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OS X 10.4.2 Released

JDW said:
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?
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Look at all processes in activity monitor. The uiserver (forget exactly what it's called might be "not responding"
 
mklos said:
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.
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But that fix should have been out a while back. I cant do anything with my iphoto library until they do and that really sucks...
 
skp574 said:
I just upgraded to 10.4.2 and Remote Desktop seems to be faster.

Edit: Outlook Web Access if still broken in Safari!
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Works fine here.

This update works great on my rev A 12" PB and our rev A iMac G5. I never really had any issues with dot 1. Everything does feel faster.

I would like the option to remove the dashboard dock and just use the widget manager. The button would be enough for me. Feedback sent to Apple. The manager is a welcome addition.

I updated by using the Combo Updater from Apples site.
 
mklos said:
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.
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Someone else has already replied about this point.

Applespider said:
Except that the bug is to do with ColorSync profiles and seems to have only appeared in Tiger rather than Panther... so there was an expectation that it was a Tiger bug rather than an iPhoto one, particularly when one of the developer builds was said to have fixed the iPhoto bug. :(
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mklos said:
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.
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Then why are there updates to other apps such as iChat and Mail in 10.4.2??
 
cleanup said:
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.
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The iPod's touchwheel/clickwheel IS accelerative... :rolleyes: :p
 
quigleybc said:
Can anyone confirm if the chirp sound on the Power Mac G5 is now gone?

The sound happens during graphic intensive work?

Anyone?

:confused:
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Nope, still chirps... Running in automatic seems like it's pretty quiet. If I do something intensive like iMovie I get the chirping.

On a side note, dashboard now flies!!! I can't believe how fast the widgets update themselves. I have 3 weather widgets plus radar widget, which used to take more than one push of F12 to get all 4 to update.
 
I've noticed that I have much more free memory after the update. Dashboard used to take up so much, now with the same widgets open I have 200 more free than before. Sweet! :D
 
Well, they still didn't fix the Aiport Express/wake from sleep problem.

My computer used to be able to load a webpage immediately when you woke from sleep....ever since the upgrade to Tiger it no longer does this, and still isn't with 10.4.2.

It is getting really annoying.
 
danielsan26 said:
Obvious sign of future tight integration. Great news for my Cingular customer self, had to use use the user agent spoof option in Safari 2 to access cingular.com previously!
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That was odd. I've had no problems doing that for weeks now that I use cingular. Was there a section that didn't work or something?
 
bankshot said:
re: USB panics
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Sorry to say but I'm still getting kernel panics with 8C46 that seem to be USB related on my DP500 at least once a day.

Since Apple hadn't mentioned USB updates in any of the .2 release notes, I was thinking maybe it was my Wacom pad. But I pulled that and went back to my original 1-button mouse :eek: and I still got the panics. I didn't remove the TabletDriver though - maybe I'll have to try that.

I really would like to switch to Tiger full time, but I don't trust it if I leave on a road trip since there is no way to reboot a crashed machine from 100 miles away. :mad:

Panther never crashes on me ever, so I'll have to continue to reboot into that when I go away on a trip until I can figure something else out.

Unfortunately for Apple, I have a number of friends that I advise about their Macs. I've been telling them to hold off on the upgrade to Tiger until things get a bit cleaned up. Now I don't know what to do. Most of them probably won't have the problems I'm having, but I have one friend who has the exact same machine as me. I don't want to risk giving out bad advice.
 
Scrolling inside Widgets

Have you people noticed that now, with a scroll wheel mouse you can actually scroll inside Apple's Widgets? That's preety cool, but Page Up, Page Down, Home, End, and the arrow keys don't work... Anyway, I have a scroll wheel mouse so I'm fine with that... ;)
 
Mainyehc said:
but Page Up, Page Down, Home, End, and the arrow keys don't work... Anyway, I have a scroll wheel mouse so I'm fine with that... ;)
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Works fine here.
 
qubex said:
Utterly dismal:

The iPhoto bug isn't fixed, QE2D isn't enabled and Zlib isn't patched.

We waited a month for this crap?

I'm very disappointed.
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iPhoto = iLife 05 which is <> Mac OS X Tiger

QE2D? Sorry what is that?

Zlib bug was what a week ago? I'd expect that to be part of a security update that would affect Panther and Tiger no?
 
Works well from this end. I have Logitech peripherals (Mouse/Keyboard) and haven't had any problems.

My widgets have always been a bit iffy though. The Dilbert widget will not refresh daily like it should. The Performance Monitor widget was performing so poorly I removed it. And the others, if not used for a while, don't refresh well when I do bring them up. Hopefully this update fixes that.

I do realize that Widget programs are relatively new though, and will get better as new versions are released.
 
quigleybc said:
Can anyone confirm if the chirp sound on the Power Mac G5 is now gone?

The sound happens during graphic intensive work?

Anyone?

:confused:
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I've heard that chirp on PCs as well, I think its something to do with NVIDIA more than our Macs.

Consider yourself lucky... most people can't hear such high frequency sounds :)
 
Mainyehc said:
Have you people noticed that now, with a scroll wheel mouse you can actually scroll inside Apple's Widgets? That's preety cool, but Page Up, Page Down, Home, End, and the arrow keys don't work... Anyway, I have a scroll wheel mouse so I'm fine with that... ;)
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I installed this update on a Mac Mini and an old PowerBook, I have two external keyboards, the keys all work fine for me. On another note, it made the PowerBook so much faster on startup, about the same as the Mini's startup time now. Had three or four permissions to repair after installation.

Brian
 
Interesting, now instead of Dashboard taking up one big chunk each individual widget is a process and you can see how much memory each is using and what is a hog and what isn't.

At least I don't remember running 'top' at a command prompt and having 75% of it full of Dashboard.
 
Trekkie said:
Interesting, now instead of Dashboard taking up one big chunk each individual widget is a process and you can see how much memory each is using and what is a hog and what isn't.

At least I don't remember running 'top' at a command prompt and having 75% of it full of Dashboard.
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It did that 10.4.1 as well, but top doesn't always show all the processes running.
 
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