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10.5.6 is Out

No problem updating - but now...

No problem updating my PowerBook G4 (10.5.5 -> Combo 10.5.6). But now it takes hours and hours to try to repair permissions - and the session never finishes. I used Dusk Utiliy, Disk Warrior 4.1.1 and Leopard Cache Cleaner 4.0.18. No finish of the expected repair.

Is it possible to delete the (damaged?) permissions database and build it again? If so: where do I find this database?

Thank you very much for hints, tips and errmm, real solutions... :)
 
I just updated this morning at around 8am. It's now almost 11am and it still has the spinning icon. I don't know whether this is normal or not; I don't remember any other updates taking this long.

I have a pre-Penryn MBP, 2.4GHz Pentium w/ 4GB of ram.

I do have a lot of files on it and I was thinking that might be the reason. At the same time, wouldn't it have warned me that there wasn't enough space for an upgrade?

I'm deathly afraid of rebooting it mid-update as I don't want to deal with any blinking icons. What would you Mac experts recommend I do?

Thanks,
Scott
 
scottmweaver said:
I just updated this morning at around 8am. It's now almost 11am and it still has the spinning icon. I don't know whether this is normal or not; I don't remember any other updates taking this long.

I have a pre-Penryn MBP, 2.4GHz Pentium w/ 4GB of ram.

I do have a lot of files on it and I was thinking that might be the reason. At the same time, wouldn't it have warned me that there wasn't enough space for an upgrade?

I'm deathly afraid of rebooting it mid-update as I don't want to deal with any blinking icons. What would you Mac experts recommend I do?

Thanks,
Scott
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Shut down, download the combo update, and install.
 
scottmweaver said:
I did shut down and when it booted back up, everything seems perfect. It says Version 10.5.6.

Should I be aware of anything?
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Run the comber installer anyway. I don't think anyone can be sure what the Software Update has actually done, even if it says 10.5.6

If the combo updater doesn't need to write any files, it won't.
 
10.5.6 Has broke Online Banking Access

Since I updated my Intel imac with this update I can no longer access my online banking with BB&T, this is a very large Southeast Bank, when I log in, it just brings me to another screen, to log in again, no error message, I called the bank and of coarse they told me it's my fault, I must of forgot my password, anyway I talked to their online tech support, and they did tell me that they are aware that the update for the mac has broken the access to their site with Safari, they said I either had to use Internet Explorer or Mozilla, due to the fact that their site is no longer supported by Safari, due to the latest mac update.

http://www.bbt.com/
 
david803sc said:
Since I updated my Intel imac with this update I can no longer access my online banking with BB&T, this is a very large Southeast Bank, when I log in, it just brings me to another screen, to log in again, no error message, I called the bank and of coarse they told me it's my fault, I must of forgot my password, anyway I talked to their online tech support, and they did tell me that they are aware that the update for the mac has broken the access to their site with Safari, they said I either had to use Internet Explorer or Mozilla, due to the fact that their site is no longer supported by Safari, due to the latest mac update.

http://www.bbt.com/
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I'm having probs with HSBC, I shall try firefox now and see if it works.
 
Anyone having trouble with MacMail now?

I installed 10.5.6 last night, and since then, every time I get an e-mail with an attachment and try to open it, it fails and blows up MacMail. I get the standard "would you like to report this incident?", and I do, but it's happened, oh, a dozen times since this morning.

I need those attachments.

I originally thought it was a virus, but now I'm not so sure, especially since some of the e-mails were from trusted sources. Anyone have any ideas? Anyone experienced anything similar?
 
plinden said:
Run the comber installer anyway. I don't think anyone can be sure what the Software Update has actually done, even if it says 10.5.6

If the combo updater doesn't need to write any files, it won't.
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Agreed. I installed the delta on my iMac and was getting benign permissions errors. I decided to install the combo update and they went away.
 
I seem to get a maximum 30% CPU usage on a 720p film and 50% usage on a 1080p movie, under Quicktime
 
blufire said:
I updated 6 Macs using the standard Software Update method (190MB delta updater) with no issues.
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Same thing we tried, and have had no luck so far. Every time, it locks on installing it. We can exit out of it and the machine restarts with no update applied.

Seems total hit or miss ... looking at this thread it seems like most people are ok. Think I might just contact Apple care and have them find a solution.
 
I just let the updater install 10.5.6 to my 1GHz G4 eMac: he downloaded 190mb and had no probs.
 
So let me get this straight... Apple does these updates to boast about being the newest with industry standards, yet never care to test them out in real life?

Cause since 10.5. or 2, the god Frakkin' popping sounds in my speakers have been ignored ever since and as a filmmaker and sound editor this renders my computer useless!!!!

Plug it into a real expensive speaker set and the pop becomes a near heart attack!!!!

HATE THIS!!!!
 
