10.4.7 Update - Causes FREEZE on restart

After updating my G5 PowerMac with 10.4.7 it froze during the mando restart. I figured something happened and thought nothing of it.
I came over to my parents yesterday - got 10.4.7 on their iMac (intel) and it did the same thing. It sat on a blank gray screen for about 30 minutes. I finally just held down the power button.
Any reason for this?
Mac OS X (10.4.7) I Love Macs!

Hi, Nick.
1. It's not clear from your post if restarting got you past the problem. Are both Mac's still having problems or is this an "out of curiosity" question?
2. If there's still a problem, I'd start with the following:2.1. It's possible there is a now-incompatible Startup or Login Item on affected computers. See my "Troubleshooting Startup and Login Items" FAQ for steps that might help you with this problem.
2.2. As a general check, run the procedure specified in my "Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption" FAQ. Perform the steps therein in the order specified.3. Before installing software updates, you may wish to consider the advice in my "Installing Software Updates" FAQ. Taking the steps therein before installing an update often helps avert problems and gives you a fallback position in case trouble arises.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
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Dec 16, 2014, 07:30:27 PM Kernel_2014-12-16-193027_[redacted].panic [Details]
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1. This procedure is a diagnostic test. It changes nothing, for better or worse, and therefore will not, in itself, solve the problem. But with the aid of the test results, the solution may take a few minutes, instead of hours or days.
Don't be put off by the complexity of these instructions. The process is much less complicated than the description. You do harder tasks with the computer all the time.
2. If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before doing anything else. The backup is necessary on general principle, not because of anything in the test procedure. Backup is always a must, and when you're having any kind of trouble with the computer, you may be at higher than usual risk of losing data, whether you follow these instructions or not.
There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
3. Below are instructions to run a UNIX shell script, a type of program. As I wrote above, it changes nothing. It doesn't send or receive any data on the network. All it does is to generate a human-readable report on the state of the computer. That report goes nowhere unless you choose to share it. If you prefer, you can act on it yourself without disclosing the contents to me or anyone else.
You should be wondering whether you can believe me, and whether it's safe to run a program at the behest of a stranger. In general, no, it's not safe and I don't encourage it.
In this case, however, there are a couple of ways for you to decide whether the program is safe without having to trust me. First, you can read it. Unlike an application that you download and click to run, it's transparent, so anyone with the necessary skill can verify what it does.
You may not be able to understand the script yourself. But variations of the script have been posted on this website thousands of times over a period of years. The site is hosted by Apple, which does not allow it to be used to distribute harmful software. Any one of the millions of registered users could have read the script and raised the alarm if it was harmful. Then I would not be here now and you would not be reading this message.
Nevertheless, if you can't satisfy yourself that these instructions are safe, don't follow them. Ask for other options.
4. Here's a summary of what you need to do, if you choose to proceed:
☞ Copy a line of text in this window to the Clipboard.
☞ Paste into the window of another application.
☞ Wait for the test to run. It usually takes a few minutes.
☞ Paste the results, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page.
The sequence is: copy, paste, wait, paste again. You don't need to copy a second time. Details follow.
5. You may have started the computer in "safe" mode. Preferably, these steps should be taken in “normal” mode, under the conditions in which the problem is reproduced. If the system is now in safe mode and works well enough in normal mode to run the test, restart as usual. If you can only test in safe mode, do that.
6. If you have more than one user, and the one affected by the problem is not an administrator, then please run the test twice: once while logged in as the affected user, and once as an administrator. The results may be different. The user that is created automatically on a new computer when you start it for the first time is an administrator. If you can't log in as an administrator, test as the affected user. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this section doesn’t apply. Don't log in as root.
7. The script is a single long line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, though you may not see all of it in the browser window, and you can then copy it. If you try to select the line by dragging across the part you can see, you won't get all of it.
Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it:
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Leopard Freezes on Restart

I'm having a Leopard installation problem I haven't seen discussed, so here goes.
Installation appears to go as it should (taking about an hour).
I get a screen saying installation was successful and a count-down to restart.
I click restart.
GRAY screen with Apple appears, and the little circular animated icon goes around and around for a minute or so.
Then freezes.
A two hour wait with a frozen animation produces nothing new.
I've forced a restart with the same result, several times.
Restart while holding down "c" DID get me back to the Leopard install screen, but a second attempted install failed in the same way.
I've seen a suggestion to try "archive and install". I've NOT tried that yet. Will try now and report results.
Since this is not a Blue Screen, I don't think this is the same problem others have had. I do not have Application Enhancer installed on this machine (at least not where other posts have expected it to be.)
If anyone has a fix to this I'd appreciate it. If I find one for myself I'll of course post that here as well.
This is on a MacBook Pro 15 inch, purchased new in August. 2G ram. Plenty of disk space free.
Sigh.
Charles

