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Mac OS X 10.3.8 Released

martman said:
Well I don't ever see it in software update so I guess I have it installed.
This sucks! I can't boot my Mac except by CD!
:(
Is there a way to roll this back?
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You can check your firmware version in About this Mac->More Info. It's on the hardware overview page (Boot ROM Version)
 
OK here...

My 600mhz iBook updated with no problem. My FrankenMac (an old beige g3 233 updated to a 450mhz G4 with some extra cards etc) hung on the reboot, but I restarted it and all seems to be fine. I'm running Expostfacto on the beige desktop.

Isaac
 
updated... nothing feels faster...nothing feels slower.... o well.... still waitin on that os they call "tiger" :rolleyes:
 
zwida said:
You can restore the system from the CD/DVD that shipped w/ your machine and then software update yourself up to 10.3.7.

Seems like that should work.
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That's all you can do if you need to roll back - it worked just fine for me the one time I had to do this (blast that initial 10.2.8....the second 10.2.8 was just fine though).
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
That's all you can do if you need to roll back - it worked just fine for me the one time I had to do this (blast that initial 10.2.8....the second 10.2.8 was just fine though).
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Hmm, there must be a curse on 10.x.8.
 
CubaTBird said:
updated... nothing feels faster...nothing feels slower.... o well.... still waitin on that os they call "tiger" :rolleyes:
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Mail and iPoto both seem to load faster to me but like you I cannot wait until TIGER!
 
heat problems in 17" pb

My pb keeps heating up and the fan is constantly on since the update to 10.3.8. I also have a DP 1.8 G5 at work that has the fans run for no apparent reason...I wasn't even doing anything that was taxing the processors...weird.
 
Light back on

Not sure why but my light on the tower is back on... it was off after the update.... did repair disk permissions twice and all is clear there too. But there were things that needed to be fixed so I do recommend this to everyone.

IJ

Edit: iPhoto with 4275 photos loads WAY faster!


stealthboy said:
Everything seems just fine on my iMac. Can't say I notice any big differences, but certainly nothing negative to report.
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Bluetooth Problem???

martman said:
booted off OS CD and ran permissions repair. No dice! G5 will NOT finish booting off of the hard drive! (hangs just after showing wallpaper (spinning Beach Ball))
:mad:
Any sugestions? Please!
:(

edit: Disc Warrior didn't fix it either!
:eek:
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I had that same problem with 10.3.7. I traced it back to my dLink Bluetooth adapter. Whenever I booted w/ the Bluetooth adapter plugged in it would hang with the spinning beachball, right after loading wallpaper. Out of desperation I unplugged the BT adapter and it booted fine. Shut down, BT back in, reboot, hung. Unplugged, reboot, fine. Repeated the test several times, it was definitely the BT adapter each time. Is your BT internal or do you have the dLink adapter?

BTW, if I rebooted without it and then plugged it in after the boot, no problems. But I have been travelling without my Bluetooth adapter so I haven't had occasion to reboot with it under 10.3.8, although everything works great so far.
 
Works for me....

My update was !6.4MB... so not too bad.... all works fine - repaired premissions...

Now I hope I don't get that 'didn't wake on waking' issue anyone where the screen is a blank as George Bush's mind....
 
I just noticed that I'm connecting to my Uni wireless network heaps quicker now. As in, it doesn't take as long for me to find a new network. It hasn't changed the connection time to my preferred netwrok though - it was already pretty much instant. I can't think what else it would be apart from the update because the Uni updated their infrastructure late last year and I doubt they would have changed anything their end.

I didn't notice anything about Airport Extreme cards in the update details though... Strange.
 
Okalee dokalee

I now have an uptime of a whopping 35 minutes for 10.3.8 on my 15" TiBook. So far I've *definitely* noticed a speedup in Safari. It had become soooooo sloooooow loading even the easiest of pages.

