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Mac OS X 10.4.5 Released

I'm guessing Apple called it 10.4.5 so it falls inline with Darwin 8.5 which was released the other day.
 
the only time i have had problems whaen updating the OS like moving from 10.4.3 to 10.4.4 is when i had a few programmes still running. and i had a lot of trouble, i had lost all my bookmarks, itunes music library and playlists, and programmes like real player, media player for mac, utilitunes etc


this time i did it with out having any programmes running, thats all of them quited and not just open with no windows open.

it downloaded about 6 mins if that, said restat and it did
and not a problem
 
Mitthrawnuruodo said:
Funny... About This Mac reports that I'm running 10.4.5 even before I restarted, even before Software Update is finished... :confused:
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That's normal...
 
milo said:
Why wouldn't it be? Apple does list some PPC fixes, if there weren't any they'd make the update Intel only.
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None of them seem to be about Firewire though and there were loads of complaints about Firewire after 10.4.4, People were having drives unmount and, scarily having drives cirrupted. Myself, I am stuck on 10.4.3 as I keep my OSX installation on an external firewire drive (its a bit faster than the Mini's internal effort) and every upgrade to 10.4.4 from every possible angle ended up in a kernel panic on the grey bootup screen, my guess being the boot drive was unmounted during booting.

I guess I'll be waiting until 10.4.6 now.
 
powerbook sound problem fixed, maybe.

w00master said:
Wonder if this update fixes G4 Powerbook sound issues? Anyone know?

Abraham
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my 12" powerbook 1.33 GHz has seemingly been cured of his audio problems. that is, he no longer sporadically and unpredictably thinks headphones are plugged in when they are not (muting the internal speakers). at least, not since last night when i updated. i'm pleased.

EDIT: nope, the problem is still there. NOT fixed.
 
After updating my computer. i was not able to log on to my computer anymore.

It took me a long time to finally figure what to do to fix my problem. I had to log in as the root user and than go to quick user switching and by doing this it worked.

So be a little careful with this update.
 
le sacre said:
my 12" powerbook 1.33 GHz has seemingly been cured of his audio problems. that is, he no longer sporadically and unpredictably thinks headphones are plugged in when they are not (muting the internal speakers). at least, not since last night when i updated. i'm pleased.
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I had that same problem! Does seem to gone so far, as does the really slow startup time i was getting.
 
Somewhat critical problem found! Ever since installing 10.4.5, control-clicking restarts my Finder. It happens in a Finder window and on the desktop. I have no way of control-clicking outside of applications. Is this happening for anyone else?
 
No Stability

cwedl said:
New in software update:


The 10.4.5 Update is recommended for all users and includes general operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes for the following applications and technologies:

- iChat video conferencing
- Safari rendering of web pages
- usability of Dashboard and widgets
- viewing of QuickTime streaming media behind a firewall
- printing to some Epson printer models
- iDisk and Portable Home Directory syncing
- time zone and daylight savings for 2006 and 2007
- VPN connections to Cisco servers when using NAT
- compatibility with third party applications and devices
- previous standalone security updates

For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n303179.

For detailed information on Security Updates, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798.
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The only thing I notice is stability problems. I've had 3 abnormal total system lockups & many problem with Excel. I ended up not being able to save files to one hard drive. I got that problem fixed for now. Will tell you if it happens again.

For now I will not upgrade or should for me say downgrade to OS 10.4.5 from OS 10.4.4.
 
jelloshotgun said:
Anyone else have trouble with the menu items disappearing. The only menu items that appear are from external apps (gmail notifier, adium). There's no clock, wireless, bluetooth, etc. I have a 12" PB 1.5.

Messing around some, I think it has to do with the front row hack. If I try to go to keyboard preferences and click on keyboard shortcuts, it always crashes... Anyone know of an uninstall for the Front Row hack? Thanks
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So, this is just an FYI for anyone else that might have this problem... Basically reinstalling the Front Row hack fixes it. I also got rid of the bezelservices Private Framework, but I'm not sure if that was a necessary step. I was under the (apparently mistaken) assumption that 10.4.5 disabled the FrontRow hack, but in actuality (at least for me) it just breaks it.
 
