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Looks to me like most of these "arbitary code execution" things are the same security problem, but Apple have had to fix several apps and services as they all use the vulnerable routines. Quicktime, Quickdraw, Safari, Preview, even Finder and CoreGraphics are closely linked to each other. It could also be that whilst investigating some of these holes, Apple have come across others and are patching ahead of the game.

Great to see anyway. I just hope the feedback in a couple of days shows that these holes are now fully plugged.
 
I was in the middle of work when I got a popup asking me to download security updates. I clicked ok and shortly after it said I need to restart or shutdown. I saved my stuff and hit restart. Now my imac intel won't boot. I am stuck at the Starting Mac OS X.... boot screen. Blue loading bar never completes and locks up or completes and locks up. I can't boot safemode or from macos install cd.
 
Wondering what you mean by safemode, but.....

....not sure if this works on the Intel Macs, but worth a try. Boot into single-user mode (hold down s at startup) and run fsck -y
 
Ditto

truz said:
I was in the middle of work when I got a popup asking me to download security updates. I clicked ok and shortly after it said I need to restart or shutdown. I saved my stuff and hit restart. Now my imac intel won't boot. I am stuck at the Starting Mac OS X.... boot screen. Blue loading bar never completes and locks up or completes and locks up. I can't boot safemode or from macos install cd.


iMac here at work is doing the same thing. WTF?
 
Hmmmm

dynamicv said:
Wondering what you mean by safemode, but.....

....not sure if this works on the Intel Macs, but worth a try. Boot into single-user mode (hold down s at startup) and run fsck -y


No luck, anyone got any other ideas :confused:
 
HiroProtagonist said:
No luck, anyone got any other ideas :confused:

How are you trying to boot from the CD/DVD? Are you remembering that you now hold down D rather than C?
 
My MacBook tanked after installing these three updates. I am on my G4 tower. Something is awry, Finder fails to launch.

I went through single user mode, dumped some cache, started in safe mode. It worked in safe, but didnt work again in normal mode! So the fun begins...
 
dynamicv said:
How are you trying to boot from the CD/DVD? Are you remembering that you now hold down D rather than C?


D is the the Hardware Test (No Luck), C sucessfully boots off CD/DVD, running tests.....


No Luck - Looks like thread started at apple support:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=477248&tstart=0

Should probably update news report to help other intel users to wait on update so they don't get this problem
 
HiroProtagonist said:
D is the the Hardware Test (No Luck), C sucessfully boots off CD/DVD, running tests.....

Ah sorry. These Intel Macs get me confused :confused: Not sure what's different and what's the same.
 
Wow-- looks like Apple did a major code audit! Some of these had been published, some were for open source code, and some look like they came out of Apple themselves.
 
I'm on the phone with apple support. I got into safeboot (hold shift after music until safeboot screen loads, can take 10 minutes). I repaired disks and disk permissions. I was also told to delete cache.

Anywho.. after booting into safeboot a few times and restarting the computer (as well as unpluging the power cord) I am now in the process of formatting my computer from the cd's. Was the only way they would support the issue.

1-800-275-2273 <- apple support. Make sure you have your serial number handy and a backup ;) POS
 
vohdoun said:
Bet you wish you were still doing the work rather than formating and setting everything up again.

I wish I could decapitate whoever released them patches...


I keep copies of my emails on my servers, so keeping my email up and running is never an issue. I also keep any work done on my computer and external hard drive so I had everything saved but a few cd's I picked up on torrentspy today ;) but, when I got in safeboot I saved them and copied my mail folder so I don't have to reset everything up or sort threw old emails I have already deleted which are still being stored on my server.
 
Possible Solution

boot into safe mode by holding down the shift key

go to system system preferences/ accounts/ login items

clear all items

open finder from dock / machintoshHD/ library/ startupitems
move all items to trash and empty

then restart

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Confirmed!!!!!! WORKS!!!!
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I think it had something to do with them patches apple released. I could not get the boot screen to even load where it said "Starting MacOS X..." I just got the gray box with apple logo and Mac OS X thats all.. Few times after I shut my system down 5x times it loaded fully and would not let me click on anything as if my mouse were dead but I have 2 pluged in so I knew that was not the issue.

I was told to trash a few things from the appletech and it still had issues. Anyways.. reload is almost completed. If I have this issue again I'm going to record myself blowing this imac up.



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Confirmed!!!!!! WORKS!!!!
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edit: wish I knew that ;)
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I would install these updates again... but, I'm going to hold off and make sure all is well. ;) I'm not reloading again and again.....
 
Performance Gain.

I know this isn't suppose to affect perfromance in anyway, but my 15" PB GUI feels faster. The computer seemed to boot up in less time as well. Could be in my head, but those were my initial thoughts.
 
Good to see Apple keeping up with time....;)

There was a lot of updates today...started up and got 5 RSS articles from MR...3 updates :D
 
Clearly, with all the talk about how this update
deals with critical security flaws and how it
may conflict with start-up items,
we have lost touch with the true effect of updates
and the most important issue that this kind of release raises:

Uptime. :D
 

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