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10.4.8 is out

weird , the update went without a flaw on my Mac. its weird how some Mac's can update with no problems at all and others with the same setup will run into problems. you would figure that my Beige G3 AIO would be among those to have problems . but it went along great
 
raleigh1208 said:
I found this excellent post on the Apple boards that answered my questions and provides a detailed step-by-step explanation on how to upgrade without problems. It's a great discussion for newbiess like me.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=668278&tstart=15
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I used the same instructions to update my PB G4 using the Combo Updater. I haven't experienced anything unusual. But my PB booted up twice after installing the update.
 
Me too

Di9it8 said:
This is what happened to my cursor, prior to the machine freezing.
Anyone else with a similar problem, G4 Powerbook 1ghz 1gig ram 10.4.7 running prior to this
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Yeah, my cursor is a rectangle too, I'm running a 15" PB G4 1.25Ghz. WTF?
 
My airport also started to drop off

My MacBook pro started to have sudden drop offs from Airport after update. My other Macs works so it is a client issue with the Mac Book Pro and 10.4.8.

It is very annoying when is just loosing Airport connection very often.

Hope apple fixes this very soon.

Micael
 
christian_k said:
Sadly it is not possible to turn the time out off (at least not without disabling encryption at all), and the maximum value is 9999, that gives me nearly 3 hours of online time.
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What happens if you set it to 0? That's often used to mean 'infinity'.
 
i was having some problems with slow airport after the update. it turned out i needed to disable coconut wifi at login.
 
D'oh

So....after convincing my cousin and his wife/kids to get a 17" Core Duo iMac about 9 months ago, his computer no longer restarts after the 10.4.8 install...

From what he tells me (he's 900 miles away), the computer reboots, and defaults to the "Please restart/press the reset button....your computer needs to be restarted" screen. I don't really know what to tell him other than "call Apple."

Very annoying.
 
10.4.8 and Virtual PC 7.0.2

Has anyone updated to 10.4.8(ppc) that is using Virtual PC 7.0.2? And if so, is it still behaving? I'd like to update from 10.2.7, but would be disappointed if vpc ended up breaking.

I use it to test sites in the IE browser... also it runs really smooth... smoother then my friends actual PC does... and it makes him red in the face mad when I fire XP up. I hate to have that break too. To be fair, his PC is about 6 years old.
 
wdogmedia said:
So....after convincing my cousin and his wife/kids to get a 17" Core Duo iMac about 9 months ago, his computer no longer restarts after the 10.4.8 install...

From what he tells me (he's 900 miles away), the computer reboots, and defaults to the "Please restart/press the reset button....your computer needs to be restarted" screen. I don't really know what to tell him other than "call Apple."

Very annoying.
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Tell him to restart his computer holding down cmd-s while on the phone with him.. you do the same with your mac... this will put it in to single user mode command line.... it will run through the boot up commands, very old school looking (it is unix underneath) then will stop and give instructions:

should say: type this >

fsck -y

hit return.... the mac will run a OS diagnostic program and hopefully fix anything that was wrong.

after it's done type reboot


Try it on your machine first, then call your cousin... should clear up any problems.
 
j33pd0g said:
Has anyone updated to 10.4.8(ppc) that is using Virtual PC 7.0.2? And if so, is it still behaving? I'd like to update from 10.2.7, but would be disappointed if vpc ended up breaking.

I use it to test sites in the IE browser... also it runs really smooth... smoother then my friends actual PC does... and it makes him red in the face mad when I fire XP up. I hate to have that break too. To be fair, his PC is about 6 years old.
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haha you should find someone with an Intel Mac and install Parallels and XP... it's so damn fast you're friend will crap his pants.
 
Not as fast as Real XP

foniks2020 said:
haha you should find someone with an Intel Mac and install Parallels and XP... it's so damn fast you're friend will crap his pants.
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But XP on the same box (or any other new Intel box) will be faster than XP in a VM.

