- Book Information
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Solaris 10 7/07 HW Issues
- Chapter 2 Installation
Issues
- General Information
- Before You Begin
- Installation Change for the Solaris Companion DVD
- Correct Solaris Data Encryption Supplement Required for Use of Longer Key Lengths on Solaris 10 Updates
- Additional Procedures Required When Installing Patches for Solaris 10 7/07 HW Release
- Sun Fire V250 Server Installation
- NFS Version 4 Introduces New Prompt at First System Boot
- Default Size of /var File System Inadequate for Extra Value Products
- SPARC: Older Firmware Might Need Boot Flash PROM Update
- Solaris Management Console 2.1 Software Is Not Compatible With Solaris Management Console 1.0, 1.0.1, or 1.0.2 Software
- Cannot Create a Solaris Flash Archive When Solaris Zones Are Installed (6246943)
- Installation Bugs
- Symbolic Links to etc/default/kbd and etc/default/nfs Files are Missing (6547635)
- The Linux Partition Does Not Display on the GRUB Menu After Installing the Solaris OS (6508647)
- SPARC: Installing a Solaris Flash Archive Causes Sun4v System to Hang (6411690)
- Solaris Not Sending a PRLI to Tape Device (6379955)
- SPARC: Solaris 10 OS Installation Program Might Not Display Special Case Panels Properly (5002175)
- Warnings Might Occur When a File System Is Created (4189127)
- Additional Installation Issues
- smosservice add Command Does Not Install Designated ARCH=all Packages (4871256)
- StarOffice Patch Application Requires Additional Steps
- StarOffice and StarSuite Software Cannot Coexist in the Same System
- Cannot Install Documentation Packages With Names Longer Than Nine Characters on Documentation Servers Running Solaris 7 or Solaris 8 Software
- Additional Related Locales Might Be Installed
- Chapter 3 Solaris
Runtime Issues
- Common Desktop Environment
- Security Flaws in Firefox 2.0.0.1 (6526694)
- Printing From Some GNOME Applications Fail (6477108)
- strftime(3c) Should Support GNU Extension in %-m And %-d (6448815)
- Nautilus ACL MASK is Not in Sync With Group Permissions (6464485)
- SMC CLI Commands Do Not Process the Solaris Trusted Extensions Options (6447833)
- Mouse Pointer and the dtfile Icon Are Not Displayed When You Drag the dtfile Icon (6462945)
- SMC Updates the tnrhdb File But Does Not Run tnctl to Update the Trusted Host Cache (6471594)
- Cannot Login Using GDM Unless Clearance is Set to admin_high (6432114)
- Trusted Stripe Disappears From The Screen After Resolution Change (6460624)
- Secure Attention Key or Hot Key Does Not Work on x86 Systems (6486416)
- Full-Screen Magnification and Keyboard Accessibility Features Not Working (6273030)
- CDE Removable Media Auto Run Capability Removed (4634260)
- Solaris PDASync Cannot Delete Last Entry From the Desktop (4260435)
- Documentation DVD
- File Systems
- zoneadm install Fails With a ZFS Legacy Mount (6449301)
- zpool Scrubbing Leads to Memory Exhaustion and a System Hang (6456888)
- ZFS and UNIX/POSIX Compliance Issues
- Adding ZFS Patch to a Solaris 10 7/07 HW System Causes Spurious Warning Messages (6429860)
- fdisk -E Can Sweep Disk Used by ZFS Without Warning (6412771)
- ZFS and Third-Party Backup Product Issues
- ZFS GUI Should Check For /usr/lib/embedded_su at the Beginning of Each Wizard (6326334)
- Fails to Sync File System on Panic (6250422)
- NFSv4 Access Control List Functions Might Work Incorrectly
- Access Problems Between Solaris NFSv4 Clients and NFSv4 Servers
- Using mkfs Command to Create File System Might Fail on Very Large Disks (6352813)
