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Preface
Chapter 1 Installation Issues
Solaris Web Start 3.0 Issues You Need to Know About Before Using the Solaris 8 Installation CD
Solaris Web Start 3.0 Installation Partition Issue
Issues You Need to Know About Before Starting an Interactive Installation From the Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 CD
Locale Install Mechanism Change
Do Not Install a Large Partition on Systems That Already Have symhisl, mega, or cpqncr Disk Controller Drivers Installed
Update the DPT PM2144UW Controller BIOS to the Latest Revision Before Upgrading to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
Do Not Upgrade Hewlett-Packard (HP) Vectra XU Series Systems With BIOS Version GG.06.13
Direct Memory Access (DMA) Is Disabled on PCI-IDE Systems
Bugs You Need to Know About Before the Start of an Interactive Installation
DiskSuite May Cause Data Loss (4121281)
Installation Bugs That Occur During an Interactive Installation
ddi: net: x86 Network Boot Only Works on First Network Interface of a Given Type (1146863)
Installation Progress Bar May Be Inaccurate (1266156)
Warnings May Occur When Creating a File System (4189127)
No Error Occurs If # Is Included In A Path (4294586)
Custom JumpStart Does Not Prompt for the Solaris 8 Software 2 of 2 CD (4304912)
Wizard Stops If You Insert the Solaris 8 Software 2 of 2 CD When the 1 of 2 CD Is Requested (4306752)
An Arithmetic Exception Occurs When a Zip Drive is Attached With No Media in a Drive (4307035)
Upgrade Issues
Cannot Use Solaris Web Start 3.0 to Upgrade to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
Solaris Easy Access Server (SEAS)
Priority Paging Is Not Needed With the New Solaris 8 Caching Architecture
Installation Bugs That Occur During an Upgrade
Upgrading the Solaris 7 Operating Environment With Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) 1.0 to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment Causes WBEM 2.0 to Not Work (4274920)
Disk Space Requirements Can Be Exaggerated by the Upgrade Process (4041733)
SUNWeeudt Partially Fails to Install During an Upgrade (4304305)
Localization Bugs
Some Error Messages and Dialogs Are Not Localized and Display Only in English (4283839)
Installation Of European Software (4299758)
Swedish Locale: Unlocalized Dialogs Are Displayed During Installation (4300655)
French and Italian Install Wizards May Display {0} Instead of the CD Title (4302549)
Motif suninstall Fails in de_AT.ISO8859-15 and fr_BE.ISO8859-15 Locales (4305420)
German Locale: Add and Cancel Buttons in the Proxy Kiosk Screen are Labeled as Undefined (4306260)
Chapter 2 Solaris Runtime Issues
Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Issues
User Settings For Screen Blank, Also Known As Monitor Power Saver, Are Ignored
Common Desktop Environment Bugs
dtmail Does Not Produce a Core File By Default (4249157)
PDASync Cannot Delete Last Entry From the Desktop (4260435)
PDASync Does Not Support Data Exchange With the Multibyte Internationalized PDA Device (4263814)
Compiling Motif Programs on the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (4172061)
File System Bugs
ufsdump(1M) Displays This Error: xtrmap: too many map entries (4297558)
System Administration Bugs
Exception: PS_UNAVAILABLE: 1 (out of memory) Error Occurs When Trying To Add Instances With WBEM (4284874)
WBEM Common Information Model Object Manager Crashes When Solaris_FileSystem Instances Are Requested (4301275)
Java Runtime Issues
Java Plug-in Support
Java Runtime Bugs
Warning Messages Are Displayed When Running Java2 Applications In UTF-8 Locales (4254198)
Performance Issue
Direct Memory Access (DMA) Is Disabled On PCI-IDE Systems
AnswerBook2 Bugs
The ab2admin Command Intermittently Indicates command failed Even Though the Command Succeeded (4242577)
ab2cd Script Displays an Erroneous Error Message (4256516)
Localization Bugs
Some Greek Characters Are Not Available in CDE (4179411)
Cannot Print Extended Characters in Calendar Manager in All Partial Locales (4285729)
Cutting and Pasting Text Between Arabic and UTF-8 English Does Not Work (4287746)
The Extras Drop-Down Menu Is Not Available for European Locales (4298547)
CTL Is Not Supported in Japanese and Asian UTF-8 Locales (4300239)
Option on the Right-Click Desktop Menu in SmartCard Is Not Supported (4301544)
Screens in Several Applications Have Not Been Localized (4301212, 4299487)
Cannot Read Arabic Messages Correctly When Using dtmail Between the Solaris Operating Environment and Microsoft Windows (4301870)
Cannot Add, Remove, or Modify Users in Solstice AdminTool in the Greek Locale (4302983)
Font Downloader Add and Cancel Buttons Are Incorrectly Labeled (4303549)
Missing Arabic Characters and Incompatibility Between the Sun Arabic Keyboard and the Microsoft Arabic Keyboard (4303879)
Use Font Downloader to Print From Any Non-ISO8859-1 Locale (4304493)
Unlocalised Messages Displayed in SEAM Application (4306619)
The Euro Currency Symbol Is Not Adequately Supported in the UTF-8 and Greek Locales (4306958, 4305075)
Sorting in the European UTF-8 Locales Does Not Function Correctly (4307314)
Hexadecimal Support No Longer Works Correctly in dtcalc With Swedish Localization (4308864)
Chapter 3 Late-Breaking News
PIM Kernel Support
Configuring Runtime Search Paths
Chapter 4 End-of-Software Support Statements
Current Release
HotJava Browser
Solaris Java Development Kit: JNI 1.0 Interface
Solstice AdminSuite 2.3/AutoClient 2.1
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Client Library
F3 Font Technology
XGL
Derived Type paddr_t
Changes to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for User Accounting Data
The sysidnis(1M) System Identification Program
Console Subsystem
Video Cards
Future Releases
Solstice AdminTool
Solstice Enterprise Agents
XIL
crash(1M) Utility
Kerberos Version 4 Client
adb(1) Map Modifiers and Watchpoint Syntax
OpenWindows Toolkits For Developers
OpenWindows Environment For Users
Federated Naming Service (FNS)/XFN Libraries and Commands
Solaris ipcs(1) Command
Deprecate sendmail -AutoRebuildAliases Option
devconfig
Device Support and Driver Software
Intel 486-Based Systems
Chapter 5 Documentation Issues
Documentation Errata
Document Affected: "Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Hardware Compatibility List" in Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Hardware Compatibility List
Document Affected: Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Hardware Compatibility List
Documents Affected: "SCSI RAID Tape" in Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Device Configuration Guide, Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Hardware Compatibility List, adp(7D) in the Solaris 8 Reference Manual Collection , What's New in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Device Configuration Guide
Document Affected: "Installation and Management" in What's New in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
Document Affected: What's New in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
Document Affected: "IPv6 Header Format" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
Document Affected: "Priority Values" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
Traffic Classes
Document Affected: "Implementing IPsec" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
Document Affected: "NFS Parameters for the nfs Module" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3 (4299091)
Document Affected: "NFS Parameters for the nfs Module" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3 (4299091)
Document Affected: "NFS Parameters for rpcsec Parameters" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3 (4299091)
Chapter 6 Driver Updates
Drivers for Solaris
Chapter 7 CERT Advisories
Chapter 8 Released Patches Integrated into the Solaris 8 Release
Patches
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