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Solaris 9 12/02 Release Notes
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Preface
Chapter 1 Installation Issues
Bugs You Need to Know About Before Installing Solaris 9 12/02 Software
IA: PXE Network Boot Does Not Execute Successfully on Sun LX50 Systems (4725108)
IA: Invalid Error Messages Display During Command-Line Interface Installation (4734820)
Boot From Solaris DVD Fails on Systems With Toshiba SD-M1401 DVD-ROM (4467424)
Cannot Access Data on Solaris 9 12/02 DVD in Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 Operating Environments (4511090)
Issues You Need to Know About Before Installing Solaris 9 12/02 Software
SPARC: Booting From the Solaris 9 12/02 DVD
IA: Solaris 9 12/02 Installation CD Partition Issue
IA: Change in Default Boot-Disk Partition Layout
SPARC: Default Solaris JumpStart Profile Might Not Install Multiple Locales on Small Disks
IA: Service Partition Not Created by Default on Systems With No Existing Service Partition
IA: Solaris Device Configuration Assistant Boot Diskette Is Not Available
IA: Update the DPT PM2144UW Controller BIOS to the Latest Revision Before Upgrading to the Solaris 9 12/02 Operating Environment
IA: Do Not Upgrade Hewlett-Packard (HP) Vectra XU Series Systems With BIOS Version GG.06.13
Installation Bugs
SPARC: Systems With Multiple Interfaces Recognize All Interfaces as Usable After Installation or Upgrade (4640568)
Installation Bugs That Occur During an Installation From Solaris 9 12/02 Software 1 of 2 CD
Warnings Might Occur When a File System Is Created (4189127)
Upgrade Issues
Cannot Access Storage Area Networks Through SUNWsan With Solaris 9 12/02 Operating Environment
IA: Cannot Use Solaris 9 12/02 (x86 Platform Edition) Installation CD to Upgrade x86 Systems to the Solaris 9 12/02 Operating Environment
Solaris Management Console 2.1 Software Is Not Compatible With Solaris Management Console 1.0, 1.0.1, or 1.0.2 Software
Installation Bugs That Occur During an Upgrade
Installer Text Display Problem When Using Solaris Live Upgrade (4736488)
SPARC: luupgrade Command Cannot Add Patches When a Patch List File Is Specified (4679511)
SPARC: Removal of SUNWjxcft Package Records Error During Upgrade (4525236)
Upgrading From Solaris 8 Operating Environment Might Create Redundant Kerberos Privacy Mechanisms (4672740)
Upgrading to Solaris 9 12/02 Operating Environment Might Disable Existing Secure Shell Daemon (sshd) (4626093)
Upgrade Fails if /export Is Near Capacity (4409601)
Upgrading Diskless Client Servers and Clients (4363078)
Upgrading the JavaSpaces Data Store to Prevent WBEM Data Loss (4365035)
64–Bit Solaris Issues
SPARC: Sun UltraSPARC System (Sun4U) Might Need Boot Flash PROM Update
Documentation CD Issue
Cannot Install Documentation Packages With Names Longer Than Nine Characters on Documentation Servers Running the Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8 Operating Environments
Documentation CD Installation Bugs
Uninstall Mode of Solaris 9 12/02 Documentation CD uninstaller Utility Does Not Work Properly (4675797)
Documentation CD Verify Panel Might Not Page in Command-Line Interface Mode (4520352)
Localization Issue That Occurs During Installation
Additional Related Locales Might Be Installed
Localization Bugs That Occur During Installation
Solaris 9 Beta Refresh Chinese CDE Font Packages Do Not Upgrade to Solaris 9 12/02 Operating Environment (4653908)
Upgrading Systems Running Solaris 8 Operating Environment With Full Thai/Russian/Polish/Catalan Support Leaves Invalid Packages on System (4650059)
Chapter 2 Solaris Runtime Issues
Smart Card Bugs
System Does Not Respond to Smart Card (4415094)
Edit Config File Menu Item in Smartcards Management Console Does Not Work (4447632)
Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Bugs
