SMCC Release Notes Supplement Solaris™ 2.6 Includes Additional Release Notes and End-of-Support Statements for Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese Localizations of Solaris 2.6 Running on Sun Hardware Products Sun Microsystems Computer Company A Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Contents 1. Late Breaking News 1 Open Issues Available on the Web 1 PostScript Files Available on SMCC Supplement CD docs.sun.com Web Site 2 Netscape Navigator — Available on CD Ultra Systems — Serial Port Support SBus Systems PCI Systems 2 3 3 3 4 Power Management — Invoking Screen Saver 4 Using the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Using OpenWindows 4 4 Fortran Compiler — Large File Support 5 Solaris Web Start — Some Software Products Not Handled 2.
NeWSprint and NeWSprint-Based Printers SX Compute Acceleration in XIL 8 9 SBus Expansion Subsystem (SES/C - X1072A) Future End-of-Support Products 9 9 Graphics Devices — Discontinued Frame Buffers Network Devices — BEC Device and be Driver 3. Open Issues 9 10 11 dtmail — Portion of Messages Following LATIN-1 Characters not Displayed in Some Locales (4073017) 11 dtmail — Multi-Byte Characters in a Message Can Cause Mail Program to Die (4071959) 11 Prestoserve 2.4.
Solstice SyMON 1.4 — Config Reader Does Not Handle Device Multipathing (4009934) 17 Solaris 2.
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CHAPTER 1 Late Breaking News This manual provides the following information: ■ Late breaking news (this chapter) ■ End-of-support statements (chapter 2) ■ Open Issues (chapter 3) This manual supplements the SMCC Hardware Platform Guide Solaris 2.6 and the Solaris 2.6 Installation Notes. These manuals are provided as hardcopy documents with the Solaris™ 2.6 software media. The Solaris 2.6 software environment is delivered on the following CDs: ■ Solaris 2.
If you do not have access to the Web or require further information, contact your authorized Sun support provider.
To visit our docs.sun.com site, enter the following URL in your Web browser: http://docs.sun.com Netscape Navigator — Available on CD This Solaris 2.6 product includes a Netscape Navigator CD. All installation instructions are located in this directory on the CD: /cdrom/netscape/Netscape_Navigator/common/Docs Start by reading the readme.txt file in this directory. Note – The installation instructions in the Install_Navigator.ps file are incorrect for installing localized versions of the software.
PCI Systems PCI systems conform to specific standards for serial port operation. All standard asynchronous data rates are supported up to 460.8-Kbytes/second. See listed standards for other restrictions. All standard synchronous data rates are supported up to 384-Kbytes/second with external clocks (using a synchronous modem), and supported up to 256-Kbytes/ second when used in loopback mode (using a null-modem cable). See listed standards for other restrictions.
Fortran Compiler — Large File Support The v4.2 (or earlier) of FORTRAN77 and v1.2 (or earlier) of Fortran 90 do not support large files. That is, you cannot access files greater than 4-Gbytes using these versions of the Fortran compiler. Support for Large Files is introduced in Solaris 2.6. If you need this support from Fortran, you would need to sign up to the Early Access Program for the next release of the compilers. Information about the Early Access Program can be found in: http://www.sun.
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CHAPTER 2 End-of-Support Products This chapter contains a list of the end-of-support products for Solaris 2.6 and forthcoming Solaris releases. Current End-of-Support Products The following hardware and software products are discontinued for the first time in this Solaris 2.6 release. For information about previous or future End-of-Support products, refer to the Solaris 2.6 Release Notes or the Section , “Future End-of-Support Products” in this document.
Direct Xlib Direct Xlib™ is obsolete and is not included in this Solaris 2.6 release. Use the Sun Shared Memory Transport Extension (SUN_SME) with Standard Xlib for comparable Xlib performance (refer to the Xsun manual page for details). SUN_SME does not use Direct Graphics Access (DGA); therefore, it does not generate the overhead and limitations as compared to using Direct Xlib. SUN_SME is supported on all SMCC platforms.
SX Compute Acceleration in XIL Support for SX compute acceleration in XIL™ is being discontinued and is not included in this release of Solaris 2.6. All existing XIL programs will continue to work and will invoke the new XIL 1.3 memory code instead of XIL- and SX-specific functions. Note – XIL 1.3 supports SX systems running Solaris 2.6 and will continue to operate on systems running Solaris 2.5.1 and XIL 1.2; however, XIL 1.2 is not available for Solaris 2.6.
Network Devices — BEC Device and be Driver The BEC device and be driver will no longer be supported in releases greater than Solaris 2.6. 10 SMCC Release Notes Supplement Solaris 2.
CHAPTER 3 Open Issues This chapter contains a list of the open issues for Solaris 2.6. dtmail — Portion of Messages Following LATIN-1 Characters not Displayed in Some Locales (4073017) The dtmail program for some locales will not display the remainder of a message following any LATIN-1 character in that message. There is no warning that the message is being truncated.
Prestoserve 2.4.2 — Patch Required The Prestoserve™ 2.4.2 release will not function properly with the Solaris 2.6 software environment if the workaround below is not implemented. Below is a partial list of some of the SMCC platforms and hardware options that may be affected: ■ Ultra™ 1 Creator Model 170E ■ Ultra 1 Creator3D Model 170E ■ Ultra Enterprise™ 1 Model 170E ■ SunSwift™ SBus Adapter Card If you installed Prestoserve 2.4.
