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Solaris 9 9/05 Release Notes
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Preface
Chapter 1 Installation Issues
Issues You Need to Know About Before Installing Solaris 9 9/05 Software
Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation Software and Documentation
x86: Systems With Certain ATA Hard Disk Drives Hang When Rebooted After Solaris 9 Software Installation
x86: Solaris 9 9/05 Installation CD Partition Issue
x86: Change in Default Boot-Disk Partition Layout
SPARC: Default Solaris JumpStart Profile Might Not Install Multiple Locales on Small Disks
x86: Service Partition Not Created by Default on Systems With No Existing Service Partition
x86: Solaris Device Configuration Assistant Boot Diskette Is Not Available
x86: Do Not Upgrade Hewlett-Packard (HP) Vectra XU Series Systems With BIOS Version GG.06.13
Bugs You Need to Know About Before Installing Solaris 9 9/05 Software
SPARC: Installing Sun Net Connect 3.1 Service Fails on Sun Fire V1280 Servers (6284815)
x86: PXE Network Installation Hangs on Systems With Adaptec Ultra-160 SCSI Interface (5039573)
x86: X Server Unable to Open Mouse Device in Sun LX50 Servers (5027771)
SPARC: Installing Custom JumpStart Software With the re-preinstall Command Fails (5017239)
Cannot Access Data on Solaris 9 9/05 DVD When Running Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 Software (4511090)
Installation Bugs
SPARC: Solaris 9 9/05 Web Start Installation Program Might Not Display Special Case Panels Properly (5002175)
SPARC: Systems With Multiple Interfaces Recognize All Interfaces as Usable After Installation or Upgrade (4640568)
Installation Bug That Occurs During an Installation From Solaris 9 9/05 Software 1 of 2 CD
Warnings Might Occur When a File System Is Created (4189127)
Upgrade Issues
Additional Patches Are Needed to Run Solaris Live Upgrade
Limitation When Installing Solaris Live Upgrade Packages
Cannot Access Storage Area Networks Through SUNWsan With Solaris 9 9/05 Software
x86: Cannot Use Solaris 9 9/05 (x86 Platform Edition) Installation CD to Upgrade x86 Systems From Solaris 2.6 or Solaris 7 Software
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: Removal of SUNWjxcft Package Records Error During Upgrade (4525236)
Upgrading to Solaris 9 9/05 Release Might Disable Existing Secure Shell Daemon (sshd) (4626093)
Upgrade Fails if /export Directory Is Near Capacity (4409601)
Upgrading Diskless Client Servers and Clients (4363078)
Installation Bugs That Occur After an Upgrade
Obsolete Uninstallers Not Removed When You Use Solaris Live Upgrade to Upgrade From Previous Solaris Releases (6198380)
SPARC: After Upgrading or Applying Recommended Patches, Problems With SAM-FS/QFS Occur (5003346)
SPARC: Removing Patches After Upgrade Might Corrupt WBEM Repository (4820614)
64–Bit Solaris Issue
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 Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8 Software
Documentation CD Installation Bugs
Uninstall Mode of Solaris 9 9/05 Documentation CD uninstaller Utility Does Not Work Properly (4675797, 4627776)
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
Languages CD Installs All Languages By Default With Solaris Live Upgrade (4898832)
Upgrading Systems Running Solaris 8 Software With Full Thai/Russian/Polish/Catalan Support Leaves Invalid Packages on System (4650059)
Chapter 2 Solaris Runtime Issues
Hardware–Related Issue and Bugs
Supported USB Devices and Corresponding Hub Configurations
SPARC: Display of Extended Display Identification Data Delayed in PGX32 Hardware (6272648)
Some Systems With USB 2.0 Hardware Might Hang or Panic (5030842)
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
SPARC: Some UTF-8 Locales Are Unavailable in the Common Desktop Environment Login Service (5042573)
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)
GNOME 2.0 Issues and Bugs
GNOME 2.0 Documentation
System Administration Bugs
SPARC: Panics That Occur During Suspend and Resume Cycles Might Cause the System to Hang (5062026)
SPARC: Stopping the System by Using Keyboard Sequences Might Cause a System Panic (5061679)
x86: Universal Serial Bus Architecture Modular DeBugger Not Configured Automatically When Only New Framework Is Loaded (4982529)
Installation of Locales Fails if Solaris Installation CDs Are Used (4967742)
x86: Pressing the F4 Key During BIOS Bootup Fails to Boot the Service Partition (4782757, 5051157)
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)
Solaris Volume Manager Issue
Solaris Volume Manager metattach Command Might Fail
Solaris Volume Manager Bugs
Solaris Volume Manager metassist Command Fails in Non-English Locales (5067097)
