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Custom SMF Site Profiles Should Be Placed in a Subdirectory (7074277)
sysconfig create-profile Fails to Configure Networking for Shared-IP Zones (7090563)
sysconfig configure Command With the -c Option Flattens Directory Tree (7094123)
Unconfiguration Failure in a Non-Global Zone (7101169)
sysconfig create-profile Does Not Allow the Creation of a Local User Account (7097083)
System Panics When Multiple USB Keyboards Are Unplugged at the Same Time (7076162)
unconfigure Operation of an IB HCA or the RDSv3 IB Client Fails (7098279)
JRE Fails to Detect the System Default Time Zone Setting (7092679)
man Command -f Option Is Equivalent to the -k Option (7093992)
zoneadm attach Command Might Hang With the -a and -n Options (7089182)
svccfg validate Command Fails on a Split Manifest (7054816)
ilomconfig Service Might Delay System Boot (7100050)
xterm-256color Terminal Type Is Not Supported (7099457)
Zone Boot Environment Datasets Should Be Mounted When Zone Is Ready (7091692)
Disconnecting or Powering off a Connected IEEE-1394 Device Causes System Panic (7070912)
tar Command Fails to Extract Archive From Tapes (7028654)
SPARC: System Fails to Boot When SP Is in Degraded Mode (6983290)
cxge Driver Alias Conflicts With an Existing Driver Alias (7054074)
dladm show-aggr Command With the -s Option Does Not Work (7094923)
Local Home Directory Might Not Be Mounted (7082515)
ipadm Command Does Not Work If the DefaultFixed Profile Is Not Enabled (7105597)
Disabling fc-fabric SMF Service Disrupts System Boot (6988653)
System Panics When Utilizing SCSI-2 reserve Command With iSCSI or SAS Devices (7075285)
Evolution Application Crashes After New Installation (7077180)
SPARC: Desktop Issues With USB Keyboard, Mouse, and Physical Monitor (7024285)
x86: Layer Acceleration With NVIDIA Graphics Might Cause Firefox to Exit (7095998)
Bitmapped Console Is Not Shown Properly on Intel Graphics Chipset (7097468)
x86: Bitmapped Console Is Not Shown Properly on NVIDIA Graphics Chipset (7106238)
Non-GTK Applications Fail to Connect to ATOK Language Engine on Non-UTF-8 Locales (7082766)
Input Method Issues in the Trusted Extension Environment
IBus Language Panels Are Not Shown in Non-Global Workspaces (7082198)
Input Method Selector Tool Fails to Change Input Method Framework (7082235)
IIM Input Method Configuration Tool Runs in Trusted Path (7082222)
This section describes the system administration issues in Oracle Solaris 11.
If you unplug more than one USB keyboard at the same time, a system panic might occur.
Workaround: When you want to unplug more than one USB keyboard from your system, make sure you unplug them one by one.
The unconfigure operation of an InfiniBand host channel adapter (IB HCA) or the RDSv3 IB client fails because the RDSv3 driver does not support dynamic reconfiguration.
The following error message is displayed for RDSv3 DR:
# cfgadm -c unconfigure ib::rdsv3,0 This operation will suspend activity on the IB device Continue (yes/no)? yes cfgadm: Hardware specific failure: unconfigure operation failed ap_id: /devices/ib:fabric::rdsv3,0
The following error message is displayed for HCA DR:
# cfgadm -c unconfigure PCI-EM0 cfgadm: Component system is busy, try again: unconfigure failed
Workaround: Remove the RDSv3 driver and reboot the system.
# pkg uninstall system/io/infiniband/reliable-datagram-sockets-v3
# reboot
When a new boot environment is created, it has only one entry in the GRUB menu.lst file regardless of how many entries the source boot environment has. The source boot environment's first menu.lst entry is used to create the entry for the new boot environment. All other entries are ignored.
This issue occurs when you create the new boot environment either through the beadm command or the pkg update command. Other entries for the new boot environment will not be available.
Workaround: Edit the /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst file and copy the desired entries from the original boot environment. Replace the boot environment name in the source entries with the name of the target boot environment.
