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Mac OS X Security Update 2004-01-26

Re: random crashes

Originally posted by gola
After installing the security update and the airport update on my tibook 1gz I have been experiencing 3 random crashes during the day where everything stalls and a reboot is the only solution. Anyone else?
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Haven't heard of that or had that problem on either of my computers. Have you repaired disk permissions? When I did I got a huge stream of repairs even though I repair quite frequently.
 
Massive problems. It seems a lot better since I repaired permissions but I still have some issues with cookies under safari and my cable modem has stopped working, possibly unrelated but it died as soon as I used ichat 10 minutes after installing and the modem itself and provider seem to be ok.

Plus some of the permisions themselves seem to have changed so I am forced to manually give myself read/write permissions to files i copied to my hd weeks ago.
 
Mac Blue Screen of Death

My desktop now takes over 20 seconds to load. It's the mac blue screen of death (or at least slowing down and failing). I get the default background image, but my mess of icons don't appear... going to try a repair permissions.
 
Permissions Repaired...

Yet I can watch each part separately. Desktop background.................... menu bar......................My name.................the time............... the keyboard menu.................... extra menu....................... another 23 seconds later............. my icons.....

Oh well. It loads i guess.
 
What a dirty trick! Apple! :p

I was waiting patiently for something nice like a software update. [I am not getting a new computer for a while anyway.] I see software update pop up... and I see software update... wait; I misread; I see "security update". Well, I gladly installed it and celebrated with a bottle of coke as if I had a whole new OS right in there... Thats, Apple.
 
Re: Permissions Repaired...

Originally posted by jimjiminyjim
Yet I can watch each part separately. Desktop background.................... menu bar......................My name.................the time............... the keyboard menu.................... extra menu....................... another 23 seconds later............. my icons.....

Oh well. It loads i guess.
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Try this.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10491

Run it and see if that fixes your problems. The program performs OSX's 3 clean up tasks that would normally be performed at night if the machine was left on and not asleep. One task is performed monthly another is weekly and the last one is daily. This program allows you to run them manually which is a good thing since most people don't leave their machine on over night and not asleep.
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Okay here's the next option download OnyX. Run the clear cache option with the system and user caches all selected. Don't worry about the Safari caches.

Try restarting and see if that helped. If not then reopen OnyX and go to the finder tab and under preferences chose Hidden files and preference files. Then click to delete.
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These are suggestions I made recently in another thread to fix window views that wouldn't stick through restart. These suggestions in my opinion are the next step of things to do if repairing permissions doesn't work so learn them love them live them.:)
 
Hmmm.... this is odd- i get a message saying I don't have permission to write to:

"/tmp/501/TemporaryItems/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate"

i can't seem to find this folder (i can find it only under the terminal)... how do i change permissions on tmp?

i've successfully installed other updates a couple weeks ago...

i've also been having the same problems as jimjiminyjim with my ibook... i'm beginning to think my only solution is to erase my hard-drive and start over (i've backed up my hard-drive on an external drive- can i copy everything back again without having to reinstall all of my software?)

any help would be greatly appreciated.

-the toaster
 
It won't update at all on my machine. It stops half-way thru saying there was a error, without saying what the error is.

Anybody seen this?

I'm running 10.2.8
 
Repair Permissions

Originally posted by JJTiger1
Yep, spinning beachball gone. And this is before REPAIR PERMISSIONS !!!

I wonder how much better the computer will be AFTER REPAIR PERMISSIONS.

All of the extra hardware seems to be working okay.

Gonna REPAIR PERMISSIONS right now.
=-=
JJ
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Repaired permissions: sweet.
=-=
JJ
 
Originally posted by toaster_oven
Hmmm.... this is odd- i get a message saying I don't have permission to write to:

"/tmp/501/TemporaryItems/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate"

i can't seem to find this folder (i can find it only under the terminal)... how do i change permissions on tmp?

i've successfully installed other updates a couple weeks ago...

i've also been having the same problems as jimjiminyjim with my ibook... i'm beginning to think my only solution is to erase my hard-drive and start over (i've backed up my hard-drive on an external drive- can i copy everything back again without having to reinstall all of my software?)

any help would be greatly appreciated.

