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Updated: May 2021

Oracle^® Solaris 11.4 Release Notes

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Chapter 1 Before You Begin

Chapter 2 Installation Issues

Chapter 3 Runtime Issues

Panic When PCIE Driver Reads PCI VPD from Certain HBA (27659878)

Firmware Issues

x86: Some Systems With BIOS Firmware Do Not Boot If the EFI_PMBR Entry in the Master Boot Record Is Not Active (15796456)

SPARC: GPT Labeled Disk Support

x86: Booting in UEFI Mode From the ISO Image Is Very Slow on Oracle VM VirtualBox

x86: Oracle Solaris Does Not Boot on Disks Using Older Emulex FC HBA Cards (15806304)

ZFS Should Retry or Abort an Entire Transaction When a WCE LUN Gets a Power-On-Reset (15662604)

File System Issues

System Panic Can Occur at Shutdown if SMB Clients are Active (28411646)

Simultaneous SMB Session Logins Can Make the Share Appear Unavailable (28406364)

Device Removal from a Busy Pool Can Prevent the Pool from Completing I/O Operations (28185974)

Issues When Replacing or Using New Advanced Format Disk Drives on Oracle Solaris Systems

System Administration Issues

txzonemgr Fails to Create Labeled Zones Correctly (27676524)

Networking Issues

DLMP Does Not Work on an SR-IOV NIC Virtual Function (17656120)

SPARC: Migrating a Zone Between Guest Domains Sharing alt-mac-addrs Loses Networking (20463933)

Security Issues

SPARC Firmware Update Might Be Needed for sxadm to Report HW_BTI Correctly (28150745)

ktkt_warn Service Is Disabled by Default (15774352)

OpenLDAP Package Update Issue (21577683)

Insecure Algorithms Disabled in OpenSSH

Kernel Zones Issues

SPARC: Live Migration of Guest Domain Fails When Kernel Zones Are Running Inside (21289174)

x86: Kernel Zone with Spectre V2 Mitigations Migrated to Unmitigated System Panics on Resume (27966086)

GNOME 3: The Same User Cannot Run Multiple VNC Sessions (27275811)

Cannot Change Mouse Handedness in GNOME 3.24 (27372205)

SPARC: Desktop Issues With USB Keyboard, Mouse, and Physical Monitor (15700526)

Application Compatibility

Cannot Open /etc/TIMEZONE (27840538)

Panic via supdrvioctl and vboxdrvsolarisioctl (24812986)

Hardware Issues

HBA Connected with ALUA Multipath SAS Can Cause I/O Failures During Failover (28337990)

Panic When Performing a DR Operation on an InfiniBand HCA Device (28150723)

iSCSI Driver Might Give Up Prematurely When Trying to Reconnect to a Target (21216881)

Appendix A Previously Documented Bugs That Are Fixed in the Oracle Solaris 11.4 Release

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Application Compatibility

This section describes the application compatibility issues in the Oracle Solaris 11.4 release.

Cannot Open /etc/TIMEZONE (27840538)

The /etc/TIMEZONE link is obsolete because time zone information is no longer kept in the /etc/default/init file. The /etc/TIMEZONE link is removed in Oracle Solaris 11.4. This missing link can generate warning messages such as the following message from the Enterprise Manager Agent emctl command:

$ emctl status dbconsole
grep: can't open /etc/TIMEZONE
Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Database Control Release 11.2.0.4.0
...
Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g is running.

Workaround: None. Such warning messages can be ignored.

Panic via `supdrvioctl` and `vboxdrvsolarisioctl` (24812986)

Running VirtualBox on an Oracle Solaris x64 host system with Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) enabled might panic the host with a message similar to the following:

BAD TRAP: type=e (#pf Page fault) rp=fffffffc802c98e0 addr=ffff80ffbc8ff5e0
occurred in module "<unknown>" due to an illegal access to a user address

Workaround: Run the sxadm disable smap command and reboot before starting VirtualBox.

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