IA: CDE Startup Applications Might Display in the root-window Input Method Style (4770994)
CDE Removable Media Auto Run Capability Removed (4634260)
SPARC: dtmail Crashes When Launched From the Command Line if FontList Option Is Specified (4677329)
CDE Mailer Appears to Hang While Displaying Email With Long Lines (4418793)
Solaris PDASync Cannot Delete Last Entry From the Desktop (4260435)
Solaris PDASync Does Not Support Data Exchange With the Multibyte Internationalized PDA Device (4263814)
System Administration Bugs
IA: Pressing the F4 Key During BIOS Bootup Fails to Boot the Service Partition (4782757)
UltraSPARC II CP Event Message in Solaris 9 12/02 Operating Environment Not Always Produced (4732403)
Solaris WBEM Services 2.5 Daemon Cannot Locate com.sun Application Programming Interface Providers (4619576)
Some com.sun Application Programming Interface Method Invocations Fail Under XML/HTTP Transport Protocol (4497393, 4497399, 4497406, 4497411)
Cannot Modify File-System Mount Properties With Solaris Management Console Mounts and Shares Tool (4466829)
CIM_ERR_LOW_ON_MEMORY Error Occurs When Trying to Add Data With WBEM (4312409)
Solaris Volume Manager Issue
Solaris Volume Manager metattach Command Might Fail
Solaris Volume Manager Bugs
Detaching Submirror With metadetach Command Automatically Resizes Mirror (4678627)
Solaris Volume Manager metareplace -e Command Fails to Enable Soft Partitions When Disks Are Removed and Then Replaced (4645781)
Solaris Volume Manager metahs -e Command Fails on Copper Cable Storage Boxes When Failed Hot Spare Disk Has Been Swapped Out (4644106)
Solaris Volume Manager metadevadm Command Fails if Logical Device Name No Longer Exists (4645721)
Solaris Volume Manager metarecover Command Fails to Update metadb Namespace (4645776)
Networking Bugs
Configuring Multiple Tunnels Between Two IP Nodes With Filtering Enabled Might Result in Packet Loss (4152864)
Security Bugs
Unlocking CDE Screenlock Removes Kerberos Version 5 Credentials (4674474)
cron, at, and batch Cannot Schedule Jobs for Locked Accounts (4622431)
Additional Software Bug
SPARC: Veritas Volume Manager Might Fail on Systems Running Solaris 9 12/02 Operating Environment (4642114)
Documentation CD Issues
iPlanet Directory Server 5.1 Documentation Links Do Not Work Properly
SUNWsdocs Package Necessary to Remove Other Documentation Packages
Documentation CD Bugs
European Locale PDF Documents Available Only Through C Locale (4674475)
Removing Solaris 9 12/02 Documentation Packages Might Unexpectedly Uninstall Some Solaris 9 12/02 Documentation Collections (4641961)
Localization Bugs
IA: Crashes Occur When Using the Arabic and Hebrew Locales (4770382)
AltGraph-E Does Not Produce Euro Character in en_US.UTF-8 Locale (4633549)
SPARC: Shift-U Does Not Work as Expected in Arabic Locales (4303879)
Sorting in the European UTF-8 Locales Does Not Function Correctly (4307314)
Sun ONE Application Server Bugs
Default Browser Is Incompatible With Sun ONE Application Server 7 (4741123)
SPARC: Access Control List Editing Not Supported on Some Versions of Netscape Navigator (4750616)
Accessing an Oracle 9.1 Database With an Oracle 9.2 Client Might Cause Data Corruption (4707531)
SPARC: Administration Interface Reports Verifier Error When Viewing Persistence Manager Factory Resource Created From the Command Line (4733109)
SPARC: any Value in Address Attribute of iiop-listener Element in server.xml File Is Not Supported (4743366)
SPARC: Application Server Fails to Restart When Converting to an SSL-Enabled Environment (4723776)
SPARC: Application Server Might Crash During Dynamic Reloading (4750461)
Console Output Is Corrupted if the System's Default Encoding Is Not UTF-8 (4757859)
External Certificate Nickname Does Not Display in Administration Interface Nickname List (4725473)
SPARC: flexanlg Command Might Cause Open Failure Error (4742993)