The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) might fail to detect the system default time zone setting and fall back to the standard time-based custom time zone, such as GMT-08:00 for US/Pacific. As a result, the local time is always in the standard time, and the custom time zone does not support any standard or daylight time transitions.
Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds:
Set the TZ environment variable to the appropriate time zone name, such as TZ=US/Pacific. Refer to the environ(5) man page for more details.
Change the environment/TZ property of the svc:/system/environment:init SMF service instance to the appropriate time zone name and then refresh the service.
# svccfg -s svc:/system/environment:init setprop environment/TZ = timezone-name # svcadm refresh svc:/system/environment:init
Specify the user.timezone property value with the appropriate time zone name when starting Java, such as java -Duser.timezone=US/Pacific.
Starting with this release, the man command with the -f option is equivalent to the -k keyword option. The man -f command does not display the information as documented in the man page of the man command.
Workaround: None.
In this release, the hyphen (-) symbol cannot be used to specify the stdin argument with the -n or -a options of the zoneadm attach command.
Workaround: Do not use the stdin argument.
With proper multiple manifest support delivered for SMF decorations, the svccfg validate command should no longer warn about missing required property groups. However, the svccfg validate command fails on a split manifest.
This issue occurs when the instance delivering the manifest does not validate correctly without service methods which are defined at the service level in a separate manifest. The following error message might be displayed:
$ svccfg validate /lib/svc/manifest/system/console-login-vts.xml Required property group missing: FMRI="svc:/system/console-login:vt6"; Name of missing property group="start"; Type of missing property group="method"; Template source="svc:/system/svc/restarter:default"; pg_pattern name="start"; pg_pattern type="method" Required property group missing: FMRI="svc:/system/console-login:vt6"; Name of missing property group="stop"; Type of missing property group="method"; Template source="svc:/system/svc/restarter:default"; pg_pattern name="stop"; pg_pattern type="method" Required property group missing: FMRI="svc:/system/console-login:vt5"; Name of missing property group="start"; Type of missing property group="method"; Template source="svc:/system/svc/restarter:default"; pg_pattern name="start"; pg_pattern type="method" Required property group missing: FMRI="svc:/system/console-login:vt2"; Name of missing property group="stop"; Type of missing property group="method"; Template source="svc:/system/svc/restarter:default"; pg_pattern name="stop"; pg_pattern type="method" svccfg: Validation failed.
The warning is displayed in the manifest-import service log file rather than on the console. The warning is not fatal and does not prevent the import of the instance. Once the instance is imported, you can successfully validate the instance manually by using the svccfg validate command.
Workaround: Avoid using the svccfg validate command on split manifests.
For desktop and laptop systems that do not have a Service Processor using Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM), or using Oracle ILOM older than version 3.0.12, the ilomconfig-interconnect service repeatedly attempts to establish a connection to Oracle ILOM. This repeated attempts might delay the system boot time.
Workaround: Disable the ilomconfig service by using the following command:
# svcadm disable svc:/network/ilomconfig-interconnect
The Terminal.app terminal emulator included in Apple OS X Lion (Mac OS X Version 10.7) uses the default xterm-256color terminal type, which is not supported in this Oracle Solaris release. Therefore, when you run remote terminal sessions on Oracle Solaris 11 from Apple OS X Lion, the available terminal capabilities are significantly restricted and only very basic command-line interaction is possible.
You might see error messages whenever applications which need to retrieve terminal capabilities from the terminfo database are run. Typical examples of such error messages are as follows:
tput: unknown terminal "xterm-256color" tabs: xterm-256color: terminfo file not found
Workaround: Configure the Terminal.app terminal emulator to use the xterm-color terminal type. Perform the following steps to set the xterm-color terminal type:
When the Terminal.app application is focused, from the menu at the top of the screen, choose Terminal -> Preferences -> Settings -> Advanced.
From the Declare Terminal As drop-down list, select xterm-color.
The pkg(1) command will fail if any zone is in the ready state. The following error message is displayed:
pkg: update failed (linked image exception(s)): Can't initialize child image (zone: zone) at path: zonepath/root
Workaround: Boot or halt the zone by using the zoneadm command. Then, retry the pkg command.