- File System Creation Might Fail on Small Slices (6346510)
- System Crash Dump Fails on Devices Greater Than 1 TByte (6214480)
- Using smosservice Command to Add OS Services Results in Insufficient Disk Space Message (5073840)
- Hardware–Related Issue and Bugs
- The (ZFS) ARC Allocates Memory Inside The Kernel Cage Preventing DR (6522017)
- SPARC: DR: cfgadm -c configure Command Fails on Slot of Starcat and Silverstone (6452077)
- mpathadm Does Not Display Load-Balance Setting Specific to Device
- Registration Tool Prevents Power Management on Some Framebuffers (6321362)
- SPARC: Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 Board Versions 1.0 and 1.1 Not Supported in Solaris 10 OS
- Certain USB 2.0 Controllers Are Disabled
- Supported USB Devices and Corresponding Hub Configurations
- DVD-ROM/CD-ROM Drives on Headless Systems
- SPARC: Power Management in Sun Expert3D and Sun Elite3D Hardware Not Working Under Certain Circumstances (6321362)
- SPARC: jfca Driver for Certain Host Bus Adapters That Are Connected to Tape Devices Might Cause Errors (6210240)
- Contention Exists Between Certain Devices That Share the Same Bus (6196994)
- hat_getkpfnum() DDI Function Is Obsolete (5046984)
- Some DVD and CD-ROM Drives Fail to Boot Solaris (4397457)
- iPlanet Directory Server 5.1 Issues
- Issues While Running Debugger
- Localization Issues
- Multiple Input Method Switcher Applications Appear in Trusted Java DS
- Wnn8 Japanese Input Method
- Keyboard Shortcuts in Mozilla Ambiguous in Spanish Locale (6288620)
- Uninstaller Displays Strings Incorrectly in Some Locales (6487062)
- Input Method Cannot Be Enabled With Primary Administrator Rights (6475081)
- New ChuYin Input Method Not Supported in Upgrade to IIIMF rev.12 (6492129)
- AltGr Does Not Work As Mode Switcher in Some Russian Locales (6487712)
- Arabic6.kt Keytable Does Not Contain Arabic Symbols (6463576)
- Arabic Text Not Appearing in ar Locales
- Solaris PDASync Does Not Support Data Exchange With the Multibyte Internationalized PDA Device (4263814)
- Adding Regions Fails With the localeadm Command (6350486)
- L10N Messages Missing When Using localeadm Utility to Add Locales (6423974)
- SPARC: Keycode 50 Does Not Work for European Keyboard Layouts (6387317)
- Several Arabic Fonts Do Not Work in GNOME (6384024)
- Unable to Switch Input Language on Session-Saved Applications (6360759)
- Keyboard Shortcuts in Mozilla in ES Locale Are Unusual and Ambiguous (6288620)
- Migration Note to UTF-8 locales
- Hardware for Estonian Keyboard Type 6, French Canadian Keyboard Type 6, and Polish Programmers Keyboard Type 5 Not Available
- Cannot Print Documents in Portable Document Format (6239307, 6218079)
- Special Keyboard Keys Do Not Work (5077631)
- Modifier Keys Do Not Function Correctly (4996542)
- Chinese and Korean Characters Are Printed In a Box (4977300)
- Sort Capability in the European UTF-8 Locales Does Not Function Correctly (4307314)
- Networking Issues
- File libmd.so.1 Not Found (6541703)
- Login Fails on iSCSI Target With Two Portals and One Bad Portal (6476060)
- System Domain of Interpretation Is Not Configurable (6314248)
- Memory Leaks with ECC and RSA Cipher Suites (6421471)
- iSCSI Initiator Does Not Handle LUN Address Reporting Properly (6377485)
- Wrong MAC Address is Displayed When There is More Than One Ethernet Card (6316245)
- SPARC: RTM_IFINFO Message Has Different Sizes on 32-bit and 64-bit Compilations
- IP Forwarding Disabled by Default in Solaris 10 OS
- Generic LAN Driver Version 3 Fails to Set Field Length of Logical Link Control Frames (6350869)
