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Apple Pulls 10.2.8 Software Updater

10.2.8 Issues

Ugh, 2.8 SUCKS. My battery life has gone down the drain, my PB is very slow, and I had a dropped Ethernet connection at school. Also, where is my Bluetooth menu?

Is there a solution yet?
 
Battery is down to 11%, I'll post if it is still 1.5 hours lower than usual after recalibration. Although I wasn't around all day, and it went into sleep a bunch of times, my TiBook seems to have run much longer than the 2 hours it was supposed to.
 
Re: 10.2.8 Issues

Originally posted by Marlon_JBT
Ugh, 2.8 SUCKS. My battery life has gone down the drain, my PB is very slow, and I had a dropped Ethernet connection at school. Also, where is my Bluetooth menu?

Is there a solution yet?
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For your speed issues check the Processor Speed Setting under the Energy Saver Preference Panel.

dombi
 
Well, on my Powerbook 333 it hasn't affected the battery life.. if anything I swear that it extended it. I run it with 2 batteries and usually get about 5 hours total.. well today I think I got about 5 1/2 hours.. cause when it should have been dead it was still going. (this is according to my usual pattern of usage so I have a very good idea how long it should work)
 
updated 12 dual 800's and 4 dual gigs at work today, no problems with hanging/booting, or network.
 
Originally posted by GeeYouEye
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.
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Clicking sound? What clicking sound, is this for 800 iBooks?

Hugh
 
recalibrate battery

how exactly does one recalibrate his/her battery...i'm asking for umm...a friend..yes a friend...who doesn't know what's going on....would be very much obliged, at 8:30 his battery read 1:21 remaining...now it is 9:51 and there is 0:40 remaining..it is quite a nuisance...

thank you

adel 's friend
 
For Everyone Panicking about battery life...

The meter on the menu bar is wrong, everyone!! Actual battery has has not been affected.

I own two different PowerBooks, a 500 MHz Ti and a new 17" 1.33 GHz, and I have verified this on both of them.

Annoying, but survivable until a fix comes out. :(
 
Re: Wow - pulled it?

Originally posted by mvc
Have apple ever pulled an update off of Software Update before? I can't remember one, but I could be wrong.

I'm glad I was reading the forums and decided there was too much chance of grief with this one.

Besides, seems there is always some driver or application that gets broken, so I usually wait a few weeks and check round for 3rd party updates.

This must suck if you have an affected machine.
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iTunes 2.0. Though for much more serious issues. It was erasing people's partitions.

Here's why Apple pulled 10.2.8:
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/09/23/1028pulled/
 
One darned good thing though...

FCP4 has stopped crashing when I log into it. Darned program usually crashes two or three times trying to find my camera, then finally works. After it started, no problem. Now I have been in and out of it 10 times since 10.2.8 and not a crash.

I have also had crash problems on DVDSP 2.0. Will have to see if this helped them.

iMac 800 flat screen
512mb ram
10.2.8
 
dombi

I checked it, it's at "Highest". So, this leads me to wonder whether 10.2.8 was at fault, since it wasn't like that before.

I am NOT looking at that battery meter, since it's horribly unreliable...but sometimes a good approximation of what's left. I DID, really NOTICE a battery life drop after 10.2.8. My battery gives me 3.5ish hours, during light usage, now, I can barely get 2.5. It's really annoying. I have gotten 5:15 out of it before, but that's as dim a screen as possible, reduced processor power, speakers muted, dark desktop wallpaper, and only running OpenOffice.org. I could really see if 10.2.8 had an effect on the battery by running this test again, but the test takes 5 hours! :)

However, I did get my Bluetooth menu back, after a reset of the PMU, and with that, came a slight speed increase, especially in System Preferences. Next, is Disk Utility.
 
10.2.8 Woes

I installed 10.2.8 on a 500mhz dual usb iBook and it immediately slowed down the machines start up by about 4x. My battery will not hold a charge. Everthing ran slower. iCal, Safari and iSync did not work. I contacted Apple and they advised me, after a series of checks, to go back to 10.2.6. I did and it is running great. They guy from Apple even said that you should wait a week before updating the OS.
 
Re: dombi

marlon, sorry to hear about your issues. I have a rev. a (867mhz - 640mb ram) 12" PB as well. My early post mentioned some funny activity with the (not-so-reliable) battery meter, but after one boot it fixed it.

However one note with my 12" rev. a. after a full day of using it.....I'm getting a minimum of 20 extra minutes battery life since running the 10.2.8 update. I can now get well over an hour on 'highest peformance', and the brightness 1/2 way up. Before I was lucky to get 50 minutes with it set that way.
 
