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Solaris 9 4/03 Release Notes
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Preface
Chapter 1 Installation Issues
Issues You Need to Know About Before Installing Solaris 9 4/03 Software
SPARC: Booting From the Solaris 9 4/03 DVD
x86: Solaris 9 4/03 Installation CD Partition Issue
x86: Change in Default Boot-Disk Partition Layout
SPARC: Default Solaris JumpStart Profile Might Not Install Multiple Locales on Small Disks
x86: Service Partition Not Created by Default on Systems With No Existing Service Partition
x86: Solaris Device Configuration Assistant Boot Diskette Is Not Available
x86: Update the DPT PM2144UW Controller BIOS to the Latest Revision Before Upgrading to the Solaris 9 4/03 Operating Environment
x86: Do Not Upgrade Hewlett-Packard (HP) Vectra XU Series Systems With BIOS Version GG.06.13
Bugs You Need to Know About Before Installing Solaris 9 4/03 Software
x86: suninstall Exits When Choosing to Save Service Partition and Create Solaris Partition (4832216)
x86: Installations Might Fail on Systems With 3Com 3c905C Network Interface Cards (4791458)
x86: PXE Network Boot Does Not Execute Successfully on Sun LX50 Systems (4725108)
Boot From Solaris DVD Fails on Systems With Toshiba SD-M1401 DVD-ROM (4467424)
Cannot Access Data on Solaris 9 4/03 DVD in Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 Operating Environments (4511090)
Installation Bugs
SPARC: Systems With Multiple Interfaces Recognize All Interfaces as Usable After Installation or Upgrade (4640568)
Installation Bugs That Occur During an Installation From Solaris 9 4/03 Software 1 of 2 CD
Warnings Might Occur When a File System Is Created (4189127)
Bug That Occurs During an Installation or an Upgrade
Invalid Error Message Encountered When Installing Solaris WBEM Providers Package SUNWwbpro (4824518)
Upgrade Issues
Cannot Access Storage Area Networks Through SUNWsan With Solaris 9 4/03 Operating Environment
x86: Cannot Use Solaris 9 4/03 (x86 Platform Edition) Installation CD to Upgrade x86 Systems to the Solaris 9 4/03 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
Upgrade Fails to Install SUNWceudt Package (4826785)
Manually Register VDiskMgr.jar File Delivered by Patch 114711-01 or 114712-01 After Upgrading (4818306)
SPARC: Solaris Management Console Applications Dependent on Managed Object Format (MOF) Files Might Fail After Upgrade (4825349)
Installer Text Display Problem When Using Solaris Live Upgrade (4736488)
SPARC: luupgrade Command Cannot Add Patches When a Patch List File Is Specified (4679511)
SPARC: Removal of SUNWjxcft Package Records Error During Upgrade (4525236)
Upgrading From Solaris 8 Operating Environment Might Create Redundant Kerberos Privacy Mechanisms (4672740)
Upgrading to Solaris 9 4/03 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)
Installation Bugs That Occur After an Upgrade
SPARC: Removing Patches After Upgrade Might Corrupt WBEM Repository (4820614)
64–Bit Solaris Issues
SPARC: 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 4/03 Documentation CD uninstaller Utility Does Not Work Properly (4675797)
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 4/03 Operating Environment (4653908)
Upgrading Systems Running Solaris 8 Operating Environment With Full Thai/Russian/Polish/Catalan Support Leaves Invalid Packages on System (4650059)
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
mp Print Command Fails in European and Russian Unicode/UTF-8 Locales if American English, Chinese, or Korean Unicode/UTF-8 locales Not Installed (4805695)
x86: CDE Startup Applications Might Display in the root-window Input Method Style (4770994)
CDE Removable Media Auto Run Capability Removed (4634260)
SPARC: 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)
Solaris PDASync Cannot Delete Last Entry From the Desktop (4260435)
Solaris PDASync Does Not Support Data Exchange With the Multibyte Internationalized PDA Device (4263814)
System Administration Bugs
Home Directory Not Created for User Accounts Added With Solaris Management Console After Upgrade (4803524)
/etc/named.conf File Causes Solaris Management Console Operations on User and Group Accounts to Fail (4777931)
x86: Pressing the F4 Key During BIOS Bootup Fails to Boot the Service Partition (4782757)
UltraSPARC II CP Event Message in Solaris 9 4/03 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
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
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)
cron, at, and batch Cannot Schedule Jobs for Locked Accounts (4622431)
Additional Software Bug
