10.6.6 update killed my computer

I up instaled the update and than restarted my iMac and it got stuck on the grey screen, not even the apple logo or spinning indicator was there. I have been looking around and have found posts about this happening before but on updates to older OS X's...i do not have a clue as to what to do...

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Reboot with the Shift key depressed and see if you can get into
Safe Mode. Safe Mode runs disk repairs as it boots so you can then try rebooting into normal. If not than reboot into SM and run the 10.6.5 Combo Updater from the Apple Downloads page. All while in safe mode.
If that doesn't work you'll have to restore your computer to 10.6.4 from your backup.
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Hello, did an Itunes Update kill my Computer?

Hello, since yesterday I'm owning a new Ipod Shuffle and I like it. For the Ipod shuffle it was necessary to update my Itunes, which I've been always denying. Now the computer runs very slow and even Skype and Mail OS don't open at all anymore. It's pretty annoying -- please help me.
Thanks!

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Well it is possible that's why it wants to update iTunes. There may be a bug in the iTunes version you have installed that slows your machine if you connect the new iPod shuffle. Regardless, my advice:
1. Dismount and disconnect the iPod.
2. Determine if the slowness exists without the iPod.
- a. If it does not exist without the iPod, perhaps your USB cable is faulty, or the iPod is faulty. Try a different cable, also try connecting it via a different USB port, and try connecting only Apple devices via USB. If none of the above works to stave off the slowness, the iPod is likely the culprit, and you should use the store return period to get a replacement iPod.
- b. If the slowness exists without the iPod, see if you installed anything along with the iPod, if you can remove it. First see if the disk is too full*:
http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html
Or if permissions or the directory are damaged*:
http://www.macmaps.com/directoryfaq.html
If neither appears to be the case, see my user tip about downgrading:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1308817&tstart=0
The same holds true for uninstalling system level software, assuming you did install something new with the iPod.
If you didn't install anything new with the iPod, it may be time, to consider upgrading to the latest iTunes, keeping my FAQ* in mind about backing up first:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

Did the last OSX update kill my computer?

After the last OSX 10.7.5 (11G63) update on my aged iMac, all Google websites, Chrome, Safari, Word, and other programs I use daily keep crashing. Is my computer too old for that update? Have I exceeded its capacity? The processor is 1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; the memory is 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM.

Based on the information you have provided your iMac is a Model Identifier iMac 5.2 and the Model Number is A1195. Check in System Profiler>Hardware if this is the case.
If so it can accept Lion OSX. Your crashes then are occurring for other reasons.
Try a safe boot:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1564
Also log the next kernel panic report and post it:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2546
Ciao.

10.6.5 update killed my computer, crashes at login screen

I've just installed the latest software update, which was applied without any errors or problems. When I restarted, it crashed at the login screen with the spinning wheel. Every single time it's booted this happens, although sometimes I am able to click Login, but it crashes immediately afterwards. There's no disk activity when it crashes on the wheel.
However, in Safe Mode it boots up just fine. I have nothing in Macbook HD/Library/Startup items, and no login items on any account, which shoots down my theory of it being a 3rd party issue.
Any help would be much appreciated. I've had problems with pretty much every software update from Apple...fills me with dread whenever I have to install a new one.
Thanks in advance.

All my stuff's backed up nice and safe weekly, although it's not a Time Machine backup since I'd like to access it easily from a Windows machine.
Thanks for the reminder about Console! Handy. Launchd showed that the Blackberry daemon was crashing on startup...which is annoying as I thought I'd removed all Blackberry software from this machine over a year ago. Anyway, I unloaded and properly removed BBDaemon and all works fine now. Guess it must have been some incompatibility with the update.
I also found a whole load of other Blackberry Desktop Manager crap still lurking around. This thread shows all the stuff which the installer fails to remove, might be handy for someone having a similar daemon problem:
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Java-Development/Mac-BDM-Problem-Unloadin g/td-p/385811
Thanks for the help!

10.5.5 killed my computer

After installing 10.5.5 last night everything went fine through this morning. This afternoon the computer froze and refuses to restart. The screen stays blank on restart and nothing boots. You can hear the disc spinning and the fan running but nothing ever appears on the screen, even the power seems to be missing from the screen!

