x86: Cannot Configure Full-Screen Magnification on Systems With One Video Card
x86: Problems Configuring USB Mouse Device as Extension Device for Use With GNOME On-Screen Keyboard
x86: Support for Intel Integrated i810 and i815 Graphics Chipsets
Arabic Text Not Appearing in ar Locales
Launch Menu Cannot Be Opened With Ctrl-Esc (6340714)
x86: Problems With dtlogin When Using UTF-8 Locales (6334517)
SPARC: Problems Configuring Preferences With the GNOME On-Screen Keyboard (6329929)
x86: GNOME Applications Fail With dtremote (6278039)
Full-Screen Magnification and Keyboard Accessibility Features Not Working (6273030)
Desktop Icons Invisible on Second Desktop System (6211279)
x86: kdmconfig Instructions to Configure Xorg X Server Are Incomplete (6205881)
x86: Program That Configures Keyboard, Display, and Mouse Not Working for X Server (6178669)
CDE Removable Media Auto Run Capability Removed (4634260)
Solaris PDASync Cannot Delete Last Entry From the Desktop (4260435)
SUNWsdocs Package Needed to Remove Other Documentation Packages
European Locale PDF Documents Available Only Through C Locale (4674475)
ZFS and UNIX/POSIX Compliance Issues
Adding ZFS Patch to a Solaris 10 6/06 System Causes Spurious Warning Messages (6429860)
ufsrestore Does Not Use acl_set() For Setting ACLs (6421216)
fdisk -E Can Sweep Disk Used by ZFS Without Warning (6412771)
x86: BIOS Hangs on Reboot After Using ZFS on Sun Ultra 20 or Sun Fire X2100 (6363449)
ZFS and Third-Party Backup Product Issues
Veritas NetBackup Does Not Back Up and Preserve Files With ZFS/NFSv4 ACLs (6352899)
Legato Networker Needs to Support ZFS/NFSv4 ACLs (6349974)
ZFS GUI Should Check For /usr/lib/embedded_su at the Beginning of Each Wizard (6326334)
du Reports Wrong Size Information on RAID-Z (6288488)
Fails to Sync File System on Panic (6250422)
Need Itinerary so That Interrupted scrub or resilverDoesn't Have to Restart (2136811)
Upgrading From Some Solaris Express or Solaris 10 Releases Requires Remounting of File Systems
NFSv4 Access Control List Functions Might Work Incorrectly
Access Problems Between Solaris NFSv4 Clients and NFSv4 Servers
Using mkfs Command to Create File System Might Fail on Very Large Disks (6352813)
File System Creation Might Fail on Small Slices (6346510)
Undetected Write Errors in NFSv4 Client With Full File System (6346204)
System Crash Dump Fails on Devices Greater Than 1 TByte (6214480)
Using smosservice Command to Add OS Services Results in Insufficient Disk Space Message (5073840)
Hardware-Related Issue and Bugs
Registration Tool Prevents Power Management on Some Framebuffers (6321362)
SPARC: Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 Board Versions 1.0 and 1.1 Not Supported in Solaris 10 OS
Certain USB 2.0 Controllers Are Disabled
Supported USB Devices and Corresponding Hub Configurations
x86: Limitations Exist With Certain Device Drivers in Solaris 10 OS
DVD-ROM/CD-ROM Drives on Headless Systems
x86: Manual Configuration Required to Specify Non-US English Keyboards
Contention Exists Between Certain Devices That Share the Same Bus (6196994)
hat_getkpfnum() DDI Function Is Obsolete (5046984)
Some Systems With USB 2.0 Hardware Might Hang or Panic (5030842)
x86: Soft System-Shutdown is Not Supported in Solaris OS on x86 (4873161, 5043369)
Some DVD and CD-ROM Drives Fail to Boot Solaris (4397457)
iPlanet Directory Server 5.1 Issues
Installing Directory Server 5.1
Migrating to the Sun Java System Directory Server 5 2005Q1
SPARC: Problems With dbx Debugger While Processing 64-bit Objects (6347707)
System Might Loop When Master CPU Is Changed (4405263)
Deadkeys Not Working With GTK Applications on Xsun in EMEA UTF-8 Locales (6429880)
L10N Messages Missing When Using localeadm Utility to Add Locales (6423974)
IIIMF Packages Might Not be Installed (6388988)
SPARC: Keycode 50 Does Not Work for European Keyboard Layouts (6387317)
Several Arabic Fonts Do Not Work in GNOME (6384024)
Unable to Switch Input Language on Session-Saved Applications (6360759)
Some Language Input Does Not Work Correctly on Non-U.S. Keyboard Layouts (6319383)
Keyboard Shortcuts in Mozilla in ES Locale Are Unusual and Ambiguous (6288620)
Login Screen Marks UTF-8 Locales as Recommended
Emails Saved As Portable Format
