NEED HELP - updated 10.4.3 and itunes at once - System is screwed

[greeneggs]

Hello,

I updated to both itunes 6.0.1 and Mac OS 10.4.3 at the same time. BIG MISTAKE. The entire system frozen with the transparent kernel panic error informing me to physically power down the unit.

Upon a very long reboot my system is still 10.4.2 - and almost everything is broken.
Safari - DOA,
iChat - DOA,
Spotlight - DOA,
System Update - DOA,
Dictionary - DOA,
and the list goes on.

Just about every apple program turns on and then turns off. I can not apply the standalone updater from apples website (the updater says to try installing again, but will not work) and pretty much dont know where to begin to try to fix this.

Any ideas and help would be most appreciated!!!

 

[peterparker]

I'm not recommending it, but I think at that point I would reinstall 10.4 with the Archive and Install option.

 

[greeneggs]

there are others with the same problem

in the main thread on the macrumors homepage about 10.4.3 there are several other people who updated both itunes and OS X at the same time and experienced the same problem. I hope this means apple will have a solution?

 

[kugino]

yeah, i agree. you should backup and files you need and then do a clean install. i'd save my library folder as well and forget the archive/install and do a clean install instead.

 

[greeneggs]

is there anyway to...

is there anyway to install the update by booting off the tiger install dvd to get to the installer and then select the 10.4.3 updater? is there any way to back out of an install? is there anyway to force an install?

i have tried installing from root as well and it did the same thing as my regular user. i dont really want to reinstall!

 

[mduser63]

You could try downloading the Combo Updater from apple.com and then just rerunning that. That would be the first thing I'd do if I were in your place.

 

[greeneggs]

attempted and no success

You could try downloading the Combo Updater from apple.com and then just rerunning that. That would be the first thing I'd do if I were in your place.

i downloaded the combo update from apple and no luck! i also tried the same under root.

 

[mduser63]

You could try downloading the Combo Updater from apple.com and then just rerunning that. That would be the first thing I'd do if I were in your place.

 

[telecomm]

Wait, I know! You could try running the combo updater

Sorry, that was too easy...

Have you tried repairing permissions and/or booting in Single User mode to run fsck?

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/89736/

 

[greeneggs]

i have repaired permissions twice, and no real changes there.

i have not booted into single user mode to run fsck.

 

[mad jew]

The 10.4.3 installation seems to have been quite taxing on the system and people with what were previously okay hard drives and RAM are now finding them failing. Is your hard drive still SMART verified? Is it showing any signs of failure such as a clicking noise? Do you have third party RAM which could be removed temporarily?

I admit, it's a long shot though. Best of luck with it.

 

[wattage]

Apologies if off topic, but Madjew, what does SMART unsupported mean?

 

[mileslong]

how do you tell if your drive is SMART verified?

 

[mad jew]

Sorry, I should have put this in my earlier post. You can check the SMART status in Disk Utility (which is in the Utilities folder inside your Applications folder) by clicking on your hard drive in the list and checking out what it says in the panel at the bottom. Apple's support blurb.

 

[HiRez]

So is 10.4.3 horked or what? I was just about to install it but now I'm having second thoughts, it seems some people are having a number of major issues with it.

 

[wattage]

Sorry, I should have put this in my earlier post. You can check the SMART status in Disk Utility (which is in the Utilities folder inside your Applications folder) by clicking on your hard drive in the list and checking out what it says in the panel at the bottom. Apple's support blurb.

So it doesn't mean something is wrong if you external drive is unverified, it just means it doesn't monitor itself right.

 

[mad jew]

So it doesn't mean something is wrong if you external drive is unverified, it just means it doesn't monitor itself right.

Good question. I'm pretty sure externals don't monitor themselves but not positive. I know my iPod, when being used as an external drive, is also unverified.