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Preface

1.  License Updates

2.  Installation Issues

3.  Oracle Solaris Runtime Issues

General Information

Recommended Adoption of SHA-256 and SHA-512 crypt Plug-ins for Password Encryption

File System Issues and Bugs

System Might Encounter Data Integrity Issues (15825389)

System Reboots Continuously Because of a ZFS-Related Panic (15809921)

ZFS and UNIX/POSIX Compliance Issues

fdisk -E Command Can Sweep Disk Used by ZFS Without Warning (15325067)

BrightStor ARCserve Backup Client Agent for UNIX (Solaris) and ZFS Support Issue

ZFS GUI Should Check for /usr/lib/embedded_su Patch at the Beginning of Each Wizard (15287937)

Upgrading From Some Oracle Solaris 10 Releases Requires Remounting of File Systems

NFSv4 Access Control List Functions Might Work Incorrectly

Hardware-Related Issues and Bugs

SPARC: Dynamic Reconfiguration Operations Fail on an OPL Platform (15725179)

x64: PCI Subsystem ID Changes in ConnectX Firmware 2.6.0 From Mellanox (15544691)

The ZFS ARC Allocates Memory Inside the Kernel Cage Preventing DR (15377173)

Certain USB 2.0 Controllers Are Disabled

Supported USB Devices and Corresponding Hub Configurations

x86: Limitations Exist With Certain Device Drivers in the Oracle Solaris 10 OS

DVD-ROM/CD-ROM Drives on Headless Systems

x86: Manual Configuration Required to Specify Non-U.S. English Keyboards

Compiler Related Issues

Programs Compiled With Some Options of Oracle Solaris Studio Do Not Run (16237300)

Localization Issues

Firefox and Thunderbird Hang in the Hangul Input Method (16043053)

Swedish Software Translations Note

Multiple Input Method Switcher Applications Appear in Trusted Java Desktop System

Wnn8 Japanese Input Method

x86: Arabic Text Not Appearing in ar Locales

Migration Note for UTF-8 Locales

Emails Saved as Portable Format

Plain Text Files

File Names and Directory Names

Launching Legacy Locale Applications

Hardware for Some Keyboard Layouts Type 6 and 7 Not Available

Networking Issues

System Domain of Interpretation Is Not Configurable (15283123)

IP Forwarding Is Disabled by Default in the Oracle Solaris 10 OS

Oracle Solaris Commands and Standards

Changed Man Pages for Trusted Extensions Are in Reference Manual Only

New ln Utility Requires -f Option

New tcsh Version Rejects setenv Variable Names That Use a Dash or an Equal Sign

STDIO getc Family EOF Condition Behavior Change

Output Columns of the ps Command Have Been Widened

Solaris Volume Manager Bugs

Solaris Volume Manager Does Not Remove Devices Correctly If fdisk Does Not Have Valid Entries

Solaris Volume Manager metattach Command Might Fail

Java Desktop System Issues

Email and Calendar Application

Problem With Changing Authentication Type (15256650)

Login Issues

Login Error Message

System-Level Issues

User Preferences Not Fully Compatible

Problem With Sound Recorder

x86: Cannot Configure Full-Screen Magnification on Systems With One Video Card

System Administration Issues and Bugs

Oracle VTS fputest Fails on Fujitsu M10 Systems (15989998)

Oracle VTS testprobe_ramtest Fails on Fujitsu M10 Systems (15955560)

Oracle VTS testprobe_l3sramtest Fails on Fujitsu M10 Systems (15955589)

Crash Dump Is Saved in the /var/crash Directory (15767302)

Using DISM Might Cause the System to Hang (15807808)

x86: Running the ludelete Command Can Delete Shared Datasets Not Related To the OS (15817477)

Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Clock Stops on Oracle VM 2.2 (15643194)

SPARC: FKU 137137-xx Patch Does Not Support Third-Party Volume Manager Software

Oracle Solaris Is Unable to Handle Mode Switches Between Legacy and AHCI Modes for the SATA Controller (15376093)

32-bit: Possible Error With Applications When Obtaining the File System State on Large File Systems (15349751)

Sun Patch Manager Tool 2.0 Incompatible With Previous Versions of the Tool

4.  End-of-Software Support Statements

5.  Documentation Issues

A.  Previously Documented Bugs That Were Fixed in the Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Release

File System Issues and Bugs

The following file system issues and bugs apply to this Oracle Solaris 10 release.

System Might Encounter Data Integrity Issues (15825389)

If the system is not shutdown properly, data integrity issues might be encountered. For more information, see InfoDoc 1502451.1 on My Oracle Support.