File Names and Directory Names
Launching Legacy Locale Applications
Cannot Print Documents in Portable Document Format (6239307, 6218079)
x86: Login Process Might Hang in Certain Asian Non-UTF-8 Locales (6215527)
Special Keyboard Keys Do Not Work (5077631)
Modifier Keys Do Not Function Correctly (4996542)
Chinese and Korean Characters Are Printed In a Box (4977300)
Sort Capability in the European UTF-8 Locales Does Not Function Correctly (4307314)
Memory Leaks with ECC and RSA Cipher Suites (6421471)
iSCSI Initiator Does Not Handle LUN Address Reporting Properly (6377485)
LUN Numbers Greater Than 256 Are Treated Differently by 2-Gbyte and 4-Gbyte QLogic HBAs (6371273)
Wrong MAC Address is Displayed When There is More Than One Ethernet Card (6316245)
SPARC: RTM_IFINFO Message Has Different Sizes on 32-bit and 64-bit Compilations
IP Forwarding Disabled by Default in Solaris 10 OS
Generic LAN Driver Version 3 Fails to Set Field Length of Logical Link Control Frames (6350869)
Zone Not Booting When IP Address Belongs to a Failed IP Network Multipathing Group (6184000)
Intermittent Errors Might Occur With the Use of DataDigests (5108515)
ATM LANE Subnets for IPv4/IPv6 Might Not Complete Initialization (4625849)
Nonpassword Logins Fail With pam_ldap Enabled
Incorrect Parameters Might Cause Panic in Sun StorEdge T3 (4319812)
Print Services Have Offline Settings by Default (5100134)
keyserv Daemon Disables Some File System Services (5084183)
Login Prompts Sometimes Appear Before File Systems Are Mounted (5082164)
System Does Not Respond to Smart Card (4415094)
Edit Config File Menu Item in Smartcards Management Console Does Not Work (4447632)
Solaris Commands and Standards
Bash 2.0.5b No Longer Sets Some Environment Variables
New ln Utility Requires -f Option
New tcsh Rejects setenv Variable Names That Use a Dash or an Equals Sign
STDIO getc Family EOF Condition Behavior Change
Output Columns of the ps Command Have Been Widened
Command ping -v Does Not Work on IPv6 Addresses (4984993)
Solaris Volume Manager metattach Command Might Fail
Solaris Volume Manager metassist Command Fails in Non-English Locales (5067097)
Volume Creation Fails in Systems With Unformatted Disks (5064066)
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)
Problems With Using Multiple Attachments (6260583)
Problem With Changing Authentication Type (6246543)
Problems When Saving Attachments With Localized Content (6204976)
Incomplete List of Contacts in Contact Folder (5088514)
Remote Connection Problems (6203727)
Wrong Help Window Opened For Volume Control (6253210)
Cannot Print Certain Documents From the Mozilla Browser
Cannot Specify User Preferences for Roaming Access in Mozilla Browser (6200999)
Keyboard Shortcuts Fail (6192644)
User Preferences Not Fully Compatible
GNU Image Manipulation Program Missing From the Graphics Menu (6209566)
Problems With Online Registration of StarOffice 7 Software (6208829)
Volume Control Option Not Working
Outdated List of Allowed Applications for Solaris OS (6267922)
Problems When Using Keyboard Indicator (6245563)
Certain View Options Might Cause File Manager to Fail (6233643)
CD Quality, Lossless Mode Fails at Start of Recording (6227666)
Cannot Delete Files Outside of Home Directory (6203010, 5105006)
Problems Creating Certain Types of Archives (5082008)
Cannot Type Multibyte Characters in Text Editor 2.9.1 (4937266)
smosservice or smdiskless Is Broken Due to wbem Issues (6378956)
Sun Patch Manager Tool 2.0 Not Compatible With Previous Versions
Sun Remote Services Net Connect Supported Only in the Global Zone
Adding Regions Fails With the localeadm Command (6350486)
SPARC: Error Messages Displayed During Dynamic Reconfiguration (6312424)
Error Messages Displayed by pkgchk After You Remove Patches for Zones (6267966)
Race Condition Between EF/kcfd and IPsec Algorithm Availability (6266083)
Solaris Product Registry Administration Utility Fails to Launch in a Zone (6220284)
Cannot Delete Existing Diskless Clients From the System (6205746)
Net Connect 3.1.1 Installation Fails (6197548)
x86: Default C Library Might Cause Boot Failure When You Install Solaris Flash Archives (6192995)
SPARC: smosservice delete Command Does Not Successfully Remove All Directories (6192105)
