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Solaris 7 5/99 Release Notes (SPARC Platform Edition)
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Preface
Chapter 1 Installation Issues
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Remote Login From dtgreet Freezes Local Window System (4213502)
Solaris Web Start Issues
Limited Browser Support In Client-Server Mode
Solaris Web Start Bugs
Cannot Move the Root File System (4046659)
Products May Not Use All Reserved Space (4059182)
Interactive Installation Issues
New JumpStart Behavior
Solaris dtlogin Screen
dtlogin Notes for System Administrators
Interactive Installation Bugs
Installation Fails With a False Non-Mountable File System Error (4164303)
TotalNET Advanced Server (SunLink) Drivers Cause Panic After a Reboot (4121961)
Installation Bugs That Occur During an Interactive Installation
Erroneous Messages Indicating Packages Added a Second Time (1235464)
Installation Progress Bar May Be Inaccurate (1266156)
Installation of Diskless Client Does Not Preserve Changes in the dfstab File on a Server (4045544)
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)
Clients Do Not Receive All Patches When a Server Is Upgraded (4175220)
SUNWcvc.u and SUNWdrr.u Packages Are Missing If You Upgrade From the Solaris 2.6 Hardware 3/98 or Solaris 2.6 5/98 Operating Environment to the Solaris 7 Operating Environment (4229675)
Errors May Occur When Applying the European Locale Updates Patch During an Upgrade (4230247)
Solaris Installation Bugs
Warnings May Occur When Creating a File System (4189127)
Not All Locales Supported Outside of Entire Metacluster (4181942)
System Administration Installation Bugs
Addition of Solaris 7 Service to an OS Server Results in an Upgrade Failure Message (4171470)
User Disabling of Daemons and Servers in inetd.conf Overridden by Package Instance (4220923)
64-Bit Solaris Issues
Sun UltraSPARC System (sun4u) May Need Flash PROM (Open Boot) Upgrade
AnswerBook2 Documentation Bug
ab2cd -s Does Not Add Locally-Installed Document Collections to the Server (4208243)
Chapter 2 Late-Breaking Solaris Runtime Issues
Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Bugs
Solaris Information Files Display in English (4202477)
System Administration Bugs
init Does Not Recognize Carrier Drop Off From a Serial Display and Therefore Does Not Revert to the Default Console (4191023)
init Prompts for Run Level When the reboot Command Is Executed From a Standalone Session (4191148)
Change the init Command's Run Level Prompt to Display on a tty On Which Shift D or the exit Command Are Executed (4196862)
The init Command Does Not Display Its Run Level Prompt When Reconnecting to the Port of an Auxiliary Console (4196993)
Some Console Messages Cannot Be Redirected to Auxiliary Consoles (4197589)
syslog Writes Messages to /dev/syscon When Unable to Send to syslogd (4219265)
UFS Quotas Not Enabled After Booting (4226352)
64-Bit Solaris Bugs
krtld Does Not Recognize sparcv9 Register Symbols (4203394)
Debugging Bugs
dbx 4.0 Cannot Dump the Stack Trace When Debugging a Multi-Threaded Program (4207409)
Java Development Kit (JDK) Bugs
Java Applications Dump Core When There Is Insufficient Swap Space (4037312, 4042667)
Adjust Colormap To Improve Performance in True-Color Environment (4102599)
The -nojit Option Displays a Warning (4144550)
Values in Italian Euro Currency Format Are Not Represented With Fractional Digits (4183898)
Chapter 3 Late-Breaking News
Java Development Kit 1.1.6_03
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Available
Large File Support
High-Performance JIT Compiler
Release Naming Convention
Release Name Strings
Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR) for Sun Enterprise 6x00, 5x00, 4x00, and 3x00 Systems
Chapter 4 End-of-Support Statements
End of Software Support Statements for Future Releases of the Solaris Operating Environment
The sysidnis(1M) System Identification Program
XIL
Appendix A Maintenance Update Patch List
Patch List
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