Mac OS X 10.4.3 Released

[picklescott]

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I still need suggestions for my problem posted on the last page. I'm gonna sit down and have at it this evening and I need more suggestions please!

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/1877125/

The best thing you could do at this point is find another mac to connect it to. You want to boot yours in firewire target disk mode (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583) and then you should be able to copy your files off (unless the directory is really screwed up).

If you can't do this, you have a few more options for trying to restore your computer before doing an archive and install. You can try booting in safe mode (hold SHIFT) (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107392) after pressing the power button and hold SHIFT until the circle starts going around under the apple on the gray boot screen. Booting in safe mode may take significantly longer than a normal boot.

If that doesn't work, you *might* be able to repair the directory, though it is unlikely.
You're going to need to use a CD. It is either a black "Tiger 10.4" disc or a gray disc that came with your computer. After pressing the power button, hold C. This should boot from the disc. If it does not, hold OPTION and then select the disc to boot from it. Once booted from the disc, chose English (or whatever) and select the "Utilities" menu. Chose "Disk Utility." Select the "Macintosh HD" or whatever drive isn't booting and "Repair Disk."

[If you don't have the cd...
After pressing the power button, hold Apple(Command) and S. This will boot into a black command prompt screen (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214). You want to type (without the quotes) "fsck -fy" at the command prompt, and it will attempt to force-repair your directory.]



That's all I can think of... good luck, and post back!

 

[efoto]

I wasn't aware of this issue last week while playing with my new 12" iBook with 1.5 GB RAM. I was having speed issues with the occasional non-responsive airport that required a reboot to fix. I "solved" this issue by going to BestBuy and purchasing a higher gain antenna for my wireless router. Since then I haven't had any airport issues although I've only connected via airport at home where I have the higher gain antenna.

Now I'm really pissed off! I was going to call shinanigans on the 1.5GB of RAM but then I checked Apple and sure enough, 512MB built in (still soldered, but at least 512). Where the hell was the design-tech on the 12" PBook? Seems like an obvious move, glad they finally did it....even if it wasn't to my product.

 

[Aliquis]

The sizes could be because it has various security updates as well (the previous ones) so anyone who's been current with the updates, should have the smaller download size.

 

[muzikool]

That's all I can think of... good luck, and post back!

Thanks for all of the suggestions! I found most of those looking through various websites, but it's good to have them repeated here.

One question: If I were to install a new hard drive and load OS X on it, should I be able to browse my current HD to retrieve the files?

 

[picklescott]

login window clicky

If you click your computer's "name" at the login window, it used to display Version number, Serial Number, Build Number, and Date. Now it also displays IP Address and "Network Account Unavailable" or "Network Accounts Available."

Interesting... Network users aren't available for the majority of mac users... unless.... .... (start rumors of home-network accounts without 'server')...

 

[Aliquis]

Also, to the guy who reported it feeling snappier, but also hadn't rebooted his compy in weeks...

Your compy should always feel a little snappier after rebooting for that long. By rebooting, you'll clean out certain hold-overs like latent caches, etc. that sometimes stick despite daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance cron jobs.
Not to mention swap files that are being stubbornly sticky.


So -- you can try rebooting anytime you feel your machine is limping a bit. Especially if your hard drive is close to capacity. (you should only run your HD up to 80% of it's capacity if you want to keep it's performance running smoothest)

Shutting down and booting up fresh also is different (and has different advantages) than simply restarting... but both work very well.

 

[picklescott]

Thanks for all of the suggestions! I found most of those looking through various websites, but it's good to have them repeated here.

One question: If I were to install a new hard drive and load OS X on it, should I be able to browse my current HD to retrieve the files?

Theoretically... if you can get it to mount in disk utility when you boot from your CD, and/or you can get it to mount when you do Firewire Target Mode, then it *should* show up if you booted from an external drive.


-Scott

 

[johncarync]

I have a PowerMac G5 Dual 2GHz machine and am experiencing the revving fan problem. About every 5 minutes or so it will rev up and down, up and down, and then behave itself.

The upgrade also wiped my entire address book clean...225 entries gone! I was able to pull a copy off of my iPod and recreate it but it was a hassle.

Today I had a strange issue with copying and pasting between applications. It caused a cascading application freeze and force quitting would not work. I had to physically hold the power button down to shut the machine off.

