Solaris 9 (SPARC Platform Edition) Release Notes
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Solaris 9 (SPARC Platform Edition) Release Notes Sun Microsystems, Inc. 4150 Network Circle Santa Clara, CA 95054 U.S.A. Part No: 806–5195–11 May 2002 Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054 U.S.A. All rights reserved. This product or document is protected by copyright and distributed under licenses restricting its use, copying, distribution, and decompilation. No part of this product or document may be reproduced in any form by any means without prior written authorization of Sun and its licensors, if any. Third-party software, including font technology, is copyrighted and licensed from Sun suppliers. Parts of the product may be derived from Berkeley BSD systems, licensed from the University of California. UNIX is a registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries, exclusively licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd. 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CE DENI DE GARANTIE NE S’APPLIQUERAIT PAS, DANS LA MESURE OU IL SERAIT TENU JURIDIQUEMENT NUL ET NON AVENU. 020522@3984 Contents Preface 9 Installation Issues 13 Issue You Need to Know About Before Installing Solaris 9 Software From DVD 14 Booting From the Solaris 9 DVD 14 Bugs You Need to Know About Before Installing Solaris 9 Software From DVD or CD 14 Additional Software Might Not Install During Command Line Mode Installation From Solaris 9 Software DVD (4671875) 14 Boot From Solaris DVD Fails on Systems With Toshiba SD-M1401 DVD-ROM (4467424) 15 Media With UFS or UDFS File Systems Do Not Mount When Media Is Inserted Multiple Times (4638163) 15 Cannot Access Data on Solaris 9 DVD in Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 Operating Environments (4511090) 16 Installation Bug 17 Systems With Multiple Interfaces Recognize All Interfaces as Usable After Installation or Upgrade (4640568) 17 Solaris Custom JumpStart Bug 17 Default Solaris JumpStart Profile Might Not Install Multiple Locales on Small Disks (4502007) 17 Installation Bugs That Occur During an Installation From Solaris 9 Software 1 of 2 CD 18 Warnings Might Occur When a File System Is Created (4189127) 18 Upgrade Issues 18 Cannot Access Storage Area Networks Through SUNWsan With Solaris 9 Operating Environment 18 Solaris Management Console 2.1 Software Is Not Compatible With Solaris 3 Management Console 1.0, 1.0.1, or 1.0.2 Software 18 Installation Bugs That Occur During an Upgrade 20 Upgrading From Solaris 8 Operating Environment Might Create Redundant Kerberos Privacy Mechanisms (4672740) 20 Upgrading to Solaris 9 Operating Environment Might Disable Existing Secure Shell Daemon (sshd) (4626093) 21 Upgrade Fails if /export Is Near Capacity (4409601) 22 Upgrading Diskless Client Servers and Clients (4363078) 22 Upgrading the JavaSpaces Data Store to Prevent WBEM Data Loss (4365035) 22 64–Bit Solaris Issues 23 Sun UltraSPARC System (sun4u) Might Need Boot Flash PROM Update 23 Documentation CD Issue 24 Cannot Install Documentation Packages With Names Longer Than Nine Characters on Documentation Servers Running the Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8 Operating Environments 24 Documentation CD Installation Bugs 24 Uninstall Mode of Solaris 9 Documentation CD uninstaller Utility Does Not Work Properly (4675797) 24 Solaris 9 Installation CD Does Not Prompt For Solaris 9 Documentation 2 of 2 CD in Certain Locales (4668033) 24 Solaris 9 Documentation 2 of 2 CD Installs Simplified Chinese Documentation By Default (4673521) 25 Documentation CD Verify Panel Might Not Page in Command Line Interface Mode (4520352) 25 Localization Issue That Occurs During Installation 25 Additional Related Locales Might Be Installed 25 Localization Bugs That Occur During Installation 26 English and European ISO-15 Locales Might Not Install Correctly (4645678) 26 Solaris 9 Beta Refresh Chinese CDE Font Packages Do Not Upgrade to Solaris 9 Operating Environment (4653908) 26 Upgrading Systems Running Solaris 8 Operating Environment With Full Thai/Russian/Polish/Catalan Support Leaves Invalid Packages on System (4650059) 27 Installing Only Some European Locales Causes Characters to Not Display in UTF-8 Locale (4634077) 27 Solaris Runtime Issues 29 USB Device Support Bug 30 Data Corruption on USB Hard Drives (4660516) 30 4 Solaris 9 (SPARC Platform Edition) Release Notes • May 2002 Smart Card Bugs 30 System Does Not Respond to Smart Card (4415094) 30 Edit Config File Menu Item in Smartcards Management Console Does Not Work (4447632) 30 Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Issues 31 Compiling Motif Programs on the Solaris 9 Operating Environment 31 Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Bugs 31 Cannot Select Choose Host From List Option from CDE Login Screen After Selecting Enter Host Name Option (4667119) 31 CDE Mailer Appears to Hang While Displaying Email With Long Lines (4418793) 31 PDASync Cannot Delete Last Entry From the Desktop (4260435) 32 PDASync Does Not Support Data Exchange With the Multibyte Internationalized PDA Device (4263814) 32 System Administration Bugs 32 Solaris WBEM Services 2.5 Daemon Cannot Locate com.sun Application Programming Interface Providers (4619576) 32 Some com.sun Application