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Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) 7/01 Release Notes
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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
System Identification Does Not Detect Default Route on Manually Configured Network (4474697)
Installation Stops on Some 64 MB Systems (4423477)
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
Previous Versions of Solaris Management Console Software Are Not Compatible with Solaris Management Console 2.0 Software
Locale Installation 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
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 an Interactive Installation From Solaris 8 1 of 2 CD
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)
Custom JumpStart Does Not Prompt for the Solaris 8 Software 2 of 2 CD (4304912)
Upgrade Issues
Cannot Use Solaris Installation CD to Upgrade Intel Systems 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 Fails if /export Is Near Capacity (4409601)
Unable to Remove .save.SUNWcsr After Upgrading (4400054)
Upgrading Diskless Client Servers and Clients (4363078)
Upgrading the JavaSpaces Datastore to Prevent WBEM Data Loss (4365035)
DiskSuite May Cause Data Loss (4121281)
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)
Localization Bugs
Custom Screen in French and German Is Not Localized (4368056)
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 Bugs
NIS Domain Master Server Potential Security Issue (4456994)
Smart Card Bugs
Screen Does Not Lock When Smart Card Is Removed (4463360)
Smart Card User Cannot Login (4449515)
System Does Not Respond to Smart Card (4415094)
Edit Config File Menu Item in Smart Cards Management Console Does Not Work(4447632)
Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Issues
Compiling Motif Programs on the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
Common Desktop Environment Bugs
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
Error When Removing SUNWppdx 64-bit Package (4470877)
Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Event Delivery Fails When Uppercase Is Used (4441369)
Incorrect Error Message When Using flarcreate -e and -E (4404811)
Obsolete Files Still Present in Help System (4339515)
CIM_ERR_LOW_ON_MEMORY Error Occurs When Trying to Add Data With WBEM (4312409)
Java Runtime Issues
Java Plug-in Support
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
Euro Not Accessible in UTF-8 Locales (4363812)
Warning Messages Might Appear When Launching Java Applications From Any UTF-8 Locale (4342801)
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)
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)
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)
Applications Not Fully Localized (4304495, 4306619)
Chapter 3 Late-Breaking News
Three-Button Mouse Emulation Available For a Two-Button Mouse
Diskless Client Support
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
SUNWebnfs
Asynchronous Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
JDK 1.2.2 and JRE 1.2.2
JDK 1.1.8 and JRE 1.1.8
GMT Zoneinfo Timezones
s5fs File System
sendmail Utility
AnswerBook2 Server
Solstice AdminTool
Solstice Enterprise Agents
XIL
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Client Library
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
“OCF Client Properties Overview” in Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide
“Setting Up a Smart Card (Tasks)” in Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide
“OCF Client Properties Overview” in Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide and“Additional Client Configuration Tasks” in Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide
“Setting Up a Smart Card (Overview)” in Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide
Document Affected: Localized New Features List (4389948)
Document Affected: CDE User's Guide in AnswerBook2 (4356456)
Documents Affected: AnswerBook2 Help Collection
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 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
Chapter 6 CERT Advisories
Appendix A Patch List
Patch List
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