Mac OS X 10.3.6 Update Now Available

[iProbot]

How come I never have any problems when I update my little G3 600Mhz?

Same goes for me, with my G3 500 Mhz iMac Everything went ok again, since I bought my Mac about 4 years ago

 

[rogerw]

no probs
ibook g3

 

[cyberddot]

iMac, eMac

no problems....

G5 iMac 1.6
G4 eMac

 

[mai]

That's because Panther will never run on a PB G5, they will come with Tiger pre-installed.

that would mean in the most bad case 06/2005, but on osx 10.3.5 was definitely a hint of a g5 in a pb (i would say)

 

[ifjake]

back in 10.3.5 they were still testing powerbook G5 prototypes with panther. now that tiger is getting more and more developed, and since powerbook G5s will undoubtedly arrive after tiger does, all testing is now done with tiger.

 

[joser]

mac update 10.3.6...

well i did the update and now my external firewire hdd's dont mount even after reboots...connecting and disconnecting.... is anyone else having the same issues w/ the new update ...on ext. fw hdd's?


powermac g5 dual 2.5
powermac g4 mdd dual 1.0
powermac g5 dual 2.0
23" alum. lcd

 

[donniedarko]

Did disk Utilities following Install as I always do-
"Repairing permissions for “opi”
Determining correct file permissions.
User differs on ./Library/QuickTime, should be 0, owner is 501
Group differs on ./Library/QuickTime, should be 80, group is 20
Owner and group corrected on ./Library/QuickTime
Permissions corrected on ./Library/QuickTime
We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./System/Library/Filesystems/cd9660.fs/cd9660.util. New permissions are 33261
Group differs on ./usr, should be 0, group is 80
Owner and group corrected on ./usr
Permissions corrected on ./usr
The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume

Permissions repair complete"


Things seem snappier- Will do bench test to see what numbers are

 

[iChan]

Yeah, software updates are cool, but Calculator?

when resuming from a paused dvd in the DVD player, the movie would proceed for about 2 seconds and then stal for a second or two before proceeding with the movie properly... DVD player no longer does this... resuming DVD's is so seamless now...

 

[iChan]

Just updated, no problems here so far!

Thx Apple!

when scrolling through these forums with safari, there are loads of little glitches in the rendering of text and things... weird. i'll try to take a screenshot of it.

 

[Andy_UK]

I'm always intrigued by the large amount of people with weird problems. I wonder if these are people who never repair permissions, have tons of mods and hacks, or install every demo and piece of freeware they can find? Then once an update comes along and shuffles things around they get these problems.

In short, no.

My iMac G5 goes into sleep mode, then wakes straight away. No I'm not pressing any keys and no the mouse isn't being moved. But, however, if the computer goes into sleep mode after it's normal pre determined time in Energy Saver it works ok, it's only when forcing it to sleep do I get the problem?

 

[mrzippy]

Can someone with an iSight please post, having real problems since installing 10.3.6 on PowerMac G4 1.25 DP (FW800)

Tried iSight with iChat and Skype.

The camera disapears seconds after trying to access in either program, have to unplug to get to reappear.

OS X 10.3.6 would not shut down earlier until I unplugged my iSight.

Also my firewire HDD does not always mount any more.

Just rebooted into 10.3.5 on a firewire drive, had to hold option down on keyboard during boot to select, every time I set in 10.3.6 it still booted to internal drive.

Really think there are some MAJOR firewire issues here.

As noted ealier it crashed before shutting down after installing 10.3.6 on my iMac G5 also.

Ummm, wish I'd waited a few days, been lucky with every other update.

The iSight seems OK in 10.3.5 on my firewire drive.

HELP!


**** UPDATED! ****

The iSight just disappeared on 10.3.5

The camera is a replacement I received from Apple support on Friday, looks like it could be faulty and there was me impresed that I got a replacement within 7 days of sending the faulty one back.

 

[g4cubed]

That's a feature, not a bug.

If we look at the file before running the permissions repair, we see:

$ ls -l /System/Library/Filesystems/cd9660.fs/cd9660.util
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  20436  5 Nov 17:15 /System/Library/Filesystems/cd9660.fs/cd9660.util

The -rwxr-xr-x in octal is 0755.

Running the permissions repair, we are told:

We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./System/Library/Filesystems/cd9660.fs/cd9660.util.  New permissions are 33261

Converting 33261 to octal, we get 0100755. That's really the same thing as 0755; the additional 1 in there is just a more verbose form showing us that this is a regular file (as opposed to, say, a fifo, device or symlink). [see S_IFREG in /usr/include/sys/stat.h]

Performing the ls -l after running the permissions repair will confirm that the file's permissions have not changed.

In other words, Disk Utility is just making extra sure that cd9660.util has the correct permissions by forcing the issue rather than doing it conditionally.

I never knew what that was all about. Thanks iMeowbot for that piece of info

 

[JDOG_]

Hmm...

Well it doesn't look like networking really got enhanced or improved at all. I still can't browse the other computers on my college network like my roommate can with his PC. Worked okay with 10.3.1 and since then, every 0.0.1 upgrade has failed to improve it with my machine.

 

[Rower_CPU]

That's a feature, not a bug.

...

Performing the ls -l after running the permissions repair will confirm that the file's permissions have not changed.

So the "feature" doesn't change anything...everytime? Doesn't sound like a feature to me.

 

[jared_kipe]

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?

I had a similar problem with an emac, but it started fine, but now software update won't run. I'm thinking re intall of mac osx.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Excuse me for not reading the whole thread, but anyway...

