If you install on your system any two, or all three of the following documentation media, and then attempt to uninstall any one of these CDs, the uninstaller summary panel reports a Failed status:
Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation 1 of 2 CD
Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation 2 of 2 CD
Solaris 9 on Sun Hardware documentation set on the Solaris 9 12/03 Software Supplement CD
This problem occurs because all three CDs contain packages that are dependent on the SUNWsdocs package.
The CD that you attempt to uninstall will remain registered. However, a Damaged status is displayed in the product registry. The uninstaller will interpret this status as a failure.
The documentation set is then skipped during the uninstall process, even though the associated packages have been removed from the system.
Workaround: Follow these steps to correct the problem:
Uninstall the remaining Solaris 9 12/03 documentation CDs.
Unregister the Solaris 9 12/03 documentation CD that was not uninstalled properly.
Reinstall the Solaris 9 12/03 documentation media, if necessary.
In the Solaris 9 12/03 software and other systems based on UNIX, PDF documents on the Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation 1 of 2 CD are not accessible in the following European locales:
de (German)
es (Spanish)
fr (French)
it (Italian)
sv (Swedish)
This problem occurs because of a limitation with Adobe Acrobat Reader. For more information on this problem, see the Adobe Technote site at http://www.adobe.com:80/support/techdocs/294de.htm.
Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds.
In the Solaris 9 12/03 software and other systems based on UNIX, set the environment variable LC_ALL to C acroread. For example, in the C shell, type the following command in a terminal window:
% env LC_ALL=C acroread |
For systems that are not based on UNIX, upgrade to Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or a later version.
Some Solaris 9 12/03 documentation collections might be unexpectedly removed from your system under the following circumstances:
You install both the Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation 1 of 2 and 2 of 2 CDs on your system.
You then use the prodreg utility or the Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation CD installer program to remove certain documentation packages.
The Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation CD 1 of 2 and 2 of 2 have three collections in common. If you remove the packages that contain these collections from either of the Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation 1 of 2 or 2 of 2 CD installations, the package is removed for both installations.
The following table lists the packages that might be removed unexpectedly:
Table 2–1 Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation Packages Contained on Both Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation CDs
HTML Package Names |
PDF Package Names |
Collection Description |
---|---|---|
SUNWaadm |
SUNWpaadm |
Solaris 9 System Administrator Collection |
SUNWdev |
SUNWpdev |
Solaris 9 Developer Collection |
SUNWids |
SUNWpids |
iPlanet Directory Server 5.1 Collection |
Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds:
If the uninstall process unexpectedly removed these documentation packages, and you want these packages on your system, reinstall the packages from the Solaris 9 12/03 Documentation 1 of 2 or 2 of 2 CDs.
To avoid this problem, use the pkgrm utility to remove the packages that you want to eliminate from your system.