Chapter 5 Precautions

This chapter explains necessary precautions.

5.1Limitations and known bugs for Solaris

This chapter explains limitations and known bugs for Solaris.

Table 5.1 Limitations and known bugs for Solaris

 

No

Limitations and known bugs

Remarks

 

 

 

Recommended actions

 

 

 

1

The following patches are required to be installed in the following order after installation

Solaris 10

 

 

 

of Solaris 10. In particular 119254-06 must be installed before 119254-19 or later or

3/05 and

 

 

 

equivalent. If the installation order is not followed problems may occur.

Solaris 10

 

 

 

E.g. non-global zone cannot be installed, optional packages and patches cannot be

1/06 only

 

 

 

installed correctly.

 

 

 

 

 

1.

120719-01 or later SunOS 5.10: gzip patch

 

 

 

 

2.

121296-01 or later SunOS 5.10: fgrep Patch

 

 

 

 

3.

118815-03 or later SunOS 5.10: awk patch

 

 

 

 

4.

120900-03 or later SunOS 5.10: libzonecfg Patch

 

 

 

 

5.

121133-02 or later SunOS 5.10: zones library and zones utility patch

 

 

 

 

6.

119254-06

SunOS 5.10: Install and Patch Utilities Patch

 

 

 

 

7.

119254-19 or later: SunOS 5.10: Install and Patch Utilities Patch

 

 

 

 

8.

119317-01 or later: SunOS 5.10: SVr4 Packaging Commands (usr) Patch

 

 

 

 

9.

119042-02 or later: SunOS 5.10: patch usr/sbin/svccfg

 

 

 

 

Install these patches as soon as possible after installation of Solaris 10. Also make sure

 

 

 

 

of the following notes when applying/removing any patches.

 

 

 

 

z Read README files of the patches before applying them.

 

 

 

 

z Remove patches in the global zone and not in the non-global zone if needing to

 

 

 

 

 

remove patches from the system.

 

 

 

2

The following patch is required to use the NFS version 4.

Solaris 10

 

 

 

NFS version 4 has limitations.

3/05 only

 

 

 

z 119828-04 or later SunOS 5.10: nfssrv Patch

 

 

 

 

Install the above patches.

 

 

 

3

For Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR) and PCI Hot Plug, the following patches are

Solaris 10

 

 

 

required to be installed.

3/05 only

 

 

 

119254-06 or later

SunOS 5.10: Install and Patch Utilities Patch

 

 

 

 

118822-08 or later

SunOS 5.10: kernel Patch

 

 

 

 

913732-01 or later

Enhanced Support Facility 2.5: Dynamic configuration core

 

 

 

 

command patch

 

 

 

 

 

Install the above patches.

 

 

 

4

For CPC (CPU Performance Counter) (cpustat(1M), cputrack(1M), libcpc(3LIB)), the

Solaris 10

 

 

 

following patches are required to be installed.

3/05 only

 

 

 

119254-06 or later

SunOS 5.10: Install and Patch Utilities Patch

 

 

 

 

118822-08 or later

SunOS 5.10: kernel Patch

 

 

 

 

Install the above patches.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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