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Solaris 9 (SPARC Platform Edition) 9/02 Release Notes
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Preface
Chapter 1 Installation Issues
Swap Installation Issue
Swap Slice Defaults to First Available Disk Cylinder
Solaris Custom JumpStart Issue
Default Solaris JumpStart Profile Might Not Install Multiple Locales on Small Disks
Issue You Need to Know About Before Installing Solaris 9 9/02 Software From DVD
Booting From the Solaris 9 9/02 DVD
Bugs You Need to Know About Before Installing Solaris 9 9/02 Software From DVD or CD
Systems Might Hang on First Reboot After Installing With Solaris Web Start Program on Solaris 9 9/02 Installation CD (4717581)
Solaris 9 9/02 Software Does Not Automatically Install Netscape Version 6.2.3 Localization Packages From DVD or CD (4709348)
Boot From Solaris DVD Fails on Systems With Toshiba SD-M1401 DVD-ROM (4467424)
Cannot Access Data on Solaris 9 9/02 DVD in Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 Operating Environments (4511090)
Installation Bugs
Systems With Multiple Interfaces Recognize All Interfaces as Usable After Installation or Upgrade (4640568)
Installation Bugs That Occur During an Installation From Solaris 9 9/02 Software 1 of 2 CD
Warnings Might Occur When a File System Is Created (4189127)
Upgrade Issues
Cannot Access Storage Area Networks Through SUNWsan With Solaris 9 9/02 Operating Environment
Solaris Management Console 2.1 Software Is Not Compatible With Solaris Management Console 1.0, 1.0.1, or 1.0.2 Software
Installation Bugs That Occur During an Upgrade
Live Upgrade Does Not Update /etc/group File on Boot Environment When Installing Solaris Flash Archive (4683186)
luupgrade Command Cannot Add Patches When a Patch List File Is Specified (4679511)
Removal of SUNWjxcft Package Records Error During Upgrade (4525236)
Upgrading From Solaris 8 Operating Environment Might Create Redundant Kerberos Privacy Mechanisms (4672740)
preremove Scripts in Solaris 9 and Solaris 9 9/02 Asian Language Packages Do Not Execute Properly During Upgrade (4707449)
Upgrading to Solaris 9 9/02 Operating Environment Might Disable Existing Secure Shell Daemon (sshd) (4626093)
Upgrade Fails if /export Is Near Capacity (4409601)
Upgrading Diskless Client Servers and Clients (4363078)
Upgrading the JavaSpaces Data Store to Prevent WBEM Data Loss (4365035)
64-Bit Solaris Issues
Sun UltraSPARC System (Sun4U) Might Need Boot Flash PROM Update
Documentation CD Issue
Cannot Install Documentation Packages With Names Longer Than Nine Characters on Documentation Servers Running the Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8 Operating Environments
Documentation CD Installation Bugs
Uninstall Mode of Solaris 9 9/02 Documentation CD uninstaller Utility Does Not Work Properly (4675797)
Solaris 9 9/02 Installation CD Does Not Prompt For Solaris 9 9/02 Documentation 2 of 2 CD in Certain Locales (4668033)
Documentation CD Verify Panel Might Not Page in Command Line Interface Mode (4520352)
Localization Issue That Occurs During Installation
Additional Related Locales Might Be Installed
Localization Bugs That Occur During Installation
Solaris 9 Beta Refresh Chinese CDE Font Packages Do Not Upgrade to Solaris 9 9/02 Operating Environment (4653908)
Upgrading Systems Running Solaris 8 Operating Environment With Full Thai/Russian/Polish/Catalan Support Leaves Invalid Packages on System (4650059)
Installing Only Some European Locales Causes Characters to Not Display in UTF-8 Locale (4634077)
Chapter 2 Solaris Runtime Issues
Smart Card Bugs
System Does Not Respond to Smart Card (4415094)
Edit Config File Menu Item in Smartcards Management Console Does Not Work (4447632)
Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Bugs
dtmail Crashes When Launched From the Command Line if FontList Option Is Specified (4677329)
CDE Mailer Appears to Hang While Displaying Email With Long Lines (4418793)
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
UltraSPARC II CP Event Message in Solaris 9 9/02 Operating Environment Not Always Produced (4732403)
Solaris WBEM Services 2.5 Daemon Cannot Locate com.sun Application Programming Interface Providers (4619576)
Some com.sun Application Programming Interface Method Invocations Fail Under XML/HTTP Transport Protocol (4497393, 4497399, 4497406, 4497411)