Originally posted by Falleron
Applied and works fine here. (on a daul 1ghz g4)
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Yeah me too (Dual 1GHz MDD). Right now I'm installing the updates on all the computers in the newspaper office right n-*KABOOOM*
 
It's OK, I still love my PB, and in no way dissatisfied with Apple.

They simply made a mistake, and those happen.

Things seem to be speeding up these past couple reboots...I'm recalibrating my battery now, to see if that will help also...still charging.
 
Originally posted by Marlon_JBT
It's OK, I still love my PB, and in no way dissatisfied with Apple.

They simply made a mistake, and those happen.

Things seem to be speeding up these past couple reboots...I'm recalibrating my battery now, to see if that will help also...still charging.
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That is the one thing I have done today a few times actually.. Drain the battery, then charge, then drain.... To get a grip on whether battery performance has really increased... I can conservatively say it really has increased a minimum of 10-20 minutes in over-all battery life. My PB just finished charging, and I'm typing this from batter power. Settings are 'highest performance', with the brightness set at 50%. The (not-so-reliable) battery meter is showing me 1:50 left. Before the 10.2.8 update I would be at 1:15 battery life left (under idenctical circumstances).

I've also re-booted multiple times today, and each time it seems to run better as well.
 
No ethernet

I was unfortunately one of those who got struck. My ethernet no longer worked after I installed 10.2.8. Fortunately I found a solution, and it's working nicely, like before. The system no longer seems to freeze when I close VPC 5.0.4. This is a very good thing. I haven't used VPC much at all in the past few months because of that horrendous freezing problem, which would lock up the ENTIRE system.

The only good thing to come out of this experience, is that I tried zapping my PRAM, and I'm now able to boot into OS 9 again, which I haven't been able to do for quite awhile (OS 9 would just result with a black screen, and nothing else). While I generally have very little reason to use OS 9, it is nice to know I can use it if I need to.
 
Originally posted by teabgs
yeah. They work fine for me.

What I want to know is if these people have panther on their machines.
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ok, i have panther on a separate partition, and 10.2.8 is working perfectly for me. not only that, it fixed the problem with not being able to open sys prefs from the apple menu with the Panther partition mounted. (i know, its an odd bug but it was really annoying me), so ive had pretty good luck so far. :confused:

also, if i may ask, why are people updating from 10.2.7?! isnt 2.7 only for the G5's, and wasnt the 2.8 update specifically NOT meant for G5's?
 
Not fun. The last thing I expected this lovely evening was to replace my stable 10.2.6 with a buggy update...and lose classic mode!

I luckily didn't suffer any networking failure, but now I get the following error message when starting classic mode: an error was encountered while attempting to update your system folder with classic-specific resources.

Console gives me the following details: AUTOUPDATE ERROR: type and/or creator resource missing for /System/Library/CoreServices/Classic Startup.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/SystemFiles/Classic

During the 10.2.8 update install, my imac froze and the display turned off - I had to reset and just now discovered this eccentricity. Has anyone else had this problem? If so, any suggestions as to how to deal with it?

Thanx
 
Re: Re: Wow - pulled it?

Originally posted by gopher
Here's why Apple pulled 10.2.8:
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/09/23/1028pulled/
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Well thanks for the link, but I think Apple is dodging the issue (see above post that said Apple told the user to downgrade to 10.2.6). Is that really a solution? Does Apple really think that the issue is solely "...an issue affecting Ethernet networking on small number of Power Mac G4 desktop systems." Just curious why they would release a statement that ignored the numerous other issues.

I'm not saying this is a conspiracy, but Apple needs to explain the other problems (i.e. blank icons, system slowdowns, battery issues, etc). It is apparently deeper than Ethernet problems on Power Macs.

:confused: Maybe Apple just wants everyone to say f*ck it, I'll just buy Panther!!:cool:
 
well, for what it is worth, my 2.8 went fine.


one thing i have noticed, is that mytai (ti667) will goto sleep while running quite a few hoggy apps (photoshop...) and will wake up at the login screen. no saves, no warning, just time to login again.

annoying, but as long as i save, not a huge a huge proplem. besides, it only has happened twice (in two days).



(i'm back... and a 6502 also.:D)
 
Re: Re: x.2.8

Originally posted by shadowfax
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.
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Each time you reboot, actually. At least in my experience.

My iMac 400 went from screen saver to kernel panic. Very curious. Thankfully, I won't have to deal with it much longer because my PowerBook is delivered tomorrow! HA HA, SUCKERS!

(Wasn't there a security update or something similar awhile ago that would nuke your home directory? I think I remember something like that.)
 
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