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OS X 10.4.2 Released

wildmac said:
Did it get pulled?... It's not showing up on my vanilla 10.4.1 install....
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I wonder...

I posted a reply to a topic about my problem on the Apple.com discussions, and my post and the one I was replying to vanished. My post count shows 3 total and 2 that are "online". Something's screwy.
 
weird ........

okay ... so .....

just started up my mini ... and it was loading ... and the dock came up .... and my finder bar came up ... but no clock ... no wifi signal or bt indicator ... and my tiger cd is in the drive and i have the beachball of death ......

hmmm ....

restart time ......

okay .... got the disk out ... gotta love the f12 button if you don't have an apple keyboard ....

yup ... no go ... i'm gonna call apple care before i just give up and reinstall tiger.

mike
 
Hmm. I never had any bugs with 10.4.1. So far 10.4.2 hasn't had any glitches. It was a little slow starting up for the first time, typing my password lagged for a bit. Looking back I probably should have waited a bit for a verdict on the update. With 10.4.2 my iMac feels eerily changed... somehow evil... but time will tell.

I plugged in my Microsoft Intellimouse that I ditched simply because the scrolling with mouse wheel sucked, and now I see that it's a little better (it's faster) but it's still accelerative. WHY is ANYTHING in ANY OS accelerative? My Wacom mouse is accelerative. The scrolling is, too. It's the most ridiculous thing ever. If you scroll 3 ratchets/gears/places on the mouse wheel slowly, the page/window moves a tiny amount. If you scroll it twice as fast, you find yourself suddenly at the bottom of the window. Accelerative scrolling makes webbrowsing terrible and frantic. Constantly going past the point you wished to go to, and scrolling back up or down to correct your mistake.
 
Not sure if it's been mentioned yet (because I don't want to have to read over 100 posts), but this fixed my broken software update and I no longer have to download updates from the support site. Sorry if someone already said this.
 
iMacZealot said:
Here's a picture of the widget manager:
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What are those red circles next to some of your widgets? My Widget Manager does not have these. What does that mean anyways?
 
Now's the time

Now that the second update is out, I think now's the time to upgrade my Dual 2.5 to Tiger. I hope it goes smoothly
 
The red circles are for 3rd party widgets. Clicking them prompts the option to delete the widgets =).
 
Judogi said:
Well at least you guys are up and running.

I rebooted, the "Starting Mac OS X" window flashed by real fast (progress bar only went maybe 1/4 of the way across), and then it closed. I'm staring at a blue background with only my mouse cursor to amuse me.

Repairing permissions didn't help. Volume checks out fine. Won't even boot in single user mode for some reason.

Looks like I'll be reinstalling tonight...
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I'm having problems too, but different ones. It installed ok, but hung about as dramatically as can be during the 'Finishing installation' part. I've booted in via my backup drive and re-applied the patch to my normal boot partition, and all goes well until I log in, and all I get is the cursor and my desktop picture. No dock, no menu bar, no desktop icons.

I'm lost, frankly. Tried first aid, fsck, repaired permissions on my main boot partition while booted from my external drive. I'll shortly be installing Tiger for the fifth time. My patience is wearing very thin with Tiger. That rant will come in another thread at some point in the near future though, I'm sure.
 
Some_Big_Spoon said:
guess what.. the iphoto bug is still there.. destroys pics still. Fantastic. The biggest bug in the lot and it's still alive.

Flash MX 2004 is still crashing on launch too. Bravo ya dumbasses.
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Well, you're iPhoto update wasn't fixed because this is an OS X UPDATE!!!! Not an iPhoto update! Who's the dumbasss now?
 
YEMandy said:
No iPhoto fix!? What is up with that!!?? :mad:
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Again, this is a Mac OS X update, not an iPhoto update. These updates aren't meant to fix other Apple products that have bugs.
 
Software update not working

Anyone know why Software update wouldn't detect neither 10.4.1, nor 10.4.2? Even downloading the image file from Apple wouldn't let me install that on my G5's harddrive.

Any clues?
 
the update isn't there... checked a vanilla 10.4.1 install, and a recent Tiger Server install... neither shows that update, but it does show others....

again, anyone currently seeing it in software update?...
 
FoxyKaye said:
I've taken to turning my mouse upside down as the computer is going to sleep - sometimes I wonder if micro-movements or floor vibrations will pull it out of sleep if the mouse picks up on them.
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You need to actually click the mouse to wake the computer up.
You must have some serious vibration! :)
 
SaWeet!

zoozx said:
I hope they fixed the million and 1 issues to make this system usable!
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Million and 1, huh!!!

If I've told you once, I've told you a billion times...stop exaggerating! :p
 
Menubar Icons Gone

I installed 10.4.2 via Software Update and restarted. During restart, I held down CMD-S so I could do a "fsck -fy". Found two "illegal names" and several temp files that had filesizes other than 0. It fixed the files, rechecked, said all was well, so I typed "reboot" and OS X proceeded to boot.

Everything works fine but all the icons on the right side of the menubar are gone. I logged into all my accounts and even logged in as root, but the icons will not appear. I have no idea how to make them appear.

I then installed 10.4.2 on another Mac via Software Update and restarted. This time I did not do the disk check on boot. OS X booted and the menubar icons were there! I then shutdown, booted with CMD-S and did a fsck and it found problems with the same two "illegal files" but no reports of temp file issues. It fixed the illegal name files, recheck to show all was well, so I then rebooted. I was pleased to see all my menubar icons intact.

This seems to indicate that the temp files modified on my first installation were vital to restoring the menubar icons. After they were "fixed," the menubar icons vanished. Since I cannot uninstall 10.4.2, it would appear I have no choice but to reinstall 10.4 and all the updates again on my first machine.

Any ideas?
 
JDW said:
Since I cannot uninstall 10.4.2, it would appear I have no choice but to reinstall 10.4 and all the updates again on my first machine.

Any ideas?
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Try downloading the 10.4.2 update from Apple's site and reinstalling.
 
Detlev_73 said:
Anyone know why Software update wouldn't detect neither 10.4.1, nor 10.4.2? Even downloading the image file from Apple wouldn't let me install that on my G5's harddrive.

Any clues?
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um...

"What?? :eek: You mean you can't update Panther using the Tiger updates?@!" :eek:



;) :D




or...

"What?? :eek: You mean you can't update a bootleg Tiger?@!" :eek:




kidding.. ;)


Anyway, this update didn't fix a problem with Preview.app where you can't view pix in full screen view on my cinema display. It seems to be limited by my graphics card... 12" rev. B Powerbook.......... thing is it worked in panther, so why couldn't they make a cutdown no-frills fullscreen view for 32mb video?
 
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