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Security Update 2005-009 Available

alangyssler said:
Well, I ran the update, restarted, repaired permissions, ran mac janitor. went to check my email at mail.vidette.ilstu.edu, and my fonts were substituted into something funky... it only occurs in safari, and has been spotted on several websites. please help. i'm fearing a need for a system restore. i should have run ccc when i had the chance. dang it! please help.

attached: bad - font substitution (safari), good: correct display (camino)
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What happens when you change the encoding? (View->Text Encoding)
 
Text encoding...

Thank you very much for that suggestion. I think I MAY have figured out the problem, maybe. I ran FontAgent Pro, and noticed that ALL my fonts were activated, which would cause my system to crawl and beach ball all over the place. I deactivated them, and some re-activated automatically. I then downloaded a trial version of Smasher (made by the same company as FontAgent Pro - insidersoftware.com), ran it, and it seemed to clear things up. I then ran the Terminal sudo commands, and deleted some cache files, just for a good measure. Restarted, and bam. Problem solved, for now. If the problem crops up again, I'll give the text encoding change a try... unless you still suggest it. What does that do? I've never heard anything about it, or what it does, so I'm curious.

Thanks again. Helpful suggestions within an hour and a half. Wow! I love MR! :)
 
The fonts in Safari and Adium are over-lapping.. and the text isn't even highlighting properly. I tried everything.. repaired permissions, deleted the preference files. ran macjanitor..

pls help me.. how do I go back :(

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this is what i get :(
 
Well FWIW installed fine and without any apparent problems so far on my PM and PB (see sig). Also the website with the font problems two posts above this (oober_freak) renders fine to me (or at least I can see any obvious problems with it).
 
Performa said:
I've read that it's good to restart your computer every so often, otherwise it may not operate optimally. I'm not sure if it's memory fragmentation or what...but I remember hearing that it may start doing weird things or just becomes sluggish if you don't do a restart now and then. I'm not sure how often it's recommended to restart though.
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It's sort of still true, in that the longer you stay logged in doing normal things, the more useless little processes can get started up and hang around using up resources no no good reason. Generally, logging out and back in will clean out that sort of cruft (and if you're lucky, every program you use will be well behaved and even that won't be needed).
 
oober_freak said:
The fonts in Safari and Adium are over-lapping.. and the text isn't even highlighting properly. I tried everything.. repaired permissions, deleted the preference files. ran macjanitor..

pls help me.. how do I go back :(

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this is what i get :(
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That could just be a problem with your 'skinning' software. Try turning it off and see if the problem is still apparent.
 
On the Brink said:
No problems installing the update on my rev B iMac with 2 GB RAM...
Everything seems to be working just fine, including Safari.
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Ditto my identical iMac.
 
Abstract said:
I'm tempted to just install it. Hopefully Safari would be less crap after this update. It randomly freezes up on me and I have to quit. :mad:
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Abstract, mine was doing this until I did some editing of my hosts file to take out a couple of adserving sites and Safari hasn't crashed since. WHen I get home, I'll check the two in particular that I added and see if that helps you.
 
Beware! This thing broke my PB.

:mad: Wow! This Security Update messed up my PowerBook. (Kernel panic on every restart, even before the login screen.) It took me 3 hrs to figure out that one of the StartupItems was the culprit. Now everything works like a charm.

One of these, located in /Library/StartupItems/, was the bad guy:

  • M-Audio Firmware Loader
  • IOXpertsDeviceMonitor
  • CocktailNetworkOptimization
  • CocktailBroadbandOptimization

I used another Mac and Target Disk Mode to rename the StartupItems Folder (in Terminal).

Woosh, everything's fine again.

Note:
StartupItems are loaded during system startup, and should not be confused with LoginItems. The latter can be set in the System Preferences Accounts pane.
 
Lacero said:
Several Safari security fixes might bring about some compatibility issues like what happened with the 10.4.3 update for me. I'll wait until enough people have installed the security update to see if it negatively impacts Safari.
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Just updated, reboot went, no safari problems here. (17" PB, 1.67GHz).
 
pianojoe said:
One of these, located in /Library/StartupItems/, was the bad guy:

  • CocktailNetworkOptimization
  • CocktailBroadbandOptimization
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Most likely it was Cocktail, already known to be insecure rubbish. It probably ran up against the sudo fixes in the Apple update.
 
Problem solved... kinda

marmanold said:
I just installed the update on my iBook with OS X 10.3.9 Since the reboot I haven't been able to connect to any wireless networks. Okay, let me rephrase that. I can connect, or at least it looks like I'm connected, but I can't pull up any webpages or check my e-mail. Very strange. I've never had a problem with an update before.
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Somehow the update was causing KeyChain to want to ask me if it was okay to let the updated AirPort to use my wireless password. However, before it could ask me KeyChain would chrash, thus not allowing me access to the network. I tried manually going into KeyChain and fixing this, but KeyChain would crash when I tried that, too.

