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Solaris 7 3/99 Online Release Notes (SUNWrdm)
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Preface
Chapter 1 Installation Bugs
Solaris Web Start Issues
SPARC only: Limited Browser Support in Client-Server Mode
Solaris Web Start Bugs
x86 only: Cannot Move the Root File System (4046659)
Products May Not Use All Reserved Space (4059182)
x86 only: The Root '/' File Sytem Extends Beyond HBA Cylinder 1023 (4062008)
Installation Issues
SPARC only: New JumpStart Behavior
Solaris dtlogin Screen
dtlogin Notes for System Administrators
Interactive Installation Bugs
Before Installation
Not All Locales Supported Outside of Entire Metacluster (4181942)
x86 only: DiskSuite May Cause Data Loss (4121281)
During Installation
Erroneous Messages Indicating Packages Added A Second Time (1235464)
Installation Progress Bar May be Inaacurate (1266156)
Installation of Diskless Client Does Not Preserve Changes in dfstab File on Server (4045544)
TotalNET Advanced Server (SunLink) Drivers Cause Panic After A Reboot (4121961)
Installation Fails With a False Non-Mountable File System Error (4164303)
Installation Bugs Before the Start of an Upgrade
Installation Bugs That May Occur During an Upgrade
Multiple Architecture Server Cannot Be Patched (1249343)
Disk Space Requirements can be Exaggerated by the Upgrade Process (4041733)
sun4m Solstice AutoClients Fail to Mount Cache After an Upgrade From the Solaris 2.6 Hardware: 3/98 Release (4121951)
Addition of Solaris 7 Service to an OS Server Results in an Upgrade Failure Message (4171470)
64-Bit Solaris Issues
SPARC only: Sun UltraSPARC System (sun4u) May Need Boot PROM Upgrade
Chapter 2 Runtime Bug Descriptions
System Administration Bugs
Non-Root Applications Using All Available Swap Space Can Hang a System Or/And Cause Critical System Daemons to Die (1189666)
Auditing of the Network (nt) audit Class Can Cause System Failure (4172702)
File System Bugs
Upgrade Can Fail on Systems With Overlapping Slices (4162497)
SPARC only: cpr_reset_properties: Unable to open /.cpr_default on /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0:a" (4163575)
Network Issues
Files With Negative Times Will No Longer Be Supported Over an NFS Mount
CDE Issues
Compiling Motif Programs
Supported Y2K Dates Testing Procedure
Centralized Calendar Access Swap Rquirement
The Motif Window Manager (MWM) Is No Longer Supported in the Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 Operating Environment
CDE Mailer Needs Additional Free Memory to Open a Mailbox
CDE Bugs
Date Prompt String Uses LC_MESSAGES When It Should Use LC_TIME (4053983)
Copy/Paste Functions Fail in dtterm When Using the ls -l Command in CTL Locales (4129969)
Names For Attachments Are Displayed in Reversed Order in Hebrew and Arabic Locales (4130010)
The Name of the Month in the Calendar Manager Icon of the CDE Workspace Manager is Incorrectly Reversed (4136966)
Dtmail May Truncate the Body of an Email Message (4133964)
SPARC only: When Selecting dtmail in the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), It Is Not CTL-Enabled in the Arabic Locale (4140698)
SPARC only: The Arabic Font Size Is Very Large (4140700)
SPARC only: Appointments Are Not Displayed in the Calendar Manager In Arabic When Selecting dtcm From CDE (4140701)
Core Dumps May Occur for Motif Programs on Systems with the Solaris 2.5.1 Operating Environment Running (4157689)
Compiling Motif Programs on Solaris 7 (4172061)
SPARC only: restore from sys-suspend Sometimes Does Not Restore CDE (4174133)
Java Development Kit (JDK) Bugs
Java Applications Dump Core When There Is Insufficient Swap Space (4037312)
Do Not Use Java Thread.suspend () And Thread.resume () Methods 4040218
Timestamp Constructor Accepts Two-Digit Date (4047499)
SPARC only: Java on SPARC Dumps Core (4087298)
Adjust Colormap To Improve Performance in True-Color Environment (4102599)