Disconnecting or powering off a connected IEEE-1394 device might cause the system to panic. The following error message is displayed:
panic[cpu3]/thread=ffffff0010633c20: genunix: [ID 335743 kern.notice] BAD TRAP: type=e (#pf Page fault) rp=ffffff0010633960 addr=8 occurred in module "s1394" due to a NULL pointer dereference
Workaround: Do not disconnect or power off the connected IEEE-1394 devices.
If the automount service is disabled, users whose accounts are created by using the useradd(1M) command will be unable to log in. This issue occurs because the home directory specification in the /etc/passwd file does not correspond to the actual path name of the home directory. The following error message is displayed:
No directory!
Workaround: Do not disable the automount service, svc:/system/filesystem/autofs:default.
The automount service must be enabled because existing user accounts including the initial account created at installation time depend on the automount service. If you choose to disable the automount service, manually edit the home directory entry for each user in the /etc/passwd file to specify the actual pathname of the home directory.
Your system might panic at boot time if you use the direct I/O feature to remove multiple PCIe slots from a multisocket SPARC T-series system. You can use the ldm remove-io command to remove multiple PCIe slots. The issue occurs when the PCIe slots that have similar path names are removed with the ldm remove-io command and the system is rebooted.
For more information about the direct I/O feature, see the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.1 Administration Guide.
For example, if you remove the /SYS/MB/PCIE5 (pci@500/pci@2/pci@0/pci@0) and /SYS/MB/PCIE4 (pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@0) slots, which have similar path names, the next boot of the Oracle Solaris 11 OS might panic.
When the administrator runs the ldm list-io command, after removing the /SYS/MB/PCIE4 and /SYS/MB/PCIE5 PCIe slots, the following configuration is displayed:
# ldm list-io IO PSEUDONYM DOMAIN -- --------- ------ pci@400 pci_0 primary niu@480 niu_0 primary pci@500 pci_1 primary niu@580 niu_1 primary PCIE PSEUDONYM STATUS DOMAIN ---- --------- ------ ------ pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@8 /SYS/MB/PCIE0 OCC primary pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@4 /SYS/MB/PCIE2 OCC primary pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@0 /SYS/MB/PCIE4 OCC pci@400/pci@1/pci@0/pci@8 /SYS/MB/PCIE6 OCC primary pci@400/pci@1/pci@0/pci@c /SYS/MB/PCIE8 OCC primary pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@e /SYS/MB/SASHBA OCC primary pci@400/pci@1/pci@0/pci@4 /SYS/MB/NET0 OCC primary pci@500/pci@2/pci@0/pci@a /SYS/MB/PCIE1 OCC primary pci@500/pci@2/pci@0/pci@6 /SYS/MB/PCIE3 OCC primary pci@500/pci@2/pci@0/pci@0 /SYS/MB/PCIE5 OCC pci@500/pci@1/pci@0/pci@6 /SYS/MB/PCIE7 OCC primary pci@500/pci@1/pci@0/pci@0 /SYS/MB/PCIE9 OCC primary pci@500/pci@1/pci@0/pci@5 /SYS/MB/NET2 OCC primary
Workaround: Use one of the following workarounds:
Do not remove all the PCIe slots that have similar paths. Instead, remove only one PCIe slot.
Insert the PCIe cards into slots that do not have similar paths. Then, use the PCIe slots with the direct I/O feature.
The tar command might fail to list archive contents or extract the archive from tapes. The following error message might be displayed:
tar: blocksize = 0
Note - The tar command can process archives on disk.
Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds:
Copy the tape archive to a disk by using the dd command before using the tar command. For example, to update an existing file on the tape archive, you would type the following commands:
# dd if=/dev/rmt/6c of=disk.tar bs=10240 # tar uvf disk.tar file # dd if=disk.tar of=/dev/rmt/6c bs=10240
Pipe the archive from the tape to tar.
# dd if=/dev/rmt/6c bs=10240 | tar tvf -
On T3 and T4 systems, when the service processor (SP) is in degraded mode, the host system might fail to reboot.
Workaround: None.