Appendix D   Installing Solaris Patches

Depending on the version of Solaris™ you are using, you must apply different Solaris patches. Solaris patches are available from Sun Microsystems' SunSolve home page:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/

The following sections contain specific URLs where you can download the particular patches you must apply to the different versions of Solaris.

Begin by reading the section "Determining Which Patches to Use." Then read the section that describes the patches of interest.

• "Solaris 2.6 Patches"
• "Solaris 2.7 Patches"
• "Solaris 2.8 Patches"

Determining Which Patches to Use

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To find out what operating system patches have been applied to your system, use the following command:

# showrev -p

If you see the following output, patches have been applied which enable the ECXpert Java™ user interface to function properly.

# showrev -p Patch: 103663-08 Obsoletes: 103683-01, Requires:, Incompatibles:, iss_sparc-01 Packages: SUNWcsu, SUNWcsr, SUNWhea Patch: 103594-10 Obsoletes: , Requires:, 103663-01, Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWcsu Patch: 103680-01 Obsoletes: , Requires:, 103663-01 Packages: SUNWcsu Patch: 103686-02 Obsoletes: , Requires:, 103663-01, Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWnisu

If you see the following output, it means that no patches at all have been applied:

# showrev -p showrev: opendir

Solaris 2.6 Patches

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If you are using Solaris 2.6, apply the patches shown in Table D-1: Refer to the following README file link for more information on the patch cluster that includes these patch IDs.

http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=patch&doc=2.6_Recommended.README

You may instead choose to apply the latest Solaris recommended patch cluster for Solaris 2.6. The Solaris recommended patch cluster is updated every 15 days, so it will be a later version than the Sun-recommended patch cluster and will not have been tested with ECXpert.

Download the latest Solaris recommended 2.6 patch cluster from:

ftp://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub/patches/2.6_Recommended.tar.Z

Refer to the following README file for instructions on applying this patch cluster:

ftp://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub/patches/2.6_Recommended.README

Table D-1    Solaris Version 2.6 (OS 5.6) Patches

Patch ID	Note	Description
105490-07	required	Linker Patch
105568-16	required	Libthread Patch
105210-27	required	LibC Patch
106040-13	required	X Input and Output Method Patch
105633-36	required (1)	Open Windows 3.6 Xsun Patch
106409-01	required (2)	Fixes the Chinese True Type Fonts
108091-03	required (3)	SunOS 5.6: ssJDK1.2.1_03 fails with fatal error in ISO8859-01 Locales.
105181-19	recommended	Kernal Update (socket close/hang)
105669-10	recommended	CDE 1.2 libDTSvc Patch (dtmail)
105284-31	recommended	Motif 1.2.7 Runtime Library Patch

Solaris 2.7 Patches

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If you are using Solaris 2.7, apply the patches shown in Table 5-5: Refer to the following file link for each base patch ID on the http://sunsolve.Sun.COM site (e.g., 106980, 107636, and so forth). Alternatively, you can search for the patch ID using the Search SunSolve text entry box.

Table 5-5 Solaris Version 2.7 (OS 5.7) Patches 

Patch ID	Note	Description
106980-10	required	Libthread Patch
107636-03	required	X Input and Output Method Patch
107081-11	required	Motif 1.2.7 and 2.1.1: Runtime Library Patch for Solaris 7.
108376-03	required	Open Windows 3.6.1 Xsun Patch

Solaris 2.8 Patches

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If you are using Solaris 2.8, apply the patches shown in Table 5-6:

Table 5-6 Solaris Version 2.8 (OS 5.8) Patches

Patch ID	Note	Description
108652-33 or later	required
108921-12 or later	required	Fixes spurious FOCUS_LOST and FOCUS_GAINED events.
108940-24 or later	required	Fixes problem that in some situations results in core dumps.

Download the latest recommended Solaris 2.8 patch cluster from:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/install-solaris-patches.html#2.8

To find out which, if any, patch cluster has been applied to your machine, use either of the following commands:

showrev

uname -a

If the patch cluster has been applied, the showrev command produces output similar to the following:

# showrev Hostname: myhost Hostid: 80859468 Release: 5.6 Kernel architecture: sun4u Application architecture: sparc Hardware provider: Sun_Microsystems Domain: myserver.com Kernel version: SunOS 5.6 Generic 105490-07 September 2000

If the patch cluster has been applied, the following command

uname - a command

produces output similar to the following:

# uname -a SunOS myhost 5.6 Generic_105181-05 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1