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Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) 2/04 Release Notes
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Preface
Chapter 1 Installation Issues
Issues You Need to Know About Before Installing Solaris 8 Software from DVD
Booting From the Solaris 8 2/04 DVD
Boot From Solaris DVD Fails on Systems With Toshiba SD-M1401 DVD-ROM (4467424)
Cannot Access Data on Solaris 8 2/04 DVD in Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 Operating Environment (4511090)
Solaris Web Start 3.0 Bugs You Need to Know About Before Using the Solaris 8 Installation CD
Initial Install Might Not Be Possible If Swap Slice Does Not Start At Cylinder 0 (4508297)
Default Install Might Be Disabled If Swap Slice Is Not on The Default Boot Disk (4527984)
Cannot Specify an Alternate Network Interface to Use During System Identification on Network Gateway Systems (4302896)
Issues You Need to Know About Before Installing Solaris 8 Software
Insufficient Space for Extra Languages During Upgrade (4414329)
Previous Versions of Solaris Management Console Software Are Not Compatible With Solaris Management Console 2.0 Software
Locale Installation Mechanism Change
Installation Bugs That Occur During an Installation From Solaris 8 1 of 2 CD
Solaris 8 Software 2 of 2 Installation Program Does Not Automatically Start When Using Custom JumpStart or re-preinstall (4556860)
Installation Progress Bar May Be Inaccurate (1266156)
Warnings May Occur When a File System Is Created (4189127)
Custom JumpStart Does Not Prompt for the Solaris 8 Software 2 of 2 CD (4304912)
Installation Bugs That Occur During an Upgrade
Live Upgrade Might Not Determine Boot Device (4525464)
Upgrade Fails if /export Is Near Capacity (4409601)
Unable to Remove .save.SUNWcsr After Upgrading (4400054)
Upgrading Diskless Client Servers and Clients (4363078)
Upgrading the JavaSpaces Datastore to Prevent Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Data Loss (4365035)
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 WBEM 1.0 to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment Causes WBEM 2.0 to Fail (4274920)
SUNWeeudt Partially Fails to Install During an Upgrade (4304305)
64-bit Packages Are Unnecessarily Installed During Upgrade From Solaris 2.6 or Solaris 7 Operating Environment (4323398)
64–Bit Solaris Issues
Sun UltraSPARC System (sun4u) May Need Boot Flash PROM Update
System Administration Bugs
awk and nawk Field Limitation Might Cause Installation of Additional Software to Fail (4533901)
Localization Bugs That Occur During Installation
Solaris Web Start Installation Kiosk Menu Not Localized for European Locales (4510925)
Error Messages May Occur During European Upgrade (4230247, 4225787)
Chapter 2 Solaris Runtime Issues
Power Management Bugs
Power Management Resume Crashes After USB Devices Are Hot-Plugged (4507408)
USB Issues
Audio Applications Might Stop Working After a USB Audio Device Is Hot-Unplugged (4424286)
USB Speakers Might Not Produce Sound
Smart Card Bugs
System Does Not Respond to Smart Card (4415094)
Edit Config File Menu Item in Smart Cards Management Console Does Not Work (4447632)
Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Issues
Compiling Motif Programs on the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
Common Desktop Environment Bugs
OpenWindows File Manager Fails to Mount Diskette (4329368)
PDASync Cannot Delete Last Entry From the Desktop (4260435)
PDASync Does Not Support Data Exchange With the Multibyte Internationalized PDA Device (4263814)
System Administration Bugs
Remote Display of Solaris Management Console Hangs (4488117)
Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) HTTP Service Does Not Automatically Start (4486999)
WBEM Event Delivery Fails When Lowercase Is Used (4441369)
Incorrect Error Message When Using flarcreate -e and -E (4404811)
Obsolete Files Still Present in Help System (4339515)
CIM_ERR_LOW_ON_MEMORY Error Occurs When Trying to Add Data With WBEM (4312409)
Java Runtime Bugs
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 Issues
Use Font Downloader to Print From Any Non-ISO8859-1 Locale
Runtime Localization Bugs
The Euro Currency Symbol Is Not Adequately Supported in the UTF-8 and Greek Locales (4363812, 4305075)
kkcv.sh Dumps Core In Japanese Locale (4394340)
Warning Messages Might Appear When Launching Java Applications From Any UTF-8 Locale (4342801)
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 CDE Extras Drop-Down Menu Is Not Available for European Locales (4298547)
CTL Is Not Supported in Japanese and Asian UTF-8 Locales (4300239)
Cannot Add, Remove, or Modify Users in Solstice AdminTool in the Greek Locale (4302983)
Font Downloader Add and Cancel Buttons Are Incorrectly Labeled in the Italian Locale (4303549)
Missing Arabic Characters and Incompatibility Between the Sun Arabic Keyboard and the Microsoft Arabic Keyboard (4303879)
Sorting in the European UTF-8 Locales Does Not Function Correctly (4307314)
Applications Not Fully Localized (4304495, 4306619)
Chapter 3 Late-Breaking News
Update Feature Documentation
Diskless Client Support
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
F3 Font Technology
XGL
Derived Type paddr_t
Changes to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for User Accounting Data
sysidnis(1M) System Identification Program
Sun4c-Based Systems
SPARCstation Voyager
SPARC Xterminal 1
Future Releases
Perl Version 5.005_03
Early Access (EA) Directory
Emulex MD21 Disk Controller for ESDI Drives
enable_mixed_bcp Tunable
SUNWebnfs
aspppd(1M) Utility
JDK 1.2.2 and JRE 1.2.2
JDK 1.1.8 and JRE 1.1.8
GMT Zoneinfo Timezones
s5fs File System
sendmail Utility Features
AnswerBook2 Server
AdminTool
Solstice Enterprise Agents
XIL
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Client Library
SUNWrdm
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
Crash Dump Options for Solaris ipcs(1) Command
Deprecate sendmail -AutoRebuildAliases Option
sun4d–Based Servers
Chapter 5 Documentation Issues
Documentation Errata
Document Affected: “Backing Up a UFS Snapshot” in Solaris 8 System Administration Supplement
Document Affected: “OCF Client Properties Overview” in Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide
Document Affected: “Setting Up a Smart Card (Tasks)” in Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide
Document Affected: “OCF Client Properties Overview” in Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide and“Additional Client Configuration Tasks” in Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide
Document Affected: “Setting Up a Smart Card (Overview)” in Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide
Document Affected: Localized New Features List (4389948)
Document Affected: CDE User's Guide in AnswerBook2 (4356456)
Documents Affected: AnswerBook2 Help Collection
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)
Appendix A Patch List
Patch List
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