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OS X 10.4.6 Now Available

AnthonyKinyon said:
On my Intel machine I've seen two problems so far. 1) DVD Player: the menu navigation is extremely slow and it used to be nice and quick. DVDs still play fine once you get one going though. But the menus take like 20 seconds to change to another screen when you click things on them.

Besides this most things seem to be OK. The DVD issue is really annoying though. Can some other Intel Mac Mini owners test it out and see how it is for them and let me know please?
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Just tried the DVD on my Mini Core Solo (10.4.6). No problems.
 
dr_lha said:
Just tried the DVD on my Mini Core Solo (10.4.6). No problems.
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Thanks for testing this. I reported the problem to Apple via their website. However, I think I will try reinstalling from the Combo Updater manually and see if it helps. I did try doing Disk Utility -> Repair Permissions before I posted here.
 
Just so people know, I updated yesterday, and I haven't had one keyboard problem at all yet. I usually would have had to unplug and plug it back in at least once in a day, but so far so good. Looks like Apple may have finally fixed the problem...
 
Update on DVD problem and mouse issue

I used a program called UltimateTask ( http://mac.majorgeeks.com/download5462.html ) and it seems to have helped my mouse problem substantially. Also the DVD menus seem better although still slower than 10.4.5 was - but not by too much - major improvement from how it was before running UltimateTask (I cleared EVERYTHING it offers and did the reboot).

By the way, that site is really cool and has lots of good Mac downloads (the http://mac.majorgeeks.com site). I am in no way affiliated with them and this isn't intended as spam, but I think other Mac users would really like the site. It's a lot like Versiontracker.com or MacUpdate.com etc.

Just some feedback and an update.

Things seem better in 10.4.6 than they were though for sure. I found 10.4.5 to be the most stable since 10.4.x came out until now - we'll see how 10.4.6 holds up after some time and a couple patches here and there.
 
FOR ALL THE TREO 650 USERS:

I didnt feel like following the instructions that apple gave for cell phone users to follow prior to upgrading. (Relatively new phone with not much data to sync).

Anyway, I did the upgrade and have absolutely no problems syncing my Treo with my 12 Pb.

Good luck.
 
Now we know what it was for...not just better performance and silence but Boot Camp :D
 
OS 10.4.6, iSync and Nokia 6230

For those of you desperate to get your 6230 working with isync 2.2, I ran a little test today and my theory is if it doesn't work you (like me) have a very early version 6230/6230i. I have pretty much one of the first batch to come from Orange UK (s/w version 3.17) and it doesn't work on either of my machines.

Am going to try and get an upgrade tomorrow so shall see what happens.
 
hmm

this update f****d my powerbook up. applications take forever to start up now. i get lags with safari, using expose and pretty much anything else using the graphics processor.
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now the damned thing won't even startup. recommendations?
 
Multimedia said:
I wonder exactly HOW those disaster updates were executed. I've noticed some here think it's just fine to run an incremental updater while continuing to run a bunch of applications AT THE SAME TIME. I wonder if they had quit everything and run the Combo updater if then their update would have failed. I wonder how much free disk space they had on their system volume. I had totally smooth updates on both a Quad and an old 1.25 GHz PB G4 using the Combo from here.

While I am a little concerned, I am more inclined to attribute these disasters to operator error rather than to Apple. My Quad has never run better. I love this update.

Would all who had disacsters please answer the above questions. Thank you in advance. I hope no one is going to get mad at me for positing this theory. :)
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it's quite alright. it's actually quite simple. before the update, everything was fine. after the update, my powerbook doesn't work. it doesn't matter what programs are runnning at the time. the installers are fairly fool proof. my G5's runs fine, took it like a champ. the powerbook on the other hand has serious issues. immediately after the update, it ran slow as hell. and now, it doesn't want to start up.
 
Stella said:
I get an "unexpected error has occurred".

Someone posted a message saying they had the same thing - something to do with Airport... but how did they fix it?
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You probably fixed it already, but I had that problem (that was my post) and I rebooted, tried to install the package that was in the trash (software update put it there) and it wouldn't let me. I checked About this Mac and it said it was already installed. :confused:

Those of you who haven't installed it yet - DON'T!!!!! It f****d up Disk Utility and it won't mount disk images (at least on my computer). I did an archive and install and downloaded the 10.4.5 updater. I'll wait for 10.4.7.
 
nxent said:
this update f****d my powerbook up. applications take forever to start up now. i get lags with safari, using expose and pretty much anything else using the graphics processor.
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now the damned thing won't even startup. recommendations?
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Sounds like you might have prebinding errors. Try booting into single user mode (apple key + s at startup) then run an fsck -y first to repair any disk errors and hopefully get the thing to boot up. If you can then get to a terminal try running the following command and see whether it helps

update_prebinding -root -force
 
I administer around 120 OS X clients, and was testing the 10.4.6 (from 10.4.5 using Software Update) update on my work iMac (G5 1.8GHz, 512MB).