Workaround: For information about the workaround, see InfoDoc 1502446.1 on My Oracle Support.

System Reboots Continuously Because of a ZFS-Related Panic (15809921)

If your system reboots continuously because of a ZFS storage pool with corrupted space map entries, send a system crash dump to Oracle support for root cause analysis.

The initial or subsequent panic strings begin as follows:

zfs: freeing free segment 
zfs: allocating allocated segment

Any attempt to import and mount the problem pool causes the system to panic.

Workaround: Identify the problem pool and import the pool in read-only mode.

  1. Stop the system and boot the system with the milestone=none option.

    For SPARC, type the following command:

    ok boot -m milestone=none

    For x86, add the milestone option to the appropriate GRUB entry:

    -m milestone=none
  2. Immediately, rename the zpool.cache file to prevent the system from importing non-root pools.

    # mv /etc/zfs/zpool.cache /etc/zfs/zpool.hold

    Do not use any ZFS commands that cause the pool information to be loaded.

  3. Reboot the system.

    # reboot
  4. Import each pool one at a time to determine the problem pool.

  5. Import the problem pool in read-only mode.

    # zpool import -o readonly=on poolname

For information, see InfoDoc 1497293.1 on My Oracle Support.

ZFS and UNIX/POSIX Compliance Issues

ZFS is designed to be a POSIX compliant file system and, in most situations, ZFS is POSIX compliant. However, ZFS does not meet the POSIX compliance tests under the following conditions:

Related bugs:

fdisk -E Command Can Sweep Disk Used by ZFS Without Warning (15325067)

If you use the fdisk -E command to modify a disk that is used by a ZFS storage pool, the pool becomes unusable and might cause an I/O failure or system panic.

Workaround: Do not use the fdisk command to modify a disk that is used by a ZFS storage pool. If you need to access a disk that is used by a ZFS storage pool, use the format utility. In general, disks that are in use by file systems should not be modified.

BrightStor ARCserve Backup Client Agent for UNIX (Solaris) and ZFS Support Issue

The BrightStor ARCserve Backup (BAB) Client Agent for UNIX (Solaris) can be used to back up and restore ZFS files.

However, ZFS NFSv4-style ACLs are not preserved during backup. Traditional UNIX file permissions and attributes are preserved.

Workaround: To preserve ZFS files with NFSv4-style ACLs, use the tar command with the -p option or the cpio command with the -P option to write the ZFS files to a file. Then, use BAB to back up the tar or cpio archive.

ZFS GUI Should Check for /usr/lib/embedded_su Patch at the Beginning of Each Wizard (15287937)

If you add the SUNWzfsg package from a Solaris 10 10/09 release to a system that runs a release prior to the Solaris 10 6/06 release that does not have the embedded_su patch, the ZFS Administration application wizards are not fully functional.

If you attempt to run the ZFS Administration application on a system without the embedded_su patch, you will only be able to browse your ZFS configuration. The following error message is displayed:

/usr/lib/embedded_su: not found

Workaround: Add the embedded_su patch (119574-02) to the system that runs a release prior to the Solaris 10 6/06 release.

Upgrading From Some Oracle Solaris 10 Releases Requires Remounting of File Systems

For all Oracle Solaris 10 releases, after you upgrade an NFSv4 server, your programs might encounter EACCES errors. Furthermore, directories might erroneously appear to be empty.

To prevent these errors, unmount and then remount the client file systems. If the unmounting fails, you might need to forcibly unmount the file system by using the umount -f command. Alternatively, you can reboot the client.

NFSv4 Access Control List Functions Might Work Incorrectly

NFSv4 access control list (ACL) functions might work incorrectly if clients and servers in the network are installed with different Oracle Solaris 10 releases. The affected ACL functions and command-line utilities that use these functions are the following:

For more information about these functions and utilities, see their respective man pages.

For example, errors might be observed in a network that includes the following configuration:

The following table illustrates the results of the ACL functions in client-server configurations with different Oracle Solaris 10 releases.

Operation
Client Oracle Solaris 10 OS
Server Oracle Solaris 10 OS
Result
get ACL
Oracle Solaris 10 Beta
Oracle Solaris 10 OS
Fabricated ACL *
get ACL
Oracle Solaris 10 OS
Oracle Solaris 10 Beta
Works correctly
set ACL
Oracle Solaris 10 Beta
Oracle Solaris 10 OS
Works correctly
set ACL
Oracle Solaris 10 OS
Oracle Solaris 10 Beta
Error: EOPNOTSUP

Workaround: For the NFSv4 ACL functionality to work properly, perform a full installation of the Oracle Solaris 10 OS on both the server and the client.