-the toaster
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Have you repaired permissions?

Yeah you can copy everything back over but there are a few Application support files you will probably want to copy as well.
 
Good, good

Thanks MacBandit. Running the maintenance scripts didn't help - but OnyX cache clearing made the difference. Go figure.

edit: OnyX is a pretty sweet automation tool.
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
Have you repaired permissions?

Yeah you can copy everything back over but there are a few Application support files you will probably want to copy as well.
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i've done just about everything under the sun- repaired permissions, repaired the disk, ran MacJanitor, OnyX, etc... with the exception of taking it in to an apple store to have a "genius" take a look at it. everything i do gives me a clean bill of health, but i still get the hanging issue and i can't install the security update.

where would I find the Application support files?

thanks-

the Toaster
 
Originally posted by toaster_oven
i've done just about everything under the sun- repaired permissions, repaired the disk, ran MacJanitor, OnyX, etc... with the exception of taking it in to an apple store to have a "genius" take a look at it. everything i do gives me a clean bill of health, but i still get the hanging issue and i can't install the security update.

where would I find the Application support files?

thanks-

the Toaster
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You might want to do a search for receipts and find the one tied to the software update program. Then delete all the receipts. I don't know if this will fix it or not but it will force software update to recheck your computer for needed updates.

Application support files are in the Application support folder within your user library folder. There is also one in library folder at root level of your hard drive.
 
Trouble with Office v.X app's after Security Update 2004-01-26

I'm currently running 10.2.8 and after the installation and reboot all of my Office v.X app's (updated to 10.1.5) hang as they boot up.

Any similar experiences?



Originally posted by cleduc
I dunno what i'm doing wrong...

Since i downloaded it:

No one of these Apps works!!!

- Classic
- Safari
- Mail

Preference files could not be found and recreated if missing (-394821)

When clicking on network to dynamically see networks, it redirects me to my own disk or says alias broken.

Also, on start my mac gets stuck and locks sometimes on "Loading Web-Server" (german translation)

Isn't it a coincidence that these are exactly the apps updated?
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Something else that could be done is to create another user account with admin privileges. This way you are using a fresh unaltered account with clean preferences and no 3rd party installed software. You can then try installing the update from there and also see if your programs will run from there. If everything works then you know it's a preference file or a 3rd party program installed on your user account.
 
Problems w/ Office fixed

Thanks for the suggestion!

I reinstalled w/ a new admin user and was able to run the Office app's from the new id, but not from my old one. So, I drug the "Microsoft User Data" folder out of my "Documents" folder and voila it worked. I gradually added back in the files and folders I knew I would need w/o any problems. :D
 
After running the update my Firewire backup drive (80 gig LaCie) will not mount, although my iPod will.

I'm running a permission repair now to see if that fixes it. Weird.
 
Originally posted by MacBandit

You might want to do a search for receipts and find the one tied to the software update program. Then delete all the receipts. I don't know if this will fix it or not but it will force software update to recheck your computer for needed updates.

Application support files are in the Application support folder within your user library folder. There is also one in library folder at root level of your hard drive.
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thanks again-

regarding the software updates- no such luck. the file that it says I cannot write to because I do not have permission does not exist. When I try to download the update as a file, it tells me I do not have permission to write to Library/Packages, when clearly I do have permission under general info. I've also deleted all receipts, and still nothing.

But- I went and downloaded from Apple's web-site and I have no problems. I just can't get software update to work properly.

any suggestions?

-TO
 
Originally posted by toaster_oven
thanks again-

regarding the software updates- no such luck. the file that it says I cannot write to because I do not have permission does not exist. When I try to download the update as a file, it tells me I do not have permission to write to Library/Packages, when clearly I do have permission under general info. I've also deleted all receipts, and still nothing.

But- I went and downloaded from Apple's web-site and I have no problems. I just can't get software update to work properly.

any suggestions?

-TO
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Repair permissions and restart. Sometimes permissions corrections do not take effect until you restart. Also you can create a new user account with admin privileges and try updating from that account.
 
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