The 10.3.6 b0rked my Mac Thread - If you have a problem, please let us know!

[MacBandit]

For those of you with problems could you please give details on how long it's been since a clean system install. Also if you repaired permissions and/or wiped caches prior to installing the updated.

 

[Westside guy]

Westsideguy. Thanks for the info. Sounds like this could be the solution. I found the file (using Pathfinder) but have no idea what a zero length file is or how to tell. Tried to delete the file instead, but can't, even though I changed permissions from Root & Wheel. Also tried a new download of 10.3.6 from the Mac site as you did but still no joy. Might have to reload Panther and start again but I really have better things to do with my time!!

Thanks again for the help.

By "zero length file" I just meant an empty file - when you check the length from the command line using "ls -al" the size of the file is 0. Basically everything I was doing was from the command line, including using scp to copy the "good" quicktime file over to replace the zero length one on the iBook.

I don't know if I was clear on this (or if you are even running into the same problem); but when I re-downloaded the full 90+MB update, I couldn't mount it on the problem iBook because disk images wouldn't mount. So I mounted it (double-clicked the .dmg file) on my powerbook, and then took the .pkg file that was in there and copied that over to the iBook using the "Public" folder. I was able to run that - but of course that was after I'd manually fixed the Finder problem. Probably none of that will work until you get Finder running.

 

[ghostee]

My problem is with network shares. I connect to the network share as usual, and as I click the desktop icon to navigate into it, usually within the first to second folder, the window closes, the finder and network share drive icons disappear from the desktop for a second, and then reappear.

Very odd, and annoying when you need to save your schoolwork to a network share to print it (havn't gotten my iBook to stop printing jiberish to the Laserjet on the Windows box).

 

[mustang_dvs]

10.3.6 Server b0rked MY Mac

My little G4 Cube server apparently doesn't like 10.3.6 Sever.

My initial 10.3.5->10.3.6 update left it so unstable that it would barely get to the login screen before it would crash. After a combo update and a bunch of repaired permissions, it lasted 3 days before it went down again... (Unfortunately, I'm not around to fix it, so I'm stuck caching my mail for the weekend.)

Oddly, my internal server (another G4 cube) is running fine. That probably narrows it down to mySQL or Cyrus/Postfix as the culprit.

(I really wish I'd set up a co-location server.)