I just installed it, and have no problems (except for an extremely long delay when a Windows machine connects to an updated Mac for the first time).

 

[iMeowbot]

So the "feature" doesn't change anything...everytime? Doesn't sound like a feature to me.

It's really there for installation. The package has the permissions marked as forced, to help prevent a regression, and its appearance in Disk Utility that way is a side effect, just a message noting that it's being forced. Given all the different patch levels it's possible to have with a Panther system, it makes sense to stomp a bug from more than one angle. If the patched binary somehow fails to get installed, the package info offers a second chance to render it harmless. Makes sense to me...

 

[frenetic]

just updated and everything seems fine - disk images mount, firewire drives work, airport networks functions normally. In short, no problem so far.

 

[stid]

xcode 1.5 problems after update

After updating to 10.3.6 I have serious problems with xcode 1.5.

Old and new projects cannot be compiled due to a link errror, and requesting an item "info" geve me an error: "Cannot find value transformer with name XCStringToDataTransformer".

I will try to reinstall xcode later...

Any one with similar problem?

 

[Rower_CPU]

It's really there for installation. The package has the permissions marked as forced, to help prevent a regression, and its appearance in Disk Utility that way is a side effect, just a message noting that it's being forced. Given all the different patch levels it's possible to have with a Panther system, it makes sense to stomp a bug from more than one angle. If the patched binary somehow fails to get installed, the package info offers a second chance to render it harmless. Makes sense to me...

Dunno - to me the brute force approach is poor programming. If permissions repair actually works correctly, it should be able to detect that the permissions are correct and not "fix" it every time. Guess I just prefer the conditional method.

 

[bousozoku]

Dunno - to me the brute force approach is poor programming. If permissions repair actually works correctly, it should be able to detect that the permissions are correct and not "fix" it every time. Guess I just prefer the conditional method.

It looks more like a kludge than ordinary operations but that's what I've come to expect from UNIX. Why should Mac OS X work any better? The good thing is that it's not hurting anything.

 

[macgallant]

Hardware Config:

MDD DP 1.25 GHz G4 Tower
10.3.6 and all updates, permissions repaired
no third party audio hardware


Description:

After updating, audio volume was increased, and quality was decreased.


Hypothesis:

I looked on the Apple Discussions and someone with the same problem said that they fixed this problem by zapping their PRAM.


Solution:

Zapping the PRAM does fix the audio volume/quality problem for me.

Zapping the pram didn't fix the audio volume problem for me. it's still loud, I either have to unplug and replug my speakers or to put my system to sleep then wake it (this causes the system sound to have it's actual volume displayed) and manually set it back to 10/16 volume. I didn't have to distortion problem though, just the volume problem.

Note to MDD owners: We got to notify Apple about this!

 

[Westside guy]

I'm always intrigued by the large amount of people with weird problems. I wonder if these are people who never repair permissions, have tons of mods and hacks, or install every demo and piece of freeware they can find? Then once an update comes along and shuffles things around they get these problems.

Hehe. This update was the first time I've ever run into problems. No, I rarely do anything too abnormal to my system. And, as I posted before, my Powerbook handled it fine while my iBook did not.

Since this thread has been way too civil I'm going to post a somwhat discordant opinion here and see what happens (please don't take this personally neonart; your post was just a convenient seque into something I've mulled over for quite some time). "Repair permissions" in OS X seems to be what "rebuild desktop", if I'm remembering the phrase correctly, was to OS 9 users - a quick, stock answer that people trot out for every problem query. It can fix problems that happen to a person in normal day-to-day use, for sure; but it shouldn't really be necessary (or even affect anything) prior to an operation that is run as root (i.e. sudo) - such as an upgrade.

I've been a Linux user and admin much longer than I've been a Mac user; but the basic principle should be the same. "root" overrides permissions. The root user (or a sudo user) can write to a read-only file, and can navigate into directories that have no permissions set.

If you don't believe me, try this. make a directory "temp" off your home directory. copy a couple files into it, then "chown -R 000 temp" so all bits are unset. Next, switch to root "sudo su". Now go into temp. Now, "cat" one of the files. You'll see something like this:

Nikita:/Users/foouser root# cd temp
Nikita:/Users/foouser/temp root# ls -al
total 48
d---------   4 foouser  foouser    136  6 Nov 10:45 .
drwxr-xr-x  77 foouser  foouser   2618  6 Nov 10:45 ..
----------   1 foouser  foouser  20480  6 Nov 10:45 Copy User Account Request.doc
----------   1 foouser  foouser   2571  6 Nov 10:45 xinitrc.term
Nikita:/Users/foouser/temp root# cat xinitrc.term 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>WindowSettings</key>
        <array>
                <dict>
                        <key>AutoFocus</key>
                        <string>YES</string>

...   <---  Clipping out a bunch of stuff that's unnecessary to make my point

                        <key>WindowCloseAction</key>
                        <string>1</string>
                </dict>
        </array>
</dict>
</plist>
Nikita:/Users/foouser/temp root#

Note that you don't have to have root enabled to do this.

Now, seriously - feel free to point out anything I've overlooked here.

 

[Karlchen]

Working fine

Dudes...

installed .3.6 on my 15''Alu PB,
everything is working fine so far.
Absolutely no problems with external LaCie FW Disk, no problem with sound and no problem with Safari.
Ichat with ISight working fine, too.

Greetings from Germany
Karl the Great

 

[thehypercube]

no isight problems to speak of on ibook g4 1.0ghz for those above with problems.