- Zone Not Booting When IP Address Belongs to a Failed IP Network Multipathing Group (6184000)
- Intermittent Errors Might Occur With the Use of DataDigests (5108515)
- ATM LANE Subnets for IPv4/IPv6 Might Not Complete Initialization (4625849)
- Configuring Multiple Tunnels Between Two IP Nodes With Filtering Enabled Might Result in Packet Loss (4152864)
- Security Issues
- Service Management Facility
- Smart Card
- Solaris Commands and Standards
- Failed Unconfigure Command cfgadm Might Succeed Later Without Notice (6483258)
- Bash 2.0.5b No Longer Sets Some Environment Variables
- New ln Utility Requires -f Option
- New tcsh Rejects setenv Variable Names That Use a Dash or an Equals Sign
- STDIO getc Family EOF Condition Behavior Change
- Output Columns of the ps Command Have Been Widened
- Command ping -v Does Not Work on IPv6 Addresses (4984993)
- Solaris Volume Manager
- Solaris Volume Manager metattach Command Might Fail
- Solaris Volume Manager metassist Command Fails in Non-English Locales (5067097)
- Volume Creation Fails in Systems With Unformatted Disks (5064066)
- 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)
- Sun Java Desktop System
- Email and Calendar
- Login Issues
- Help System
- Mozilla Browser
- System-Level Issues
- Problems With Sound Recorder
- Volume Control Option Not Working
- Outdated List of Allowed Applications for Solaris OS (6267922)
- Problems When Using Keyboard Indicator (6245563)
- Certain View Options Might Cause File Manager to Fail (6233643)
- CD Quality, Lossless Mode Fails at Start of Recording (6227666)
- Cannot Delete Files Outside of Home Directory (6203010, 5105006)
- Problems Creating Certain Types of Archives (5082008)
- System Administration
- iSCSI Target Coredumps When Running JIST Test Suite (6550844)
- ZFS Administration Window Fails To Launch (6549565)
- smosservice Command Fails (6545660)
- lucreate :zone Feature Does Not Work on Whole Root Zones (6526238)
- Solaris is Unable to Handle Mode Switches Between Legacy and AHCI Modes for the SATA Controller (6520224)
- Possible Error With 32-bit Applications Getting File System State on Large File Systems (6468905)
- Solaris Trusted Extensions Administration Tools Display Incorrect Labels (6478436)
- Using patchadd With the -R Option To Specify an Alternative Root Path From Systems That Are Not Zones Aware Should Be Restricted (6464969)
- Upgrade to Solaris 10 7/07 HW or Changing Specific Device Configurations Might Break PCI/PCIe Hotplug Administration (6466526)
- smosservice or smdiskless Is Broken Due to wbem Issues (6378956)
- Sun Patch Manager Tool 2.0 Not Compatible With Previous Versions
- Sun Remote Services Net Connect Supported Only in the Global Zone
- Error or Warning Messages Might Be Displayed While Installing Non-global Zones With the zoneadm Command
- SPARC: Error Messages Displayed During Dynamic Reconfiguration (6312424)
- Error Messages Displayed by pkgchk After You Remove Patches for Zones (6267966)
- Race Condition Between EF/kcfd and IPsec Algorithm Availability (6266083)
- Solaris Product Registry Administration Utility Fails to Launch in a Zone (6220284)
- Cannot Delete Existing Diskless Clients From the System (6205746)
- Net Connect 3.1.1 Installation Fails (6197548)
- SPARC: smosservice delete Command Does Not Successfully Remove All Directories (6192105)
- patchadd Command Does Not Support Installing Patches From an NFS Server (6188748)
- lucreate Command Does Not Create RAID-1 Volumes (5106987)
- SPARC: Stopping the System by Using Keyboard Sequences Might Cause a System Panic (5061679)
