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Mac OS X 10.3.7 Update
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Slight Kensington Mouse problem
Safari and mail seem to be much faster on my 800Mhz PBG4 after upgrading to 10.3.7.
The only hitch that I've noticed is that after installing 10.3.7 is that my optical Kensington USB mouse in a box stopped working after restarting. An unplug/reconnection of the mouse solved that problem.
Have any folks out there running 10.3.x server with ATTO Technology SCSI cards tried the 10.3.7 server upgrade yet? 10.3.5 caused RAIDS attached to ATTO UL4D and UL43 to "disappear". 10.3.6 supposedly corrected that problem and I was going to upgrade my fileserver over this Christmas break when the students were gone. And now 10.3.7 comes out! Crossing my fingers that my carbon copy clone will go smooth when upgrading my file server from 10.3.3 server to 10.3.7
Safari and mail seem to be much faster on my 800Mhz PBG4 after upgrading to 10.3.7.
The only hitch that I've noticed is that after installing 10.3.7 is that my optical Kensington USB mouse in a box stopped working after restarting. An unplug/reconnection of the mouse solved that problem.
Have any folks out there running 10.3.x server with ATTO Technology SCSI cards tried the 10.3.7 server upgrade yet? 10.3.5 caused RAIDS attached to ATTO UL4D and UL43 to "disappear". 10.3.6 supposedly corrected that problem and I was going to upgrade my fileserver over this Christmas break when the students were gone. And now 10.3.7 comes out! Crossing my fingers that my carbon copy clone will go smooth when upgrading my file server from 10.3.3 server to 10.3.7
Every time I repair permissions I get this constant repair (see PDF). It's been happening since 10.3.6 and this new update doesn't fix it. Am I alone here?
Get it every time.
Get it every time.
MDD Volume Problem still present in MacOSX 10.3.7
Apparently the Sound/Volume Problem affecting many MDD G4 Towers in Mac OSX 10.3.6 is still present in version 10.3.7. Come on Apple, get your act together! Many of us submitted a bug report after 10.3.6 was initially released and yet this problem is still present in 10.3.7. What the heck did Apple spent their time on in preparations of version 10.3.7. This is better not be the last version of Panther, this is unacceptable!
Tiger better have this sound problem affecting MDD owners taken care of.
Sorry for ranting, i'm just letting off some steam. . .
Apparently the Sound/Volume Problem affecting many MDD G4 Towers in Mac OSX 10.3.6 is still present in version 10.3.7. Come on Apple, get your act together! Many of us submitted a bug report after 10.3.6 was initially released and yet this problem is still present in 10.3.7. What the heck did Apple spent their time on in preparations of version 10.3.7. This is better not be the last version of Panther, this is unacceptable!
Tiger better have this sound problem affecting MDD owners taken care of.
Sorry for ranting, i'm just letting off some steam. . .
Duff-Man says....no problems on my G5...every pgm I have launched has responded just as with 10.3.6...will update my Powerbook tomorrow when I get to work....oh yeah!
The dock went crazy on me just now. It keeps disappearing and i lose icons on it. The window system is going haywire also. Windows aren't observing levels. The only thing that I have installed that I have any suspicion is Konfabulator and Adium (Adium starts leaking memory sometimes and I have to quit and restart it). Maybe this restart will fix it.
iBook G4 800
iMac G5 1.6
On installing the 10.3,7 update on both these comps, at restart both showed
the multi-lingual "You need to restrt you computer..." message. The Combo
update did not have this problem and so far no further issues with start-up.
Similar problem occured in 10.3.6 for those that missed the posts.
~cel, <i>waiting to see</i>
iMac G5 1.6
On installing the 10.3,7 update on both these comps, at restart both showed
the multi-lingual "You need to restrt you computer..." message. The Combo
update did not have this problem and so far no further issues with start-up.
Similar problem occured in 10.3.6 for those that missed the posts.
~cel, <i>waiting to see</i>
More spinning beachball on bootup or login
Everything seems to work afterthe upgrade.
The only annoying thing I have found is it takes about 20 seconds longer to boot up than before (all of it spinning beachball).
Also, when logging into a second account, there is about 10 seconds of spinning beachball everytime.
I have repeated this many times and keep getting the same behaviour.
Anyone else observe this as well?
Everything seems to work afterthe upgrade.
The only annoying thing I have found is it takes about 20 seconds longer to boot up than before (all of it spinning beachball).
Also, when logging into a second account, there is about 10 seconds of spinning beachball everytime.
I have repeated this many times and keep getting the same behaviour.
Anyone else observe this as well?
mangoman said:
That's not a bug...
That is a little line telling you that the permissions are set differently then what the OS would think, but it's ok. It is supposed to be that way so that it isn't changed by the OS and get messed up. There is a line of code you can insert into a file to make it stay a certain permission.
sord said:Well I did all of that and I know what the permissions and periodics do, but what does update_prebinding do and why do we force it? (btw its running right now
Prebinding makes programs load faster.
When a program wants to run a piece of code in another file (library), the OS has to load that file, then it has to jump the CPU to where the file loaded.
What predinding does is decide beforehand where it will load each external file so it can put the jump address in now instead of when you run the program.
