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Chapter 5 Precautions
This chapter explains necessary precautions.
5.1 Limitations and known bugs for Solaris
This chapter explains limitations and known bugs for Solaris.
Table 5.1 Limitations and known bugs for Solaris
Limitations and known bugs
No
Recommended actions
Remarks
The following patches are required to be installed in the following order after installation
of Solaris 10. In particular 119254-06 must be installed before 119254-19 or later or
equivalent. If the installation order is not followed problems may occur.
E.g. non-global zone cannot be installed, optional packages and patches cannot be
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
1
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.
Solaris 10
3/05 and
Solaris 10
1/06 only
The following patch is required to use the NFS version 4.
NFS version 4 has limitations.
z 119828-04 or later SunOS 5.10: nfssrv Patch
2
Install the above patches.
Solaris 10
3/05 only
For Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR) and PCI Hot Plug, the following patches are
required to be installed.
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
3
Install the above patches.
Solaris 10
3/05 only
For CPC (CPU Performance Counter) (cpustat(1M), cputrack(1M), libcpc(3LIB)), the
following patches are required to be installed.
119254-06 or later SunOS 5.10: Install and Patch Utilities Patch
118822-08 or later SunOS 5.10: kernel Patch
4
Install the above patches.
Solaris 10
3/05 only