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This section documents caveats that can significantly affect the installation process. (This is not a complete list of all known bugs, workarounds, or changes, which are documented in the release notes for each individual product.)
These caveats are cumulative for 6.5 through 6.5.2.
Note:
Any application that runs on IRIX 6.5 should also run on the IRIX
6.5.2 maintenance and feature releases (assuming the program is not
written to explicitly require new features introduced in any of the
intermediate releases.)
When you transition from MediaMail to Netscape mail:
Note:
If you still require MediaMail, please contact NetManage, Inc. for
product and sales information: http://www.netmanage.com. (Note that
NetManage's Z-Mail for UNIX product is the same as MediaMail.) Please
be aware that MediaMail is no longer officially supported on IRIX.
The Netscape Web Browser is not installed. Please add the
following information to the mailcap file for your Web browser.
< application/x-enterlicense; /usr/etc/enterlicense %s; \
application/x-licensemgr; /usr/etc/LicenseManager %s; \
description="Software License Installation"
The Netscape Web Browser is not installed. Please add the
following information to the mime.types file for your Web browser.
type=application/x-enterlicense exts=lic
type=application/x-licensemgr exts=licmgr
mbase_client.sw.base:
($rbase/usr/mbase/sbin/streamplayer.exitop)
streamplayer.exitop: /usr/local/lib/netscape/mailcap not found
/proc/pinfo/: no such file or directory
and
Automatically reconfiguring the operating system.
dks0d1s1: Process [compress] ran out of disk space
dks0d1s1: Process [compress] ran out of disk space
No space left on device.
ran out of disk space refers to
space on miniroot. The machine will boot because the kernel is
autoconfigured on root. Note that an "out of disk space"
message can only be ignored if it is the message that pertains to space
on miniroot, as shown above.
If you have an Indigo R4000, Indigo2, O2, Onyx
2, or Origin2000, please check the relevant
caveats below before you begin your installation.
Indigo R4000 and Indigo2 R4000 Systems | If the system you are upgrading has a separate filesystem for / and /usr, then the / filesystem must be at least 25MB in order to do the upgrade. Systems shipped with IRIX 4.0.x were shipped with separate / filesystems of approximately 16MB, which is too small for IRIX 6.5.2. To check, use the command df -k / % df -k /
If the output looks similar to
this...
...the disk will need to be backed
up, and repartitioned with the fx command before
IRIX 6.5.2 can be installed. See the online book IRIX
Admin: Software Installation and Licensing, Troubleshooting
section, Using fx to Restore the Swap Partition,
for how to do this with the fx command.
fx/repartition/rootdrive: type of data partition = (xfs) Next, answer "yes" to a warning that looks like this: Warning: you will need to re-install all software and restore user data from backups after changing the partition layout. Changing partitions will cause all data on the drive to be lost. Be sure you have the drive backed up if it contains any user data. Continue? The kbytes number should be at least 25600 in order to install IRIX 6.5.2, and it is recommended that it be at least 40MB, particularly on systems that support running 64 bit address executables (systems where uname -s returns IRIX64, on systems running IRIX 6.2 and later). |
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Indigo2 Systems | The EISA Token Ring driver is not
supported in the IRIX 6.5.2 release. |
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O2 Systems | If you program
device drivers for the O2 PCI expansion slot, you must use the routines
(pciio_pio_*()) described in Chapter 22 of the 6.5
Device Driver Programmers Guide, under the
section"PCI Drivers for the IP32 (O2) Platform," to perform
PIO (Program IO) accesses. You must use the pciio_pio_*
routines for all PIO access to the device, including the PCI config
space. These routines were made available in 6.3 via
patch2801 (if your PCI device driver is already using these routines
then there is nothing more you need to do).
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Origin2000 Systems |
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This page documents caveats that could significantly affect the user's experience after upgrading to IRIX 6.5.2. This is not a complete list of all known bugs, workarounds, or changes, which are documented in the release notes for each individual product.
In addition to reviewing this list, you should check Caveat and Release Note Updates at http://support.sgi.com/6.5/ for any late-breaking information.
These caveats are cumulative for IRIX 6.5 through 6.5.2.
SGI Movie Plug-in: Error downloading into cache. Please increase disk cache (Network Preferences Dialog).
This is a known bug. When this happens, you may need to restart Netscape or try launching the movie again; the plug-in should work the second time. You may also see the following error when the movie closes:
waitpid error: No child processes.
You can ignore this error.
/var/yp/binding/<DOMAIN>/ypservers
where <DOMAIN> is the NIS
domain name. Type the NIS server on a new line in this file.
The following caveats are for large (64+ processors) Origin2000 Systems.
rtmond[669]: (CPU 0) Client
<local>:11:64505
events 1718 dropped (2%) 289 writes(0%
push)
for 4720560 bytes, 5 push buffers for
80 KB
Here, the dropped count is other than 0, which will be the case when par hangs.