1) Command
Deprecate sendmail -AutoRebuildAliases Option
Sun4d-Based Servers
Chapter 5 Documentation Issues
Documentation Errata
Document Affected: "Full Backup Commands" in Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Installation Guide
Document Affected: What's New in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
Document Affected: "IPv6 Header Format" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
Document Affected: "Priority Values" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
Traffic Classes
Document Affected: "Implementing IPsec" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
Document Affected: "NFS Parameters for the nfs Module" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3 (4299091)
Document Affected: "NFS Parameters for the nfs Module" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3 (4299091)
Document Affected: "NFS Parameters for rpcsec Parameters" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3 (4299091)
Chapter 6 CERT Advisories
Chapter 7 Released Patches Integrated into the Solaris 8 Release
Patches
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