Solaris 9 12/02 Release Notes

IA: Crashes Occur When Using the Arabic and Hebrew Locales (4770382)

If you try to log in to the Arabic or Hebrew locales using the Solaris 9 12/02 (x86 Platform Edition) operating environment, dtlogin will crash, restart, and display the login prompt. The following error message is displayed.


The X server cannot be started on display :0...

If you attempt to launch an application after setting the locale to ar or he at the command line, the application might crash with a core dump.

Workaround: To avoid this problem, apply patch 114034-01. This patch is available at http://sunsolve.sun.com.