No

Limitations and known bugs

Remarks

 

Recommended actions

 

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I Installation and removal of a package or patch may fail in a system with non-global

 

 

zones, under the following conditions.

 

 

z non-global zone is configured using zonecfg(1M), but not installed by

 

 

zoneadm(1M).

 

 

z non-global zone is just booted by zoneadm(1M) after installation, without any

 

 

non-global zone settings such as host name and root password.

 

 

z non-global zone is being installed or removed by zoneadm(1M).

 

 

Make sure the initial setup like hostname and password configuration of all non-global

 

 

zones has been done and all the non-global zones are in “running” state before

 

 

installation or removal of package and patch

 

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The following message may be displayed during an upgrade installation from Solaris 9.

 

 

network/nfs/server:default failed repeatedly (see 'svcs -x' for details)

 

 

Ignore the message. It has no impact on the system.

 

5.2Specification and incompatibility for Solaris

This chapter explains specification and incompatibility for Solaris.

Table 5.2 Specification and incompatibility for Solaris

No

Specification and incompatibility

Remarks

 

Recommended actions

 

1

Solaris 10 provides Solaris Service Manager (SMF) to enhance the UNIX startup script

 

 

(so called RC script) and system daemons during boot up. Due to this new feature, there

 

 

is some unexpected and incompatible behavior compared to Solaris 9 or older versions.

 

 

Refer to SMF documentation as follows and smf(5) manual page.

 

 

Solaris 10 System Administrator Collection

 

 

>> System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

 

 

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1985/

 

2

/usr/bin/ln has been changed in Solaris 10.

 

 

z Solaris 9 or older versions.

 

 

/usr/bin/ln will overwrite file if target file already exists.

 

 

z Solaris 10.

 

 

/usr/bin/ln will fail if target file already exists.

 

 

The same behavior occurs with Solaris 9 or older versions if the -f option is used with

 

 

the ln command.

 

3

If the DHCP sever has multiple network interfaces, it may not be able to deliver an IP

 

 

address to a DHCP client because of DHCP server settings.

 

 

pntadm(1M) -s option needs to be specified with "uname -n" or the IP address of the

 

 

primary network interface. If a non-primary IP address is specified with pntadm -s,

 

 

DHCP server will not be able to deliver an IP address to the DHCP client.

 

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