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Preface

1.  Before You Begin

2.  Installation Issues

Installation Bugs

Automated Installer Fails to Install on Systems With Low Disk Space and High Memory Allocation (7090030)

AI Client Boot Fails With wanboot.conf Error Because of Restrictive umask (7052679)

SPARC: Net Device and Communication Device Names Are Mapped Incorrectly During Text Installation (7097656)

Text Installer Does Not Allow Installing Oracle Solaris 11 Into Another Slice in the Existing Solaris2 Partition (7091267)

Passing a Directory to a zoneadm install Command Drops Profiles With Duplicate Names Under That Tree (7093399)

Automated Installer Manifests Are Installed World-Readable (7097115)

Adding New Elements Using the aimanifest Command Fails If the Direct Next Element Is Missing (7093788)

Network-Based Automated Installer Fails on x2100 Platform With nge Drivers (6999502)

sysconfig and Text Installer Applications Terminate Unexpectedly From Timezone Screens (7026383)

Automated Installer Fails to Match Target Disks When Using Dual-Path Boot Disk (7079889)

FMA Disk Topology Discovery Might Not Handle Configuration With Mixed Directly Attached and Virtual Disks (7093885)

Host Name Criterion Must Exactly Match Host Name Returned by Client to Select Profile (7098861)

Text Installer Displays in English When Another Language Is Chosen (7095437)

Oracle VM Server for SPARC: WAN Boot and Automated Install of Guest Domains Is Slower On Older System Firmware (6969316)

Multiple AI Service Name Conflicts on AI Servers (7042544)

installadm create-service Creates Faulty DHCP Configuration When DNS Is Not Enabled (7087888)

txzonemgr Cannot Clone a Labeled Zone (7107525)

Hardware-Related Issues

System Might Panic With Incorrect BIOS Entries for CPU Power Management (7096091)

SPARC: System Requires Firmware Update to Boot Oracle Solaris 11 (7058642)

3.  Runtime Issues

4.  Update Issues

Hardware-Related Issues

This section describes hardware-related issues in Oracle Solaris 11.

System Might Panic With Incorrect BIOS Entries for CPU Power Management (7096091)

The system might panic when transitioning to performance or throttling states, if your system BIOS provides incorrect information about CPU power management.

Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds:

SPARC: System Requires Firmware Update to Boot Oracle Solaris 11 (7058642)

Some of the SPARC systems require updating their firmware to boot Oracle Solaris 11. On systems that have not been updated, the following error message might be displayed when the system is booted:

os-io Cross trap sync timeout:

Workaround: Update your affected system's firmware to at least version 6.7.11 before you install the Oracle Solaris 11 OS. The following table describes the minimum firmware level required for affected SPARC systems when running Oracle Solaris 11.

Table 2-1 Firmware Levels Required for SPARC Systems

SPARC Platform
FW Revision
Patch
T2000
6.7.11
139434-08
T1000
6.7.11
139435-08
Netra T2000
6.7.11
139436-07
Netra CP3060
6.7.11
T6300
6.7.11
139438–08
T5120/T5220
7.4.0.b
147307-01
T6320
7.4.0.b
147308-01
Netra T5220
7.4.0.b
147309-01
Netra CP3260
7.4.0.b
T5140/T5240
7.4.0.b
147310-01
T5440
7.4.0.b
147311-01
T6340
7.4.0.b
147312-01
Netra T5440
7.4.0.b
147313-01
Netra T6340
7.4.0.b
147314-01
T3-1
8.1.0.c
147315-02
T3-2
8.1.0.c
147316-02
T3-4
8.1.0.c
147317-02
T3-1B
8.1.0.c
147318-02
Netra T3-1
8.1.0.c
147319-02
Netra T3-1B
8.1.0.c
147320-01
Netra T3-1BA
8.1.0.c
M3000
1102
12573531
M4000
1102
12573537
M5000
1102
12573539
M8000
1102
12573543
M9000
1102
12573546

For more information about the required firmware levels for SPARC systems, see My Oracle Support.