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Mac OS X 10.3.5 Now Available

jby1chaos said:
does anyone have the problem of connecting to a smb share and clicking quickly on the volume in the sidebar and having the finder crash... i dont remember this on 10.3.4, but then again i didnt connect that many times to smb shares...
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It has done this since 10.3 as far as I can remember.
 
FAT 32

A specific question rather than the usual "it works for me" or "this app crashes more". I haven't chance to test this yet but does anyone know if 10.3.5 correctly preserves the case of FAT 32 volumes?

In particular, I use a FAT-32 formatted USB flash drive to transfer development code from my PC to my Mac (I'm a Java developer and use the Eclipse development environment to develop at home and work). In Panther (as I say not tested on 10.3.5) when I plug my flash drive into my Mac any file name or directory that is 8.3 characters or less becomes uppercase. This causes problems for Eclipse since it is case-sensitve so that, for instance, directory that were called "com/company/myapp" will not be recognized since they Panther now calls them "COM/COMPANY/MYAPP"

Can anyone verify this is fixed?
 
Serious Problems After Update

Posted this in Apple Discussions...looks like some others are having similar problems...NOT GOOD!

I was installing (I checked off the Update & The Security Update)...It had finished the install part and started Optimizing. It was not finished (It was taking a while because I'm on an old G4/450..(waiting on my G5)) and I forgot about it and put my iPod into the Dock. The second I did that I got the "Grey Screen of Death" and the message to Restart. I restarted and the screen hung up on the Grey Apple screen with the rotating "loading" thingy. I restarted several times and let it sit there for about 30-40 min. No luck.

Then I booted to the install disc and ran Disk Permissions and Repair Disk. Restarted...Same thing.

I was going to do an "Archive & Install" but I can't because I don't have room on the drive. (Only 2GB Left on the drive). I booted to another drive (that I'm work now on temporarily) and tried to delete some things to make room for the Archive and Install.

GET THIS! I can't delete ANYTHING on the messed up drive. It makes the delete sound but remains in place. I went to the terminal and tried to delete from there as SUDO and got an "Invalid Argument" for anything I tried to delete.

I hope someone can shed some light on this for me. Anyone have any ideas?

APPLE PLEASE HELP!

Machine Info:
Machine Model: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (2.7)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 450 MHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 100 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.28f1
 
titaniumducky said:
This already exists - it's part of Unix. There's a daemon called "cron" which watches time (to the second, I think) and can run scripts/commands.

The OS actually uses it to run maintenance scripts if your computer is awake overnight.

I didn't see what your post is referring to ("one possible solution..."), but I'm sure cron can handle it. All you have to do is open up a file (/etc/crontab) with root permissions in a text editor and you can tell to run a script/command every week at this hour, every day at this hour and minute, or whatever else you wish.
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cron activates when certain time comes, but if the computer is at sleep at that time, cron just skips it and waits for next such time. in other words, it is hard-coded that certain script is run for example "02:00 AM every day", so if the computer is NOT UP AND RUNNING at that time ever, the script too has no chance to get run, unless user itself runs it.

i was stating that instead of cron, apple could implement such a counter that tracks HOURS OF USE, so such script could be run for example "after 24 hours of computer use"... you get the point?

the problem of such behaviour (and the suggested windows behaviour) is that most regular joes only have their computer powered on when they DO SOMETHING IMPORTANT and if such heavy scripts are run then, those ignorant people will freak out because they have no idea why their computer suddenly crawls. of course, apple could let the user see a warning before the script activates just to tell the regular joe that this needs to be done and computer shouldn't be rebooted before the system confirms that maintenance is done. anyway, that's not so straight-forward approach than cron.

i love unix. cron is great. it's just that average people cannot take advantage of such system that has been designed for 24/7 servers.
 
PB 15" 1.5 - no pulsating sleep light after update

Hi,

I've seen a couple of crashes and a disappeared sleep light after updating. I know I'm not the only one experiencing crashes, but I haven't seen any other reports on the missing sleep-light.

Am I the only one experiencing this?

[PS: Is it possible to de-upgrade? I want 10.3.2 back! ]

PB15" 1.5GHz 1GB RAM
(edit: typo).
 
About an hour after i installed this on my ibook G4 (which i haddn't had a problem with since i got it last december) i got a kernel panic and i restarted, then about twenty minutes later i got another one. has anyone got any suggestions on what to do. Thanks
 
For those that are having problems, the hints over at MacFixIt are good advice to generally having problem free OS updates. First off, always repair permissions and disks using Disk Utility before installing the update. In order to repair the disk, you'll have to boot from the Panther install CD. Secondly, always use the combined updater available on Apple's website and not the update that comes via software update. And third, always repair permissions immediately after your Mac restarts from the update install.

