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jmcald said:
I seem to have the same problem.... I don't normally have one plugged in and didn't think of unplugging it before the update (it is my work drive).
:(
My firewire drive works well.
 
MCroft said:
You mentioned target mode, so do you have a working external? Can you copy the libncurses.5.dylib to /usr/lib from another box?

i wish i could get it up to copy anything. right now its an expensive door stop. all shiny and worthless
 
homerjward said:
it's really odd. it lets you highlight the entire window contents, even blank space and lets you drag the window around from any spot in the window.


Did you also notice that you can drag the contents to the desktop and it creates a small file with all of the text in it? I don't know if it did this before, but it's pretty cool.

Also Limewire loads fine here. I don't have any other Java programs loaded though, so I'm not sure what else would have been affected.

Cheers

fucanay
 
Java segfault solved!

On a whim, I downloaded Security Update 2005-002 from the OS X download site and reinstalled it (I had previously installed it from Software Update prior to installing 10.3.9). This fixed java and now my java based applications work!
 
strngwys said:
i wish i could get it up to copy anything. right now its an expensive door stop. all shiny and worthless

Hmm. Power down, yank the drive cable, start from CD (just to show that you can). Zap P-Ram if necessary. Then shut down again, reconnect drive, reboot from CD (or external) and see if that gets you to a place where you can manipulate the internal drive.
 
I just noticed that the Control-click menu has changed for links. What used to be "Copy Link to Clipboard" is now "Copy Link". I was momentarily mystified when I looked for "Copy Link to Clipboard", thinking I had done something wrong. When I finally read the words, I saw the choice was still there under its new name.

And they were right to change it, now that I think about it. The word "Copy" means to copy something to the Clipboard, so the phrase "to Clipboard" is redundant.
 
Doctor Q said:
And they were right to change it, now that I think about it. The word "Copy" means to copy something to the Clipboard, so the phrase "to Clipboard" is redundant.

I thought about that too.

Seems like there are some problems, i think i should hold off for a little.
Whats the point in upgrading, in 13 days were all gonna have 10.4
:p :D
 
Zaty said:
My firewire drive works well.


This one is a Lacie - which brand is yours?

Maybe the timing is just a coincidence. I have been having trouble mounting it at work sometimes (although it has always mounted fine at home).
 
jmcald said:
I seem to have the same problem.... I don't normally have one plugged in and didn't think of unplugging it before the update (it is my work drive).
:(
Well I took the drive out of the firewire casing (its an IDE drive) and plugged it into my FreeBSD box. It sees it just fine, so now I'm upgrading my server (it) to 5.3 so I can read the HFS+ partition and copy everything off of it. I think my firewire firmware on the casing may be bad now though but I'm not sure yet
 
BigMacIain said:
I wonder if this is fixed?

I think I'll wait until next week to see if any problem reports surface.

How much RAM are you running on?

I recently upgraded from 256Mb to 768Mb, and the difference is night and day. I have had no more Safari beachball problems.
 
kc8apf said:
On a whim, I downloaded Security Update 2005-002 from the OS X download site and reinstalled it (I had previously installed it from Software Update prior to installing 10.3.9). This fixed java and now my java based applications work!

I forwarded this to the apple forums and at least one other user has succeeded with this. Anyone with the Java failure should definitely try it.
 
Another very small change in Safari. Before, pressing command-shift-up arrow/down arrow would take you to the top/bottom of the page, that keyboard shortcut no longer works. Command-shirt-left arrow/right arrow still works for navigating between tabs though.
 
munkle said:
Another very small change in Safari. Before, pressing command-shift-up arrow/down arrow would take you to the top/bottom of the page, that keyboard shortcut no longer works. Command-shirt-left arrow/right arrow still works for navigating between tabs though.

According to
The Shortcut list, it's Command Down-Arrow and Command Up-Arrow. I just use Home and End, though...
 
I've just installed the update ...

... and everything is working perfectly well.
I had no problems with repairing permissions and other issues that you've mentioned before.

All java apps I use (Eclipse 3, Tomcat 5.5 & AdvancedWebRanking 3.9) seems to work fine.

Keep up good work Apple! :)
 
munkle said:
Another very small change in Safari. Before, pressing command-shift-up arrow/down arrow would take you to the top/bottom of the page, that keyboard shortcut no longer works. Command-shirt-left arrow/right arrow still works for navigating between tabs though.

It's still working for me. That's both with and without using shift.
 
My firewire drive still works great, I had it plugged in and mounted before, during and after the install.
 
MCroft said:
I forwarded this to the apple forums and at least one other user has succeeded with this. Anyone with the Java failure should definitely try it.

Reinstalling security update 002, fixed java problems for me also.

Otherwise smooth and nice, everything seems faster :)
 
mad jew said:
It's still working for me. That's both with and without using shift.

I've programmed without shift to control iTunes, maybe that's where the probs are coming in. No big deal, like MCroft said, the home and end keys are perfectly good enough!
 
kc8apf said:
On a whim, I downloaded Security Update 2005-002 from the OS X download site and reinstalled it (I had previously installed it from Software Update prior to installing 10.3.9). This fixed java and now my java based applications work!

Yep - thanks for the tip - worked for me too

Kev
 
kc8apf said:
On a whim, I downloaded Security Update 2005-002 from the OS X download site and reinstalled it (I had previously installed it from Software Update prior to installing 10.3.9). This fixed java and now my java based applications work!

Brilliant! I too had the java problem, reinstalled the Security Update, now everything's pukka.
 
YIKES! Safari crashes on me all the time!

Found the problem - it's because i had Acidsearch installed :\

you guys with Acidsearch gotta delete the bundle before Safari 1.3 will work...

Dang, acidsearch is the biz :(

otherwise, bigup apple for rolling out a .x update at the end of its life :D
 
Peel said:
Brilliant! I too had the java problem, reinstalled the Security Update, now everything's pukka.
I think the following will do the job
run from terminal
sudo update_prebinding

installing any update will just launch that command
 
so

aprilfools said:
Anybody else notice that the date on the 10.3.9 updaters are April 12, 2005. Looks like Apple has been holding out on us the last three days!! :confused:

"do an introduction of new software at the beginning of the week, and let your users update their old system on weekends."

from "steves concise edition of advanced selling tactics" handbook.
 
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