Sun Microsystems Solaris 8 Release Note

Solaris

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8 6/00 Release Notes

Supplement for Sun

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Hardware

Solaris 8 6/00

Includes Additional Release Notes and End-of-Support
Statements for Solaris 8 6/00 Running on Sun Hardware

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Contents

1. Late-Breaking News 1

Release Notes Update 1
What’s New on the Solaris 8 6/00 Computer Systems Supplement CD? 2
Solaris 8 Adoption Service 2
Unbundled Product Support 2
Documents on the Software Supplement for the Solaris 8 6/00 Operating

Environment for Sun Computer Systems CD 3

Flash PROM Update for 64-bit Operations 4

Flash PROM Update Multimedia AnswerBook CD 4

Removable Media Manager Issues 5

2. End-of-Support Products 7

Products Not Supported in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment 7

Sun4c-based Systems 7
SPARCstation Voyager 8
SPARC Xterminal 1 8

Future End-of-Support Products 8

sun4d Servers (32bit only) 8
Ethernet Quad Drivers qe/qec 8

3. Open Issues 9

iii

StarOffice Support 9
Booting From Partitions Greater Than 2 Gbytes (1234177) 9
Network Drivers Installed by Default 10
Serial Parallel Controller Driver Does Not Support Dynamic Reconfiguration

(4177805) 10

SunScreen SKIP 1.1.1 Not Supported in Solaris 8 6/00 Operating Environment

10
ISDN — Supported in 32-bit Mode Only 11
SunVTS 4.0 Issues 11

New Features for This Release 11
SunVTS OPEN LOOK User Interface Support 11
Possible Installation Problems 11
Running SunVTS Online Diagnostics Through Sun Enterprise SyMON 12
StorEdge-A5XXX Device Group Changes 13
Physical Configuration Mapping Support 13
Disk Test (disktest) Mounting Issues 13
Disk Test (disktest) Option File Note 14
The SunVTS User Interface Disappears (4122829) 14
Some Devices Not Displayed Under Physical Mapping (4228489) 14
The enatest and socaltest Cannot Run at the Same Time (4065417) 15
The socaltest FATAL: Failed ioctl FCIO_DIAG_XRAM (4065420) 15
The socaltest Can Fail Under Heavy System Load (4213518) 15
Incorrect Percentage of Tested Memory Reported in the pmemtest Test

Chapter (4299772) 15

The Audio Device Driver Resets The Mixer Mode Preventing audiotest

From Running Properly 16
The cputest is Only Supported on UltraSPARC Processors 16
Do Not Select sctest 16

ShowMe TV 1.3 Known Problems 17

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PCMCIA Issues 17

Known Bugs 17

PC File Viewer Issues 18

Install in the /opt Directory 18
Known Bugs 18

Sun Remote System Control (RSC) Release Notes 19

What’s New in This Version 19
Hardware and Software Configurations Supported for RSC 19
Testing RSC Paging 20

Documentation Errata 22

Solaris 8 6/00 Sun Hardware Platform Guide 22
Solaris Handbook for Sun Frame Buffers 22

4. AP 2.3 on Sun Enterprise Servers 23

AP 2.3 on Sun Enterprise Servers 23

Installation Issues 23
General Issues 25
Known Bugs/RFEs 28
Fixed Bugs 28
Other Bugs 29

5. Sun Enterprise 6x00, 5x00, 4x00, and 3x00 Systems Open Issues 31

Dynamic Reconfiguration of Sun Enterprise 6x00, 5x00, 4x00, and 3x00

Systems 31
Supported Hardware 31

Firmware Notes 32
Software Notes 33
Known Bugs 36

6. Sun Enterprise 10000 Release Notes 41

Contents v

Dynamic Reconfiguration 41

General Issues 41
Bugs Fixed 43
Documentation Errata 44

Solaris Operating Environment 44

General Issues 45
Documentation Errata 46

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CHAPTER

1

Late-Breaking News

This manual provides the following information:

■ Late-breaking news (this chapter)

■ End-of-support and future end-of-support statements (Chapter 2)

■ Open issues (Chapter 3)

■ Alternate Pathing issues (Chapter 4)

■ Sun™ Enterprise™ 3x00, 4x00, 5x00, and 6x00 server issues (Chapter 5)

■ Sun Enterprise 10000 server issues (Chapter 6)

This manual supplements the Solaris 8 6/00 Sun Hardware Platform Guide and the
Solaris 8 6/00 Release Notes.

Release Notes Update

New information that becomes available between the time this document goes to
press and the release of the Solaris 8 6/00 operating environment will be added to
the online release notes available from:

http://docs.sun.com

1

What’s New on the Solaris 8 6/00 Computer Systems Supplement CD?

Two software versions have been updated in this release:

■ Sun Enterprise™ 10000 System Service Processor software: from 3.2 to 3.3

■ OpenGL™ 1.2.1 software: from 1.2 to 1.2.1

Solaris 8 Adoption Service

Sun Support Services offers a fully scalable suite of services designed to meet the
dot-com needs of any enterprise. These new Solaris™ Adoption Services help meet
the evaluation, application fitness, implementation, and adoption needs of
customers looking to upgrade to the Solaris 8 operating environment. These services
are complemented with Web-based resources including an online interactive
technical support site, SunSolve
FAQs that provide any customer with anytime, anywhere help.