Hot Spares Do Not Work Correctly When Solaris Volume Manager RAID-1 (Mirror) or RAID-5 Volumes Are Created in Disk Sets Built on Soft Partitions (4981358)
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 Bug
Configuring Multiple Tunnels Between Two IP Nodes With Filtering Enabled Might Result in Packet Loss (4152864)
Standards Bug
Compiling UNIX 98 or UNIX 03 Applications That Include the dflcn.h Header File Fails (6295971)
Documentation CD Issues
iPlanet Directory Server 5.1 Documentation Links Do Not Work Properly
SUNWsdocs Package Needed to Remove Other Documentation Packages
Documentation CD Bugs
European Locale PDF Documents Available Only Through C Locale (4674475)
Removing Solaris 9 9/05 Documentation Packages Might Unexpectedly Uninstall Some Solaris 9 9/05 Documentation Collections (4641961)
Localization Issue
Hardware for Estonian Keyboard Type 6, French Canadian Keyboard Type 6, and Polish Programmers Keyboard Type 5 Not Available
Localization Bugs
Sort Capability 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)
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)
Account Lockout Remains Effective After the User Password Is Changed (4527623)
Console Backup Done Immediately After Installation Fails (4531022)
Server Ignores Case-Sensitive Syntax When Normalizing DN Attributes (4630941, 4933500)
Stopping the Server During Export, Backup, Restore, or Index Creation Crashes the Server (4678334)
Replication Unable to Use Self-Signed Certificate (4679442)
Security Issue
Nonpassword Logins Fail With pam_ldap Enabled
UFS File System Bug
SPARC: Using fssnap on a Multiterabyte UFS File System Does Not Work (4836824)
Chapter 3 End-of-Software Support Statements
Features Removed From the Solaris 9 Software
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
x86: devconfig Command
x86: Device and Driver Software Support
Early Access (EA) Directory
Emulex MD21 Disk Controller for ESDI Drives
enable_mixed_bcp Tunable
x86: 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
Kerberos Version 4 Client
Netscape 4.7x Software
Netscape 6.2x and Netscape 7.0 Software
OpenWindows Toolkits for Developers
OpenWindows Environment for Users
Priority Paging and Related Kernel Tunables ( priority_paging/cachefree)
s5fs File System
sendmail Utility Features
Solaris Maintenance Updates
SUNWebnfs Package
sun4d–Based Servers
SUNWrdm Package
Features That Might Be Removed in a Future Release
device_driver Path-Name Support in add_drv System Command
AdminTool Command
Asian Short dtlogin Names
asysmem() and sysmem() Interfaces
Audit Daemon Interfaces
Device Allocation Interfaces For the Basic Security Module
Obsolete Device Driver Interfaces
Device Management Entries in power.conf
Device Support and Driver Software
Euro Character Input Sequences That Are Alt Key-Based and Meta Key-Based
Federated Naming Service XFN Libraries and Commands
fork() Function
Generic LAN Driver Version 0 Interfaces
GMT Zoneinfo Time Zones
SPARC: Graphic Driver Support
Java Runtime Environment 1.2.2
Kodak Color Management System
Korean CID Fonts
Lance Ethernet Drivers
libXinput Library
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Client Library
Obsolete Lightweight Process (LWP) Interfaces
Nameless Interface Groups Feature
netstat -k Option
Network Information Service Plus (NIS+) Name Service Type
pam_unix Module
Perl Version 5.005_03
Power Management I/O Control Commands
64-bit SPARC: ptrace Interface in libc
sendmailvars and the L and G sendmail.cf commands
SPARC: 64-bit Packages
sdtjmplay Desktop Java Media Player
Serial Parallel Controller (SPC) Driver
Solaris 32-bit Sun4U Kernel
Solaris Static System Libraries
Solaris Volume Manager Transactional Volume
Solstice Enterprise Agents
Standalone Router Discovery
Storage Interfaces
sun4m Hardware
Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 7.0 (Formerly Sun ONE Application Server 7.0 Platform Edition)
Sun StorEdge A3000, Sun StorEdge A3500, and Sun StorEdge A3500FC Systems
Tape Devices
Ultra AX and SPARCengine Ultra AXmp Graphics Card
32-bit: X11 Static Libraries
XIL Interface
xetops Utility
xutops Print Filter
Chapter 4 Documentation Issues
Document Affected: Sunscreen 3.2 Configuration Examples Manual
Document Affected: System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP)
The Name Service Switch (Overview)
LDAP Naming Services Setup and Administration
Transitioning from NIS to LDAP (Overview/Tasks)
Network Information Service (NIS) (Overview)
Document Affected: Administering DHCP (Task) in System Administration Guide: IP Services
Document Affected: Using the CIM Object Manager in Solaris WBEM Developer's Guide
Appendix A Solaris 9 9/05 Operating System Patch List
SPARC Patch List
x86 Patch List
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