IPv6-only Clients Cannot Connect to the Application Server (4742559)
Modified Samples Are Not Updated Until Redeployed (4726161)
SPARC: Nonzero Transaction Setting Causes Slow Local Transactions (4700241)
Oracle JDBC Driver Optimizations Not Being Initiated (4732684)
Permission Problems Occur During Dynamic Reloading and Invocation of Applications (4756981)
RMI-IIOP Clients Do Not Work for IPv6 Addresses Where DNS Address Lookups Fail for the IPv6 Address (4743419)
Value in the Only show entries with Field in the View Event Log Becomes Corrupted If the Application or System Is Not Using UTF-8 Encoding (4763655)
Sun ONE Application Server Security Bug
The Application Server Starts All Instances as Root Allowing Nonroot Users Root Access (4780076)
Sun ONE Directory Server (Formerly iPlanet Directory Server) Issues
Setup Issue
Schema Issues
Replication Issue
Server Plug-in Issues
Roles and Class of Service Issue
Indexing Issue
Sun ONE Directory Server Bugs
Cannot Inactivate Users Through Console (4521017)
Cannot Configure Directory With a Root Suffix That Contains Spaces (4526501)
Password Policy Information Is Not Synchronized Between Servers (4527608)
Account Lockout Remains Effective After the User Password Is Changed (4527623)
Console Backup Immediately After Installation Fails (4531022)
Server Ignores Case-Sensitive Syntax When Normalizing DN Attributes (4630941)
Stopping the Server During Export, Backup, Restore, or Index Creation Crashes the Server (4678334)
Replication Unable to Use Self-Signed Certificate (4679442)
Chapter 3 Late-Breaking News
Solaris 9 12/02 (x86 Platform Edition) and Sun LX50
Chapter 4 End-of-Software Support Statements
Features Removed From the Solaris 9 Operating Environment
adb Map Modifiers and Watchpoint Syntax
AnswerBook2 Server
aspppd Utility
ATOK8 Japanese Input Method
crash Utility
Crash Dump Options for Solaris ipcs Command
cs00 Japanese Input Method
devconfig
Device Support and Driver Software
Early Access (EA) Directory
Emulex MD21 Disk Controller for ESDI Drives
enable_mixed_bcp Tunable
Intel 486–Based Systems
japanese Locale Name Alternate
Java Software Developer's Kit (SDK) 1.2.2
JDK 1.1.8 and JRE 1.1.8
OpenWindows Toolkits for Developers
OpenWindows Environment for Users
Priority Paging and Related Kernel Tunables (priority_paging/cachefree)
s5fs File System
sendmail Utility Features
SUNWebnfs
sun4d–Based Servers
SUNWrdm
Features That Might Be Removed in a Future Release
AdminTool
Asian Short dtlogin Names
Device Management Entries in power.conf
Device Support and Driver Software
Federated Naming Service XFN Libraries and Commands
GMT Zoneinfo Time Zones
JRE 1.2.2
Kerberos Version 4 Client
Korean CID Fonts
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Client Library
Netstat -k Option
NIS+
pam_unix Module
Perl Version 5.005_03
Power Management I/O Control Commands
64-bit: ptrace(2) Interface in libc
sendmailvars and the L and G sendmail.cf commands
Solaris 32-bit Sun4U Kernel
Solaris Static System Libraries
Solaris Volume Manager Transactional Volume
Solstice Enterprise Agents
Ultra AX and SPARCengine Ultra AXmp Graphics Card
SPC Driver
Standalone Router Discovery
sun4m Hardware
SPARC: Support for Graphic Drivers
XIL
xutops Print Filter
Chapter 5 Documentation Issues
Documentation Errata
Document Affected: Solaris 9 Package List
Document Affected: sysidcfg Man Page and Solaris 9 12/02 Installation Guide
Document Affected: Solaris WBEM SDK Developer's Guide
Document Affected: "Writing a Client Program" in Solaris WBEM SDK Developer's Guide
Document Affected: Sun ONE Application Server 7, Standard Edition Developer's Guide
Appendix A Solaris 9 12/02 Operating Environment Patch List
uname -v output for Solaris 9 12/02 (x86 Platform Edition)
Patch List
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