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OS X 10.4.6 Now Available

amanset said:
Because its a Mini with its insanely slow internal HD.
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It's no slower than the drive on my PowerBook. So, basically, you've done something not recommended and you're angry at Apple because it doesn't work.
 
Well I've installed it on my macbook pro and its cause loads of problems.

My wireless setup was working fine before now it seems to drop to below full signal from time to time despite being 10cm from the router!

Secondly it has completely screwed up windows sharing on my mbp. It simply doesnt find my pc on the network unless I manually add it. Even when it does add a directory shared on my pc file transfers take forever (Try 2mins for a 26kb file!)

Note I've done the update on my ppc mac mini and it has none of these problems!. Anyone else with these issues let me know!
 
OS X Server on G4 desktop (dev)

So far so good, although my isync has died, still no 9500 support.

Tomorrow it will be going on a clean install of an xserver g4 as well so hopefully no other issues!

D
 
Oh and from perfect internet connection via my wireless connection it now is terrible. Bravo apple way to break my wireless connection...

Ping has started ...

PING www.google.com (66.249.87.99): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.249.87.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=250 time=124.455 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.87.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=250 time=476.337 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.87.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=250 time=132.086 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.87.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=250 time=1043.817 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.87.99: icmp_seq=4 ttl=250 time=195.658 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.87.99: icmp_seq=6 ttl=250 time=235.198 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.87.99: icmp_seq=7 ttl=250 time=170.932 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.87.99: icmp_seq=8 ttl=250 time=261.405 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.87.99: icmp_seq=9 ttl=250 time=69.163 ms

--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 9 packets received, 10% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 69.163/301.006/1043.817/284.777 ms
 
Well after some time now, I must say that my CPU usage seems to be where it should be, at 30% with some apps running.....before I updated it was at 70% :confused:
 
Problems with isync and K700i

Hi,

I cannot sync my Sony Ericsson K700i anymore with iSync after the update.
Bluetooth connection still works, remote control functionality, too. I
can send and receive files via bluetooth, but isync'ing fails saying
"There was an error pushing some changes to the phone. The synchronization may have been cancelled on the phone."

I've resetted the phone and went through the bluetooth new device setup,
no changes, though.

Does anyone experience the same issues? This is on a pb g4 12" 1.33 GHz.
 
Stoffel said:
Hi,

I cannot sync my Sony Ericsson K700i anymore with iSync after the update.
Bluetooth connection still works, remote control functionality, too. I
can send and receive files via bluetooth, but isync'ing fails saying
"There was an error pushing some changes to the phone. The synchronization may have been cancelled on the phone."

I've resetted the phone and went through the bluetooth new device setup,
no changes, though.

Does anyone experience the same issues? This is on a pb g4 12" 1.33 GHz.
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You're not alone. I have the same problem. It will copy from the phone to my Mac but not the other way. Only with iSync. File exchange works fine.
 
Stoffel said:
Hi,

I cannot sync my Sony Ericsson K700i anymore with iSync after the update.
Bluetooth connection still works, remote control functionality, too. I
can send and receive files via bluetooth, but isync'ing fails saying
"There was an error pushing some changes to the phone. The synchronization may have been cancelled on the phone."

I've resetted the phone and went through the bluetooth new device setup,
no changes, though.

Does anyone experience the same issues? This is on a pb g4 12" 1.33 GHz.
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My k750i has synced fine its a similiar model so yours should work , maybe they swapped the two round as you had to manually edit the address book files to make it work with the k750i before??


On my above issues they have gone away despite me doing nothing so god only knows what was happenning.
 
devman said:
You're not alone. I have the same problem. It will copy from the phone to my Mac but not the other way. Only with iSync. File exchange works fine.
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Someone (can't remember who) mentioned something about iSync on the first page of this thread. Not sure if it's the problem you're having or not but there's a link to some Apple documentation in the post.
 
BRLawyer said:
Sorry but NO, it's not a premature release; it is working perfectly for most Mac users around. .
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But several people are reporting complete failure requiring a reinstall on a variety of machines... That to me says buggy build.
 
iTwitch said:
Updated my 1.33 Ghz iBook a few minutes ago and all seems well. Is it me or do most of the people experiencing problems running older systems?
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Dunno. It installed with no problems on my 500Mhz G3 iBook too.
 
Wow! This is the first time I have ever had any kind of problem with an update. I am usually they type of person that looks forward to updates and installs them with drooling eagerness. But I must say that in this instance I have had a couple of weird things happen that began after I updated.

