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Solaris 7 (SPARC Platform Edition) 11/99 Release Notes
Book Information
Preface
Chapter 1 Installation Issues
Solaris Web Start Issues
Limited Browser Support In Client-Server Mode
Solaris Web Start Bugs
Cannot Move the Root File System (4046659)
Products May Not Use All Reserved Space (4059182)
Installing With Solaris Web Start in Client/Server Mode May Produce Exception Messages in the HotJava Console Window (4248436)
Web Start Installer for Solaris 7 11/99 Does Not Install the Netscape Communicator CD Included With Solaris 7 8/99 (4274778)
Interactive Installation Bugs
Installation Fails With a False Non-Mountable File System Error (4164303)
TotalNET Advanced Server (SunLink) Drivers Cause Panic After a Reboot (4121961)
Installation Bugs That Occur During an Interactive Installation
Erroneous Messages Indicating Packages Added a Second Time (1235464)
Installation Progress Bar May Be Inaccurate (1266156)
Installation of Diskless Client Does Not Preserve Changes in the dfstab File on a Server (4045544)
Installation Bugs That May Occur During an Upgrade
Multiple Architecture Server Cannot Be Patched (1249343)
Disk Space Requirements Can Be Exaggerated By the Upgrade Process (4041733)
sun4m Solstice AutoClients Fail to Mount Cache After an Upgrade From the Solaris 2.6 Hardware: 3/98 Release (4121951)
Clients Do Not Receive All Patches When a Server Is Upgraded (4175220)
SUNWcvc.u and SUNWdrr.u Packages Are Missing If You Upgrade From the Solaris 2.6 Hardware 3/98 or Solaris 2.6 5/98 Operating Environment to the Solaris 7 Operating Environment (4229675)
Errors May Occur During A European Upgrade (4230247, 4225787)
Symbolic Links to SUNWjvrt Are Missing After Upgrading from Solaris 7 (4259033)
Solaris Installation Issues
New JumpStart Behavior
Solaris dtlogin Screen
dtlogin Notes for System Administrators
Solaris Installation Bugs
The SMEvplu.u Package Does Not Install Properly When Upgrading From Solaris 2.5.1 Hardware: 11/97 With Disk Space Reallocation (4190800)
Warnings May Occur When Creating a File System (4189127)
Not All Locales Supported Outside of Entire Metacluster (4181942)
Font Package Warning Occurs During Installation (4226416)
Installation of SUNWxilrl Partially Fails on Upgrade (4276484)
System Administration Installation Bugs
Addition of Solaris 7 Service to an OS Server Results in an Upgrade Failure Message (4171470)
User Disabling of Daemons and Servers in inetd.conf Overridden by Package Instance (4220923)
64-Bit Solaris Issues
Sun UltraSPARC System (sun4u) May Need Flash PROM (Open Boot) Upgrade
AnswerBook2 Documentation Installation Bugs
Installing SUNWab2u Before SUNWab2r and SUNWab2s Causes Problems (4230969)
Solstice AutoClient Installation Issue
Chapter 2 Late-Breaking Solaris Runtime Issues
Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Bugs
Cannot Print in dtmail for Non-ISO_1 Locales (4072209)
Compiling Motif Programs on Solaris 7 (4172061)
Solaris Information Files Display in English (4202477)
PDASync Log Does Not Display Messages Alerting the User of Certain Changes Occuring During Synchronization (4248135)
Cannot Delete Last Entry From the Desktop (4260435)
PDASync Does Not Support Data Exchange With a Multibyte Internationalized PDA Device (4263814)
Conduit List Appears Blank After Adding or Deleting a Conduit (4264377)
PDASync Performance Is Slow Compared to HotSync on Windows PC (4279521)
PDASync May Not Delete One Instance of a Repeating Appointment From a PalmPilot PDA When Synchronizing With the Desktop (4279553)
System Administration Bugs
/var/adm/messages File Contains Incorrect Time Stamp (4216235)
Cannot Detach UE10000 Board if in.rarpd daemon Is Running and /rplboot Exists (4231845)
Remote Console Bugs
init Does Not Recognize Carrier Drop Off From a Serial Display and Therefore Does Not Revert to the Default Console (4191023)
init Prompts for Run Level When the reboot Command Is Executed From a Standalone Session (4191148)
Change the init Command's Run Level Prompt to Display on a tty On Which Control--D or the exit Command Are Executed (4196862)
The init Command Does Not Display Its Run Level Prompt When Reconnecting to the Port of an Auxiliary Console (4196993)
Some Console Messages Cannot Be Redirected to Auxiliary Consoles (4197589)
syslog Writes Messages to /dev/syscon When Unable to Send to syslogd (4219265)
File System Bugs
UFS File System Panic (4241656)
Java Development Kit (JDK) Bugs
JDK 1.1.7_08: Java Applications Dump Core When There Is Insufficient Swap Space (4037312, 4042667)
JDK 1.2.1_03: Underlined Text Displays Slowly on a Non-local Host (4170221)
JDK 1.2.1_03: Text Rendering Performance Regression From JDK 1.1.7 and Earlier Releases (4210230)
AnswerBook2 Documentation Bugs
AnswerBook2 Print Function Disabled for Asian Locales (4163661)
ab2cd Causes TCL Errors When Started With LC_ALL Set to a Value Other Than C or Blank (4249211)
Solaris Runtime Bugs
Man Page for netstat Truncated (4246745)
Localization Issues
OpenWindows Is Not Supported As a Desktop Option In Some Locales
Chapter 3 Late-Breaking News
Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR) for Sun Enterprise 6x00, 5x00, 4x00, and 3x00 Systems
Chapter 4 End-of-Support Statements
End of Software Support Statements for Future Releases of the Solaris Operating Environment
The sysidnis(1M) System Identification Program
XIL
Chapter 5 Documentation Issues
Documentation Errata
Documentation Errata for AnswerBook2 Server
Book Affected: Traditional Chinese version of Installing and Administering an AnswerBook2 Server
Documentation Errata for PDA Online Help
Section Affected: PDA Online Help
Section Affected: About PDASync Under the Heading Desktop Memo Initialization Procedures
Section Affected: Getting Started with PDASync Under the Heading The PDASync Application
Section Affected: Getting Started with PDASync Under the Heading Setting the Port
Section Affected: Tasks
Section Affected: Tasks Under the heading To Cancel Synchronization
Section Affected: Tasks Under the heading The Conduits Tab
Section Affected: Reference
Section Affected: Reference Under the heading To View the Activity Log
Section Affected: Reference Under the heading To Save or Print the Activity Log
Documentation Errata for the Solaris 7 User Supplement
Section Affected: Setting Application Properties
Section Affected: Configuring Conduits
Section Affected: Using the Memo Conduit
Section Affected: Using the Address Conduit
Section Affected: Using the System Conduit
Section Affected: Using the Mail Conduit
Section Affected: Viewing the Activity Log
Documentation Errata for the Solaris 7 Software Developer Supplement
Section Affected: "Java 2 SDK 1.2.1_03," Chapter 3, Java for Developers
Appendix A Maintenance Update Patch List
Patch List
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