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Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) 10/00 Release Notes Update
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Preface
Chapter 1 Installation Issues
System Identification Bugs
System Identification Tools Fail to Verify Name Server (4265363)
Solaris Web Start 3.0 Bugs You Need to Know About Before Using the Solaris 8 Installation CD
Cannot Specify an Alternate Network Interface to Use During System Identification on Network Gateway Systems (4302896)
Issues You Need to Know About Before Installing Solaris 8 Software
Locale Installation Mechanism Change
Installation Bugs That Occur During an Interactive Installation From Solaris 8 1 of 2 CD
Installation Progress Bar May Be Inaccurate (1266156)
Warnings May Occur When a File System Is Created (4189127)
Custom JumpStart Does Not Prompt for the Solaris 8 Software 2 of 2 CD (4304912)
Upgrade Issues
Priority Paging Is Not Needed With the New Solaris 8 Caching Architecture
Installation Bugs That Occur During an Upgrade
Relocated CDE From the Solaris 2.5.1 Operating Environment Orphaned by an Upgrade to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (4260819)
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)
64-bit Packages Are Unnecessarily Installed During Upgrade From Solaris 2.6 or Solaris 7 Operating Environment (4323398)
64-Bit Solaris Issues
Sun UltraSPARC System (sun4u) May Need Boot Flash PROM Update
Localization Bugs
Turkish Locale Does Not Install From Solaris 8 1 of 2 CD (4359095)
Error Messages May Occur During European Upgrade (4230247, 4225787)
Swedish Locale: Dialog Boxes Displayed During Installation Are Not Localized (4300655)
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
Security Update Issues
Netscape Communicator Vulnerability
Security Update Bugs
ypbind Buffer OverFlow Can Allow Root Privileges (4362647)
Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Issues
Compiling Motif Programs on the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
Common Desktop Environment Bugs
sdtwinlst (Window List) and sdtgwm (Windows Manager) Icons Are Missing from desktop_apps (4360521)
Volume Manager Might Fail To Mount CDROM (4355643)
OpenWindows File Manager Fails to Mount Diskette (4329368)
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
Obsolete Files Still Present in Help System (4339515)
CIM_ERR_LOW_ON_MEMORY Error Occurs When Trying to Add Data With WBEM (4312409)
mofcomp Fails Due to a WBEM JavaSpaces Problem (4336719)
WBEM Common Information Model Object Manager Crashes When Solaris_FileSystem Instances Are Requested (4301275)
Hardware Configuration Bugs
Systems With Small Memory Configurations Panic During Boot Time If They Have Several USB Devices (4359440)
Java Runtime Issues
Java Plug-in Support
Java Runtime Bugs
libjvm.so Does Not Function Correctly When Using dlopen (4270715)
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
Warning Messages Might Appear When Launching Java Applications From Any UTF-8 Locale (4342801)
UTF-8 Version of sdtwinlst and sdtgwm Are Not Localized For European Languages (4352800, 4352861)
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)
Several Screens in The Smart Card Application Have Not Been Localized (4304495)
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
Sun4c-Based Systems
SPARCstation Voyager
SPARC Xterminal 1
Future Releases
GMT Zoneinfo Timezones
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
sun4d-Based Servers
Chapter 5 Documentation Issues
Documentation Errata
Document Affected: CDE User's Guide in AnswerBook2 (4356456)
Documents Affected: AnswerBook2 Help Collection
Document Affected: "Full Backup Commands" in Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Installation 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: "To Create a Boot Server on a Subnet" in "Creating an Install Server and a Boot Server" in Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide (4327931)
Chapter 6 CERT Advisories
Appendix A Patch List
Patch List
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