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Mac OS X 10.3.6 Update Now Available

I just downloaded the update. It was optimizing then my screen went black, and i waited awhile and it didnt turn back on. So i held the power button. Then i restarted. Now it doesnt go past the apple with the gray background. Anyone know how to fix this?? :confused:

I have a Rev. A 2.0 Ghz, 512mb ram.

thanks
 
A Mac Gamer said:
I just downloaded the update. It was optimizing then my screen went black, and i waited awhile and it didnt turn back on. So i held the power button. Then i restarted. Now it doesnt go past the apple with the gray background. Anyone know how to fix this?? :confused:

I have a Rev. A 2.0 Ghz, 512mb ram.

thanks
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Run fsck.

Start with Apple+S held down. Then type what the last line in the black text tell you. I think it's /sbin/fsck -y Hit enter.

Worked once for me after nothing else did.
 
1984

Has anyone noticed that these updates have the same feeling as those of the Ministry of Plenty in 1984? It's like everything seems to be improving, but you never really notice :)
 
reelmagik said:
The update did not fix the ATI 9800XT "ripple" glitch. I was really hoping it would since there were ATI drivers in the update...but no such luck.
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Curses. What the hell is wrong with Apple. $6K worth of hardware, and they can't get us the correct drivers?
 
Westside guy said:
X11 won't launch for her now. :( This is truly odd.
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I just installed the update and did a permission repair. I am not having any trouble with X11. Good luck finding the problem.
 
I don't see much of a difference. It fixed a problem I've had with networking that the iTunes 4.7/QuickTime 6.5.2 update seemed to cause. OpenGL still looks bad to me sometimes in games.

I'm glad it's no worse. Hopefully, the fixes I need will be out before February. It would have been nice to have them fixed after nearly 12 months.
 
10.3.6 issues

I have to say that after updating to 10.3.6 using Software Update I've had nothing but problems on my dual 2.5 G5 w/ Nvidia 6800 Ultra graphics card.

Here's a list I've noticed so far after about 10 min of use:

(1) My Lacie Big Disk Extreme 500GB connected via FW800 failed to mount on the desktop or show up in Disk Utility upon initial reboot from update. Even logging out and back in didn't solve the problem. The weird thing though was that I was able to play all of my music from itunes even though the entire music library is stored on the the Lacie HD. Powering the HD on and off also didn't fix the problem. It finally mounted after I rebooted.

(2) When copying and pasting links from Dreamweaver MX into Safari's URL field and pressing return, Safari freezes. The G5 revs up and the beach-ball appears until I force Safari to quit. Since I'm an amateur website designer I often do this to check links, but I've never had any issues until now.

(3) Significant increase in noise from internal Hard drives. I'm not sure how updating the OS could affect this, but it's the noise did increased drastically.

(4) fans rev up a lot more often for non-intensive CPU tasks.
 
kilpajr said:
I just installed the update and did a permission repair. I am not having any trouble with X11. Good luck finding the problem.
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I'd done permission repair, and then an fsck for good measure. There weren't any errors.

The problem was due to another zero-length file (found it by launching Xquartz from the command line) - /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.6.3.dylib. Again, I was able to fix it by scp'ing the good file off my Powerbook.

I'm wondering if this is a problem related to the "smart updating" that the latest Panther does, where it customizes the files that are chosen to be downloaded to your computer.
 
zync said:
Has anyone noticed that these updates have the same feeling as those of the Ministry of Plenty in 1984? It's like everything seems to be improving, but you never really notice :)
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Wow, that takes me back - I haven't read that book in ages! You have a good point though, hmmm... ;)
 
Software Update Crashes!

I'd love to try the update, but Software Update crashes approximately 75% through the progress bar. It doesn't even show the update in the list before it dies!