While some may consider these steps to be unnecessary or overkill, it has helped prevent many of the problems that some seem to always have after an OS update. I've been using these procedures every time I've updated since back in the Jaguar days and have never had a problem on any of multiple Macs, even with problematic updates like the first 10.2.8 update edition was. All in all it ends up taking me maybe an extra 10 minutes worth of time which is worth it if it means avoiding a potential problem in my mind.
 
Smooth Sailing

Ran 10.3.5 & all other available updates last evening; repaired permissions before and after as I always do.

The first restart after the update finished went pretty slow but now it's back to normal. I haven't noticed any differences, good or bad. I guess that's good. :)
 
Lancetx said:
For those that are having problems, the hints over at MacFixIt are good advice to generally having problem free OS updates. First off, always repair permissions and disks using Disk Utility before installing the update. In order to repair the disk, you'll have to boot from the Panther install CD. Secondly, always use the combined updater available on Apple's website and not the update that comes via software update. And third, always repair permissions immediately after your Mac restarts from the update install.

While some may consider these steps to be unnecessary or overkill, it has helped prevent many of the problems that some seem to always have after an OS update. I've been using these procedures every time I've updated since back in the Jaguar days and have never had a problem on any of multiple Macs, even with problematic updates like the first 10.2.8 update edition was. All in all it ends up taking me maybe an extra 10 minutes worth of time which is worth it if it means avoiding a potential problem in my mind.
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But I've always updated from the software update and I've never had any problems...
 
Trusty old Prismo

Well, after about a day of running 10.3.5 it looks like my trust old PBG3 Prismo has made the transition quite nicely. No goofs or unusual behavior just yet. Makes me wonder why I'm craving a PBG5 so bad.....oh yeah, speed.

-Joe
 
notmyname21 said:
But I've always updated from the software update and I've never had any problems...
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Wish I could say the same, x.x.5 has caused my G5 to not want to go into "deep sleep." No problems before the update, and my G5 is in the same condition that it was when it arrived on my door step. This update, in my opinion, Sucks the big one.
 
Boris Yeltsin said:
Wish I could say the same, x.x.5 has caused my G5 to not want to go into "deep sleep." No problems before the update, and my G5 is in the same condition that it was when it arrived on my door step. This update, in my opinion, Sucks the big one.
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What model Mac do you have? Is this the symptom where the fan stays on when you try to sleep?
 
Reports are still coming in about the fan problem, and all of them I've seen have been about the 1.8GHz model. So far, I have seen nothing from Apple in response. But it has been confirmed that the problem does not happen to all 1.8GHz power Macs and that it is a software problem, not a hardware problem or software-induced hardware problem, because reverting software clears up the symptom.
 
all these updates - normally very good, but not when i have to use a dial-up connection! its sooooooo slow!
 
aswitcher said:
So anyone hooked up a firewire drive yet and seen if it runs fine? ;)
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i read a couple of reports on accelerate your mac from people who said FW drives wouldn't mount after 10.3.5...but only a few. nothing on macfixit about it...can anyone here report either way? i was all set to install but now i'm a little hesitant.
 
Doctor Q said:
Reports are still coming in about the fan problem, and all of them I've seen have been about the 1.8GHz model. So far, I have seen nothing from Apple in response. But it has been confirmed that the problem does not happen to all 1.8GHz power Macs and that it is a software problem, not a hardware problem or software-induced hardware problem, because reverting software clears up the symptom.
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I certainly hope that Apple will respond to this quickly. Had thought that Rev. B would have corrected this situation. Although if the noise is no more that that of a G4 then I cold tolerate the situation.
 
Ambrose Chapel said:
i read a couple of reports on accelerate your mac from people who said FW drives wouldn't mount after 10.3.5...but only a few. nothing on macfixit about it...can anyone here report either way? i was all set to install but now i'm a little hesitant.
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My firewire harddrives work fine. Not a single problem with this update. :D

I don't know what you people do wrong... but jeez, just click install.
 
cr2sh said:
My firewire harddrives work fine. Not a single problem with this update. :D

I don't know what you people do wrong... but jeez, just click install.
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hahaha
well i just installed the combo updater on my TiBook and all is well. the first thing i did was plug in my lacie drive and it mounted no sweat.

not a single permission to repair after installation too...nice
 
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