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Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) 6/00 Release Notes Update
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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
Solaris Web Start 3.0 Bugs You Need to Know About Before Using the Solaris 8 Installation CD
Installation Kiosk Does Not Look Up DNS Correctly (4318101)
Cannot Specify an Alternate Network Interface to Use During System Identification on Network Gateway Systems (4302896)
Issues You Need to Know About Before Starting an Interactive Installation From the Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 CD
Locale Installation Mechanism Change
Do Not Use a UTF-8 Locale When Installing the Solaris 8 or Solaris 8 6/00 Operating Environment
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 a Solaris Web Start 3.0 Installation
cpio Error Messages Occur When Booting From IA Boot Partition (4327051)
Installation Bugs That Occur During a Solaris Web Start 3.0 Installation or a Network Installation
Installation of Solaris Management Console Software Fails Using the Solaris 8 6/00 Installation CD or a Network Installation (4334831)
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 a File System Is Created (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)
Upgrade Issues
Cannot Use Solaris Web Start 3.0 to Upgrade to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
Priority Paging Is Not Needed With the New Solaris 8 Caching Architecture
Installation Bugs That Occur During an Upgrade
Upgrade From Solaris 8 Using the Installation CD Fails (4313749)
Obsolete Files in SUNWpmi and SUNWxwpls Are Not Removed When Upgrading From the Solaris 7 11/99 Operating Environment to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (4313654)
Upgrading the Solaris 7 Operating Environment With Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) 1.0 to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment Causes WBEM 2.0 Not to Work (4274920)
SUNWeeudt Partially Fails to Install During an Upgrade (4304305)
Localization Bugs
Error Messages May Occur During European Upgrade (4230247, 4225787)
Some Error Messages and Dialog Boxes Are Not Localized and Display Only in English (4283839, 4331185)
Installation of European Software (4299758)
Swedish Locale: Dialog Boxes Displayed During Installation Are Not Localized (4300655)
Solaris Web Start 3.0 Does Not Specify CD Titles in French Locale (4333007)
French and Italian Installation 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
Compiling Motif Programs on the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
Common Desktop Environment Bugs
CDE Workspace Manager Fails When Selecting dtmail Options Menu Twice in Succession (4336922)
OpenWindows File Manager Fails to Mount Floppy Disk (4329368)
Cannot Open CDE File Manager After Closing Removable Media Manager (4331909)
PDASync Cannot Delete Last Entry From the Desktop (4260435)
PDASync Does Not Support Data Exchange With the Multibyte Internationalized PDA Device (4263814)
System Administration Bugs
sd Driver May Not Detect New fdisk Partition Table Information (4304790)
CIM_ERR_LOW_ON_MEMORY Error Occurs When Trying to Add Data With WBEM (4312409)
WBEM Common Information Model Object Manager Crashes When Solaris_FileSystem Instances Are Requested (4301275)
Java Runtime Issues
Java Plug-in Support
Java Runtime Bugs
Do Not Use a UTF-8 Locale When Running Java Software in the Solaris 8 or Solaris 8 6/00 Operating Environment (4107762, 4334815)
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 Issues
Use Font Downloader to Print From Any Non-ISO8859-1 Locale
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 CDE Extras Drop-Down Menu Is Not Available for European Locales (4298547)
CTL Is Not Supported in Japanese and Asian UTF-8 Locales (4300239)
Screens in Several Applications Have Not Been Localized (4301212, 4299487, 4327983, 4329376, 4332309)
Cannot Add, Remove, or Modify Users in Solstice AdminTool in the Greek Locale (4302983)
Font Downloader Add and Cancel Buttons Are Incorrectly Labeled in the Italian Locale (4303549)
Missing Arabic Characters and Incompatibility Between the Sun Arabic Keyboard and the Microsoft Arabic Keyboard (4303879)
SEAM Application Displays Messages That Are Not Localized (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)
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
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
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Client Library
JDK 1.1.x and JRE 1.1.x
SUNWrdm
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
Documents Affected: "Adaptec AHA-2940AU, 2940U, 2940U Dual, 2940UW, 2940UW Dual, 2940U2, 2940U2B, 2940U2W, 2944UW, 2950U2B, 3940AU, 3940AUW, 3940AUWD, 3940U, 3940UW, 3944AUWD, 3950U2B HBAs" in the Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Device Configuration Guide, adp(7D) and cadp(7D) in the Solaris 8 Reference Manual Collection , and What's New in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
Document Affected: Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Device Configuration Guide
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)
Document Affected: "Mobile IP Mobility Agent Status" and "Displaying Mobility Agent Status" in Mobile IP Administration Guide
Document Affected: "Managing Mobile IP" and "Deploying Mobile IP" in Mobile IP Administration Guide
Document Affected: sdtgwm(1) man page (4330198)
Document Affected: Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide (4296336)
Document Affected: Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide (4326607)
Document Affected: "To Create a Boot Server on a Subnet" in Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide (4327931)
Documents Affected: "Improved Removable Media Management" in Solaris 8 System Administration Supplement and "Removable Media" in Solaris 8 User Supplement
Accessing Jaz or Zip Drives
Chapter 6 CERT Advisories
Appendix A Maintenance Update Patch List
Patch List
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