If my memory serves, the past failed updates like this all pointed to various third party extensions that people had installed on their machines that, combined with the new update, broke things. I suspect that this may be likely here as well. For instance, I recall the old Tiger GUI themer Uno once broke a bunch of updates for people.

When you read a report of people who are updating several computers at once in business or even home environments, they're often running the same software on them. Whatever the combination that's breaking one of them could be what's breaking all of them.

Obviously this is a gross overgeneralization, and some people probably are having legitimate problems with the update. My three updates on my three machines all went fine (MBP 3,1; MBP 5,1; MP 1,1).
 
Lyra said:
So let me get this straight... Apple does these updates to boast about being the newest with industry standards, yet never care to test them out in real life?

Cause since 10.5. or 2, the god Frakkin' popping sounds in my speakers have been ignored ever since and as a filmmaker and sound editor this renders my computer useless!!!!

Plug it into a real expensive speaker set and the pop becomes a near heart attack!!!!

HATE THIS!!!!
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That's been happening long before Leopard. It has to do with the sound card waking up from sleep. I think it is overzealous in putting it to sleep. If you have continuous sound it shouldn't be an issue. But when you have a period of silence then sound that is when it will happen.
 
DiToHo said:
Hey Guys,

After the new update (10.5.6) I have the following problem:
When I try to launch mail.app - if will start, but crash right away.... Tried rebooting, doing this several times.. no change.
As soon as mail.app is launched, it will crash/quit with the error report/relaunch box.

Anyone can help?..

Would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Error msg: http://pastebin.com/m16ef9474
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I'm guessing you have OMiC (winmail.dat attachment handler bundle) installed?

I did and I was getting the same problem with mail.app as you. I removed the OMiC bundle as explained here http://www.restoroot.org/OMiC/en/readme.php and mail.app now works fine.

**update: Just found an update to OMiC (aka Letter Opener) on their website. they've acknowledged the problem 10.5.6 causes and released a new version. http://www.restoroot.com/OMiC/en/download.php
 
brop52 said:
That's been happening long before Leopard. It has to do with the sound card waking up from sleep. I think it is overzealous in putting it to sleep. If you have continuous sound it shouldn't be an issue. But when you have a period of silence then sound that is when it will happen.
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But on the other hand, clean 10.5 on my brand new MacBook Pro back when I got it, didn't suffer from this... naturally it suffered from the screen showing odd colors, but it's kind of fixed now...

I find it odd that they sold that machine to me on the basis that I make film and since I got it I've had issues with it in some capacity and it's my 16th mac. So when the 'genius' said it's probably MY FAULT, I almost lost it! I used to work for apple, so how about he saved me that speech!

Nope he didn't, then I called the manager and he knew me from before this moron was hired. But still I spent 35min arguing with him, explaining that the color sync wasn't working cause the screen wasn't showing the right colors.

Anyway, long story short... no one knows anything, and no one files any serious problems under any system to sort it out for next updates... so they keep cropping up.
 
wankey said:
I hate it. It's typical Apple thinking. Take the choice away from the people, at first people will complain but eventually they will slowly follow you.

Gah, I want my choice back. I used to play games on my macbook pro without the cord.
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It's the MAN keeping us down...man!!
 
brop52 said:
That's been happening long before Leopard. It has to do with the sound card waking up from sleep. I think it is overzealous in putting it to sleep. If you have continuous sound it shouldn't be an issue. But when you have a period of silence then sound that is when it will happen.
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This really stinks! This did not happen on my Powerbook!
 
New Update

Hey

I got to say i love the new Apple Update and Wow!
My MacBook was running really bad as in lagging took forever to do anything but since i installed the new update and well now its just as better as i bought it before.

Thank you Apple for fixing this update.
 
Lyra said:
So let me get this straight... Apple does these updates to boast about being the newest with industry standards, yet never care to test them out in real life?

Cause since 10.5. or 2, the god Frakkin' popping sounds in my speakers have been ignored ever since and as a filmmaker and sound editor this renders my computer useless!!!!

Plug it into a real expensive speaker set and the pop becomes a near heart attack!!!!

HATE THIS!!!!
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It could possibly help to use one of these: Gold-Plated Volume Control Cable for Stereo Headphones

Set the MBP volume to high and the adapter volume control to low (it's appears to be an impedance mismatch issue, that you can sort of mitigate in this way). This was suggested in the Apple forum way back when I was having noise issues with my MBP, and this simple fix solved the issue for me.
 
Successful Update

To all those out there concerned from the update:

I updated my PowerMac G5 using the auto update (190 MB).
Everything went smoothly, it did a dual reboot and came back.

Before updating, I closed all the apps and did a repair disk permission.
The system does feel a little more snappier, including Safari. I may be imagining though... ;)

All in all, it just worked.
:apple:

One semi-interesting thing:
After the initial full reboot, I could not preview Jpeg files. Quicklook worked, but Jpegs where shown only as icons in cover flow.
I repaired the permissions again and restarted. Now it works fine. Weird...
 
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