1. My Omniweb Browser hangs up extremely bad. So bad that it is currently unusable

2. My keyboard backlight is all goofed up. On, off, on, off, on......off, on, off.

3. Pages has crashed multiple times since yesterday. I have been using Pages for over a year now and can not remember it ever crashing in that time. But since yesterday at least 7,8 times.

(I have not done any kind of repair disk permissions because alot of folks say that it doesnt really do anything, but I will try anyway.)

4. Also, Rapidweaver 3.2.1 seems to be crashing an aweful lot since yesterday. It always was prone to crash, but it seems more frequent now.

Oh well, I have called Apple Tech support because now my Powerbook G4 only recognizes 1 of my 2 sticks of ram (512 each). And they are having me send it in for repair. (This is the second time this has happened to me the last time was with 10.3.9 update.
Maybe they will get it all lined out.:rolleyes:
 
10.4.6 woes

Count me in as one of the guys that had to reinstall the OS! After reinstalling Tiger, I tried to install 10.4.6 again, but still no dice. At least my Powerbook rebooted the second time around...
 
bbyrdhouse said:
(I have not done any kind of repair disk permissions because alot of folks say that it doesnt really do anything, but I will try anyway.)
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Of course it does something... why else would the function even be there...? :rolleyes:

It doesn't help every problem, though, but then again it's a hassle-free and harmless thing to try first if one or more applications starts to misbehave before checking out pref files and long before any reinstalls should come into consideration...
 
Stoffel said:
Hi,

I cannot sync my Sony Ericsson K700i anymore with iSync after the update.
Bluetooth connection still works, remote control functionality, too. I
can send and receive files via bluetooth, but isync'ing fails saying
"There was an error pushing some changes to the phone. The synchronization may have been cancelled on the phone."

I've resetted the phone and went through the bluetooth new device setup,
no changes, though.

Does anyone experience the same issues? This is on a pb g4 12" 1.33 GHz.
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I'm experiencing the exact same. I'm using a 15" 1.5ghz powerbook, and the update seems to have broken syncing with my SonyEricsson k700i. I can browse the device and get files fine, i can use salling clicker without problems, but the sync dies half way in:

The phone reports: "session failed. Communication interrupted."

iSync reports: " [K700i] There was an error getting data from the phone. The synchronization may have been cancelled on the phone.
Device "K700i" synchronization failed"

And the iSync Log reads:
Tuesday 4 April 2006 1:24:15 pm IST
1:24:20 pm Connecting to K700i
1:24:20 pm Device "K700i" connected
1:24:20 pm Receiving changes from "K700i".
1:24:21 pm "K700i" finished receiving changes
1:24:21 pm "K700i" Processing changes...
1:24:21 pm "K700i" engine processing complete
1:24:21 pm Applying changes to "K700i"
1:24:21 pm Error [K700i] There was an error getting data from the phone. The synchronization may have been cancelled on the phone.
1:24:21 pm Error Device "K700i" synchronization failed
Error iSync Log created Tuesday 4 April 2006 1:24:48 pm IST

First time I ever had a problem syncing - and apparently this is an issue with all k700i phones? Does anyone else have one with/without this problem?

And yes, I did follow the instructions from Apple's iSync updating page to the letter.

now I've tried just about everything... removing the phone and adding it again, resetting, basically every option iSync had to offer. I searched through iSync's help files and SE's website to no avail. I'm submitting a support note to Apple now.
 
Long shot, but one thing to check for those with Sony Ericsson phones that refuse to sync:
Apple Support said:
If a particular contact fails to sync to your phone, make sure that its First Name, Last Name, and Email fields do not contain a Return character. Carriage Return characters are added to Address Book fields when you press the Return key. Address Book does not display these characters. The easiest way to make sure that a field does not contain one is to select the entire field and re-enter your data without pressing the Return key. You can also delete the Carriage Return by editing contact's Email field from your phone. Once you delete the Carriage Return you will see the email address.
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More people seems to be having problems...but it just gets better for me....gone down from 1600 > 1100/1300 rpm on my CPU fan :D
 
rayz said:
To a certain extent that's probably true. MS releases minor updates pretty regularly, but usually leave mass changes to the big releases. This can be very annoying, but it is understandable; they're really victims of their own monopoly.
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They have three types of release...

Hotfixes - security and bug fixes with minimal testing released on 'Patch Tuesday' once a month. People often wait 2-3 weeks for crtical fixes.

Service Packs - Rollups of all the hotfixes to date which are more rigourously tested.

New OS Releases - new features released every 3 - 7 years. Cost - Around £250 a copy.


Apple does it differently...

Security Updates - just security fixes released fairly rapidly though not as rapidly as say Linux.

Updates - the 10.4.x update with bug fixes and occasionally new features, released every couple of months usually.