Anyone have any ideas? I just recently upgraded my processor to a 1.4 GHz OWC module, but that shouldn't cause any trouble, should it? :confused:
 
After the update, Finder seemed to lost all of the view options (icon size, text size and keep arranged by) I has set. Some of the folders seemed to keep these setting, but not all of my folders. Now the ability to set those options for all windows no longer works. So now I need to go through all my folders and set these options again.

Oh and I did do the standard permissions repair and another reboot after the update. Strange????
 
Firewire 400 Hard Drive

My firewire 400 Hard Drive also disappeared after the install. I am glad I read the earlier post that a reboot fixes the problem because turning it on and off does nothing.


****I spoke way to soon. I just rebooted my computer and still no firewire hard drive. I opened disk utility and it showed up there. I verified it and repaired it and then attempted to mount it. But Disk Utility would not mount it. So then I unmounted it and it disappeared from the list in Disk Utility. I turned the drive off and back on, but then the drive just kept spinning with the red "write" light on solid. It stayed that way for about five minutes. I rebooted the computer and the firewire drive came back on with the red "write" light still on. It stayed that way for about five more minutes and then mounted out of the blue. Something strange seems to be going on here.
 
10.3.6 update kernel panicked and hosed my boot process, it stalled on "starting login window", an archive and install was all that fixed it. no luck on disk repairs, permissions, fsck. Crash log said the file at /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Admin.framework/Versions/A/Admin was thrashed. TMYK.
 
I think I may have had a minor coronary while updating to 10.3.6...after my PowerBook rebooted (a little too quickly, by the way) the typical blue screen came up, but after about ten seconds or so it turned progressively grey until I could almost not make out the program icons. After a few seconds of this, a gradually increasing pinkish hue on the top of the screen came about, followed by lines amidst the pink. Did a manual shutdown and now everything seems to be working fine. A tad odd...
 
Left it downloading while i went to eat and when I came back the computer would not wake from sleep. When i restarted the screen is like pulsating, its really weird, dont know what the problem is.
 
Hmmm - great update....NOT!

Calculator is now doing odd things, and is broken not fixed, Safari is slower, everything seems a little treacle-like. Windows are slower, etc.
I backed up to an external HD before the update and now I plan to put 10.3.5 back on.

I may try to do permissions first and see if that changes anything.

Thankyou, Carbon Copy Cloner.
 
updated fine on 1.5 PB and 933 tower
no problems noted so far..

will try on emac and dual 1 later
 
Wow, this seems to be a field of problems with the update. Can any developers point out similar problems in Build 7R27? That's what I've been running for the past, maybe, week, and I haven't had any of these problems at all (but I haven't tested FireWire, but Safari, DVD Player, etc. I've tested).
-Chase
 
All seems well

2.5 +1.5 gig RAM with 6800 ultra - have not noticed even the tinest of changes.

Cinnebenct showed like a 2% improvement... but that could just be noise.

:)

Good luck to everyone else with issues. Off to test some programs...

patniemeyer said:
After rebooting Safari will no longer launch.

Am I alone?


Pat
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:D

I ran into yet a THIRD problem - disk images wouldn't mount. Aarrgghh.

So... rather than try to figure out yet another bad file location, I downloaded the FULL 96MB installer, mounted it on my Powerbook so I could grab the package file, copied that over to the iBook, and installed it.

Seems to have fixed the disk image problem, and I'd guess (hope?) things should be fine now.
 
All's okay on my end of things

Everything seems okay for me so far after having applied the update. I haven't gotten to try out many of the programs I have installed, but everything I have tried has worked okay so far. :)

Things do seem snappier, but it could just be in my sleep-deprived head. ;)

FWIW: 1.25 GHz single proc. G4 MDD w/1.25 GB RAM
 
Everything is A-OK on my 17" PowerBook after running the combo updater. Every app I've launched so far runs fine and my FireWire 400 HD mounts and works with no problems at all too. I did repair permissions using Disk Utility both before and after the update, but otherwise I didn't do anything else special.
 
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