On the plus side...um...hmmm...what were the plusses of upgrading again?

-John

 

[MatthewCobb]

Brightness back!

I just noticed - the brightness control keys on my PB work again!

I thought they got knackered when I spilt a glass of wine over the machine and the screen went wiggy for a few days (turned the machine on its side and let the Medoc drip out, and that was sorted). But it must have been the 10.4.2 upgrade.

Way back someone mentioned there was a 10.4.3-compatible update for TransparentDock. Where?

 

[bousozoku]

Also, to the guy who reported it feeling snappier, but also hadn't rebooted his compy in weeks...

Your compy should always feel a little snappier after rebooting for that long. By rebooting, you'll clean out certain hold-overs like latent caches, etc. that sometimes stick despite daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance cron jobs.
Not to mention swap files that are being stubbornly sticky.


So -- you can try rebooting anytime you feel your machine is limping a bit. Especially if your hard drive is close to capacity. (you should only run your HD up to 80% of it's capacity if you want to keep it's performance running smoothest)

Shutting down and booting up fresh also is different (and has different advantages) than simply restarting... but both work very well.

Of course, a properly-functioning, well-run, bug-free (or minimally buggy) system shouldn't feel any snappier after a re-boot since it's always operating at peak efficiency.

I'm quite pleased with 10.4.3 and with the latest Airport update, I suspect it's going to be quite stable for a long time.

 

[usingautumn]

no improvement

safari still crashes on opening, any ideas?

and since moving to tiger my usb phone crashes the system when plugged in and this is still the case in 10.4.3

 

[mooshoo]

I haven't got the update...but this happens to me. I have to force quit....
1.42 ghz 14" iBook that I bought last month...

I deleted the preference file for Safari and rebooted the app. It seems to have solved the problem for now. Spotlight it and reveal in finder to get it.

 

[generik]

Strange.. I just noticed the patch broke my Safari

 

[briand05]

This seems to be a great update so far. I haven't had any problems, and they've fixed the few bugs that I noticed.

 

[slooksterPSV]

IF you guys continue on having problems, try downloading and installing the Combo update. This may fix things a bit better than the Software Update.

IF you guys continue on having problems, try downloading and installing the Combo update. This may fix things a bit better than the Software Update.

IF you guys continue on having problems, try downloading and installing the Combo update. This may fix things a bit better than the Software Update.

Got it? lol ok!

 

[iriejedi]

10.4.3.1

Strange.. I just noticed the patch broke my Safari

When does 10.4.3.1 come out?

 

[muzikool]

Help! I successfully booted into Safe Mode just now and I don't know what's best to do next. My system says it is still at 10.4.2 even though I tried installing the update previously. I first booted to the OS X Tiger disk and repaired the disk and permissions -- not much was wrong. I've got the Delta installer package on my desktop... should I try installing it again from Safe Mode? Should I try rebooting to normal startup now? Help!

The best thing you could do at this point is find another mac to connect it to. You want to boot yours in firewire target disk mode (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583) and then you should be able to copy your files off (unless the directory is really screwed up).

If you can't do this, you have a few more options for trying to restore your computer before doing an archive and install. You can try booting in safe mode (hold SHIFT) (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107392) after pressing the power button and hold SHIFT until the circle starts going around under the apple on the gray boot screen. Booting in safe mode may take significantly longer than a normal boot.

If that doesn't work, you *might* be able to repair the directory, though it is unlikely.
You're going to need to use a CD. It is either a black "Tiger 10.4" disc or a gray disc that came with your computer. After pressing the power button, hold C. This should boot from the disc. If it does not, hold OPTION and then select the disc to boot from it. Once booted from the disc, chose English (or whatever) and select the "Utilities" menu. Chose "Disk Utility." Select the "Macintosh HD" or whatever drive isn't booting and "Repair Disk."

[If you don't have the cd...
After pressing the power button, hold Apple(Command) and S. This will boot into a black command prompt screen (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214). You want to type (without the quotes) "fsck -fy" at the command prompt, and it will attempt to force-repair your directory.]



That's all I can think of... good luck, and post back!

