10.5.6 is Out

[aacores]

Hold the power button for 5 seconds. It should shut down. Then reboot. Can you still access the OS; does it still boot?

Yes, it boot and continue the instalation process. Tks

 

[Eric S.]

10.5.6 has installed okay for me. Phew. However, time machine is taking a while to back up. Quite a while...

It always does after an OS update.

 

[Scottsdale]

Started mine before bed time last night.

It started fine and went to about 5% installed then stayed there. I waited a few minutes and it didn't move. I then went to sleep waiting for it to finish. Woke up at five am and still at same place.

Had to hard shut it down by holding power button. Tried again, and had to hard shut it down a second time. Anyone else having this problem???

 

[mrtrilby]

I updated my late 2008 MBP this morning and it went without a hitch. Got back this afternoon to find the screens had powered off and wouldn't come back on, even though it was still running. Forced it to power off, and when it came back up, it was reporting that it had had a kernel panic.

So my hopes that this update would improve stability didn't hold out long. This is my first Mac and I'm getting a little sick of its instability. It wouldn't run for long on the 9600 graphics card without panicking before, and following the update it appears that random panics are to be the order of the day. Am I alone in experiencing this?

 

[shockwave08]

Same

It started fine and went to about 5% installed then stayed there. I waited a few minutes and it didn't move. I then went to sleep waiting for it to finish. Woke up at five am and still at same place.

Had to hard shut it down by holding power button. Tried again, and had to hard shut it down a second time. Anyone else having this problem???

I got the same problem. Still trying to find out what happen. Fustrating

 

[j-a-x]

According to Xbench, 10.5.6 increases my open GL frame rate by 10 FPS or so in their test. That's cool!

 

[brop52]

Has anyone notices that on notebooks the batter menu has changed? You no longer have the direct option to change your battery settings. You now have to go into Energy Saver Preferences.

That's how it has been with the new unibody notebooks from the start.

 

[brad.c]

I don't know if anyone's caught this...

The restart screen is kind of different, and it no longer waits 2 minutes, only 1.

I kind of appreciate that. It's like being stuck at a red light, then zoning out and not noticing the light has changed to green. Now the car behind you beeps that much sooner, and you get on with your day.

I'm DL'ing the combo update now (the big 10.5.0-10.5.5 one), and will install on my back-up MM 1,1 before moving on to my production MBP 4,1. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[justflie]

I got the same problem. Still trying to find out what happen. Fustrating

Many people had this issue and it's been addressed earlier in this thread (arn, maybe you can update the main post with an explanation of the problem/solution?).

You need to delete the downloaded file (it didn't download in full) and download the update from Apple's website directly. Then install and it should be fine. I think the file is in your library then software updates but I'm not sure. Refer to earlier posts in this thread and people spell it out where everything is located.

 

[QueenZ]

I hate this .... and i don't even know what the problem is..

 

[0098386]

Both iMac and MB are running perfect on 5.6 no problems here at all.

 

[sapota]

For people who are having problems...have you people modified the default setup in anyway....if not, then Apple seems to be going a certain way of its rival located in pacific northwest. Not the 1st time Apple is having problems....but what happened to a Mac that just works. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ec51]

Anyone else noticing differences with their TC post update?

There is a separate thread on the issue, but I just wanted to see if anyone else was having similar issues.

Post 10.5.6 - my TC icon now shows the exclamation point icon and indicates backup delayed when on another wireless network other than my home (TC) one.

Strange...

 

[TheZA]

Downloaded and installed last night, no problem. I haven't noticed any big changes, but I didn't play around too much after the update. 190MB on 17", 1.83GB iMac C2D with integrated graphics.

 

[mudenza]

I am not sure I have been wondering the same thing too.
Right now, through iTunes I am download a 1080p versions of Bolt and Quantum of Solace trailers. When it is done, I will report back. What should the CPU % Utilization be for User and or quicktime processes to know whether it is being processed by the GPU?
Early 2008 Macbook Pro

Can someone please confirm this? I'd really be interested in confirming this feature rather than rant about some useless energy icon.

 

[ec51]

Now my spotlight seems to be all messed up - when searching for a document random attachments from my email addresses come up.

 

[VSMacOne]

After reading thru this thread I'm really thankful... I ran the update last night, no problems with the installation nor afterwards.. Everything runs just as good, if not better..

 

[kolax]

Now my spotlight seems to be all messed up - when searching for a document random attachments from my email addresses come up.

Go to Spotlight settings in System Preferences and make sure you haven't changed the order of the list.

 

[justflie]

Now my spotlight seems to be all messed up - when searching for a document random attachments from my email addresses come up.

Try Kilamite's idea. You can also reset your Spotlight index and start it all over again. That will take a while but might do the trick.

 

[maxus]

Changing miniature size with 2 fingers is broken wtf!!! ! 2 fingers zoom in/out is also broken!!

 

[maxus]

also can't use space to start playback in final cut pro and can't zoom timeline via keyboard shortcut!! what the hell! who broke all this!

 

[blufire]

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?

Kaypro, I would run the combo updater on that hard drive. If you've got a bootable USB drive, I'd boot from that (install OS X on it from your MacBook's bundled DVD if you haven't yet) and run the updater on your internal HD.

If that doesn't work, or if you can't do that, do an Archive & Install (preserve users and network settings) from your bundled DVD.

 

[blufire]

I have always downloaded the combo updates and this has so far worked well for me and my MacPro

Agreed, I always go the combo updater route on my personal system. The delta updater usually works, but I feel better about using combo

 

[blufire]

I would *NOT* recommend updating .. we have tried to update a few machines and every single one locked doing the update.

I updated 6 Macs using the standard Software Update method (190MB delta updater) with no issues.

 

[kolax]

Thought I'd post back now I've been using OS X 10.5.6 for 24 hours.

Very stable still and haven't noticed any bad things and in general everything seems a bit snappier.