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Apple Pulls 10.2.8 Software Updater

Originally posted by shadowfax
if the schmuck is still caught in his OS 8 world, what makes you think he'll ever hear about a minor problem with an OS X software update in order to use it as justification for being an old school fool?
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Because everyone at work (including myself) is always complaining about how much more productive they would be with a modern os. He's one of these guys who's always researching stuff, just to find fault with it. We'd all be happy with at least OS 9.2

I have since brought my old G4 into work and set it up under my desk. It runs everything we need at work flawlessly... and offers more flexibility when it comes to productivity. No conflicts. Just a more reliable and efficient work load.

He's the one who said something about how this proves that upgrading is bad.

Sorry for the rant.
 
Update banner gone from OS X page

I see Apple took the banner telling people to check for OS 10.2.8 in their update off of the OS X page. It was there an hour ago..
 
Soooo, did Apple offer any details about their solution? Or are we supposed to tip-toe around while using our Mac hoping it doesn't crash while working on something important? I realize this blunder will take more time than instantly to fix, but they really need to clue-in those of us who've updated already. Pulling an update means they know it's broken....

Oh, and if my battery life truely is 1:30, my flight from CA to SC is going to SUCK.

Apple? Bueller? Anyone??
 
Re: x.2.8

Originally posted by lewdvig
My machine boots noticably faster after the update. No bad things yet.

Other than asking me permission for the key chain for mail and safari everything seems OK. That probably normal eh?
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again, if your boot speed is any faster, there is probably a different reason than the update. mine took considerably longer after installing the update.

as for the keychain thing, any time you modify the system (as in, software update) it forces you to reconfirm all your keychain data. so yes, that is entirely normal.
 
Originally posted by coolbreeze
Soooo, did Apple offer any details about their solution? Or are we supposed to tip-toe around while using our Mac hoping it doesn't crash while working on something important?
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MacCentral says they got a mail from Apple saying it's about the ethernet problem on some older G4 towers. But apparently it was a really brief mail, and that's it.
 
Originally posted by reckless_0001
I installed it on 4 eMacs, 1 iBook, 1 B&W PowerMac, 1 Cube and 1 MDD PowerMac with no problems whatsoever.
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Congratulations indeed. According to today's poll, some 9% of users who applied the update either got worse or into major problems. Assuming the s**t hits the mac randomly, this would give you a 91% chance of not having problems. With 8 random Macs this would give you a 47% chance of not having problems.

I wouldn't bet my Macs if chances were 50/50 one would get 'damaged', and I guess you wouldn't have either, if you would have known.

:(

M.

[edit: corrected the numbers - at first I calculated the people who didn't apply the update too)
 
Wallstreet 14.1 266, 320mb, toshiba12gb

No problems with 10.2.8 (you can all pity my compusaurus). The only issue I have is that I was running NoSleep 3.0 which lets me use the 'book with the lid shut. Now I'm going to be stuck walking around
Boston with no music. And I'm certainly not lugging this paperweight around if I can't use it for tunes... time to look on eBay for cheap iPods :)
 
Dual 1ghz Quicksilver... no major problems.
PB 12" ... no 'major' problems either. The Powerbook did seem to have fun with the remaining battery life meter. After a good 45 minutes on batter power I noticed I had 2 1/2 hours left of power... Ha ha! - this was on 'highest performance' with the brightness up all the way. After rebooting everything is now ok.
 
Possible Ethernet Problem

I have had no known problems, the speed is a bit faster on my 12"PB, but I was at school today, and I was unable to use DHCP to get out onto the internet. Everyone one all the other ports were connected, but I could not get a valid IP address.
 
On my iBook 800, seriously messed up my icons (PDFs had the Acrobat icon, .sit's had the OS 9 version of the icon, and everything else but folders were blank icons. Restarting the Finder fixed that though), and is doing some funky things to the battery meter; even though HD, processor usage is constant, the battery depletion isn't. But so far, it looks like I'm getting a LONGER battery life than I should; two minutes/% with full screen brightness, AirPort on, while repairing permissions, with OmniWeb, iChat, Word, Finder, and the Terminal open. (The Dock is dang slow with all this activity though) Haven't yet used Safari, but hopefully they fixed a bug in WebCore that was causing Safari (and OmniWeb for that matter) to crash on aplus.net

The one thing I am mad about though is that the update didn't fix the clicking sound it was supposed to.

EDIT: upon further reflection, I remembered that the MP3 I had on my desktop had an Audion icon (normally has iTunes), and an iso had an OS 9 Toast icon. And checking Safari... that bug is still there.
 
10.2.8 update

ok so far with my new 15ALBook. I use Safari with work(outlook web access) and it seems much improved over the last safari I had on my old pb667.

I have not yet tried an eth connection.

-Rick
 
batery update on ALBook 15

I just unplugged my power to see if the batterylife would show some of the degradation that I have read about here. It shows 2:19. The screen is set to full brightness and keyboard is lit up. It just added a few minutes and now says 2:22.

Looks good.
 
I upgraded too...

Nothing major, but I've had a few problems. On the TiPB, it took a long time to reboot after the update...maybe about a half hour. No major roboot problems on the two iMacs, but slower than normal. On all three, the Transparent Dock is gone. I haven't noticed anything with the battery life on the PB, but it's mostly been on the desk, plugged in since the upgrade. Everything else seems to be ok for now.

(keeping my fingers crossed, but it's hard to type with crossed fingers.)
 
battery life HALVED on my 17inch Pbook, and everytime i wake it from sleep... the screen saver starts up.. even tho i have it set to NEVER come on.. so far those are the only 2 problems for me.. and i stress.. . SO FAR
 
everything seems okay on my 1gig tibook except my battery life at full power gives me only 1:45 and my imovie icons are blank. any way to fix this?
 
permissions

I wonder how many people who experience problems after this update (or any others) have undiagnosed permissions problems on their machines? A problem that would perhaps never manifest UNLESS an upgrade were to be applied.

It is a VERY wise idea to run permissions repair both before AND after an update of almost any sort. And standard disk repair as well.
 
Crud...

I updated my G4 450 at work and when I rebooted, it turned into a beige G3 233 with only 64 MB of RAM. Not only that, but now there's no USB ports for my keyboard and I have no Open GL support.

This happened once before when my Dalmatian iMac rebooted as a Mac Classic, but I rebuilt the desktop and it was fine. I'll admit I was worried for a bit because I had one of my favorite CDs in there at the time and I didn't know where it went.

- j
 
update 10.2.8

This is my first post (i'm a recent switcher) :0) But when i updated to 10.2.8, my dock went away,what do i do. No i dont have a backup copy..anyone have a clue.
 
Report from a dual 800MHz G4 Powermac

After half a day I decided to install OS X.2.8 (the 38 MB version) on my QuickSilver Dual 800MHz G4.

After the first two restarts my audio was completely muted and I was starting to regret updating. On the third restart the audio returned and the whole system was back to business as usual. I am using the audio-out port of the computer so it is possible that systems with the round Apple speakers could have experienced the same glitch.

No problems with the EtherNet port which is connected with an ADSL modem. I am online now, aren't I?

There are also no issues with third-party Preference Panes like WindowShade X, PrefsMenu and MenuMeters.

Overall I see no difference in the performance of my system but then I am not the type to count frames per second.
 
Re: update 10.2.8

Originally posted by 1adonis1
This is my first post (i'm a recent switcher) :0) But when i updated to 10.2.8, my dock went away,what do i do. No i dont have a backup copy..anyone have a clue.
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try restarting ... this happened to me too, but a restart may not work for you as it did for me :)
 
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