10.5.5 completely killed my computer as well, and just 1 hour ago I figured out how to fix it! I'm happy i fixed it, and ****** at how stupid this update was!
_The bottom line is_: the symbolic link to /private/etc was missing from it's usual /etc, so I recreated it in single user mode.
ie. Boot while holding Apple-S. When it's done, type
+mount -uw /+ (as it tells you to do if you want to be able to edit your drive), then type
+ln -s /private/etc /etc+ (to create the symbolic link), then
exit (to continue booting)
_The whole story is_:
Did the update via automatic Software Update, seems like everything went fine, computer restarted etc. a while later, I went to open Terminal and got the wierdest error: "You are not authorized to run this application: The administrator has set your shell to an illegal value." This error was from Within Terminal, ad the only button is "Quit". Unfortunately I can't go and check my /etc/shells file to make sure my shell is "legal" (w.t.f.?), because I can't open terminal... brilliant.
I sync my Phone (Moto L6) via bluetooth, and restart the computer. I eat dinner while it's booting, and notice it's on the grey Apple screen with a spinny thing going around, the typical first screen after booting.
after dinner, I take a look and it's still doing that, after maybe 1 hour.... bizarre.
Turns out I couldn't boot. Tried my leopard CD, booting while holding "C" (to boot from CD) and it would get past the grey screen, show a blue screen with a mouse, and then the mouse would disappear and the spinny thing would show, then the spinny thing disappears and the mouse shows up.... and this continues for eternity (presumably).
Tried booting from my Tiger CD: same. Panther CD: same. Zapped PRam (nvram) 3 times and re-tried CD and or/ normal booting, all in various orders, and NEVER got any further. I couldn't believe that somehow I couldn't boot from CD!
Looking at Verbose Mode didn't help, the loading just stopped after the ethernet and airport were loaded, (no errors) and didn't go any further, I assumed SystemStarter or WindowServer or something was opening (of course not logging or displaying itself) and dying. I assumed that launchd was trying to restart a crashed WindowServer/SystemStarted, adn that's why I got the mouse/spinner cycle.
I even unplugged all my USB and Firewire devices and retried everything (CD booting, nvram zapping etc. in various orders), to no avail.
In the mean time I notice that my cellphone's iCal syncs are all totally out of whack. Every event is off by 7 hours, almost my time difference to GMT, and it's completely messing with me, with alarms going off 5 hours too late to remind me of anything.
This all occurred over 2 days of kinda trying, but not really wanting to waste time fixing my ******** computer.
3rd day:
Finally I did the painful approach, starting with Apple-S (single-user mode), and within 10 minutes of rooting around, while trying to access /etc/bashrc I noticed that /etc was not a directory. /private/etc still was.
So a quick +ln -s /private/etc /etc+ (while still in single-user mode, after the customary +mount -uw /+) and booted and suddenly the system works.
I also noticed that my ~/.bashrc was missing... did Apple go and mess with all my settings during a routine 0.0x upgrade? ridiculous!
It's a possibility that something else removed my /etc symlink, but nothing else was installed, no wierd scripts ran, no cron jobs or anything, really that update was the only thing done to my computer, and I only noticed because I couldn't open the terminal.
That was a gigantic waste of my time. After seeing all the 10.5.5 complaints and stupid problems on these boards, I remember why I don't install automatic updates until they've been around for at least a month (giving Apple time to release a new live-beta-tested version!).

Isit true to say that iPod Updater kills your iPod?

Hello all,
First, sorry for my poor English. I am not a professional nor a technician and I could be wrong, so please correct me. There are many problems reported mainly from the PC users that their iPod can't be recognized nor mounted after the installation of the latest iPod updater. Most of them claimed that the iPod updater kills their beloved iPods. Before we jump to a conclusion, we must understand what is iPod, and how does the iPod update work.
I believe that iPod equals a basic computer and need a OS in order to communicate with the PC. Installation the Updater will format the Hard disk of the iPod and then install the simple OS, so if we open the iPod updater file, it will show a window with two buttons i.e. Restore and Update, an Update is to copy the latest OS over the old version, but the Restore will format the hard disk before it install the OS over it. And importantly, during this process, the iPod needs sufficient of power to complete the upgrade, however, the problem comes just after the format, and the PC's USB (only 2 will work not 1.1) does not supply the stable power,even some cases that iPod does not get charge in the half way of installatin (a proper installation, you will see a running bar showing on the iPod screen just after the format), so you can imagine a hard disk got format but only got an uncompleted OS, of course, the iPod would not get recognized and mounted, and do not manage to communicate with the computer. At this stage the iPod will show a Sad iPod icon, a folder with exclamaiton points or a battery charging icon.
So, what would you do when it reach at this stage, a Reset would not work, and you would not able to do the Restore as the iPod is totally unrecognized by the computer.
Therefore, is there anyway to solve this problem, in my opinion and from my past experience, the answer is "yes", the simple way is to put your iPod in Disk Mode, when it plug to the computer, it will show as an external Hard Disk, you must fix it by doing a format (RESTORE would not work at this stage as it still can't recognized and mounted), in Mac we can use "Disk Utility" but the XP would not allow you to do the format in FAT32. After the formatting, replug the iPod with the computer, then it can be mounted and allow you to do the RESTORE.
In addition, I find an interesting point is, if your iPod formatted with a Mac, you will have better chance to be mounted with a PC, even your iPod does not complete the process of the installation of the iPod updater, and a PC formatted iPod will be likely to be fixed by a Mac as well.
How should we do before the update of the lastest software, for the XP user please do the following:-
1. Go to the system restore and create a check point in order to revert back to the previous version of the iPod updater, or do the back up using the 3rd party software such as Ghost or Go Back.
2. To have a test and make sure the PC's USB works properly. You can use the iPod or a PDA, and just make sure it got charged.
3. Have your iPod a full charge before the installation of the iPod updater
So, who is the main killer for the iPod?
For further infomation please read the following link - which wrote by a groups of great people - thank your guys
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@@.68ae8668

Yes, it will erase all your data with your iPod. Please do not format until you have the back up of your iPod. Very likely that your iPod was formatted by a Mac, which can't be read by your PC. Download a software called Xplay
http://www.mediafour.com/products/xplay/

My macbook pro keeps booting up, then after a few seconds, goes back to the sign in page. This happened after I was doing software updates and my computer restarted in the middle of an update. Help! Thanks.

My macbook pro keeps booting up, then after a few seconds, goes back to the sign in page. This happened after I was doing software updates and my computer restarted in the middle of an update. Help! Thanks.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ph14204
Repair Disk Section: "Try Disk Utility"
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203176

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I have a user on an iMac 10.6 connected to our domain. She uses Outlook web access for email on our exchange server. Last week she received the following message which is randomly preventing her from sending emails. She claims no attachment was involved in the original email when this all started. I have not been able to look at her account as she is out of the office but maybe someone else dealt with this issue. I realize this may not be Mac related but thought I'd give it a try. She did say it occurred once over two days while working on a PC but it continued over the past weekend.
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