It hosed it. Dead.

Same errors as other people noted: installation didn't complete, installation pkg went into the Trash, wouldn't execute if you took it out of the trash. Rebooted the machine, and got the white background, grey Apple logo & infinitely spinning pinwheel. Also, it held my fans on full blast. I gave up waiting after 30 minutes... booted into single user mode, and had the "/sbin/launchd errno 88"

I ran the update with other applications running, and didn't fix permissions before the update either. Because I'm not crazy like some of you seem... :p </flamewar> in the end, I re-installed 10.4.0 off DVD with the Archive option -- which, luckily, worked as I have tons of free space.

Guess I'm off to discussions.info.apple.com to whine...
 
error in patch update package

From MacJournals.com a report about an error in the Delta or "patch" update for 10.4.6:

"We’ve seen reports of applications that run fine under 10.4.5 but crash under 10.4.6 with message to the effect that “vecLib. framework is missing.” Our attempts to pin this down have not succeeded."

And from Apple's "PerfOptimization-dev mailing list"

"I do not have an authoritative answer yet, but it seems there may have been
an error in packaging the update. The solution is apparently to download
one of the "Combo" updates from http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ and
install that.

-- edp (Eric Postpischil)
http://edp.org
Senior Vector and Numerics Engineer, Apple Computer"

All this brought to light at MacCentral today.
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/04/18/osx1046analysis/index.php
 
dynamicv said:
Sounds like you might have prebinding errors. Try booting into single user mode (apple key + s at startup) then run an fsck -y first to repair any disk errors and hopefully get the thing to boot up. If you can then get to a terminal try running the following command and see whether it helps

update_prebinding -root -force
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Any other way to update prebinding? I got

"dyld: warning DYLD_ROOT_PATH not used because it contains a non-absolute path
dyld: warning DYLD_ROOT_PATH not used because it contains a non-absolute path
dyld: warning DYLD_ROOT_PATH not used because it contains a non-absolute path"

and
"update_prebinding: error: can't create temp image"

Help?

I'm just having some weird glitches. I don't know if it's specifically after the install, but this might help.
 
RULE: Always Install Updates From The Combo Updater

Links said:
From MacJournals.com a report about an error in the Delta or "patch" update for 10.4.6:

"We’ve seen reports of applications that run fine under 10.4.5 but crash under 10.4.6 with message to the effect that “vecLib. framework is missing.” Our attempts to pin this down have not succeeded."

And from Apple's "PerfOptimization-dev mailing list"

"I do not have an authoritative answer yet, but it seems there may have been
an error in packaging the update. The solution is apparently to download
one of the "Combo" updates from http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ and
install that.

-- edp (Eric Postpischil)
http://edp.org
Senior Vector and Numerics Engineer, Apple Computer"

All this brought to light at MacCentral today.
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/04/18/osx1046analysis/index.php
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RULE: Always Install Updates From The Combo Updater. This is not the first time that an incremental updater has caused problems. It is a good rule to never update from Software Update... and ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS download the Combo Updater and install from that disc image. This always results in a cleaner more accurate update than the incremental updates found in Software Update... :)

Your fix is to download the 10.4.6 Combo Updater and run that on your broken 10.4.6. Should fix all your glitch problems.
 
Did anyone find a solution?

I have the same problem and was hopeing someone has been able to lick this problem.
thanks


britomatic said:
Just installed the 10.4.6 update. After the 2 reboots others have mentioned I repaired permissions and rebooted again.

Mail will not load. After a long period of spinning beachball, I get the error:

Mail cannot update your mailboxes because your home directory is full.

You must free us some space in your home directory folder before using Mail. Delete unneeded documents or move documents to another volume.

I have 10 gig free on the drive.

Also, my iPod will not update since 10.4.6. iTunes loads then, after another long period of spinning beachball, I get the error:

The iPod "Video iPod"cannot be updated. The disk could not be read from or written to.

Other areas of the OS now feature extended spinning beachball action too.

Any suggestions?

Chris.
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