If you upgrade to the Solaris 8 7/01 , or compatible, operating environment and you have Solaris Management ConsoleTM 1.0, 1.0.1, or 1.0.2 software installed, you must uninstall the Solaris Management Console software before you upgrade. Solaris Management Console 2.0 software is not compatible with any previous version of the console. Solaris Management Console software may exist on your system if you installed the SEAS 2.0 overbox, the SEAS 3.0 overbox, or the Solaris 8 Admin Pack.
Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds.
Before you upgrade, run /usr/bin/prodreg and perform a full uninstall of the Solaris Management Console software.
If you did not uninstall Solaris Management Console 1.0, 1.0.1, or 1.0.2 software before you upgraded, you must remove all Solaris Management Console 1.0, 1.0.1., or 1.0.2 software packages. It is critical that you use pkgrm for package removal instead of prodreg and that the order of package removal is carefully followed. Follow these steps.
Become superuser.
In a terminal window type the following commands.
# pkginfo |grep "Solaris Management Console" # pkginfo |grep "Solaris Management Applications" # pkginfo |grep "Solaris Diskless Client Management Application" |
The package names in the output will identify a Solaris Management Console 1.0 software package if the description does not start with "Solaris Management Console 2.0."
Use pkgrm to remove all instances of Solaris Management Console 1.0 software packages in the following order.
Do not remove any package that has "Solaris Management Console 2.0" in the description. For example SUNWmc.2 might indicate the Solaris Management Console 2.0 software.
If the pkginfo output displays multiple versions of Solaris Management Console 1.0 software packages, use pkgrm to remove both packages, beginning with the original package and then the package that has been appended with a number. For example, if the SUNWmcman and SUNWmcman.2 packages appear in the pkginfo output, first remove SUNWmcman and then SUNWmcman.2. Do not use prodreg.
# pkgrm SUNWmcman # pkgrm SUNWmcapp # pkgrm SUNWmcsvr # pkgrm SUNWmcsvu # pkgrm SUNWmc # pkgrm SUNWmcc # pkgrm SUNWmcsws |
In a terminal window type the following command.
# rm -rf /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWmcapp |
The Solaris Management Console 2.0 software should now function. For future maintenance, or if the console does not function properly, it is recommended to remove the Solaris Management Console 2.0 software and re-install it by following the next steps.
In a terminal window type the following commands.
# pkginfo |grep "Solaris Management Console" # pkginfo |grep "Solaris Management Applications" # pkginfo |grep "Solaris Diskless Client Management Application" |
The package names in the output will identify the remaining Solaris Management Console software packages installed on your system.
Use pkgrm to remove all Solaris Management Console 2.0 software packages in the following order.
If there are multiple instances of Solaris Management Console 2.0 software packages, such as SUNWmc and SUNWmc.2, first remove SUNWmc, and then SUNWmc.2. Do not use prodreg.
# pkgrm SUNWdclnt # pkgrm SUNWmga # pkgrm SUNWmgapp # pkgrm SUNWmcdev # pkgrm SUNWmcex # pkgrm SUNWwbmc # pkgrm SUNWmc # pkgrm SUNWmcc # pkgrm SUNWmccom |
Insert the Solaris 8 Software (SPARC Platform Edition) 1 of 2 CD into your CD-ROM drive and type the following in a terminal window.
# cd /cdrom/sol_8_701_sparc/s0/Solaris_8/Product # pkgadd -d . SUNWmccom SUNWmcc SUNWmc SUNWwbmc SUNWmcex SUNWmcdev \ SUNWmgapp SUNWmga SUNWdclnt |
All previous versions of the Solaris Management Console software are now removed and the Solaris Management Console 2.0 software will be functional.
The locale support installation mechanism has changed in the Solaris 8 operating environment. In the Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, and 7 operating environments, the level of locale support installed depended on the software cluster chosen. The Solaris 8 operating environment includes a new installation interface that prompts you to select specific geographic regions for which you require locale support. Therefore, you can customize the configuration of your system at installation of the Solaris 8 operating environment with more freedom than in the Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, and 7 operating environments.
Notice especially the following behaviors:
You must select the locales to be installed during the initial installation in the Geographic Selection screen. C (POSIX locale) and en_US.UTF-8 (Unicode support) are the only locales that are automatically installed.
When you upgrade from previous releases, some of the locales are automatically selected depending on the available locales on the system to be upgraded. Note that English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish partial locales were always present on the system in the Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, and 7 operating environments.
Unicode locales (UTF-8) have a feature to enable multilingual text input. Because these locales use Asian input methods that are provided by each individual locale, install those Asian locales for which you need to type text.