Hafta wait and see if the "no wake on wake" problem goes away, though, only happened to me once every couple of weeks or so (didn't put the machine to sleep very often).
 
lost xbench

Some of the ilife apps seem to perform a tad better along with safari, and the grafix on my pb seem a bit faster. all and all a pretty good update i guess, but the numbers (10.3.8) point to tiger. WOOT!!
 
daver969 said:
So far I've *definitely* noticed a speedup in Safari. It had become soooooo sloooooow loading even the easiest of pages.
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Now that you mention it... Seems that most of the system has sped up a little. Safari has definately got faster and more reliable. :)
 
Well, earlier I posted iTunes crashes with my iPod plugged in. I found out today the my iPod apparently had it's database corrupted, and now it doesn't see any of the music. That will be the last time I update the OS without ejecting my iPod first.
 
Message from Bill...

daver969 said:
So far I've *definitely* noticed a speedup in Safari.
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My buddy Bill Gates is here for the weekend and we're having a few beers, and he wonders how the heck Apple's bi-monthly software updates manage to actually SPEED THINGS UP when his bi-annual updates make everything so bloated and so bogged-down that programs will barely even run anymore.

(He asked me to post this question for him, as his PC just crashed again.)
 
iShock driver is currently unusable

Donjon said:
Well, seems I "fixed" it myself. The low opengl performance was just the symptome. It was the macally iShock driver, which for what reason ever took 60% cpu usage the whole time...
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jarmitage said:
Well, I had a lovely time with the update. Not ten minutes after I had rebooted my dual 2.5, my system disk was suddenly full. Which ultimately led to a crash. My system Log had blossomed to 69 gigs in ten minutes time. Am I the only one? Oh, and my fans are a hell of alot louder now as well.

Come on Tiger, set me free.
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It sounds like the same issue - the iShock II driver has a problem with 10.3.8. It is using a lot of CPU power to spit out a loop of error messages to the system log. That's why your (1) CPU usage is at 60% and quite possibly also why your (2) system log is 69 GB. My system log grew to 1 GB before I figured out what all the trouble was. I'm sending some information to MacAlly... they could really use a driver update anyway.

jarmitage: what's your system log have in it?
 
This will happen to me from time to time (say 1 in 30 or 40 sleeps); never figured out why this happens except that only a control-command-power will wake it up (and reboot the machine).

Doctor Q said:
[*]Addresses an issue in which a PowerBook G4 computer would, on rare occasion, wake from sleep with a black screen and not respond to any keyboard, mouse, or trackpad input.[/list]
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Possible Fix...

martman said:
ran updtae from software update on my Dual 1.8 ghz G5.
Computer now hangs just after showing my wall paper, before showing my icons. Damned spinning Beach ball! :mad:
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Try this
(1) Restart computer in single user mode hold down APPLE-S on startup
(2) when you get the unit command line type "mount -uw /"
(3) go to your user library "cd /Users/yourshortname/Library"
(4) rename your preferences folder "mv Preferences Preferences.bak"
(5) Restart computer, it should not boot normally, however your mail address book and other app settings will have been moved. You will want to navigate finder to your ~/Preferences and another finder window to ~/Preferences.bak copy ONLY the absolutely needed preferences over and make sure the apps are not running when you copy it's preferences. Usual must have preferences are Application Support and Mail. Make sure you do not copy the dock and finder prefs.
(6) Restart computer again
(7) If problem comes back you copied a corrupted preference file
 
Help!?

Installed 10.3.8, noted an increase in fan noise from, I believe, my ATI X800.

WoW crashes 100% of the time. I can not run the program.

This is on a fresh install (5 days old) of my PM G5 1.8 (single), 2.5 GB RAM, ATI X800 that was working fine. (Played WoW for 5 hours before installing 10.3.8).

I repaired permissions twice and reinstalled the ATI drivers from the X800 disk with no changes. The increased fan noise scales as I do "stuff" on the machine. Reminds me of the G5 iMac that I couldn't stand and returned for a refund. :) I want my perfectly quiet machine back.

How do I uninstall/rollback this "update?"
 
Don M. said:
Installed 10.3.8, noted an increase in fan noise from, I believe, my ATI X800.

WoW crashes 100% of the time. I can not run the program.

This is on a fresh install (5 days old) of my PM G5 1.8 (single), 2.5 GB RAM, ATI X800 that was working fine. (Played WoW for 5 hours before installing 10.3.8).
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I'd like to learn more about this issue. Can you mail me any crash logs you might have -> wowmacteam123@blizzard.com

Rob Barris - Mac Team, Blizzard
 
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