Cannot Modify File System Mount Properties With Solaris Management Console Mounts and Shares Tool (4466829)
CIM_ERR_LOW_ON_MEMORY Error Occurs When Trying to Add Data With WBEM (4312409)
Solaris Volume Manager Issue
Solaris Volume Manager metattach Command Might Fail
Solaris Volume Manager Bugs
Detaching Submirror With metadetach Command Automatically Resizes Mirror (4678627)
Solaris Volume Manager metareplace -e Command Fails to Enable Soft Partitions When Disks Are Removed and Then Replaced (4645781)
Solaris Volume Manager metahs -e Command Fails On Copper Cable Storage Boxes When Failed Hot Spare Disk Has Been Swapped Out (4644106)
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)
Networking Bugs
Idle Solaris PPP 4.0 Daemon Might Exit During Holdoff Period (4647938)
Configuring Multiple Tunnels Between Two IP Nodes With Filtering Enabled Might Result in Packet Loss (4152864)
Security Bugs
Unlocking CDE Screenlock Removes Kerberos Version 5 Credentials (4674474)
CDE Removable Media Auto Run Capability Removed From the Solaris 9 9/02 Operating Environment (4483353)
cron, at, and batch Cannot Schedule Jobs for Locked Accounts (4622431)
Additional Software Bug
Veritas Volume Manager Might Fail on Systems Running Solaris 9 9/02 Operating Environment (4642114)
Documentation CD Issues
iPlanet Directory Server 5.1 Documentation Links Do Not Work Properly
SUNWsdocs Package Necessary to Remove Other Documentation Packages
Documentation CD Bugs
European Locale PDF Documents Available Only Through C Locale (4674475)
Removing Solaris 9 9/02 Documentation Packages Might Unexpectedly Uninstall Some Solaris 9 9/02 Documentation Collections (4641961)
Localization Bugs
AltGraph-E Does Not Produce Euro Character in en_US.UTF-8 Locale (4633549)
Shift-U Does Not Work as Expected in Arabic Locales (4303879)
Sorting in the European UTF-8 Locales Does Not Function Correctly (4307314)
Secure Shell Application Is Not Fully Localized (4680353)
Sun ONE Directory Server (formerly iPlanet Directory Server) Issues
Setup Issue
Schema Issues
Replication Issue
Server Plug-in Issues
Roles and Class of Service Issue
Indexing Issue
Sun ONE Directory Server Bugs
Cannot Inactivate Users Through Console (4521017)
Cannot Configure Directory With a Root Suffix That Contains Spaces (4526501)
Password Policy Information Is Not Synchronized Between Servers (4527608)
Account Lockout Remains in Effect After the User Password Is Changed (4527623)
Console Backup Immediately After Install Fails (4531022)
Server Ignores Case Sensitive Syntax When Normalizing DN Attributes (4630941)
Stopping the Server During Export, Backup, Restore, or Index Creation Crashes the Server (4678334)
Replication Unable to Use Self-signed Certificate (4679442)
Chapter 3 End-of-Software Support Statements
Features Removed From the Solaris 9 Operating Environment
adb Map Modifiers and Watchpoint Syntax
AnswerBook2 Server
aspppd Utility
ATOK8 Japanese Input Method
crash Utility
Crash Dump Options for Solaris ipcs Command
cs00 Japanese Input Method
Early Access (EA) Directory
Emulex MD21 Disk Controller for ESDI Drives
enable_mixed_bcp Tunable
japanese Locale Name Alternate
Java Software Developer's Kit (SDK) 1.2.2
JDK 1.1.8 and JRE 1.1.8
OpenWindows Toolkits for Developers
OpenWindows Environment for Users
Priority Paging and Related Kernel Tunables (priority_paging/cachefree)
s5fs File System
sendmail Utility Features
SUNWebnfs
sun4d-Based Servers
SUNWrdm
Features That Might Be Removed in a Future Release
Solaris 32-bit Sun4U Kernel
Netstat -k Option
SPARCengine Ultra AX
Standalone Router Discovery
AdminTool
Asian Short dtlogin Names
Device Management Entries in power.conf
Federated Naming Service XFN Libraries and Commands
GMT Zoneinfo Time Zones
JRE 1.2.2
Kerberos Version 4 Client
Korean CID Fonts
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Client Library
NIS+
pam_unix Module
Perl Version 5.005_03
Power Management I/O Control Commands
Solstice Enterprise Agents
SPC Driver
sun4m Hardware
XIL
xutops Print Filter
Chapter 4 Documentation Issues
Documentation Errata
Document Affected: Solaris 9 Package List
Document Affected: sysidcfg Man Page and Solaris 9 9/02 Installation Guide
Document Affected: Solaris WBEM SDK Developer's Guide
Document Affected: "Writing a Client Program" in Solaris WBEM SDK Developer's Guide
Appendix A Solaris 9 9/02 Operating Environment Patch List
Patch List
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