10.2.5 OS X

[ebow]

All's fine on my G3 iMac... no sign of kernel panics or anything. iCal and all my normal apps works. No date reset. And the traffic light widgets in iPhoto look amateurish.

I ran Xbench before and after updating from 10.2.4 to 10.2.5. I updated prebinding before running the first tests, and restarted as well. I restarted after updating (a second restart after the required one).

I have a G3 iMac, 500MHz, 640MB RAM, and numerous background processes that I didn't bother to quite (e.g. Snard, Searchling, YoupiKey, etc.)

A few of the numbers...

               Before / After  
Overall         41.51 / 41.58
Quartz Graphics 51.14 / 51.36
User Interface  45.08 / 44.03
Disk Test       40.79 / 42.46

Conclusion: It didn't do a heck of a lot performance-wise, technically. Still, it feels a bit snappier, but that's probably effects of the reboot and prebinding.

 

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by macdong
Oodly, the update set my time back to year 1969...

That's when they started working on the first UNIX.

 

[mangis]

the update has caused my lombard to work much faster. Now giving up tho0ught of new 12 inch powerbook. Talk about an update savng you money!

 

[benixau]

only problem with mine is that i had to restart my mac. But then that is to be expected

really, machine is snappier, iPhoto/iMovie look disgusting as previously mentioned and thats about it.

all is goood on an overclocked powermac. sorry i cant help with those battery questions though. ill go buy an ibook and pbook to help

 

[spotwhite]

10.2.5

PB-G4 No Problemas!!!

 

[breadiu]

Re: Fear of Apple Updates

Originally posted by alset
I want to update badly. I have high expectations of this little boost to fix all the problems 10.24 introduced, but I promised myself I'd wait to see that 10.25 doesn't bring other users to their knees. Please, I beg of everyone, post any issues, no matter how small.

Dan

in 10.2.4, the dvd window would go grey whenever i resized or changed apps. (i would have to "wipe" the window with the controller window to get the vid to appear, whatever the controller went over turned from grey to the actual video, until i resized or changed apps) now, it works fine when resizing or changing apps, but when it's playing or paused, some of the text in the apps in the foreground appears to be see through. i can actually see what the dvd player is playing through the text. i guess this is better than not being able to use my remote to resize.

 

[ian559]

I just updated my 12" powerbook. Seems great. Everything working. I am charging the battery now to see if battery last any longer. Mail is lots faster.

 

[ian559]

Anyone else xbench your 12" powerbook after the update. I think mu results stink

Results 53.03
System Info
Xbench Version 1.0
System Version 10.2.5
Physical RAM 256 MB
Model PowerBook6,1
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 867 MHz
Version 7455 (Apollo) v3.3
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 256K @ 534 MHz
Bus Frequency 134 MHz
Video Card GeForce4 MX
Drive Type TOSHIBA MK4021GAS
CPU Test 56.52
GCD Recursion 53.84 2.10 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 57.26 192.98 Mflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 54.77 2.97 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 60.71 2.73 Mops/sec
Thread Test 32.53
Computation 31.61 254.68 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 33.50 420.51 Klocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 67.38
System 55.93
Allocate 63.30 21.34 Kalloc/sec
Fill 53.20 305.04 MB/sec
Copy 52.51 262.53 MB/sec
Stream 84.72
Copy 82.50 360.75 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 85.98 375.11 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 88.83 404.18 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 81.96 360.12 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 65.44
Line 65.85 1.68 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 75.84 5.34 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 76.53 1.76 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 60.26 654.79 beziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 54.42 887.10 chars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 64.95
Spinning Squares 64.95 45.45 frames/sec
User Interface Test 49.74
Elements 49.74 16.92 refresh/sec
Disk Test 55.76
Sequential 62.10
Uncached Write 53.85 23.50 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 58.44 23.77 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 93.76 14.77 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 55.36 23.88 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 50.60
Uncached Write 43.39 0.66 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 49.13 11.27 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 53.40 0.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 59.09 11.58 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

[phgreer]

Well I was the one worried about how Apache would behave after the 10.2.5 update but I held my breath and updated anyway last night. Everything seems to be fine and php is working too. just thought I would report this. I have an iBook, 600 Mhz G3 combo drive.