The -nojit Option Displays a Warning (4144550)
64-Bit Solaris Issues
SPARC only: Limitation on OpenWindows 3.6.1 APIs for the Solaris 7 Operating Environment
SPARC only: No 64-bit Executable Code Between 0 and 2G Virtual
64-Bit Solaris Bugs
SPARC only: 64-bit libmail Not Available (4169295)
Graphics Bugs
A User's Multi-Threaded Application Hangs (4076297)
XIL
Operation Is Not Implemented (1245393)
stdimage Freezes In Limited Circumstances (4155742)
XGL
Gcache decomp Does Edges Incorrectly For gcache_multi_simple_polygon (1167214)
Window Size Returned by DGA Behind by One Resize Event (1183134)
Security Bugs
Security Vulnerability In ufsdump And ufsrestore (4132365)
Solaris 7 praudit and auditreduce Cannot Process Solaris 2.6 Audit Files (4167174 and 4168892)
AnswerBook2 Bugs
AnswerBook2 Server Administrative Access Authentication Fails (4113327)
Localization Issues
OpenWindows Is Not Supported As a Desktop Option In Some Locales
Localization Bugs
x86 only: Cannot Add a New User With Solstice AdminTools in Arabic or Hebrew Locales (4159527)
x86 only: Some Custom Arabic TrueType Fonts May Cause an Intel XServer To Crash (4161002)
Arabic 16-Bit Proportional Fonts Clip Characters (4167851)
Static Desktop Text Is Not Enabled For Complex Text Layout (4170194)
Hardware Bugs
x86 only: 3Com EtherLink 3C509B Does Not Generate Interrupts (4153488)
x86 only: iprb: dma Overrun While Receiving Frame (4156622)
x86 only: ncrs: Mismatch of Narrow and Wide SCSI Operations on Intel N440BX Motherboard (4165916)
x86 only: kdmconfig: JumpStart Installation Fails With pnp Monitor (4166376)
Chapter 3 New Features
Solaris Documentation
Solaris 7 Supplements
Solaris Issues
Solaris Name Change
Euro Unit Support
Updated Version of the Java Development Kit
Updated Security In Sendmail
Multi-threaded-hot malloc
Processor Interrupt Control
No Support for 3.3V
64-Bit Solaris Issues
SPARC only: 64-Bit Assembler Instructions
64-Bit Solaris Support for the Assembler
Localization Issues
Arabic and Hebrew Support
Chapter 4 End-of-Software Support Statements
End of Software Support Statements for the Solaris 7 Operating Environment
Format of OS Man Page Source Files
Solaris PEX
x86 only: Support of Systems With Intel 80386 Chips
x86 only: Support of Systems and Devices
Systems
Devices
Notebooks
End of Software Support Statements for Future Releases of the Solaris Operating Environment
HotJava Browser
F3 Font Technology
XGL
Derived type paddr_t
Solaris Java Development Kit: JNI 1.0 Interface
Kerberos Version 4 Client
Planned Changes to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for User Accounting Data
x86 only: Console Subsystem
x86 only: Support of Video Devices
x86 only: Driver Support
SCSI Host Bus Adapters, Disk Arrays/RAID Controllers
Ethernet Network Adapters
Token Ring Network Adapters
End of Software Hardware Statements for Future Releases of the Solaris Operating Environment
Sun4c-Based Systems
SPARCstation Voyager
SPARC Xterminal 1
End of Software Support Statements for Previous Releases
Chapter 5 Patches
CERT Advisories
Released Patches Integrated into the Solaris 7 Release
Chapter 6 Driver Update Descriptions
SPARC only: 64-Bit SunVideo Driver Support (4116223)
x86 only: Drivers for Solaris (Intel Platform Edition)
x86 only: New Support for Siemens Monitors
x86 only: Vendor-Developed Drivers That Are Not Included
x86 only: Documentation Errata
Chapter 7 Documentation Issues
Documentation Errata
Documentation Errata for the Solaris 7 Developer Collection
Documentation Errata for the XIL Developer Documentation Web Address
Adding SUNWhinst To Support SunOS Release 4.x on a Solaris 7 Server
Euro Currency Support
x86 only: Documentation Errata for a New Tunable Kernal Base
x86 only: Additional Devices for x86-Based Systems
x86 only: SunOS 5.7 ncrs(7D) man page Is Out-Of-Date
x86 only: Documentation Errata for Configuration Assistant Menu
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