Supported Versions of Oracle Solaris OS, Firmware, and Software
Determining Oracle Solaris 11 OS Package Update Version
Determining Oracle Solaris 10 Patch Revision
Minimum Required Patchset for Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 OS
Minimum Required Patchsets and SPARC Bundle for Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 OS
Minimum Required Patchsets and SPARC Bundle for Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 OS
Installing and Booting Oracle Solaris 11 From Devices Connected to a USB Port
Support for New 16 Gbyte and 32 Gbyte DIMMs
Support for 1.5 TByte Memory Configuration
Use Links Labeled SPARC T3 to Download sas2ircu Software for SPARC T4 Servers
Sun Type 6 Keyboards Are Not Supported by SPARC T4 Series Servers
Hardware RAID 1E Not Supported
Server Panics When Booting From a USB Thumbdrive Attached to the Front USB Ports (Bug ID 15667682)
Unrecoverable USB Hardware Errors Occur In Some Circumstances (Bug ID 15677875, Bug ID 15765407)
PSH Might Not Clear a Retired Cache Line on a Replaced CPU Module (Bug ID 15705327, Bug ID 15713018)
PCIe Correctable Errors Might Be Reported (Bug ID 15720000, 15722832)
Upon a Reboot After an Unrecoverable Hardware Error, CPUs Might Not Start (Bug ID 15733431)
Intermittent Power Supply Faults Occur During Power On (Bug ID 15727974)
Non-Critical Power Supply Threshold Messages Occur Under Heavy Load (Bug ID 15728319)
Spurious Power Supply Errors Might Be Reported (Bug ID 15800916)
The cfgadm -al Command Takes a Long Time to Print Output (Bug ID 15631390, Bug ID 15723609)
Spurious Interrupt Message in System Console (Bug ID 15651697, Bug ID 15771956, Bug ID 15771958)
Spurious Error Message During Initial Oracle Solaris OS Installation (Bug ID 15658412)
Memory Allocation Issues With Emulex 8Gb HBAs in a Magma I/O Expansion Box (Bug ID 15666779)
The trapstat -T Command Causes Bad Watchdog Resets at TL2 (Bug ID 15720390)
ereport.fm.fmd.module Generated During a Reboot of an SDIO Domain (Bug ID 15738845, Bug ID 15742069)
L2 Cache Uncorrectable Errors Causing a Reboot Abort (Bug ID 15826320)
This section describes issues related to system firmware.
Note - This issue was originally listed as CR 6943131.
Note - This issue is fixed in LSI Firmware 1.0.55.
The Sun Storage 6 Gb SAS PCIe HBA supports RAID types 0, 1, and 10. However, the Oracle OpenBoot create-raid10-volume command fails when attempting to create a RAID 10 volume. There is no Oracle OpenBoot command that allows you to create a RAID 10 volume.
Workaround:A RAID 1E volume is an enhanced RAID 1 volume that includes mirroring and striping.
Use the Oracle OpenBoot create-raid1e-volume command to create a RAID 1E volume.
Note - This issue was originally listed as CR 6943957.
Note - This issue is fixed in System Firmware 8.3.0.
The timestamp reported in an email generated in an Oracle ILOM Fault/critical event might be one hour later than the timestamp recorded in the event log.
Recovery Action: Check the timestamp recorded in the event log. If the timestamp does not match the timestamp reported in the email, use the event log time.
Note - This issue was originally listed as CR 6968801.
When running Oracle VTS on T4 series platforms, it is possible (although rare) for a Oracle VTS test to hang. If this happens, it might cause other processes and commands to hang, including fmadm and prtconf. The hung processes cannot be killed.
Workaround: Reboot the server. If the problem repeats, contact your authorized service provider. Avoid running Oracle VTS in production environments.
Note - This issue was originally listed as CR 7046898.
Note - This issue is fixed in Oracle Solaris 11.
A message displayed by the cpustat command says:
See the “SPARC T4 User's Manual” for descriptions of these events. Documentation for Sun processors can be found at: http://www.sun.com/processors/manuals
This document and web site listed in this message do not exist.
Note - This issue was originally listed as CR 7050975.
Note - This issue is fixed in Oracle Solaris 11.1
When running the reboot disk command, extraneous characters are occasionally added to the disk argument before it reaches the OpenBoot PROM (OBP). These extra character result in a failure to boot.
Recovery Action: Repeat the boot request.
Note - This issue was originally listed as CR 7082700.
When you attempt to unconfigure a drive for removal, the drive's blue LED that indicates the drive is ready for removal might not light. This happens after you place a drive in a slot in place of a drive that had a different WWID.
Workaround: If you inserted a drive after booting the server, realize that the blue LED will not perform this function until the server has booted again.
Note - This issue was originally listed as CR 7127740.
Note - This issue is fixed in System Firmware version 8.2.0.a.
After a cold reset, the server might add one day to the Oracle Solaris OS date andtime. This possible date change will only occur on the first cold reset after the first day of a leap year (for example, January 1, 2012). Once you set the correct date using the Oracle Solaris OS date(1) command, the corrected date and time will persist across future resets.
Note - This extra day error condition returns if the clock offset stored in the SP is cleared for any reason. For example, the clock offset is lost if you replace the battery, if you reset Oracle ILOM, or if you perform a system firmware update without saving and then restoring the system configuration data.
A cold reset occurs when you halt the OS and restart the service processor (SP). For example, you can use one of the following Oracle Solaris OS commands to halt the OS:
# shutdown -g0 -i0 -y
# uadmin 1 6
# init 5
# poweroff
Then, at the ILOM prompt, use the following commands to reset the host:
-> stop /SYS . . . -> start /SYS
Refer to the service manual, the administration guide, and the Oracle Solaris OS documentation for more information.
Workaround: After the first cold reset of the system, verify that the system date and time are correct. If the date has been impacted by this issue, use the Oracle Solaris OS date(1) command to set the correct date and time.
For example, to set the date and time to be February 26, 9:00am, 2012, type:
# date 022609002012
Refer to the date(1) man page and the Oracle Solaris OS documentation for more information.