Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Online Release Notes

Copyright © 2000 by Sun Microsystems

Abstract:

The Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Online Release Notes cover important installation and runtime issues and bugs. Also included are new feature descriptions that arrived too late to be included in the product documentation. In addition, end-of-software support statements, documentation issues, information about driver updates, CERT Advisories, and a list of integrated patches are also provided.

Table of Contents
Preface
Who Should Use This Book
Related Books
Ordering Sun Documents
Accessing Sun Documentation Online
Solaris Certification Program
1. Installation Issues
Issues You Need To Know Before Starting an Interactive Installation
Locale Install Mechanism Change
Do Not Install a Large Partition on Systems That Already Have symhisl, mega, or cpqncr Disk Controller Drivers Installed
Update the DPT PM2144UW Controller BIOS To The Latest Revision Before Upgrading to The Solaris 8 Operating Environment
Do Not Upgrade Hewlett-Packard (HP) Vectra XU Series Systems With BIOS Version GG.06.13
Direct Memory Access (DMA) Is Disabled on PCI-IDE Systems
Bugs You Need to Know Before the Start of an Interactive Installation
DiskSuite May Cause Data Loss (4121281)
Installation Bugs That Occur During an Interactive Installation
Installation Progress Bar May Be Inaccurate (1266156)
Warnings May Occur When Creating a File System (4189127)
No Error Occurs If # Is Included In A Path (4294586)
Upgrade Issues
Solaris Easy Access Server (SEAS)
Priority Paging Is Not Needed With the New Solaris 8 Caching Architecture
Installation Bugs That May Occur During an Upgrade
Upgrading the Solaris 7 Operating Environment With Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) 1.0 to the Solaris 8 Operating Environment Causes WBEM 2.0 to Not Work (4274920)
Disk Space Requirements Can Be Exaggerated by the Upgrade Process (4041733)
Localization Bugs
Installation Of European Software (4299758)
Swedish Locale: Unlocalized Dialogs Are Displayed During Installation (4300655)
2. Solaris Runtime Issues
Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Issues
User Settings For Screen Blank, Also Known As Monitor Power Saver, Are Ignored
Common Desktop Environment Bugs
dtmail Does Not Produce a Core File By Default (4249157)
PDASync Cannot Delete Last Entry From the Desktop (4260435)
PDASync Does Not Support Data Exchange With the Multibyte Internationalized PDA Device (4263814)
Compiling Motif Programs on the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (4172061)
System Administration Bugs
Exception: PS_UNAVAILABLE: 1 (out of memory)Error Occurs When Trying To Add Instances With WBEM(4284874)
WBEM Common Information Model Object Manager Crashes When Solaris_FileSystem Instances Are Requested (4301275)
Java Runtime Issues
Java Plug-in Support
Java Runtime Bugs
Warning Messages Are Displayed When Running Java2 Applications In UTF-8 Locales (4254198)
Performance Issue
Direct Memory Access (DMA) Is Disabled On PCI-IDE Systems
AnswerBook2 Bugs
The ab2admin Command Intermittently Indicates command failed Even Though The Command Succeeded (4242577)
ab2cd Script Displays an Erroneous Error Message (4256516)
Localization Bugs
Cutting and Pasting Text Between ar_EY.ISO8859-1 And en_US.UTF-8 Does Not Work (4287746)
The Extras Drop-Down Menu Is Not Available for European Locales (4298547)
CTL Is Not Supported in Japanese And Asian UTF-8 Locales (4300239)
Performance Issue
Enabling Direct Memory Access (DMA) on PCI-IDE Systems
3. End-of-Software Support Statements
End-Of-Software Support Statement for the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
HotJava Browser
Solaris Java Development Kit: JNI 1.0 Interface
Solstice AdminSuite 2.3/AutoClient 2.1
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Client Library
F3 Font Technology
XGL
Derived Type paddr_t
Changes to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for User Accounting Data
The sysidnis1M System Identification Program
Console Subsystem
Video Cards
End-Of-Software Support Statements In Future Releases
Solstice AdminTool
Solstice Enterprise Agents
XIL
crash1M Utility
Kerberos Version 4 Client
adb1 Map Modifiers and Watchpoint Syntax
OpenWindows Toolkits For Developers
OpenWindows Environment For Users
Federated Naming Service (FNS)/XFN Libraries and Commands
Solaris ipcs1 Command
Deprecate sendmail AutoRebuildAliases Option
devconfig
Device Support and Driver Software
Intel 486-Based Systems
4. Documentation Issues
Documentation Errata
Document Affected: Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Hardware Compatibility List in Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Hardware Compatibility List
Document Affected: Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Hardware Compatability List
Documents Affected: Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Device Configuration Guide, Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Hardware Compatability List, Solaris 8 Reference Manual: adp(7D) and cadp(7D), What's New in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment
Document Affected: Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Device Configuration Guide
Document Affected: IPv6 Header Format in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
Document Affected: Priority Values in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
Document Affected: Implementing IPsec in System Administration Guide, Volume 3
Document Affected: NFS Parameters for the nfs Module in System Administration Guide, Volume 3 (4299091)
Document Affected: NFS Parameters for the nfs Module in System Administration Guide, Volume 3 (4299091)
Document Affected: NFS Parameters for rpcsec Parameters in System Administration Guide, Volume 3 (4299091)
5. Driver Updates
Drivers for Solaris
6. CERT Advisories
7. Released Patches Integrated into the Solaris 8 Release
Patches