Documentation CD Bugs

Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation CD Uninstall Process Fails (4920548)

If you install on your system any two, or all three of the following documentation media, and then attempt to uninstall any one of these CDs, the uninstaller summary panel reports a Failed status:

• Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation 1 of 2 CD

• Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation 2 of 2 CD

• Solaris 9 on Sun Hardware documentation set on the Solaris 9 12/03 Software Supplement CD

This problem occurs because all three CDs contain packages that are dependent on the SUNWsdocs package.

The CD that you attempt to uninstall will remain registered. However, a Damaged status is displayed in the product registry. The uninstaller will interpret this status as a failure.

The documentation set is then skipped during the uninstall process, even though the associated packages have been removed from the system.

Workaround: Follow these steps to correct the problem:

1. Uninstall the remaining Solaris 9 12/03 documentation CDs.

2. Unregister the Solaris 9 12/03 documentation CD that was not uninstalled properly.

3. Reinstall the Solaris 9 12/03 documentation media, if necessary.

European Locale PDF Documents Available Only Through C Locale (4674475)

In the Solaris 9 12/03 software and other systems based on UNIX, PDF documents on the Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation 1 of 2 CD are not accessible in the following European locales:

• de (German)

• es (Spanish)

• fr (French)

• it (Italian)

• sv (Swedish)

This problem occurs because of a limitation with Adobe Acrobat Reader. For more information on this problem, see the Adobe Technote site at http://www.adobe.com:80/support/techdocs/294de.htm.

Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds.

• In the Solaris 9 12/03 software and other systems based on UNIX, set the environment variable LC_ALL to C acroread. For example, in the C shell, type the following command in a terminal window:

  % env LC_ALL=C acroread

• For systems that are not based on UNIX, upgrade to Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or a later version.

Removing Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation Packages Might Unexpectedly Uninstall Some Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation Collections (4641961)

Some Solaris 9 12/03 documentation collections might be unexpectedly removed from your system under the following circumstances:

1. You install both the Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation 1 of 2 and 2 of 2 CDs on your system.

2. You then use the prodreg utility or the Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation CD installer program to remove certain documentation packages.

The Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation CD 1 of 2 and 2 of 2 have three collections in common. If you remove the packages that contain these collections from either of the Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation 1 of 2 or 2 of 2 CD installations, the package is removed for both installations.

The following table lists the packages that might be removed unexpectedly:

Table 2–1 Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation Packages Contained on Both Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation CDs

HTML Package Names	PDF Package Names	Collection Description
SUNWaadm	SUNWpaadm	Solaris 9 System Administrator Collection
SUNWdev	SUNWpdev	Solaris 9 Developer Collection
SUNWids	SUNWpids	iPlanet Directory Server 5.1 Collection

Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds:

• If the uninstall process unexpectedly removed these documentation packages, and you want these packages on your system, reinstall the packages from the Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation 1 of 2 or 2 of 2 CDs.

• To avoid this problem, use the pkgrm utility to remove the packages that you want to eliminate from your system.