- Using the ipfs Command With -W Option Fails (5040248)
- kill -HUP Does Not Always Cause the Agent to Reread the snmpd.conf Configuration File (4988483)
- 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)
- Common Desktop Environment
- Chapter 4 System-Specific Issues
- Dynamic Reconfiguration on Sun Fire High-End Systems
- Dynamic Reconfiguration on Sun Fire Midrange Systems
- Sun Enterprise 10000 Release Notes
- Dynamic Reconfiguration on Sun Enterprise Midrange
Systems
- Supported Hardware
- Software Notes
- Known Bugs
- Network Device Removal Fails When a Program Is Holding the Device Open (5054195)
- Memory Interleaving Set Incorrectly After a Fatal Reset (4156075)
- Cannot Unconfigure a CPU/Memory Board That Has Interleaved Memory (4210234)
- Cannot Unconfigure a CPU/Memory Board That Has Permanent Memory (4210280)
- cfgadm Disconnect Fails When Running Concurrent cfgadm Commands (4220105)
- Chapter 5 End-of-Software
Support Statements
- Features That Might Be Removed in a Future Release
- Gnopernicus
- Xsun Server
- Mobile IP
- Common Desktop Environment
- CDE Image Viewer
- Sun Java System Calendar Server Client Applet
- DARPA Trivial Name Server
- I2O Intelligent I/O
- GNOME Viewer for PDF and PostScript Files
- The Graphical Smartcard Admin Interface
- iButton Smartcard
- Cyberflex Smartcard
- PAM Smartcard
- OCF/SCF Smartcard Framework
- SCF Smartcard APIs
- Remote Program Load Server Funtionality
- Transition From ipge to e1000g NIC Driver as the Default Ethernet Driver for Sun4V Systems
- Solstice Enterprise Agents Support
- Mozilla 1.X Support
- Standard Type Services Framework Support
- SPARC: jfca Driver Support
- zic -s Option Support
- Removable Volume Management Support
- 64-bit SPARC: Dual Basic Rate ISDN Interface and Multimedia Codec Chips
- SPARC: Certain Drivers Might Not be Supported in a Future Solaris Release
- Automated Security Enhancement Tool Support
- Asian Short dtlogin Names
- Audit Daemon Interfaces
- Cfront Runtime Support Library
- Configuration Assistant's fp Plug-in Hardware Options
- Device Allocation Interfaces For the Basic Security Module
- Obsolete Device Driver Interfaces
- Device Management Entries in power.conf
- Device Support and Driver Software
- Form and Menu Language Interpreter
- Host Files in /etc/net/ti*
- Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.4
- Kerberos Ticket Lifetime Parameters in krb5.conf
- Korean CID Fonts
- Legacy or Traditional Non-UTF-8 Locales
- Functions in the CPU Performance Counters Library (libcpc)
- libXinput Library
- Network Information Service Plus (NIS+) Name Service Type
- nstest Test Program
- Perl Version 5.6.1
- Solaris Management Console Patch Tool (Patch Manager)
- Solstice Enterprise Agents
- Standalone Router Discovery
- Sun Fire Link Interfaces
- Sun Java Desktop System Applications
- Token Ring and Fiber Distributed Data Interface Device Types
- WBEM-based Dynamic Reconfiguration
- XIL Interface
- xetops Utility
- Features That Might Be Removed in a Future Release
- Chapter 6 Documentation
Issues
- System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (NIS+)
- Discontinuation of Swedish Documentation
- Application Server Documentation Refers to Derby Database Instead of Java DB
- Documents on the Software Supplement CD
- System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
- Solaris 10 Start Here and Solaris 10 Installation Guides
- Solaris 10 Documentation and Man Pages
- Appendix A Table of Integrated Bug Fixes in the Solaris 10 Operating System
- Appendix B Solaris 10 Operating System Patch List