Technical data
Bash 2.0.5b No Longer Sets Some Environment Variables ..................................................... 87
New ln Utility Requires -f Option ............................................................................................ 87
New tcsh Rejects setenv Variable Names That Use a Dash or an Equals Sign ................... 87
STDIO getc Family EOF Condition Behavior Change .......................................................... 88
Output Columns of the ps Command Have Been Widened .................................................. 88
Command ping -v Does Not Work on IPv6 Addresses (4984993) .......................................89
Solaris Volume Manager .................................................................................................................... 89
Solaris Volume Manager metattach Command Might Fail .................................................. 89
Solaris Volume Manager metassist Command Fails in Non-English Locales
(5067097) ...................................................................................................................................... 90
Volume Creation Fails in Systems With Unformatted Disks (5064066) .............................. 90
Hot Spares Do Not Work Correctly When Solaris Volume Manager RAID-1 (Mirror) or
RAID-5 Volumes Are Created in Disk Sets Built on Soft Partitions (4981358) ................... 90
Solaris Volume Manager metadevadm Command Fails if Logical Device Name No Longer
Exists (4645721) ........................................................................................................................... 91
Solaris Volume Manager metarecover Command Fails to Update metadb Namespace
(4645776) ...................................................................................................................................... 91
Sun Java Desktop System .................................................................................................................... 92
Email and Calendar ..................................................................................................................... 92
Login Issues ................................................................................................................................... 92
Help System .................................................................................................................................. 93
Mozilla Browser ........................................................................................................................... 94
System-Level Issues ..................................................................................................................... 94
Problems With Sound Recorder ................................................................................................ 95
Nautilus ACL MASK is Not in Sync With Group Permissions (6464485) ............................ 95
strftime(3c) Should Support GNU Extension in %-m And %-d (6448815) ...................... 95
x86: Cannot Congure Full-Screen Magnication on Systems With One Video Card ...... 96
x86: Problems Conguring USB Mouse Device as Extension Device for Use With GNOME
On-Screen Keyboard ................................................................................................................... 98
Certain View Options Might Cause File Manager to Fail (6233643) ................................... 100
Problems Creating Certain Types of Archives (5082008) ..................................................... 100
System Administration ..................................................................................................................... 101
SPARC: Solaris Volume Manager GUI Fails to Start (6671736) ........................................... 101
Cannot Log In to Solaris Management Console After Enabling Solaris Trusted Extensions
(6639493) .................................................................................................................................... 101
zoneadm attach Command Might Fail (6550154) ................................................................ 102
Solaris is Unable to Handle Mode Switches Between Legacy and AHCI Modes for the SATA
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Solaris 10 5/08 Release Notes • April 20088