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Security Update 2005-003 Released
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Has anyone had the same problem as the above thread since installing this security update?
Has anyone had the same problem as the above thread since installing this security update?
That behavior seems completely normal if you have disk use disabled. If you had it enabled before, the update might have reset it because the .plist the setting was stored in was corrupted. An earlier poster reported System Preferences settings being reset - I believe corrupted .plists to be the cause of this too.ScotRobson said:
wrldwzrd89 said:
Thanks for the reply, I've just checked the preferences and it is ticked to enable disk use (which ive never done)
However, its greyed out so that I cant uncheck it. Do you know how i can change it ?
wrldwzrd89 said:
Actually ive just re- read your post. You say its completely normal if you have disk use disabled - but my prefs show it as being enabled.
Im not sure what i had before, but all i use my iPod for is to put my music on it and when it used to be mounted a pic of an ipod used to appear on my desktop.
That is very strange. I think that the reason disk use can't be disabled is because iTunes somehow thinks that the iPod is busy. I've had this particular issue before, and I fixed it by quitting iTunes, doing a software reset on the iPod, and trying again.ScotRobson said:
wrldwzrd89 said:
Could you be so kind as to tell me how to do a software reset on the iPod? I know i could look it up but it means finding the instructions and digging my box out its a 4G
Since I don't have a 4G iPod (mine's a 3G), and I happened to have the Apple Support page open at the time, I'll simply direct you there.ScotRobson said:
wrldwzrd89 said:
Well, the reset thing wouldn't work, so i used the software updater to restore my iPod - erased everthing and set it up again. I realised that if you check to update your iPod manually it automatically checks the enable disk use option.
This is what i had before, however if I have disk use checked or not I still dont get the iPod icon on my desktop anymore.
Worked fine before this security update
That is correct. I did not see a post explaining the procedure of what to do with the hosts file. I did read about someone doing something to the hosts file which prevented "pop" ads. Your explanation may have come later in the thread from the page I was reading or you may have posted after I had already opened the thread, therefore not seeing any post explaining the procedure. I do see your explanation quoted in rdowns post (#127), just below your post which is quoted in this post. Whoa, that sounds postal.wrldwzrd89 said:
Everything has been working great since I did this update, but all of a sudden, three apps crash upon launching. I've done nothing else to the system since this update. I got so frustrated, I wiped clean and did a fresh install of Panther. Guess what? The apps still don't launch! What is happening?
wdlove said:
I've done just about everything. I'm completely baffled. I'm going to re-install again and see if I missed anything the first time around. Then I'm going to see if I can stop at 10.3.7...Thanks for the suggestions. This one's a real challenge!
Well it seems it had nothing at all to do with the update I'm happy to say (it hurts me to even think Apple may have been to blame ). It seems Amadeus itself has a "Check for Updates" feature that links to a website as it loads. Apparently that website was down so the app couldn't connect and then would crash. Though I'm not pleased that I had to resort to the lengths I did to get to the bottom of it, I will say that Martin Hairer, the author of the software, emailed me and other users and gave us a solution until he can update the product. Thanks for the suggestions everyone.
). It seems Amadeus itself has a "Check for Updates" feature that links to a website as it loads. Apparently that website was down so the app couldn't connect and then would crash. Though I'm not pleased that I had to resort to the lengths I did to get to the bottom of it, I will say that Martin Hairer, the author of the software, emailed me and other users and gave us a solution until he can update the product. Thanks for the suggestions everyone.i think this update broke my ability to connecta to a samba share on my school network. When i try to connect i get "error code -39," "The finder cannot complete the operation because some data in smb://.... could not be read or written" Anybody else having this problem or have an idea for a fix?
Can I "undo" this security update? like maybe using the 10.3.8 combo installer? Thanks for any help.
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Can I "undo" this security update? like maybe using the 10.3.8 combo installer? Thanks for any help.
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sahnert said:
Sounds like a privileges error. Either you have incorrect privilege settings or you need to change a setting somewhere.
MacBandit said:
how do I check that and/or change them? The thing is that I have connected to this share several times in the past. The last thing that I remember happening was that I was connected and put my computer to sleep or unplugged it or something so the connection was terminated without me disconnecting from the share. That might have something to do with it. the only other thing I can think of that might have changed is the security update that had a samba update. i can't remember for sure if I had installed this before or after the last time I was connected to the share.
here's the other thing that happened immediately before my current problem:
I normally am connected via ethernet in my dorm to the campus network. I just recently installed a wireless card in my PB and have been successfully using the wireless access points around campus. So i tried to access this samba share while working wirelessly and I got the message that my username or password was incorrect. But it never prompted me for those things. It used to prompt me every time (when it was working). So I tried logging out and logging back in again (from my user account on the computer, not the network) and thats when I started getting the message that "some data cannot be read or written".
I don't think the wireless thing would make any difference, but that's how it happened. If anyone has ideas to try I would be very grateful.
thanks
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edit: is there a better forum to post this in?
sahnert said:
It's really strange, and I'm not entirely sure it was the reason, but last year, I started having weird problems connecting on my iBook that seemed eventually to get resolved by creating a new "Location" in Network prefs.
Well I'm probably among the last. Today up turned off my external Firewire HD. Installed iPod Updater 2005-03-27 289 MB, iSight Update 1.0.3 980 KB, & Security Update 1.0 15.4 MB. Ran Repair Permissions and restarted my Power Mac. Everything seems to be running normally, haven't noticed any changes.