Finally I just plugged my iBook into the router and rebooted. Once I did this KeyChain worked properly, I's able to confirm KeyChain allowing the updated AirPort to use my wireless password, and all was well in the world.

Now Safari won't load... this is the second update that's broken Safari on my iBook. Guess I'll have to reinstall OS X again...
 
Ack! Disaster!!

I went ahead and installed the updates on my Mini (running 10.4.3). After restart, all of my mysql databases had disappeared, including the ones that were acting as the backend of several webpages (I'm using my Mini as a low-volume webserver). I have older back-ups, so I'll only have lost about a month's worth of data, but that's still a pretty hard hit. Yeesh -- my first-of-the-month back-up schedule would have been tomorrow...

Please, no "you should have backed-up first" or "you should have waited a day" replies... I know I should have... I'm feeling bad enough as it is. :( Won't forget again, I promise.

For your own health and well-being, please please please back up before installing.
 
marmanold said:
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Now Safari won't load... this is the second update that's broken Safari on my iBook. Guess I'll have to reinstall OS X again...
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Here it is again:

Another Mac OSX Updater, or another Apple Security Updater, the end result is that Safari stalls out.

What can you do?
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WARNING: Running the script will clear Safari caches, clear Safari history, delete the problematic .plist, and empty your trash can.

If you have any file of value in your trash can, you will lose it. The trash can is not intended to be your file storage folder. Use the Documents Folder as your file storage folder.

CAUTION: There is a minor glitch with the script as written in
http://www.resexcellence.com/usebb/topic.php?id=280&

They show a carriage return in the wrong place.

The default column width for this forum may also induce an auto
matic carriage return.

Your viewing space width may also induce an auto
matic carriage return.

Make your viewing space wider.

Line 6 contains a long character string, no spaces between characters within the quotes.
Line 6 does NOT have a carriage return after the & nor within the quotes.
Line 7 starts with the characters "if ("

The script:

tell application "Safari" to quit
tell application "Finder"
set x to (path to current user folder) as Unicode text
set y to x & "Library:Caches:Safari" as Unicode text
set z to x & "Library:Safari:History.plist" as Unicode text
set zz to x & "Library:preferences:com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist" as Unicode text
if (exists item y) then
delete item y
end if
if (exists item z) then
delete item z
end if
if (exists item zz) then
delete item zz
end if
empty trash
end tell

You can paste the script into Script Editor, and it should work ... if you think you can use AppleScript to invent a script.
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You can manually remove the problematic .plist:
It is located: username > Library > Preferences > com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist

You can manually clean the Safari Caches either of two ways:
Safari: MenuBar > Safari > Empty Cache
Safari: Keyboard: Command + Option + E

You can manually clear your Safari History:
Safari: MenuBar > Safari >* History > Clear History

You can manually empty your trash can.
Right-click on the trash can > Empty Trash.
... I love that new Mighty Mouse. Took a whole minute to get used to it. And the buttons are programmable via System Preferences.

Maybe you should Reset Safari.
Safari: MenuBar > Safari > Reset Safari..

and empty the Java Caches too.
Applications folder > Utilities folder > Java folder > Java Settings > Cache tab > Clear

The recently released Java 2 SE 5.0 Release 3 tweaked Safari. Safari is bit faster.
How much faster? 42.
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/java2se50release3.html

... then take it from the top. You installed yet another Apple Updater.
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JJ Tiger
 
Only boots to command prompt

I installed this update last night on my 15" powerbook, and after the restart it asked for it will only boot to the command prompt. I have tried all the normal tricks (reseting PRAM, NVRAM, disk repair on Tiger install disc) and have had no luck. Has anyone else had this problem, or have any idea how to fix it besides reinstalling Tiger?
 
marmanold said:
Somehow the update was causing KeyChain to want to ask me if it was okay to let the updated AirPort to use my wireless password. However, before it could ask me KeyChain would chrash, thus not allowing me access to the network. I tried manually going into KeyChain and fixing this, but KeyChain would crash when I tried that, too.
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I had this problem after the LAST system update. It kept telling me it needed a password for my keychain, but no password I entered would work. My "fix" for it was to trash my keychain file, and let it create a new one for me. That was painful for the first little while until it had asked me for every password that I still use, but it seemed to clear up most or all of my problems. Probably wasn't bad cleaning that thing out, anyway.
 
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