 

[mkjellman]

well just another example of what does happen when you change your monitor configuration and leave Microsoft word open. Relaunching will fix this. I don't know who the blame lies with, either Apple or Microsoft but for anyone with two displays and a laptop, and uses Office, this is a very annoying bug.

 

[neverni]

I have a problem with Itunes 6.0.1. It doesn't let me add songs to the library anymore. It adds half of the album for example, but the rest it won't. I would love to go back to the previous version 6.0, but I can't find it. Anyone has a download link?

 

[iMeowbot]

I've found that on some drives, the Spotlight database seems to be out of whack. It's not every drive or every system. The symptom is that the Spotlight results look correct, but looking more closely the paths point to the wrong files. Dragging drives into the privacy panel, then removing to reindex, puts things back to normal (after an eternity of disk crunching).

 

[caccamolle]

I'm sure all this stuff about repairing permissions is mostly nonsense. I've never read a forum or article that proves repairing them makes any difference to anything.

I did however remember reading a looong article on why repairing permissions hardly makes any difference

Seriously though, i'd be interested in reading up a little more about it and knowing of any examples of situations where it's helped.

you got it. It is funny how people out there still think repairing permission is of any relevance with sofware updates.

 

[aprilfools]

no problems Life is good! keep it clean!

I did the 10.4.3 update yesterday on my iMac G5 rev B. I had no problems. I also did the airport update right now. no prob with that either however........ an unusually long start up after the restart. I do wonder why Apple could not have inluded this in the 10.4.3 update unless the 10.4.3 update did infact screw things up for alot of Tiger users. I bet most probs are because lots of you have extra stuff in your macs. Extra stuff that you like but that you don't really need. Hey I'm all for third party development but most of that crap does more damage than good in your computer. You have lots of it in your computer and than complain when Apple OS gets updated and than you blame it on Apple. Lets face it. You don't really need all that extra third party crap you keep downloading because you think it makes your computer work better. I am right and you know it.

The biggest joke is those of you that don't actually own the brand new iMac (iSight) but figure how to get a hold of Photobooth or Front Row. But.... but.....wait...... than you discover they don't work too good in your Mac. ??what? Hello?? Anybody home?? Apple doesn't support that on any Mac but the new iMac at this time. You should know that. Hello? Anybody home? Stop downloading all the third party crap and stop blamming Apple when things go wrong with your computer when Apple releases OS updates.

 

[LawHog]

I've never had any complaints with OSX, but i've had two solid freezes that required two hard reboots in only two days of 10.4.3.

Edit: now up to 5 hard reboots in 3 days.

 

[Jerry1726]

I did the automatic software update, the big one, long reboot, repaired permissions, and thought, "Hey, this is nice, Finder is faster, Safari is faster, but AcidSearch is not compatible." Soon I saw an update for AcidSearch posted (thank you). Not long after that I decided to trash some stuff. I found the problem with OnyX eventually, went through the song and dance with the AppleScript errors . . . maybe I should have just done a force quit on the bloody thing. I didn't though and let it execute routine maintenance, pushing through the error boxes. Big mistake, got my problems then, Safari turned into a dog, some folders changed places, and some even disappearing. While I still had some of my hair left I went to the Apple site, downloaded 10.4.3, installed it, and in the process overwriting the previously installed update. It worked like a charm, folders back, in place, and all seems better than 10.4.2. Yes, everything is "snappier." Some of my widgets stopped working but I am not letting that bother me, I needed to weed the bunch anyway. I was happy with the update, I wasn't happy with it, and now I am happy with it.

 

[abstractreality]

Problem with my Download

Everything was going ok, I waited a few days to download the update, and I finally downloaded it via the software update (the 56MB one or whatever) and upon nearly completing the update, it said it could not finish updating and closed software update. However, prior to me restarting my computer, I checked my about my mac, and it said 10.4.3 was installed, I was never prompted to install, but I did anyway, I did it twice as some people suggested, and when I tried to do the software update again to see if anything would pop up, my software update crashed on me. I then tried installing the combo update by downloading it from apple, however my installer also crashed, I really rather not wipe my drive and start from installing the tiger disc. Currently I cannot use my software update, nor can I use my installer, I'm sure there may be other problems too, but I haven't found them yet. In addition I also repaired permissions on my HD, and it still is working funny. Please help me out, I want my computer working as well as most people say it is, thank you.