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CE DENI DE GARANTIE NE S’APPLIQUERAIT PAS, DANS LA MESURE OU IL SERAIT TENU JURIDIQUEMENT NUL ET NON AVENU. Please Recycle Contents Preface ix 1. Installation Bugs 1 Solaris Web Start Issues 1 SPARCTM only: Limited Browser Support in Client-Server Mode 1 SolarisTM Web Start Bugs 1 x86 only: Cannot Move the Root File System (4046659) 2 Products May Not Use All Reserved Space (4059182) 2 x86 only: The Root ’/’ File Sytem Extends Beyond HBA Cylinder 1023 (4062008) 2 Installation Issues 2 SPARC only: New JumpStartTM Behavior 2 Solaris dtlogin Screen 3 dtlogin Notes for System Administrators 3 Interactive Installation Bugs 3 Before Installation 3 During Installation 15 Installation Bugs Before the Start of an Upgrade 18 Installation Bugs That May Occur During an Upgrade 18 64-Bit Solaris Issues 20 Contents iii SPARC only: Sun UltraSPARCTM System (sun4u) May Need Boot PROM Upgrade 20 AnswerBook2TM Documentation Server 21 ab2cd -s Does Not Add Locally-Installed Document Collections to the Server (4208243) 21 2. Runtime Bug Descriptions 23 System Administration Bugs 23 Non-Root Applications Using All Available Swap Space Can Hang a System Or/And Cause Critical System Daemons to Die (1189666) 23 Auditing of the Network (nt) audit Class Can Cause System Failure (4172702) 24 File System Bugs 24 Upgrade Can Fail on Systems With Overlapping Slices (4162497) 24 SPARC only: cpr_reset_properties: Unable to open /.cpr_default on /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0:a" (4163575) 25 Network Issues 25 Files With Negative Times Will No Longer Be Supported Over an NFS Mount 25 CDE Issues 26 Compiling Motif Programs 26 Supported Y2K Dates Testing Procedure 26 Centralized Calendar Access Swap Rquirement 26 The Motif Window Manager (MWM) Is No Longer Supported in the Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 Operating Environment 27 CDE Mailer Needs Additional Free Memory to Open a Mailbox 27 CDE Bugs 28 Date Prompt String Uses LC_MESSAGES When It Should Use LC_TIME (4053983) 28 Copy/Paste Functions Fail in dtterm When Using the ls −l Command in CTL Locales (4129969) 28 Names For Attachments Are Displayed in Reversed Order in Hebrew and Arabic Locales (4130010) 28 iv Solaris 7 5/99 Online Release Notes (SUNWrdm) ♦ May 1999 The Name of the Month in the Calendar Manager Icon of the CDE Workspace Manager is Incorrectly Reversed (4136966) 28 Dtmail May Truncate the Body of an Email Message (4133964) 29 SPARC only: When Selecting dtmail in the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), It Is Not CTL-Enabled in the Arabic Locale (4140698) 29 SPARC only: The Arabic Font Size Is Very Large (4140700) 30 SPARC only: Appointments Are Not Displayed in the Calendar Manager In Arabic When Selecting dtcm From CDE (4140701) 30 Core Dumps May Occur for Motif Programs on Systems with the Solaris 2.5.1 Operating Environment Running (4157689) 30 Compiling Motif Programs on Solaris 7 (4172061) 30 SPARC only: restore from sys-suspend Sometimes Does Not Restore CDE (4174133) 31 JavaTM Development Kit (JDKTM ) Bugs 32 Do Not Use Java Thread.suspend () And Thread.resume () Methods 4040218 32 Timestamp Constructor Accepts Two-Digit Date (4047499) 32 64-Bit Solaris Issues 33 SPARC only: Limitation on OpenWindowsTM 3.6.1 APIs for the Solaris 7 Operating Environment 33 SPARC only: No 64-bit Executable Code Between 0 and 2G Virtual 33 64-Bit Solaris Bugs 33 SPARC only: 64-bit libmail Not Available (4169295) 33 Graphics Bugs 33 A User’s Multi-Threaded Application Hangs (4076297) 33 XIL 34 XGL 34 Security Bugs 35 Security Vulnerability In ufsdump And ufsrestore (4132365) 35 Solaris 7 praudit and auditreduce Cannot Process Solaris 2.6 Audit Files (4167174 and 4168892) 36 Contents v AnswerBook2TM Bugs 36 AnswerBook2 Server Administrative Access Authentication Fails (4113327) 36 Localization Issues 37 OpenWindows Is Not Supported As a Desktop Option In Some Locales 37 Localization Bugs 39 x86 only: Cannot Add a New User With SolsticeTM AdminTools in Arabic or Hebrew Locales (4159527) 39 x86 only: Some Custom Arabic TrueType Fonts May Cause an Intel XServer To Crash (4161002) 39 Arabic 16–Bit Proportional Fonts Clip Characters (4167851) 39 Static Desktop Text Is Not Enabled For Complex Text Layout (4170194) 39 Hardware Bugs 40 x86 only: 3Com EtherLink 3C509B Does Not Generate Interrupts (4153488) 40 x86 only: iprb: dma Overrun While Receiving Frame (4156622) 40 x86 only: ncrs: Mismatch of Narrow and Wide SCSI Operations on Intel N440BX Motherboard (4165916) 40 x86 only: kdmconfig: JumpStart Installation Fails With pnp Monitor (4166376) 41 Debugging Bugs 41 dbx 4.0 Cannot Dump the Stack Trace When Debugging a Multi-Threaded Program (4207409) 41 3. New Features 43 Solaris Documentation 43 Solaris 7 Supplements 43 Solaris Issues 43 Solaris Name Change 43 Euro Unit Support 44 Updated Version of the JavaTM Development Kit 44 vi Solaris 7 5/99 Online Release Notes (SUNWrdm) ♦ May 1999 Updated Security In Sendmail 44 Multi-threaded-hot malloc 44 Processor Interrupt Control 45 No Support for 3.3V 45 64–Bit Solaris Issues 45 SPARC only: 64-Bit Assembler Instructions 45 64–Bit Solaris Support for the Assembler 45 Localization Issues 47 Arabic and Hebrew Support 47 4.