- Book Information
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Installation Issues
- Issues You Need to Know About Before Installing Solaris 8 Software from DVD
- Solaris Web Start 3.0 Issues You Need to Know About Before Using the Solaris 8 Installation CD
- Solaris Web Start 3.0 Bugs You Need to Know About Before Using the Solaris 8
Installation CD
- Initial Install Might Not Be Possible If Swap Slice Does Not Start At The First Usable Cylinder (4508297)
- Default Install Might Be Disabled If Swap Slice Is Not on The Default Boot Disk (4527984)
- 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
- Insufficient Space for Extra Languages During Upgrade (4414329)
- 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 Installed symhisl, mega, or cpqncr Disk Controller Drivers
- 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
- Installation Bugs That Occur During an Installation From Solaris 8
1 of 2 CD
- Solaris 8 Software 2 of 2 Installation Program Does Not Automatically Start When Using Custom JumpStart or re-preinstall (4556860)
- 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
- Installation Bugs That Occur During an Upgrade
- Live Upgrade Might Not Determine Boot Device (4525464)
- 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 Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Data Loss (4365035)
- Solstice 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 WBEM 1.0 to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment Causes WBEM 2.0 to Fail (4274920)
- SUNWeeudt Partially Fails to Install During an Upgrade (4304305)
- Localization Bugs That Occur During Installation
- Chapter 2 Solaris Runtime Issues
- USB Issues
- Smart Card Bugs
- Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Issues
- Common Desktop Environment Bugs
- System Administration Bugs
- Remote Display of Solaris Management Console Hangs (4488117)
- Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) HTTP Service Does Not Automatically Start (4486999)
- WBEM Event Delivery Fails When Lowercase 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)
- Performance Issue
- AnswerBook2 Bugs
- Localization Issues
- Runtime Localization Bugs
- The Euro Currency Symbol Is Not Adequately Supported in the UTF-8 and Greek Locales (4363812, 4305075)
- 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)
- Sorting in the European UTF-8 Locales Does Not Function Correctly (4307314)
- Applications Not Fully Localized (4304495, 4306619)
- Chapter 3 Late-Breaking News
- Chapter 4 End-of-Software Support Statements
- Current Release
- Future Releases
- Perl Version 5.005_03
- Early Access (EA) Directory
- SUNWebnfs
- aspppd(1M) Utility
- 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 Features
- AnswerBook2 Server
- 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
- Crash Dump Options for 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: "Backing Up a UFS Snapshot" in Solaris 8 System Administration Supplement
- Document Affected: "OCF Client Properties Overview" in Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide
- Document Affected: "Setting Up a Smart Card (Tasks)" in Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide
- Document Affected: "OCF Client Properties Overview" in Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide and"Additional Client Configuration Tasks" in Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide
- Document Affected: "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: "IPv6 Header Format" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
- Document Affected: "Priority Values" in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
- 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)
- Documentation Errata
- Appendix A Patch List