Toe said:That's funny, because these days, my update process goes more like this:
Ooooh, new update!
OK
Accept
Restart
Hey, let's see if there's a discussion on MR.
Whole thing only takes a couple minutes.
So far, that strategy has worked quite well for me. I guess I figure, "It'll probably work, and I backup often." If the system hoses, I can just archive-reinstall and get it back. Unix is soooo nice that way.
(Of course, I don't have a FW drive plugged in
Thats funny. I do the same thing.
After installing the update on my 15" 1.5 PB, I'm having some troubles with Pro Tools/MBox. The program always crashes on first run, but then works fine on the second. Also, the names of all the inserts are garbled, and the piano roll is missing on medium-sized midi tracks.
I know Digidesign's notorious for incompatibilities... Anyone else having issues with digi stuff after the 10.3.7 update?
I know Digidesign's notorious for incompatibilities... Anyone else having issues with digi stuff after the 10.3.7 update?
Mail.app opens slowly for me, too...
Same problem here -- Mail.app icon bounces once or
twice in the Dock, then there's a 40 second lag before
the main window and menu bar appear. I don't think it
has to do with the connection process, b/c normally (at
least in my config) Mail first opens local copies of the
mbox files, displaying them first, before connecting to
and updating from my IMAP server. At this point,
nothing shows up for 40 seconds...
I've tried repairing permissions, updating prebindings,
rebooting, etc., before and after the update. I've tried
this with no other apps running. No luck, for me, Mail
opens much more slowly now than in 10.3.6.
nickdaze said:
Same problem here -- Mail.app icon bounces once or
twice in the Dock, then there's a 40 second lag before
the main window and menu bar appear. I don't think it
has to do with the connection process, b/c normally (at
least in my config) Mail first opens local copies of the
mbox files, displaying them first, before connecting to
and updating from my IMAP server. At this point,
nothing shows up for 40 seconds...
I've tried repairing permissions, updating prebindings,
rebooting, etc., before and after the update. I've tried
this with no other apps running. No luck, for me, Mail
opens much more slowly now than in 10.3.6.
Some DNS problems still there
I still have a DNS issue that 10.3.7 does not fix.
When connected directly to the ethernet I can use RealPlayer to stream radio. However when I connect the ethernet to my Airport Express RealPlayer cannot find the DNS entry. Every other networking app I have is fine under both modes except realplayer an earlier (I forget about 6-8 weeks ago) security update created the problem and I hoped 10.3.7 would fix it.
Anyone else with this issue or similar?
John
I still have a DNS issue that 10.3.7 does not fix.
When connected directly to the ethernet I can use RealPlayer to stream radio. However when I connect the ethernet to my Airport Express RealPlayer cannot find the DNS entry. Every other networking app I have is fine under both modes except realplayer an earlier (I forget about 6-8 weeks ago) security update created the problem and I hoped 10.3.7 would fix it.
Anyone else with this issue or similar?
John
They're not fractions
I'd just like to point out... they aren't fractions. They are version numbers, three levels deep that just happen to be separated by the period character. They could just as easily be separated by a full or semi colon. So there is no reason why the version numbers couldn't be 10.3.10, or 10.3.11, etc. Just look at it as, 10:3:11, or 10;3;11. A fractional number with 2 decimal points just doesn't make sense.
IJ Reilly said:
I'd just like to point out... they aren't fractions. They are version numbers, three levels deep that just happen to be separated by the period character. They could just as easily be separated by a full or semi colon. So there is no reason why the version numbers couldn't be 10.3.10, or 10.3.11, etc. Just look at it as, 10:3:11, or 10;3;11. A fractional number with 2 decimal points just doesn't make sense.
Diablo II...almost back to normal
10.3.5 = killer fps in Diablo II 50-60fps+ in battles, 100fps+ in cities
10.3.6 = Sludge fest when in battles, fps would drop to under 10fps with many enemies on the screen
10.3.7 = Closer to .5 performance versus .6 100fps+ in cities and low activity, 40-50fps+ in battles.
10.3.5 = killer fps in Diablo II 50-60fps+ in battles, 100fps+ in cities
10.3.6 = Sludge fest when in battles, fps would drop to under 10fps with many enemies on the screen
10.3.7 = Closer to .5 performance versus .6 100fps+ in cities and low activity, 40-50fps+ in battles.
well X.3.7 didn't fix the problem I was reporting since some days ago, I'm very sad about that and will have to reinstall because it bothers me a lot,
My carbon apps don't let me to switch between windows within the same app. using the keyboard (Command + ~, ctrl + ~ <photoshop>), I gave my hope to X.3.7 but no way, it didn't came with x.3.6 but x.3.7 didn'T fix it... again, sad.
My carbon apps don't let me to switch between windows within the same app. using the keyboard (Command + ~, ctrl + ~ <photoshop>), I gave my hope to X.3.7 but no way, it didn't came with x.3.6 but x.3.7 didn'T fix it...
again, sad.
It installed perfectly, but I see no changes.
I wonder how many people will report a small increase in Finder speed.
I wonder how many people will report a small increase in Finder speed.
