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Security Update 2006-003

Yeah this update hosed my Intel iMac install as well. After a long phone call with Applecare, after exhausting all other options, they just told me to reinstall with the Archive option. But I am also running the Adobe Update Cue so as someone pointed out it could be something with that. But, I was able to boot in safe mode and removed that app from my startup items. So I don't know how it would have an effect.
 
plinden said:
It seems to be more linked to having PPC applications in startup items. I've read on other forums that Microsoft database daemon also caused problems.

Does anyone have Palm Desktop and/or MS Office installed on their Intel Macs? Can you report on how the update went?
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good point because it seems that Virex could also be problematic...
 
dr_lha said:
Did you have Adobe CS2 installed? It seems like this is linked to having a non-booting iMac.
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I did have cs2 running and I think your are right. Even after a reinstall I'm having problems getting cs2 products to deinstall/reinstall and run.
 
dr_lha said:
Sir, you have a obsession with the weather.
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Hahaha! Yeah, I thought that too, when seeing that screenshot. And what about having two weather widgets per city open, one with °C and one with °F? Why even care about Fahrenheit? That's sooooooo 1990's! SI all the way...
 
Wow!

May I point to this Secunia page, where it's clearly stated that Mac OS X, as of this morning, has a grand total of 0 (zero) unpatched security flaws? Darn, that's pretty good, I'd say...

:eek:
 
Security Update Installs

I just wanted to let you know that I just updated the following computers without any problems"

(2) 20" Intel iMac with Adobe CS2 and Version Cue
(1) 20" Intel iMac
(1) 17" iMac G5
(2) Power Mac G4 towers

I had read in the past that you should make sure that you use disk utility to verify your disk permissions before an install, so all my computers did not have any disk persmission errors. I also made sure all of my programs were shut down before I restarted. Not sure if any of this helps, but it gives me peace of mind.
 
coop said:
I just wanted to let you know that I just updated the following computers without any problems"

(2) 20" Intel iMac with Adobe CS2 and Version Cue
(1) 20" Intel iMac
(1) 17" iMac G5
(2) Power Mac G4 towers

I had read in the past that you should make sure that you use disk utility to verify your disk permissions before an install, so all my computers did not have any disk persmission errors. I also made sure all of my programs were shut down before I restarted. Not sure if any of this helps, but it gives me peace of mind.
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Yeah, I can report similar success wilth a 1.8Ghz DP G5 PowerMac and a Core Solo mini.
 
dr_lha said:
Sir, you have a obsession with the weather.
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Ha! Guilty as charged -- those are the (major) cities where I have relatives.

And I keep the temperatures up in both degrees F and C in an attempt to be more "international."

*****

FWIW, I wonder just what it was about the Adobe library items that caused such a problem -- I find it hard to believe that no one at Cupertino had CS2 on their test machine...:confused:
 
Sucess not so great on Intel's with Adobe CS2

I wrote earlier that I had a sucessful install on my iMacs with CS2. I was working late as I am going out of town and just had my finder freeze while I was working. I could not restart my iMac. Read Xax's safe boot description and was able to get my Mac to work. I removed Version cue and the automatic log-in items from the other iMac before it had problems. For some reason the other computer restarted fine as did mine, and I was able to work on it for most of the day.
 
Installed all three updates on my Core Duo iMac ... no problems. But then I had read up about the PPC app problems and made sure I had none in my startup items.
 
Thanks everybody for the input, waited a while and finally decided to run the updates on my MBP. No CS 2, just PS7.1, restarted fine. Not running update yet on G5, as a restart would mess up my game that I've had open for the last 3 days - Diablo II LOD, Hell level. Been playing this game for several years now, really getting my money's worth...
 
I can't take advantage of this security update until I update to 10.4.6

I just checked on Digidesign's compatibility page and it seems that
10.4.6 has now been approved for PT M-Powered 7.1

I'm still worried about all my plugins and my old version of Cubase 1.0.6

I better hold off until I hear more feedback.
 
Safari

The update installed fine for my Intel Imac, however after restarting, opening Safari causes the hard drive to just chug. I checked the activity monitor and disk writing is at 100% and in doing so cripples everything else on my computer. Quiting Safari causes the disk writing to stop but it's rather a bummer because I love using Safari. Anyone have any options?
 
Well, I can give the first DEFINITE report of it crashing a PPC (10.3.9 update). I installed it on my Sawtooth and it is no longer running. I have it back to stock (I had to, as the graphics card and processor aren't supported by my install disc, which I used to check the hd). I'm now trying the safe mode method, will report if the thing even boots.

Just what I wanted to be doing at 5am on a Sunday morning.
 
No, actually. I got those symptoms on my ibook (I was daring/stupid and just did the install on that), but the method cited earlier in the thread sorted that out. With the Sawtooth, it will boot to the apple and spinner, but not do anything. Safe boot isn't working either. Grrr.

I also have CS2 installed, someone mentioned that earlier in this thread. Is there a fix that anyone's found for this, or am I in re-install-OS-land?
 
Well, I did an archive install on my Sawtooth and then ran all updates, and everything worked fine. The combined updates seem to be more stable than the individual ones. So my advice is to back-up and give it a shot, just have the install discs nearby so if you have to reinstall, you can.
 
Bengt77 said:
May I point to this Secunia page, where it's clearly stated that Mac OS X, as of this morning, has a grand total of 0 (zero) unpatched security flaws? Darn, that's pretty good, I'd say...

:eek:
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Sucks that everyone is having problems with this update, that it renders systems useless until they do an archive install. But then the older OSX updates, had similar problems. It was, and apparently still is the case that the Combo updates tend to be the most problem free installs. PITA time consumer, to have to go back to your install disk, then dl/apply/install latest combo updaters.

However, don't rely on Secunia for all of you info.

Today's MacNN has an article about the person who found many of these vunerabilties and how some are 'critical' that have NOT been fixed with this most recent security patch update :(

http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/05/15/apples.security.patch/
 
Hey all,

After doing this update I have now lost the use of my F1& F2 as well as F8-F10

and in the prefs there is no option for brightness as well....

Help! :eek:

I have a PowerBook G4 1.33 with OS X 10.4.6

HELP :confused:
 
Hey ALL.... I found a fix that worked for me... maybe it can help some of you others that are having issues with the update...

Ok here's what I did...

I went to:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
and got the Mac OS X 10.4.6 Combo for PPC
and installed it let the system reboot and
bam.. the F1/F2 brightness buttons worked again!

Then I went and got the
Security Update 2006-003 Mac OS X 10.4.6 Client (PPC)
and installed it again and all still works!!

For those of you that have intel of coarse you should get the intel versions
I have not tried this on an intel so I can not say if this will work for you guys.

So maybe when the update tried to install something went wrong and the 2nd time around it went fine..

This is what worked for me.. I hope it can help some of you others out there that are also having update issues :D
 
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