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Oracle® Solaris 11.2 Release Notes
May 2015
Describes the important installation issues, update issues, and runtime issues that you might
need to consider before installing or running the Oracle Solaris 11.2 operating system
(OS).
- Document Information
- System Requirements for Installing Oracle Solaris 11.2
- Initial Root Password Expires After Live Media Installation
- SPARC: Legacy Systems Requires Firmware Update to Boot Oracle Solaris 11.2
- Oracle VM Server for SPARC: WAN Boot During an Automated Install of Guest Domains Is Slower on Older System Firmware
- setterm(1) Is Optional
- Java Recommendations
- GCC 4.5.2, 4.7.3, and 4.8.2 Packages Do Not Provide include-fixed Header Files
- CLI Message Localization
- /usr/ccs/bin Is a Symbolic Link to /usr/bin
- Changes to User Password States With the passwd Command (15806373)
- Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 Support
- Kernel Zones Support on Fujitsu M10 Servers
- Automated Installer Fails to Install on Systems With High Memory and Low Disk Space Allocation (15741363)
- Automated Installer Fails to Match Target Disks When Using Dual-Path Boot Disk (15735929)
- SPARC: 64-bit: Automated Installer Fails Due to Unlabeled Dual-Path FC Boot Disks (15656484)
- Multiple AI Service Name Conflicts on AI Servers (15713975)
- SPARC: 64-bit: Automated Installer Fails to Install on an iSCSI Boot Device (15798602)
- SPARC: Net Device Names Are Mapped Incorrectly During Installation (18717446)
- Text Installer Displays in English When Another Language Is Chosen (15744356)
- Installation Fails When a Disk Needs to Be Relabeled (18496031)
- x86: Xorg VESA Driver Does Not Work on Oracle VM VirtualBox If the Extensible Firmware Interface Is Enabled (15782245)
- Network-Based Automated Installer Fails on x2100 Platform With nge Drivers (15681004)
- SPARC: FMA Error When an Adapter Is Connected to Boot Device (18378881)
- iSCSI Can Connect Through an Undesired Interface on Reboot (18053874)
- libima.so Library Initialization Is Not MT-Safe (17540151)
- SPARC: 64-bit: Error Opening .last-config-check File (16508057)
- Update From Oracle Solaris 11.1 to Oracle Solaris 11.2 Generates IPS pkg(5) Salvage Errors (17354101)
- Bad Policy Token Error When Updating From Releases Prior to Oracle Solaris 11.1 SRU 9.2 (16773078)
- L3 VRRP Might Change Existing IP Configuration After an Update to Oracle Solaris 11.2 (16720867, 16727299, 16720923)
- MPxIO Support for Toshiba Internal SAS Hard Disk Drives Prevents Rollback to Any Older Version of Oracle Solaris (15824482)
- 64-bit: Warnings on Systems After Updating to Oracle Solaris 11.1 SRU 17.5 or Later Versions (18536626)
- x86: Some Systems With BIOS Firmware Do Not Boot If the EFI_PMBR Entry in the Master Boot Record Is Not Active (15796456)
- SPARC: GPT Labeled Disk Support
- x86: Booting in UEFI Mode From the ISO Image Is Very Slow on Oracle VM VirtualBox
- x86: Oracle Solaris Does Not Boot on Disks Using Older Emulex FC HBA Cards (15806304)
- ZFS Should Retry or Abort an Entire Transaction When a WCE LUN Gets a Power-On-Reset (15662604)
- svccfg validate Command Fails on a Split Manifest (15891161)
- x86: ZFS Pool Information Becomes Stale After Running the stmsboot Command With e Option (15791271)
- LDAP Warnings During System Boot (15805913)
- Console Message Displayed During Boot (16756035)
- SPARC: Suspending an M5000 Server Might Hang the System (18552774)
- SPARC: D-Bus Kernel Heap Corruption When Attempting to Remove a Bus Device (18435472)
- SPARC: 64-bit: PCIe Express Module Systems Might Intermittently Panic (18996506)
- solaris10 Branded Zone Installation Fails If the fs Resources Are Added to the Zone Configuration (19976804)
- Boot Arguments to the reboot Command Are Ignored (18177344)
- Kernel Zones Using Virtual CPUs Might Block Processor Set Creation or CPU Dynamic Reconfiguration (18061724)
- Kernel Zones Interfere With hardware-counter-overflow Interrupt (18355260)
- SPARC: Kernel Zones Block Live Migration of Guest Domains (18289196)
- ipadm Fails With Insufficient Memory Error (18134702)
- zoneadm install and clone Subcommands Do Not Check for Duplicate Storage Devices (18685017)
- Evolution Application Crashes After New Installation (15734404)
- SPARC: Desktop Issues With USB Keyboard, Mouse, and Physical Monitor (15700526)
- D-Bus System Daemon Has a Small File Descriptor Limit for Sun Ray or XDMCP Server Use (15812274)
- Trusted Extensions Desktop Users Are Logged Out After 15 Minutes (18462288)
- SPARC: Devices on PCI Box Cannot Be Configured by hotplug on Fujitsu M10 Systems (15813959)
- SPARC: Fujitsu M10 Server Panics During Process Exit (19230723)
- fault.io.usb.eps Warning on the USB Ethernet Device (16268647)
- Rebooting Root Domain Causes Oracle VM Server for SPARC to Panic (18936032)
- SPARC: Running VTS on a T3-2 Server Causes Fatal Error in the PCIe Fabric (19137125)