patchadd Command Does Not Support Installing Patches From an NFS Server (6188748)
lucreate Command Does Not Create RAID-1 Volumes (5106987)
Devices Not Immediately Available in Fabric Zones in a Storage Area Network (5077933)
SPARC: Stopping the System by Using Keyboard Sequences Might Cause a System Panic (5061679)
Using the ipfs Command With -W Option Fails (5040248)
kill -HUP Does Not Always Cause the Agent to Reread the snmpd.conf Configuration File (4988483)
x86: Pressing the F4 Key During BIOS Bootup Fails to Boot the Service Partition (4782757, 5051157)
4. End-of-Software Support Statements
A. Table of Integrated Bug Fixes in the Solaris 10 Operating System
This section describes issues that apply to the Sun Java Desktop System (Java DS) in the Solaris 10 OS.
This section describes issues related to Email and Calendars.
If you drag and drop email messages to a new email message body, the content of the new email message is corrupted.
Workaround: To send multiple attachments, perform the following steps:
Select the messages you want to attach.
On the Menu bar, choose Action => Forward => Attached.
Alternatively, you can press Ctrl-J to send the messages.
After you change the authentication type for the incoming mail server, Email and Calendar might not work correctly.
Workaround: Restart Email and Calendar.
The Evolution application, which includes Email and Calendar, cannot save attachments with localized content.
Workaround: None.
After you import an LDAP Data Interchange Format file containing several contacts, only some of the contacts are displayed in your contact folder. This is a display problem only. Email and Calendar has imported all the contacts.
Workaround: Restart Email and Calendar.
This section describes login issue.
You might encounter the following error message when you log in to a Java Desktop System session:
Could not look up internet address for hostname. This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by adding hostname to the file /etc/hosts
Workaround: Ensure that your hostname is set up correctly in the /etc/hosts file. Perform the following steps:
Set the hostname in the /etc/hosts file as follows:
127.0.0.1 localhost loghost hostname localhost.localdomain
hostname is the name of your system.
Ensure that your hostname is listed in the /etc/nodename file. This file must also contain the following line:
127.0.0.1 localhost loghost hostname localhost.localdomain
Add the following entry to the /etc/inet/ipnodes file:
127.0.0.1 hostname
When you log into Java Desktop System Release 3, your $PATH is set incorrectly to the following:
/usr/bin::/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/bin: /usr/ucb:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/dt/bin
Workaround: Remove the following from your $PATH:
/usr/openwin/bin:
/bin:
::
The resulting path should be similar to the following example:
/usr/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/dt/bin
If you use dtlogin remote connection, you cannot connect to the GNOME Display Manager from certain systems.
Workaround: When you are prompted to select the remote login, specify the IP address instead of the hostname.
If you use the Yelp browser to open the online help for Volume Control, the help file for the Keyboard Accessibility panel application is opened instead.
Workaround: None.
If you open an application's online help and no help files exist for that application, an error dialog box is displayed. Unless you click OK, the online Help system freezes and you cannot open the online help of other applications that you start subsequently.
Workaround: You must click the OK button in the error dialog box.
You cannot print documents from the Mozilla browser if the documents contain Unicode characters that are not in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Workaround: None.
In the Mozilla browser, you can specify that User Preferences should be transferred to and from the Roaming Access server. You specify your Roaming Access option by following these steps:
On the browser, click Edit and select Preferences.
Select Roaming User, then select Item Selection.
On the right panel, select User Preferences.