SPARC: Veritas Volume Manager Might Fail on Systems Running Solaris 9 4/03 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 4/03 Documentation Packages Might Unexpectedly Uninstall Some Solaris 9 4/03 Documentation Collections (4641961)
Localization Issue
Hardware for Estonian Keyboard Type 6, French Canadian Keyboard Type 6, and Polish Programmers Keyboard Type 5 Not Available in Solaris 9 4/03 Operating Environment
Localization Bugs
SPARC: Shift-U Does Not Work as Expected in Arabic Locales (4303879)
Sorting in the European UTF-8 Locales Does Not Function Correctly (4307314)
Sun ONE Application Server Bugs
Default Browser Is Incompatible With Sun ONE Application Server 7 (4741123)
SPARC: Access Control List Editing Not Supported on Some Versions of Netscape Navigator (4750616)
Accessing an Oracle 9.1 Database With an Oracle 9.2 Client Might Cause Data Corruption (4707531)
SPARC: Administration Interface Reports Verifier Error When Viewing Persistence Manager Factory Resource Created From the Command Line (4733109)
SPARC: any Value in Address Attribute of iiop-listener Element in server.xml File Is Not Supported (4743366)
SPARC: Application Server Fails to Restart When Converting to an SSL-Enabled Environment (4723776)
SPARC: Application Server Might Crash During Dynamic Reloading (4750461)
Console Output Is Corrupted if the System's Default Encoding Is Not UTF-8 (4757859)
External Certificate Nickname Does Not Display in Administration Interface Nickname List (4725473)
SPARC: flexanlg Command Might Cause Open Failure Error (4742993)
IPv6-only Clients Cannot Connect to the Application Server (4742559)
Modified Samples Are Not Updated Until Redeployed (4726161)
SPARC: Nonzero Transaction Setting Causes Slow Local Transactions (4700241)
Oracle JDBC Driver Optimizations Not Being Initiated (4732684)
Permission Problems Occur During Dynamic Reloading and Invocation of Applications (4756981)
RMI-IIOP Clients Do Not Work for IPv6 Addresses Where DNS Address Lookups Fail for the IPv6 Address (4743419)
Value in the Only show entries with Field in the View Event Log Becomes Corrupted If the Application or System Is Not Using UTF-8 Encoding (4763655)
Sun ONE Application Server Security Bug
The Application Server Starts All Instances as Root Allowing Nonroot Users Root Access (4780076)
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 Effective After the User Password Is Changed (4527623)
Console Backup Immediately After Installation 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 Late-Breaking News
Installing a Solaris Flash Differential Archive by Using Solaris Live Upgrade
Overview
To Create a Profile for Use By Solaris Live Upgrade
Chapter 4 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
x86: devconfig Command
x86: Device and Driver Software Support
Early Access (EA) Directory
Emulex MD21 Disk Controller for ESDI Drives
enable_mixed_bcp Tunable
x86: Intel 486–Based Systems
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 Package
sun4d–Based Servers
SUNWrdm Package
Features That Might Be Removed in a Future Release
AdminTool Command
Asian Short dtlogin Names
Obsolete Device Driver Interfaces (DDI)
Device Management Entries in power.conf File
Device Support and Driver Software
Federated Naming Service XFN Libraries and Commands
GMT Zoneinfo Time Zones
SPARC: Graphic Driver Support
JRE 1.2.2
Kerberos Version 4 Client
Korean CID Fonts
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Client Library
Obsolete Lightweight Process (LWP) Interfaces
Nameless Interface Groups Feature
Netstat -k Option
NIS+ Name Service Type
pam_unix Module
Perl Version 5.005_03
Power Management I/O Control Commands
64-bit SPARC: ptrace(2) Interface in libc
sendmailvars and the L and G sendmail.cf commands
Solaris 32-bit Sun4U Kernel
Solaris Static System Libraries
Solaris Volume Manager Transactional Volume
Solstice Enterprise Agents
SPC Driver
Standalone Router Discovery
sun4m Hardware
Ultra AX and SPARCengine Ultra AXmp Graphics Card
XIL Interface
xutops Print Filter
Chapter 5 Documentation Issues
Documentation Errata
Document Affected: Appendix A, “Solaris Schema”, in Solaris WBEM Developer's Guide
Document Affected: “Solaris Developer Documentation” in the Solaris 9 4/03 About What's New Collection
Document Affected: Solaris WBEM Developer's Guide
Document Affected: “Writing a Client Program” in Solaris WBEM Developer's Guide
Document Affected: Sun ONE Application Server 7 Developer's Guide
Appendix A Solaris 9 4/03 Operating Environment Patch List
SPARC Patch List
x 86 Patch List
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