Thanks very much to chat2ian and Nicolas those were helpful responses.
Here is what seems to have solved my problem:
Force a shutdown from the frozen restart screen by holding down the power button.
Power back up while holding down the letter "c" to force boot from the cd/dvd drive.
Chose the option to "archive and install", rather than the default "update".
After a (lengthy) installation, the installer says it is done and ready to restart.
Click restart.
Hold breath, cross fingers, appeal to appropriate godesses.
After about 30 seconds of gray screen, solid blue screen with cursor appears.
(Think: Great-- progress is a blue screen of death. But wait!)
After a frightening pause, a color wheel appears, and hope returns!
Leopard starts, configuration help runs, and (in my case a least) 5 more packages are ultimately updated, followed by another restart.
This is also a bit of tense drama, but runs about as usual (perhaps a shade slower than Tiger.)
So far, all files and software are present, and life begins to look worth living again.
Nicolas: Sorry I didn't see your reply until after I'd started the "archive and install" run, so didn't get to see if Command-V would show me the same stopping point that you got.
chat2ian: I was within another try of adopting your approach and reverting to Tiger. I started this "simple" update at 9.45 and it is now 20.37.
The irony is I bought the MacBook Pro in August because I wasn't willing to go through another MS upgrade to Vista. I honestly thought this would go smoothly the first time. Silly me.
Thank you both for trying to help.
Charles

Windows Media Player keeping Automatic Maintenance window/Windows Updates from doing auto-restart

I have a system that is connected to a domain, and it runs a video playlist in Windows Media Player for digital signage upon bootup (and auto-login). WMP is set to loop the videos over and over again, but it also is preventing automatic updates from
installing and/or auto-restarting at 3:00AM in the morning (and yes, the system power management is set to keep the computer on all the time).
How can I fix this?
I have a GPO set up to install updates and restart automatically (option 4). I tried the GPO option to use the Windows 8 maintenance window to install updates, and also tried turning that option off and just using a 3:00AM restart period. Neither
option seems to work, so it looks like Windows Media Player is preventing an auto-restart to finish the update installation. Is there any way around this, so that Windows Media Player doesn't stop Windows Updates from doing its job? I don't care
if that means the video stops playing because it just starts up again on the next bootup.
I looked at the WMP GPO's and the only option that sounds like it's related is the option to turn on or off the auto-updating of media info for WMP, but it has nothing to do with what I'm trying to accomplish. If I missed something, let me know.
If there is some other way to accomplish this, such as associating and launching the playlist file with the Xbox Videos app, I would be fine with that, but I need it to loop the playlist continually (I also use the Shuffle option
in WMP - ***see note below for another question). I still want the system to automatically install updates and reboot on a regular schedule despite the video playing in the foreground.
***Side question: is there any way to turn Repeat and Shuffle options on in WMP without having to load the GUI (for scripting a playlist)?
Just FYI: this system is actually using Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Enterprise (from a MAPS account), but it isn't customized aside from not having the standard WinRT apps from a stock Win 8.1 install loaded - it is a stock install from the ISO.
From what I understand, it is the same as Windows 8.1 Enterprise, except that it is only licensed to be used as an "appliance" machine for a single role - which it is. So I'm assuming that there are no actual differences from a "regular"
Windows 8.1 SKU that would cause this issue. If I am completely mistaken about this, please notify me on it. The reason I'm making this statement is in case there are any differences in Embedded 8.1 Industry Enterprise that I am not aware of.
Otherwise, I welcome any assistance that would target a "regular" version of 8.1 Enterprise. NOTE: Someone said to post this into the Windows Embedded forum, but the only one that exists is the one for POSready - and this is HARDLY the
POSready version of Windows Embedded that I'm using.

Hi,
Did you use the policy Local Computer Policy\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update\Always automatically restart at the scheduled time?
I noticed an description "restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations" policy is enabled, then this policy has no effect." it means if system installed some updates which unneeds restart computer, this policy would has no effect.
In my opinion, your problem should not caused by WMP setting. please check your installed updates whether they need restart computer.
In addition, Power Managment in Control Panel also can prevent the schedule task running.
Control Panel\System and Security\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings\Change advanced power settings\Sleep\Allow wake timers
Please make sure this option is enable.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

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