New Minimum Memory Requirement
Changes in Upgrade Support for Solaris Releases
Solaris Live Upgrade and Solaris Zones
Solaris Live Upgrade Restrictions
Upgrading a Solaris Trusted Extensions System That is Configured with Labeled Zones
Patching Miniroot on x86 Machines
Solaris Data Encryption Supplement on Solaris 10 Updates
Additional Procedures Required When Installing Patches for Solaris 10 5/08 Release
x86: Systems With elx or pcelx NICs Fail Network Configuration
Default Size of /var File System Inadequate
x86: Do Not Upgrade Hewlett-Packard (HP) Vectra XU Series Systems With BIOS Version GG.06.13
SPARC: Older Firmware Might Need Boot Flash PROM Update
Additional Patches Are Needed to Run Solaris Live Upgrade
x86: Failure of BIOS Device Utility Prevents Installation or Upgrade From Being Completed (6362108)
Cannot Create a Solaris Flash Archive When Solaris Zones Are Installed (6246943)
x86: Serial Consoles of Some Sun Fire Systems Do Not Work (6208412)
Some Asian Locales Cannot Be Used for Custom JumpStart (6681454)
SPARC: Solaris 8 Migration Assistant Patch Requirements (6673751)
PRODRM Has Problems Deleting prodreg Entry For Solaris Trusted Extensions (6616592)
Reboot Now Button Is Unresponsive (6270371)
Sun Upgrade Detailed Patch Analysis Panel Not Scrollable (6597686)
SPARC: luupgrade Fails When Using a CD to Upgrade (6573154)
Panic in PCIe as dev_info Node Has No Parent Data (6517798)
The Linux Partition Does Not Display on the GRUB Menu After Installing the Solaris OS (6508647)
x86: Install Hangs on Systems With 512 Mbyte of Memory (6423854)
x86: Invalid /sbin/dhcpinfo Error During Installation (6332044)
x86: Installation From CD Media Appears to Hang After Reboot Selection (6270371)
x86: System Fails to Boot After Custom JumpStart Installation (6205478)
x86: GUI Interactive Installation From DVD Fails if boot-device Variable Is Not Set (5065465)
x86: USB Keyboards Might Freeze During Install on Some Dell Precision Workstations (4888849)
Warnings Might Occur When a File System Is Created (4189127)
lucreate and lumake Commands Fail on Non-Global Zones (6659451)
SPARC: Upgrading with Solaris Live Upgrade From Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 Releases Fails (6638175)
Incorrect Permissions on /tmp in Non-Global Zones After Solaris Live Upgrade (6619278)
Issues With DSR Upgrade With Zones (6616788)
Solaris Trusted Extensions Upgrade Issues (6616585)
System Cannot Communicate With ypbind After Upgrade (6488549)
Upgrade Fails on System With Zones That Have Been Installed But Not Booted
Device ID Discrepancies After Upgrading From Solaris 9 9/04 OS
x86: Adding Driver Updates Might Cause Failure of Network Configuration (6353146)
Solaris Live Upgrade luupgrade Command Missing the Progress Bar (6239850)
SPARC: Upgrading From Solaris 9 Releases With Recommended Patch Cluster Partially Succeeds (6202868)
Configuration File pam.conf Not Automatically Updated After an Upgrade (5060721)
Installer Text Display Problem When Using Solaris Live Upgrade (4736488)
SPARC: Removal of SUNWjxcft Package Records Error During Upgrade (4525236)
Upgrading to Solaris 10 Release Might Disable Existing Secure Shell Daemon (sshd) (4626093)
Upgrade Fails if /export Directory Is Near Capacity (4409601)
Upgrading Diskless Client Servers and Clients (4363078)
Additional Installation Issues
smosservice add Command Does Not Install Designated ARCH=all Packages (4871256)
StarOffice and StarSuite Software Cannot Coexist in the Same System
Additional Related Locales Might Be Installed
4. End-of-Software Support Statements
6. What's New in Solaris 10 5/08
A. Table of Integrated Bug Fixes in the Solaris 10 Operating System
This section provides general information such as behavior changes in Solaris 10 OS.
Starting with the Solaris 10 8/07 release, all x86 based systems must now have at least 384 Mbytes of RAM to run the Solaris software.
Starting with the Solaris 10 8/07 release, for SPARC systems, you can upgrade the Solaris OS only from the following releases:
Solaris 8 OS
Solaris 9 OS
Solaris 10 OS
For x86 systems, you can upgrade the Solaris OS only from the following releases:
Solaris 9 OS
Solaris 10 OS
To upgrade releases previous to the Solaris 8 software to the Solaris 10 5/08 software, upgrade to any of the releases in the preceding list first. Then upgrade to the Solaris 10 8/07 release.
Solaris releases that support the SPARC Newboot feature might require SPARC systems with at least 512 Mbytes of memory.
Although the Solaris 10 software has been tested for compatibility with previous releases, some third-party applications might not be fully ABI compliant. Contact the supplier of these applications directly for information about compatibility.
Your system might run both a Solaris OS and other products that are not part of the Solaris software. These products might be supplied by either Sun or another company. If you upgrade this system to the Solaris 10 release, make sure that these other products are also supported on the Solaris 10 OS. Depending on the status of each of these products, you can perform one of the following options:
Verify that the existing version of the product is supported on the Solaris 10 software.
Install a new version of the product that is supported on the Solaris 10 release. You might need to remove the previous version of the product prior to upgrading to the Solaris software. See the product documentation for more details.
Remove the product prior to upgrading to the Solaris 10 software.