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10.5.6 is Out

voicegy said:
Software Update via Apple Menu downloaded VERY quickly, however, like some here, it hung after "Restart" at the configuration process. That's never happened to me before, even after jumping quick on an update.

I just forced a shutdown after waiting 1/2 an hour with no progress (held down the Power key) and went to the handy link plinden so kindly provided. Downloaded the combo update, then opened 'er up and ran it. Took a little longer this way, but all is well now. Will now repair permissions as a matter-of-course after this update.
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This looks to be very common - and very dangerous for the Software Updater to expand and verify an update that is obviously NOT correct. Is everyone who is experiencing this issue using an early 08 Penryn MBP, and requires a 190MB update? I suspect something is screwy with that file and/or server.
 
slapppy said:
It seems to be the common answer to people having problems when they use the software update control panel. At least from what I read on macfixit or macintouch. Even Apple forums, users suggest going back and re-installing the update using combo installer. Usually resolves issues after the first try. So I skip the control panel and go straight for the combo updater.
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Actually I realized "Why?" after trying to update. I had two freezes. So I went and got the combo updater from Apple and it worked. I'm always a skeptic until I see it with my own eyes.
 
dr_lha said:
No (UK and Ireland are part of Europe and don't do that).
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Ah, ok. I've only been once so far, to Spain, and thought I learned somewhere that they do that all over. I plan on going to Ireland before long, so it's good to know.
 
update also was hung up on Configuring your installation

I had the same issue trying to upgrade. I restarted twice, same hang up others were experiencing, and yes I did let it run over 1 hour the second time. I downloaded the full update and reran it fine.
 
voicegy said:
Software Update via Apple Menu downloaded VERY quickly, however, like some here, it hung after "Restart" at the configuration process. That's never happened to me before, even after jumping quick on an update.

I just forced a shutdown after waiting 1/2 an hour with no progress (held down the Power key) and went to the handy link plinden so kindly provided. Downloaded the combo update, then opened 'er up and ran it. Took a little longer this way, but all is well now. Will now repair permissions as a matter-of-course after this update.
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damnit, i downloaded the other, non-combo update. would that be a problem?

this is what you downloaded:

http://support.apple.com/downloads/Mac_OS_X_10_5_6_Combo_Update

this is what i downloaded:

http://support.apple.com/downloads/Mac_OS_X_10_5_6_Update


is there a difference?
 
Ever since upgrading, I can't seem to open my TimeMachine bundle and my MacBook Pro (17in) can't make updates either!!!:confused:
 
also, will the manual update leave any residue? its 390 mb...i don't want it taking up space on my hdd.
 
I'd like to congratulate this thread for having relatively few comparisons of pkg download sizes. In fact I've nominated it for a special award. But why do so many people have to take pictures of 'about' screens?
 
Major issues on Unibody MacBook

Guys,

I just registered to post this:

I have one of the new unibody MacBook's with 4 GB of Apple Ram.

The update downloaded just fine. It rebooted to install and it did it's thing. Took a long while. Then it came back saying the update failed because it couldn't find some file in "/". The message only had a reboot button. I rebooted and I got the blinking folder icon. A subsequent reboot just hangs and nothing ever comes up. Luckily I had a super duper backup on an external drive. I swapped it out and connected the failed drive via USB to do a disk repair but both a repair and verify fail.

This is the first time I've ever had a problem with an update.

Any thoughts?
 
Bryanj026 said:
ok I'm not sure if I did this but my apple menu was displaying things twice and it had new menu items like system profiler and it was displaying thing twice like log out and shutdown. I hit control F5 but everything has gone away now. probably just me i guess
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Thats caused by turning on VoiceOver (Cmd+F5), it splits out menu items that have a separate function if you hold option so that you can select them with VoiceOver. You can see what items it would do this to if you open up a menu like the Apple menu and then press the option key. You will see for example "About this Mac" be replaced with "System Profiler".
 
neutrino23 said:
Is it static or sparkly? We just had a problem like this on a laptop. The Apple store first thought it was the logic board. We changed that but the problem persisted (though it improved). They next tested different memory and the problem went away. We are currently just living with it as it got a lot better.

What we see (now mostly when the machine first wakes up) is that random bits are flipped on both the laptop and the external monitor. You can make them go away by causing a screen refresh so it is not stuck pixels in the display.

If you have some third party memory you might try pulling that temporarily and seeing if that improves things.
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The issue is more of a static. It has recieved alot of attention on the Apple Discussion Forums at:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1762674

Corey
 
kaypro said:
Guys,

I just registered to post this:

I have one of the new unibody MacBook's with 4 GB of Apple Ram.

The update downloaded just fine. It rebooted to install and it did it's thing. Took a long while. Then it came back saying the update failed because it couldn't find some file in "/". The message only had a reboot button. I rebooted and I got the blinking folder icon. A subsequent reboot just hangs and nothing ever comes up. Luckily I had a super duper backup on an external drive. I swapped it out and connected the failed drive via USB to do a disk repair but both a repair and verify fail.

This is the first time I've ever had a problem with an update.

Any thoughts?
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THANK YOU for posting this. I have same as you and now am definitely waiting to update. Will do a TM backup tonight so when Apple gets their sh*t together I can do the update.

Thanks again.
 
mrkgoo said:
This looks to be very common - and very dangerous for the Software Updater to expand and verify an update that is obviously NOT correct. Is everyone who is experiencing this issue using an early 08 Penryn MBP, and requires a 190MB update? I suspect something is screwy with that file and/or server.
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I've hung both a new white MacBook and a 2 year old white iMac.
 
Updated. Loooong double reboot. Everything works! (Unibody MBP)
And like magic, everything seems snappier (my mind playing tricks on me?).

They should have waited and released this as a christmas present for all of us on december 24th. That would have been sweet.

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BTW does anyone know exactly what the "Graphics improvements for ... Cover Flow ... and iTunes" are?
 
Some serious graphic performance increase

In some primarly graphics tests I run with the OpenGL extensions viewer there are quite some amazing results. OpenGL performance in this application doesn't say everything about real world performance but in some games people will certainly notice a difference.

Testing was done with an early '08 MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz with 2GB of RAM.

Version 10.5.5 10.5.6 Diff %

OpenGL 1.1 - 704 - 805 - 14.34% - Significant gain
OpenGL 1.2 - 845 -1014- 20.00% - Significant gain
OpenGL 1.3 - 855 - 835 - 02.34% - Small decline
OpenGL 1.4 - 732 - 758 - 03.55% - Small gain
OpenGL 1.5 - 729 - 749 - 02.74% - Small gain
OpenGL 2.0 - 393 - 523 - 33.07% - Significant gain
OpenGL 2.1 - 103 - 104 - 01.00% - Non conslusive (same performance)

Most modern games use OpenGL 2.0 (with 2.1 extensions) or 2.1.

Note: Numbers above can't be compared so that means 103 in the OpenGL 2.1 score can be compared to 393 in the OpenGL 2.0 test.

Note 2: Testing on an eMac G4 showed 2 - 3% performance gain on all tests but numbers on the eMac are so small they can't be really compared.
 
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