For more information, please visit the Web site at:

http://www.sun.com/sysadmin/solaris8adoption

SM

knowledge database, technical news groups, and

Unbundled Product Support

Although the Solaris™ 8 6/00 software is designed and tested to be compatible with
previous releases, some applications may not be fully ABI-compliant. Contact the
supplier of the unbundled product directly to find information about compatibility.

If you are upgrading from an existing version of Solaris and have installed
unbundled products, either from Sun or from a different company, you must ensure
that all those products are supported on Solaris 8 6/00 prior to upgrading.
Depending on the status of each unbundled product, you have three options for
each unbundled product:

■ Verify that the existing version of the unbundled product is supported on the

Solaris 8 6/00 operating environment.

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■ Acquire and install a new version of the unbundled product that is supported on

the Solaris 8 6/00 operating environment. Note that in this case you may need to
remove the previous version of the unbundled product prior to upgrading to the
Solaris 8 6/00 operating environment. See the unbundled product documentation
for more details.

■ Remove the unbundled product prior to upgrading to the Solaris 8 6/00

operating environment.

For additional information contact the supplier of the unbundled product or your
service provider or go to:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/pubpatch

Documents on the Software Supplement
for the Solaris 8 6/00 Operating
Environment for Sun Computer Systems
CD

Note – In this document, the CD labeled “Software Supplement for the

Solaris 8 6/00 Operating Environment” will be called the “Computer Systems
Supplement CD”.

Table 1-1 lists the documents available on the Computer Systems Supplement CD:

TABLE1-1 Documents on the Supplement CD

Path Comment

Docs/README_en.html Readme file for Solaris 8 6/00 Sun

Computer Systems Supplement CD

Docs/HWPG/HWPG_en.ps Solaris 8 6/00 Sun Hardware Platform

Guide

Docs/HWPG/EOS.html List of end-of-support peripheral

products

ShowMeTV_1.3/Docs/UserGuide/UG_en.ps ShowMe TV™ 1.3 User’s Guide
SunForum_3.0/Docs/SunForumUG.ps SunForum™ User’s Guide

Chapter 1 Late-Breaking News 3

Note – The _en indicates an English language document. Other languages may be

indicated, depending on locale.

The Computer Systems Supplement CD also contains other documentation in
AnswerBook™ packages and in man page packages. The documentation in
AnswerBook packages can only be read through the AnswerBook2™ server software
provided on the Solaris Documentation CD. Documents in the man page packages
can only be read through the man command. Refer to the Solaris 8 6/00 Sun Hardware
Platform Guide for details on installing these packages from the Supplement CD.

Flash PROM Update for 64-bit Operations

Some sun4u systems need to be updated to a higher level of OpenBoot™ firmware
in the flash PROM before they can run the 64-bit mode of the Solaris 8 6/00
operating environment. Systems that can only run the 32-bit mode (such as those in
the sun4d and sun4m platform groups) do not require updated firmware to run
Solaris 8 6/00 software.

The only systems that may require this flash PROM update are the following:

■ Sun Ultra™ 1

■ Ultra 2

■ Ultra 450 and Sun Enterprise 450

■ Sun Enterprise 3000, 4000, 5000, and 6000 systems

See the Solaris 8 6/00 Sun Hardware Platform Guide for instructions for determining
whether your system needs a flash PROM update and for instructions on performing
that update.

For the Ultra and Ultra 2 systems, an antistatic wriststrap may be required for the
update. If you need a wriststrap, send e-mail to [e-mail]

Flash PROM Update Multimedia AnswerBook CD

This CD provides video clips that illustrate how to perform steps involving
hardware that are part of the procedures for updating the flash PROM on some
sun4u systems.

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The video clips on this CD can be accessed several ways. Some software products
are present on this CD to facilitate viewing of the videos directly from the CD. Do
not use the AnswerBook2 server software or the ShowMe TV software on this CD to
install these products permanently on a system. Instead, use the Solaris 8 6/00
Documentation CD to install AnswerBook2 server software and use the Computer
Systems Supplement CD to install ShowMe TV software.

Note – The video clips on the Flash PROM Update Multimedia AnswerBook CD

have English language audio tracks. The volume level for the audio tracks is set to
minimum. If you want to hear the English language audio track, you must adjust the
audio level.

Removable Media Manager Issues

The Removable Media Manager replaces the ‘‘Open Floppy’’ and ‘‘Open CD-ROM’’
options formerly found in the CDE menus and Front Panel. For related bug
descriptions and workarounds, refer to the Common Desktop Environment Bugs
section of Solaris Runtime Issues in the Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) 6/00 Release
Notes Update on http://docs.sun.com.

Chapter 1 Late-Breaking News 5

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CHAPTER

2

End-of-Support Products

Products Not Supported in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment

Starting with this release, support for the following products has been discontinued.
For more information, contact your support provider.

Sun4c-based Systems

The following sun4c architecture systems and servers based on these systems are not
supported by this Solaris release:

■ SPARCstation™ SLC

■ SPARCstation ELC

■ SPARCstation IPC

■ SPARCstation IPX

■ SPARCstation 1

■ SPARCstation 1+

■ SPARCstation 2

Note – All hardware options (such as SCSI devices) and supported configurations

that are dependent upon the sun4c architecture are no longer supported. A list of
these options is included in the Supplement CD /Docs/HWPG directory in the
EOS.html file.

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