Netscape Navigator 3.03 — Installation Instructions Incorrect for Localized Versions The online instructions in the Install_Navigator.ps file contained in the Netscape Navigator CD contain incorrect information about installing a localized version of Netscape from a local and remote CD-ROM drive. If you install the software, you must install the English package too, not only the locale package as documented.
Note – All sun4u architectures support booting from larger partitions. One related bug (4023466) reports a problem with re-preinstall where the boot image for large disks creates root partitions greater than 2-GBytes. System Administrators are cautioned not to use re-preinstall on sun4c, sun4d, and sun4m systems with large root disks (4-GBytes and greater).
Graphics — X Server Crash While Running PEX Applications on PGX (103566-18) Applications using PHIGS, XGL, or PEX may cause the window system to crash on systems configured with a PGX graphics frame buffer. This is caused by bugs in the PEX library and is not specific to the PGX graphics frame buffer. Workaround: Install patch 103566-18 and set the XGLNOPEX environment variable before executing PHIGS, PEX, or XGL applications.
Graphics — Threads Created by the leo driver Do Not Adhere to cpr Callback Protocol (4052466) Systems with the ZX graphics device (/dev/fbs/leoX) cannot be suspended. The device cannot be idled successfully, and therefore prevents the Power Management software from suspending the system.
■ ■ Page 14 ■ ■ ■ Change /etc/opt/SUNWrtvc/bin/rtvc-verify to /opt/SUNWrtv/bin/rtvc-verify Change /opt/SUNWits/Graphics-sw/xil/examples/test to /opt/SUNWrtvc/examples/test Page 19 ■ ■ Change /opt/SUNWits/Graphics-sw/xil/man/man3 to /opt/SUNWrtvc/man/man3 Change /opt/SUNWits/Graphics-sw/xil/examples/test/SunVideo to /opt/SUNWrtvc/examples/test/SunVideo Page 33 ■ Change /opt/SUNWits/Graphics-sw/xil/examples/rtvcdisplay to /opt/SUNWrtvc/examples/rtvcdisplay ISDN and ATM — Power Management Not Suppo
Solaris 2.6 Server Upgrade — sun4m Clients May Fail to Boot (1248447) After upgrading the server software from Solaris 2.4 to Solaris 2.6, sun4m diskless clients may fail to boot.
SPARCcenter 2000 — Does Not Boot Through SunSwift Card (4064212) Booting Solaris 2.6 on a SPARCcenter 2000 through a 100BASE-T SunSwift card causes an NFS read time out, multiple Rx FIFO Overflow messages, and causes the system to hang. Workaround: Edit nvram to force a 64-byte burst size on the SunSwift card: 1. Run the show-nets command to get the SunSwift card path name. ok show-nets The path name should end in: ...sbi@x,y/SUNW,hme@0,8c00000 2.
6. Include the name field for the SunSwift card. ok setenv fcode-debug? true 7. Back up to the top level directory. ok cd / 8. Reset the system. ok reset The Sun banner displays. 9. Boot the system. ok boot Networking — External Third Party MII Networking Devices May Not Operate Correctly (4062714) Lantronix and Allied Telesyn MII 100BaseFX transceivers do not work on SunFastEthernet 2.0 adapters or the onboard MII interface.
Note – If root is mirrored, there is currently no workaround for this problem. Contact your authorized Sun support provider for more details. If root is NOT mirrored, refer to the workaround below. Workaround: After setting up the LUNs in the Sun RSM Array 2000, do the following: 1. Add the following entry in /etc/raid/rmparams to fix this configuration: #Rdac_noReconfig 2. Stop vxconfigd. 3. Add the following lines after egettxt in the S85vxvm-startup2 file: vxdctl stop vxconfigd -r reset -m boot 4.
■ The example commands on page 2-8 of the Software Guide are in error. The SMChotjava script does not accept any command line arguments. The SMCplayer script accepts arguments with syntax different from that shown on page 2-8. The example should read: % /opt/SUNWsmsjc/bin/SMCplayer -host smc_server -title spartacus Note the server name smc_server is an example.
SunVTS 2.1 Issues The following issues apply to the SunVTS 2.1 product. Solstice DiskSuite or Disk Management Software Users Caution – SunVTS™ may alter the file systems of Solstice DiskSuite or Disk Management software; this can lead to data corruption in some cases. Workaround: Solstice DiskSuite or Disk Management software users should set the system environment variable BYPASS_FS_PROBE to 1 before running SunVTS. # BYPASS_FS_PROBE=1; export BYPASS_FS_PROBE # .
vtsui.ol Causes System Core Dump (4051010) The vtsui.ol user interface gets stuck in a loop while trying to quit and eventually overflows the stack resulting in a system core dump. Workaround: Use the vtsui (CDE) or vtstty (vt100) user interface as a temporary workaround. Contact your authorized Sun support provider for available patch information. System Core Dump if SunVTS Kernel is Terminated Prematurely (4063453) The SunVTS 2.
