Oracle Solaris Operating System Open Issues

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During system boot, a warning message might appear on the console

BugID: 15777292 (formerly CR 7151581)

Issue:

During system boot, WARNING: npel: no ranges property might appear on the console.

Affected software:

Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 and 11.1
Platform software releases 1.0 and later.

Workaround:

This message is benign and can be ignored.

Oracle Solaris 11 Preinstall might encounter a five-minute delay during the first boot

Issue:

Customers using the Oracle Solaris 11 Preinstall option might encounter a five-minute delay during first boot. During this delay, the system is configuring the ilomconfig-interconnect service. This only occurs on first boot; the system boots normally on subsequent restarts.Customers monitoring the system's first boot from the system console observe the system reaching this stage in the boot-up and pause for approximately five minutes and display the following warning:

Please note that this issue is not related to the WARNING: npel: no ranges property message, which is a separate issue that is documented in Bug ID 15777292 (formerly CR 7151581).

Affected software:

Oracle Solaris 11.1 and 11.2
Platform software releases 1.0 and later.

Workaround:

Wait for the ilomconfig-interconnect service to complete its configuration.

Preinstalled Oracle Solaris 11.1 operating system must be upgraded with SRU 11 before the FMA 2 HA feature can be used on a server that has a 2.7-GHz, 12-core, 130W processor installed

BugID: 17243186

Issue:

If the server has the 2.7-GHz, 12-core, 130W processor and you want to use the 2 Home Agent (HA) feature of the Fault Management Architecture (FMA), you must upgrade the preinstalled Oracle Solaris 11.1 operating system with Support Repository Update (SRU) 11 before using the operating system.

Affected hardware and software:

Server with 2.7-GHz, 12-core, 130W processor installed
Preinstalled Oracle Solaris 11.1 operating system
Platform software releases 1.0 and later.

Workaround:

None.

Oracle Solaris 11 operating system does not power off

BugID: 16816951

Issue:

Oracle Solaris 11 operating system with the Gnome Power Manager (GPM) desktop package does not power off using the Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) web interface or command-line interface (CLI).

Affected software:

Oracle Solaris 11.1 and 11.2
Platform software releases 1.0 and later.

Workaround for Oracle Solaris 11.1:

Note - This workaround should be used only for Oracle Solaris 11.1. No workaround is available for Oracle Solaris 11.2.

Execute the Gnome Power Manager (GPM) service with the verbose option.

In /usr/share/dbus-1/services/gnome-power-manager.service, change Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-power-manager --verbose
Select System → Preferences → Startup Applications from the gnome-panel's menu list.
Select Power Manager → Edit, and change the command to gnome-power-manager --verbose.