You're not comparing the speed of a Mac to a PC - you're comparing the speed of a current Intel system to a 6 year old Intel system.

Six years ago Intel had just come out with the 1.4 GHz and 1.5 GHz Pentium 4, but the 1 GHz Pentium 3 and 700 MHz Celeron were the mainstream systems.

The top Apple was the Gigabit Ethernet PowerMac G4 at 400/450/500 MHz. The iMac was a 450MHz G3 at the high end.
 
Rectangular Cursor

trek7k said:
Yeah, my cursor is a rectangle too, I'm running a 15" PB G4 1.25Ghz. WTF?
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If you are able to go to System Preferences>Universal Access and switch zoom off that should be it.
Do you use Huey Calibration by any chance?
Subsequently on reinstalling, my machine crashes before loading the system.
 
I cannot set the ReAuth timer to zero. The router doesn't accept this
("Minimum setting for this timer is 10").

Christian

tirerim said:
What happens if you set it to 0? That's often used to mean 'infinity'.
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my april 2006 intel iMac 20" after this 10.4.8 update takes almost twice the time to start-up and after the finder is shown, a beachball is spinning for about 10 seconds before I can get to click anything:( :( :( :( :( :( :(
 
MbP and 10.4.8 = trouble !

I updated yesterday. When the computer restarted it couldn't boot anymore. It stopped at a screen with a folder and a questionmark on top. After a while it automatically booted into windows (cause of bootcamp).
I repaired with Techtool pro (it found some errors which were repaired). After the restart the same probem occured. I repaired then with Disk Utility from the Tiger DVD, again some errors were found and repaired. After the restart Tiger booted, automatically restarted again and booted fully (just as other people described the update to behave). Now everything's fine.

So this update really seems to have some issues with MacBook Pros! :(

(My wife's iBook updated flawlessly...)
 
You're not the only one...

Tomaz said:
I updated yesterday. When the computer restarted it couldn't boot anymore. It stopped at a screen with a folder and a questionmark on top. After a while it automatically booted into windows (cause of bootcamp).
I repaired with Techtool pro (it found some errors which were repaired). After the restart the same probem occured. I repaired then with Disk Utility from the Tiger DVD, again some errors were found and repaired. After the restart Tiger booted, automatically restarted again and booted fully (just as other people described the update to behave). Now everything's fine.

So this update really seems to have some issues with MacBook Pros! :(

(My wife's iBook updated flawlessly...)
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See my post at #222.
BTW, the one MBP that I said had successfully updated got a kernel panic when he tried to wake his sleeping MBP the next morning, he has now reverted to 10.4.7
 
LEAP broken?

After installing this update, I can no longer connect to LEAP networks that worked perfectly before. I get an "error while joining" the network even though I'm getting a good signal. It seems their update for "EAP-FAST" networks has broken something with my MacBook Pro.

Anyone else experiencing this?
 
Thanks For Letting Us Know!!!

rodpascoe said:
Yay, this added RAW support for my Fuji S3

Finally!
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Bought a S3 last Xmas and I returned Aperture to the Apple Store because of the lack of support... Happy to see this nightmare is coming to an end

Michel
 
Any fix for airport + 10.4.8 + intel = random connection drops

It looks like quite a few people have experienced issues with the 10.4.8 update causing Airport connections to randomly drop on Intel based apple hardware.

Has anyone found any fixes for it?

I've tried all the stuff, like rebuilding my keychain, deleting all my wireless networks and re-adding, toggling the autojoin setting from preferred to any and back. It just seems to be totally random... sometimes I boot up my machine, and it stays connected without any issues, other times the connection randomly drops every few minutes.

Here is my hardware, in case someone wants it for comparison:

Notebook: 2.0ghz MacBook w/2GB RAM, 60gb drive. OS X 10.4.8
Wireless: Linksys WRT54G running dd-wrt v23 sp1

I've got a couple other machines on the network that have no wireless connectivity problems, so it's specific to the MacBook after the 10.4.8 update.
 
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