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Quicktime and Garageband Updates

Parallels is dead

Since I need to run a Win-only program I decided to reinstall parallels.
I uninstalled the previous version, and made a fresh install.
The program crashes before it starts. I have to try bootcamp now.
Does anyone else experience similar problems with parallels after the update?

Edit: Cant install Bootcamp either... I am screwed
 
coolbreeze said:
Catastrophic HDD failure. I lost everything. The Genius Bar said it would be about a week to fix.

Let's hope my Time Machine backup works.
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The disk could have been failing already, and when the updates installed, it moved things around in such a way that the failure killed the system.

I've had this happen before. It's not due to the update, but the update just exposed the failure.

Hope your backup is okay and that you get your machine back alright.
 
This update sounds like a disaster.

Apple really seems to be asleep at the wheel lately. Don't they test these updates before they release them?
 
Rdp Rdf

Running Verify/Repair Disk (the latter can't be run on the booted volume) before updates potentially has much more value than running Verify/Repair Disk Permissions.

Jetson said:
This update sounds like a disaster.
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Why? Because a few people blame unrelated problems on it? :rolleyes:

PS: Why was my intentionally all uppercase "RDP RDF" post title automatically capitalized?
 
coolbreeze said:
Catastrophic HDD failure. I lost everything. The Genius Bar said it would be about a week to fix.

Let's hope my Time Machine backup works.
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But wait, a week to swap a hard drive? I can do that in about five minutes. Do they have like one tech working on 500 systems or something?
 
Clicked to install this update, walked away for about an hour....


Came back to see my desktop picture frozen on the screen... force quit...



Now I can not get back into my account...

Everytime I turn the computer on it is on the register your computer for the first time screen.


Runs me though the whole setup process....



What the hell is going on!!!???!!!
 
This update worked great for me. Not an issue.

Sucks that this is lacking consistancy.
 
Dr.Gargoyle said:
Since I need to run a Win-only program I decided to reinstall parallels.
I uninstalled the previous version, and made a fresh install.
The program crashes before it starts. I have to try bootcamp now.
Does anyone else experience similar problems with parallels after the update?

Edit: Cant install Bootcamp either... I am screwed
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No problems with either here (10.5.1 + QT update). Why can't you install bootcamp?

wakerider017 said:
Clicked to install this update, walked away for about an hour....

What the hell is going on!!!???!!!
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Likely your filesystem was in a bad state before the update and the files the update added/updated/removed caused the file system corruption to expand. I would boot into single user mode and see what the file system looks like.
 
After this update appeared I downloaded it, but when it asked for my password to install it it said it was invalid. I haven't changed the system password since this machine was new. I tried everything, no go so I restarted the machine and of course it wouldn't take my password to log in. I ended up having to start up with they install disk and resetting the password there. Seems everything is working fine now.

Mac Pro 2.66
10.5.1
Did not repair premissions before or after.
 
shawnce said:
Likely your filesystem was in a bad state before the update and the files the update added/updated/removed caused the file system corruption to expand. I would boot into single user mode and see what the file system looks like.
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Did a verify disk permissions and came up with a mess of errors...

Trying to repair it now...
 
Clearly, this update is not ready for prime-time. I sure hope Apple is reading this. It killed my MacBook and appears to be affecting others.

I'm hopeful that my drive was on its way out...because if a single update can kill your computer, is really scary.

It will take up to a week for the Apple store to fix my MacBook. They had to order the HDD. Very annoying for me as I had to drive 6 hours round trip. Nice way to spend vacation.

Oh, I have to go back next week as well to p/u. The guys at the Genius Bar had no clue how this happened on a 3 month old machine.
 
uh, repair did not work?

Now what?



I guess I can restore from time machine?? I have never done this before... Will everything be as it was before the crash?
 
shawnce said:
This update didn't kill your MacBook. Your hard drive appears to have had a physical failure (surface defect, etc.) that this update exposed.

/me points at MacBook Hard Drive Failures
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True but this update caused my machine to lock up w/ a beachball that spun for over an hour. My only option was to hold down the power button to force a shutdown. I believe it was the abrupt halting of the spinning HDD that caused the drive failure.

Had this update never been released I would still have a working machine.

My 2cents.
 
coolbreeze said:
True but this update caused my machine to lock up w/ a beachball that spun for over an hour. My only option was to hold down the power button to force a shutdown. I believe it was the abrupt halting of the spinning HDD that caused the drive failure.
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Anything is possible (would have to see logs from the system) but it is more likely the beach ball was a result of the kernel wedging on disk IO because it started to fail / stall thanks to a HDD failure.

coolbreeze said:
Had this update never been released I would still have a working machine.
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Likely a ticking time bomb that could have gone off at anytime.
 
shawnce said:
No problems with either here (10.5.1 + QT update). Why can't you install bootcamp?
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OSX can't partition my harddrive. I need to erase the harddrive and reinstall everything from scratch. I called Apple support. They said that is the only way...lol.

Note that I am on a 10 month old MBP. I only have Apple original apps/CS3/parallels/XP on it. No "cool" free apps, just professional apps.
This really shouldn't happen. I use this machine for my research.
 
Dr.Gargoyle said:
OSX can't partition my harddrive. I need to erase the harddrive and reinstall everything from scratch. I called Apple support. They said that is the only way...lol.
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How much free space you have on the drive? You can resize the main partition to give space for a boot camp Windows install but you need sufficient space available in the partition you are resizing to allow it to move files as needed.

If do a little house cleaning things may work.

Also what is wrong with Parallels on your system? I highly doubt the QT update did anything to Parallels.
 
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shawnce said:
Anything is possible (would have to see logs from the system) but it is more likely the beach ball was a result of the kernel wedging on disk IO because it started to fail / stall thanks to a HDD failure.

Likely a ticking time bomb that could have gone off at anytime.
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This was post number 72. When I came back to look for additional comments I found that the number of comments had decreased from 72 to 68. What happened? Were previous posts deleted because they were wrong?
 
NuMan said:
This was post number 72. When I came back to look for additional comments I found that the number of comments had decreased from 72 to 68. What happened? Were previous posts deleted because they were wrong?
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Looks like someone is consolidating posts.
 
Also had problems with this update

Downloaded and installed properly and was then told to reboot

I click reboot and as usual, the only thing on the screen was a light blue background and a circular loading indicator

Waited for about 40 minutes but Macbook (2.2 4gb ram) never rebooted itself. Finally decided to force the shutdown by holding the power button

Pressed the power button and prayed that my harddrive didn't fail like the other two users. Luckily, I was able to boot back into Leopard and System Update says that it has no new updates for me
 
wakerider017 said:
Clicked to install this update, walked away for about an hour....
Came back to see my desktop picture frozen on the screen... force quit...
Now I can not get back into my account...
Everytime I turn the computer on it is on the register your computer for the first time screen.
Runs me though the whole setup process....
What the hell is going on!!!???!!!
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I am having the exact same problem...

Did repair disk and permissions from install disk.

Any ideas???
 
shawnce said:
How much free space you have on the drive? You can resize the main partition to give space for a boot camp Windows install but you need sufficient space available in the partition you are resizing to allow it to move files as needed.

If do a little house cleaning things may work.

Also what is wrong with Parallels on your system? I highly doubt the QT update did anything to Parallels.
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I have 50Gb free left on the HD... I doubt the problem is about space.

What is wrong is that parallels crash directly when I try to start it.
 
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