However, the selection of User Preferences does not take effect.
Workaround: None.
In the Mozilla browser, you enable caret browsing by pressing F7. When caret browsing is enabled, the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Home brings you to the beginning of the web page that you are browsing. However, this keyboard shortcut does not work when you browse certain sites such as www.yahoo.com and www.mozilla.org.
Workaround: Disable caret browsing by pressing F7.
User preferences in your home account for an earlier version of the GNOME Desktop might be partly incompatible with the version on the Java DS Release 3.
Workaround: Reset your preferences. Perform the following steps:
Log out of the Java Desktop System.
Click Session and choose Failsafe terminal.
Log in.
In the failsafe terminal window, enter the following commands:
% gnome-cleanup exit
Log in again.
Your GNOME preferences are now reset.
The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is not available in the Graphics menu.
Workaround: Perform the following steps.
Open a terminal window.
Edit the /usr/share/applications/gimp-2.0.desktop file.
Change the Exec and TryExec lines to add the full path to the GIMP binary:
TryExec=/usr/sfw/bin/gimp2.0 Exec=/usr/sfw/bin/gimp-remote-2.0 %u
You might be unable to complete the online registration of the StarOffice 7 software if the software cannot find Mozilla on the system. The software must be able to locate the Email and Calendar application to successfully send documents.
Workaround: Add /usr/sfw/bin to your PATH. Perform the following steps.
Open a terminal window.
Issue the following command:
% export PATH=/usr/sfw/bin:$PATH
To start the StarOffice software, issue the following command:
% soffice
Complete the StarOffice registration procedure.
The slide bar and the side counter do not work when the Sound Recorder is recording a new.wav file.
Workaround: None.
The option in the Volume Control panel application that enables you to start the Volume Control desktop applications does not work.
Workaround: None.
In the Solaris software, you restrict application launching by setting to true the /desktop/gnome/lockdown/restrict_application_launching gonf key. This setting allows only certain applications to appear on the Launch menu where you can start these applications. The allowed applications are listed in the /desktop/gnome/lockdown/allowed_applications gonf key.
Currently, the list includes applications that are outdated and are no longer included in the Java Desktop System software. Moreover, the list also contains references to certain applications with incorrect directory locations. Consequently, if you restrict application launching, certain key applications such as Mozilla or StarOffice do not appear on the Launch menu.
Workaround: Perform the following steps.
Become superuser.
Remove the ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/lockdown directory if the directory exists.
# rm -rf ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/lockdown
Log out of the system and then log in again.
Using the keyboard indicator might make the keyboard unusable when you switch between X servers.
Workaround: None. Do not use the Keyboard Indicator.
The File Manager might fail if you use the following View options:
View as Catalog
View as Image Collection
Depending on the View options that you use, the following error messages might be displayed:
Error:
The application nautilus has quit unexpectedly
Error:
The Catalog view encountered an error while starting up
Error:
The Image Collection view encountered an error while starting up
Workaround: None. Every time these problems occur, restart File Manager or click the Restart Application button on the crash dialog box.
If you use the Sound Recorder multimedia application in CD Quality, Lossless mode, the application fails when recording starts. The following error message is displayed:
The Application "gnome-sound-recorder" has quit unexpectedly.
Workaround: Perform the following steps.
Become superuser.
Issue the following command:
# GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=xml::/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /etc/gconf/schemas/gnome-audio-profiles.schemas
In addition, existing users must perform the following steps.
If the gnome-audio-profiles-properties application is running, stop the application by closing the application window.
If the profile cdlossless exists in ~/.gconf/system/gstreamer/audio/profiles, remove the profile.
% rm ~/.gconf/system/gstreamer/audio/profiles/cdlossless
Log out of the system and then log in again.
You can only delete files from your own home directory file system.
Workaround: To delete files outside your home directory file system, open a terminal window and use the command line.
You cannot use Archive Manager to create the following types of archives:
.arj
.lha
.bzip
.lzop
.zoo
Workaround: None.
When you enable the Auto Indent function in the gedit text editor, you cannot type multibyte characters correctly.
Workaround: Disable the Auto Indent function. Perform the following steps in the text editor.
Choose Edit => Preferences.
In the Categories list, select Editor, then Auto Indent.
Deselect the Enable auto indentation option.