New OS Releases - new features released every 18 months. Cost - Around £80.

I prefer the way Apple does it as a user although a stable platform that never changes is preferable to many businesses who are more interested in running accounting apps than graphics apps.


rayz said:
For a start, they have to build and maintain an OS that runs on a ridiculous number of configurations, 99% of which Microsoft hasn't even seen. As well as that, they have to ensure they don't break an equally ridiculous number of applications. When you're hampered by this level of backwards-compatibility, it's little wonder things go very slowly.
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Not really. It's up to the hardware OEMs to make sure their systems are compatible with Windows, not the other way around. The NT HAL under Windows provides a base config they have to adhere to. Above that it's device drivers and the OEMs have to adhere to specs there too.

With Vista, Microsoft have tightened the specs further such as requiring a DX9 compatible graphics card or the UI doesn't work and drops back to the old interface.

rayz said:
Apple on the other hand, only needs to support a handful of machines, a relatively small number of applications and the relatively small size of the user base means that they can release stuff that won't run on older versions of their own OS, without causing that many people, that much hassle.
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Apple has MORE support headaches than Microsoft in that Apple also writes the graphics card drivers, USB driver, network drivers...

rayz said:
MS doesn't have the luxury of just busting stuff at each new release; it would be disastrous for their users if they did.
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And it is when it happens. NT4.0 wasn't really that hot till SP4. SP6 broke a lot of things and was quickly followed by SP6a. Back in the SQL Server 6.5 days (I was an MS server admin then) it was mandatory to install NT4.0 SP4 with it but I had some server hardware that couldn't run SP4 without breaking SCSI. I had to install SP3 and about 40 hotfixes. XP SP2 breaks a lot of things too although they literally had to break some unsafe software.

rayz said:
The other problem is incentive. Most Windows purchases are pre-installs. So from MS' point of view there is little need to rush out an OS, because they've pretty much tied up the market anyway. There's no real difference (money-wise) from a machine pre-installed with XP and a machine installed with Vista.
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That I do agree with. Businesses still make up most of Microsoft's buyers and they'll buy whatever is on the latest PC from Dell or preferably something they've had for years that they can support.

Looking back it's also pretty difficult to spot any real difference in featureset between Windows95 to 2000 that most people would care about. XP only added more wizards and a horrible UI. Vista is as big a change as OSX 10.1 to OSX 10.4 IMHO but it should have been as big a change as between OS9 and OSX 10.5 with the 6+ years of development they've had. I don't really care what they add as long as they fix Internet Explorer and backport it to XP.
 
eddyg said:
Hi,

I now know of six people who have had serious upgrade issues with this
update.

The symptoms in all cases are the upgrade process failing, putting the
installer in the Trash and leaving computer unable to execute any
process without a CPU exception. Subsequent reboots then fail.

The only solution is to reinstall MacOS 10.4 and then download the patches
~220Mb worth to get you back to where you were.

I suspect that Apple may pull this update and have a new one soon..

Cheers, Ed.
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I managed to fix mine without re-installing from scratch, fortunately - since I do not have time to mess around. The backup I had was only a 1 week or so old, but a lot had changed.

From my backup I copied
/System /usr/ /sbin /mach

The machine then booted up, re-applied 10.4.6. Didn't reboot.

/System/InstallOnStartup - ran the script '1' in scripts subdirectory.

Deleted /System/InstallOnStartup

Rebooted - fortunately it worked.. so far no strange side affects. But of course, you'll need a backup of your hard disc.

First time ever that an update has failed for me.

The reason for boot up failure was Error 88 - couldn't load the kernel
Then, it couldn't find one of the kernel updates ( i think ) to install during boot up - despite the file being where it expects! If it couldn't update then it couldn't use the new file.. boom.
 
Mitthrawnuruodo said:
Of course it does something... why else would the function even be there...? :rolleyes:

It doesn't help every problem, though, but then again it's a hassle-free and harmless thing to try first if one or more applications starts to misbehave before checking out pref files and long before any reinstalls should come into consideration...
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It's NOT harmless.

What 'Repair Permissions' does is check the package receipts and bom logs from software that you've installed and checks that the unix file permissions match the original. If they've changed, it puts them back to the original.

However, if you've deliberately changed the permissions for whatever reason, those changes will be overwritten and reset.

99.9% of the time, permissions never change of course but Apple used to show notices saying they were using 'Special permissions' which confused the easily confusable. :(
 
Issue with bluetooth after install.

Well I have installed 10.4.6 on my laptop and I have noticed that my bluetooth is no longer available, has anyone else noticed this.


Christopher
 
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