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Book Information
Preface
Chapter 1 Installation Bugs
Installation Issues - Solaris Web Start
SPARC only: Limited Browser Support in Client-Server Mode
Installation Bugs - Solaris Web Start
Cannot Move the Root Partition (4046659)
Colors May Display Incorrectly in Netscape Browser (4056980)
Products May Not Use All Reserved Space (4059182)
Web Browser May Hang or Crash With Solaris Web Start (4061657)
x86 only: The '/' Slice Extends Beyond HBA Cylinder 1023 (4062008)
Installation Issues
SPARC only: New JumpStart Behavior
Solaris Default Login Screen
dtlogin Notes for System Administrators
SPARC only: To Disable 64-Bit Support on Ultra SPARCstations Using JumpStart
Installation Bugs
JumpStart is Unable to Read DiskSuite and Veritas Partitions (4109714)
Before Installation
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)
JumpStart Installs on Wrong Default Boot Disk (4027156)
Installation of Diskless Client Does Not Preserve Changes in dfstab File on Server (4045544)
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)
Upgrade exits with : Error: upgrade_script terminated abnormally.
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)
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
Desktop Issues
Compiling Motif Programs
Desktop 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)
Core Dumps May Occur for Motif Programs on Systems with the Solaris 2.5.1 Operating Environment Running (4157689)
SPARC only: Appointments Are Not Displayed in the Calendar Manager In Arabic When Selecting dtcm From CDE (4140701)
CDE Issues
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
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
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)
AnswerBook2 Bugs
Hardware Bugs
x86 only: 3Com EtherLink 3C509B Does Not Generate Interrupts (4153488)
x86 only: iprb: dma Overrun While Receiving Frame (4156622)
Chapter 3 New Features
64-Bit Solaris
SPARC only: 64-Bit Assembler Instructions
Updated Version of the Java Development Kit
Updated Security In Sendmail
Multi-threaded-hot malloc
Processor Interrupt Control
Doc Errata for the Solaris 7 Installation Library
Doc Errata for the System Administration Guide, Vol. II for the Section "Managing System Performance"
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
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 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
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