Delta 14.5MiB OS X 10.4.5 Update :: Bill Of Materials

/System/Library/CoreServices
Crash Reporter.app
Dock.app
MirrorAgent.app
SystemVersion.plist

/System/Library/Extensions
AppleFileSystemDriver.kext
IOI2CControllerPMU.kext
IOI2CControllerPPC.kext
IOI2CControllerSMU.kext
IOI2CFamily.kext
IPFirewall.kext
System.kext
Unsupported.kext
msdosfs.kext

/System/Library/Filesystems
msdos.fs

/System/Library/Frameworks
ApplicationServices.framework
Foundation.framework
Kernel.framework
Quartz.framework
System.framework
WebKit.framework

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks
FileSync.framework
Install.framework
SoftwareUpdate.framework

/System/Library/QuickTime
QuartzComposer.component

/System/Library/Screen Savers
RSS Visualizer.qtz

/System/Library/WidgetResources/AppleClasses/
AppleScrollArea.js

/private/var/db/dyld/
update-prebinding-paths.txt

/usr/lib/
libSystem.B.dylib

/usr/libexec/
crashdump

/usr/sbin/
racoon

/usr/share/icu/
icudt32b.dat

/usr/share/zoneinfo/
[Omitted :: The list of timezones updated was extensive, I'd take a guess that it was the whole folder]
 
Well, I've developed a problem with mine after updating that I did not notice earlier. If my wife tries to shutdown the computer on her account it goes to the blue screen and sits indefinitely (the little spinning wheel just continues on and on and on). It doesn't do it on my accounts though. I tried deleting her account and making her a new one but it does it on the new one as well. I also tried repairing permissions with no effect. Anybody else have this problem?
 
powerbook audio problem NOT solved.

le sacre said:
my 12" powerbook 1.33 GHz has seemingly been cured of his audio problems. that is, he no longer sporadically and unpredictably thinks headphones are plugged in when they are not (muting the internal speakers). at least, not since last night when i updated. i'm pleased.
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jaynyc said:
I had that same problem! Does seem to gone so far, as does the really slow startup time i was getting.
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i spoke too soon. the problem is back today, much to my despair. i'm going back to my hypothesis that it's a hardware failure (one the powerbook is highly susceptible to?), despite the fact that the problem appeared shortly after i installed 10.4.4. :(
 
OH MY GOD! What's going on? Since this update both of my machines have been sick to differing degrees. My slim-light almost-empty except critical apps Powerbook 12" is slow as if it is full (as in no HD space totally laggy full)

My PowerMac stopped reading one half of my RAID array earlier, (1 out of 2 drives ;)) and developed a strange chirping sound. Constant use of Disk Utility and a few crashes later and it's mysteriously back up again, with seemingly random crashes and a Kernal Panic all in the space of 2-3 hours.

I wouldn't be blaming the update if both my machines weren't displaying similar symptoms... straight after install.

:confused: :mad:
 
10.4.5 is probably not finished.. seeing as to how they rushed it out hours after 10.4.4 got cracked on x86 Dulls.
 
p0intblank said:
Somewhat critical problem found! Ever since installing 10.4.5, control-clicking restarts my Finder. It happens in a Finder window and on the desktop. I have no way of control-clicking outside of applications. Is this happening for anyone else?
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Is anyone else having the same problem? I've tried repairing permissions and that did not fix it.
 
le sacre said:
i spoke too soon. the problem is back today, much to my despair. i'm going back to my hypothesis that it's a hardware failure (one the powerbook is highly susceptible to?), despite the fact that the problem appeared shortly after i installed 10.4.4. :(
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Me too. I'm on a 12" powerbook, and yeah, all my startup problems started with 10.4.4. I've gotten every kind of startup issue, from not starting at all, to taking forever, to going lightning fast, to just now asking me to log in suddenly and then booting my desktop but the panel with the blue bar just sits there on top of it trying to finish. Do you think this is a hardware issue. It's so frustrating because the apple store people can't reproduce it consistently so they won't take it in.
 
hob said:
control-clicking what?
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Anything within Finder, be it an Application icon or just empty space.

Edit: Never mind. I fixed the problem by deleting the JIMZip.plugin file in my Contextual Menu folder. I found the answer on Apple's Discussion Boards.
 
jhartung said:
Me too. I'm on a 12" powerbook, and yeah, all my startup problems started with 10.4.4. I've gotten every kind of startup issue, from not starting at all, to taking forever, to going lightning fast, to just now asking me to log in suddenly and then booting my desktop but the panel with the blue bar just sits there on top of it trying to finish. Do you think this is a hardware issue. It's so frustrating because the apple store people can't reproduce it consistently so they won't take it in.
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Hmm, well I just tried something new which seems to have worked for the short term. I enabled root user and then disabled my account. Then I created a new one. Of course, I sort of had to put eveything back in it's right place, but my startup time seems back to normal. For now.
 
Fans

After installing 10.4.5, for the first time in the year I've had my Dual G5 1.8, the fans are not blasting full blow 90% of the time.
 
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