 

[AppleMatt]

Interesting...

Well the interface *seems* smoother, especially genie effect, fading out of menus is faster but more jumpy however.

What I have noticed is that I have 40MB more free RAM? What did they do to make that happen?

ian559: Try running the 3 optimization routines and see if that helps.

AppleMatt

 

[AppleMatt]

Ok because I'm slow I've just realised the smoother interface could well be due to the extra free RAM...

...but still, has anyone else gained this much?

AppleMatt

 

[TiWarrior]

Updated to 10.2.5 this morning. So far the only bug is that I can't get rid of the language flag icon (International) in the menu bar. This was also a problem for me in 10.2.4.

TiWarrior

 

[groov']

samba still not working with PC's

I lost networkconnectivity with samba to my PC's starting OS 10.2.4 (the other way around worked and still works fine).

Now OS 10.2.5 didn't fix that. New is that I now at least get an error message:

error = -5000

Anyone else?

 

[Scab Cake]

Hmm...

Well, I reinstalled iCal and it's working fine now. I know I was working in it when I was doing the 10.2.5 upgrade. Maybe something happened. Thanks for the feedback.

 

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by TiWarrior
Updated to 10.2.5 this morning. So far the only bug is that I can't get rid of the language flag icon (International) in the menu bar. This was also a problem for me in 10.2.4.

TiWarrior

Okay, if you can't hold the apple key down and click and drag it off the menu bar then go to System preferences. In system preferences click the International pane and then select the input menu tab. Once there you should see a bunch of flags make sure that the only flag selected is the one for your native language/country. I assume that's the US but I could be wrong.

 

[Steamboatwillie]

Minor report

After the update I had a weird glitch happen. I can't remember what i was doing but two icons in the dock looked like tv static. As soon as I moused over them it went away. Hasn't happen before or since. Bizzaro!

 

[Stelliform]

I installed 10.2.5 and so far I am pleased. I am having a problem with Outlook (In Classic). I think Classic boots faster, and my other classic apps work great. Outlook just cannot see my server.

It isn't a big deal since I don't use it that often. I just need to figure it out since I am moving a client to OS X and they need Outlook.

 

[mikentosh]

Originally posted by ebow
Anyone experiencing kernel panics on a G3 iMac? If not, I'll try to get some carefully controlled before/after XBench numbers (never tried xbench before).

I am having the same problem. I have a G3 iMac 500 with 512 ram. It will boot and I can do just about anything so far, and then it panics after 5 minutes. Or it can sit idle from boot for 5 minutes and panic.

 

[j33pd0g]

When I download stuff to the desktop in the mail app, the object of my DL is placed on the top left hand side, part of it kind of hiding under the finder bar. Text clippings dragged to the desktop do this too. Anybody else?

 

[Mr. MacPhisto]

iBook 700 with 640MB of RAM and combodrive - no problems whatsoever. Things feel snappier and Safari seems a bit faster with fewer errors. Never have had any battery problems and still don't.

 

[n1rgelus]

When will I learn?

On my G4 iMac, I've had to give it a hard restart twice now after the 10.2.5 update. First I had a "you must press the restart button" message whilst running the SETI@home screensaver, with error code "FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF" etc. Next was when the screen sleep kicked in ... wouldn't wake up.

My own fault for "rushing out" and installing it ... just like how I lost my DSL after 10.2.4.

Grrrr!

Twice bitten by these "updates" ...

 

[AppleMatt]

Taking a look at all the comments here, versiontracker and macfixit, I think it's safe to say there will be a 10.2.6

- ducks

AppleMatt

 

[joker2]

No problems here

Just updated a 350 MHz Indigo iMac, and a 366 MHz blueberry iBook. No problems whatsoever.

I did run disk utility and repaired permissions on them both last week, so maybe that had an effect

 

[Mr. G4]

Originally posted by Maclicious
The most I ever got with a 64K modem was about 56-58kb second. One of us is obviously on crack .

The most got is 800K on campus here.

 

[mikentosh]

For those having kernal panics, I found an article at apple discussions that recommended unplugging your usb hub. I unplugged mine and have not had a crash yet (30 min.)