Another 10.4.8 update problem

After running the 10.4.8 updater on my MDD dual 1G, the system will not shut down nor restart. When booted up in OS 9.2, the system will restart and shut down from the menu. I'm concerned, since during the upgrade the system hung at the end and I had to hit the power button. Aside from the restart-shutdown issue, the system seems to run normally.
I have performed full maintenance with Cocktail, updated pre-binding information, fixed permissions. Also checked disk with Disk Utility and optimized directory with Diskwarrior, both of which reported no problems whatsoever with the disk. Also reset PRAM. The system is attached to an IOGEAR miniview USB KVM switch, which it had been working fine with prior to update and seems to be working OK now.
Any suggestions as to a fix? Can I archive and reinstall with my old Tiger installation CD or do I need to zap my hard drive? "Say it aint so, Joe!"

Hello Thomas.
Did you use Software Update or did you download the 10.4.8 PPC Combo Update?
Since the system hung at the end forcing you to hit the power button and a hard shut down, I would try re-installing the 10.4.8 Combo Update since you have already done just about everything else.

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I may have caused this one myself...During the software update I went to quit a program that was running and accidently selected something (I am not sure what) under the Apple Menu. My iMac immediately went to the login screen. I was able to log back in but could not shut down or restart.
After a hard power down my iMac would not restart at all, kept getting to the screen with the startup scroll bar but would never progress. I ran Techtool Pro and managed to get it to start again but it still has issues.
On the right side of the menu bar I only see my spotlight icon, no time, bluetooth, or any other icon. If I put my mouse on the right side of the menu bar I see the spinning beachball.
If I start in Safemode they will show up. I am pretty sure that this is a startup issue...something corrupt but I do not know what to do to solve this issue.
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Any advise would be helpful. Thanks...Lenny

Thanks. I think you have the only answer. I also have no bootable backup. So Archive and Install is the only option. The update went fine on my Macbook Pro and Powerbook, on my Mini, big problems. Why?
I did have iTunes running and had to quit, but the iTunes update went fine.
The OS X update couldn't be completed - and then I attempted to reboot, and all I get is the cog wheel, it won't boot.
So I checked and repaired disk permissions and the Disk, and it did find problems, I didn't make note of, but it said they were repaired. Tried to reboot, no go. It also won't create a Disk Image of my HD - Error 39? Anything I can do short of Archive and Install, Data is backed up, but re-loading apps is a pain the ...From now on, I'm waiting before running any OS X update. I ran into a similar problem with my x server, didn't wait or read release notes, now I have to for all my macs. PITA

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I've forgotten my pass-code to my Ipod touch 4g and when I try to restore and update it on my itunes library the internet connection cuts out so this is not an option. Is there another way to fix this problem? Cheers

The only way is to connect the iPod to a computer with has an internet connection and iTunes and restore the iPod. Use as friiend's computer or make an appointment at ther Geniuds Bar of an Apple store.

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Can anyone answer, why in Logic Pro X I keep on getting a window popping up saying, Directory not found, result code = -120. Followed by another window saying, Fade update failed, (error -120)?
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Time lost could be a problem, but.....
Sadly, I don't think that there are any Apple docs relating to networked storgae issues with Logic. Other than a 'school' or 'business' setup, NAS/OD/AD setups are not usual circumstances for audio.
If the issue is one of data backup & security, it may be enough to automatically backup the students local work folders to the NAS.
If the issue is one of the Users being able to work from any Mac and pick up their files from the server, you are not likely to resolve this problem, without copying the files to the Local Mac.
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10.5.1 update problem

Hi,
Hoping someone can help me. New to Macs- loving it so far, but am having one problem.
Just updated the software the other day from 10.5 to 10.5.1. I used the software update button to do this. I am on a dial up connection (live too far out in the hills to get broadband) and this update took over 10 hours to download - a pure nightmare. Once finished, I had to restart the computer. On doing this, I got a blue screen with a bar which didn't move at all and a message saying that it was configuring the software update. Nothing happened at all. I eventually switched the computer off at the main switch at the back of the screen and restarted. My OS was still showing as 10.5, so I hit the update button again. It showed again that I was needing to update, but showed that the update was already downloaded and I had to restart the computer. I tried this again, but same thing happened.
Any suggestions?
I read on another post about the same problem, and someone suggested downloading the update direct from the apple site. But does this mean me having to download the whole thing again? As you can all imagine, a dial-up connection is not the ideal for big updates like this. Is there another way around this?
Thanks for any help you can offer,
Liz

Thought I would give an update of this problem just in case it may help someone else in future.
Smokerz very kindly offered to send a disc with the updates to me, since I have to use a dial up connection. I was very grateful for this offer - however I'm in Scotland, he's in the States, so thought I'd be quicker visiting a friend who has broadband and downloading the updates onto a disc myself. I did that, and Bingo! the 10.5.1 update works.
I guess, probably due to my bad dial-up connection, I had originally downloaded a bad copy of the update. So in the end, it was a simple solution.
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10.5.7 update problems

After installing the 10.5.7 update, Mail, iTunes and iPhoto will not run anymore. Anyone else having this problem?

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Before I came to these apple discussions re: update problems with 10.5.7, I tried to update this version yesterday and at the end of the download this message came up, the update "Mac OS X update" can't be saved. The digital signature for this package is incorrect. The package may have been tampered with or corrupted since being signed to Apple.
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I have since updated my two other Macs so all those listed in my profile are now running 10.5.7. All do so without any problems & in fact work better & more stably than ever before.
I doubt that I'm unusual in this respect. Some users will have problems but I believe most won't, & for those that do most problems will turn out to be caused by something other than the update itself. So it has been for every previous Leopard update; I see no reason to think this one will be any different.

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Hi all, I recently installed safari update to 5.1 (6534.50) on a mabbook pro OS X 10.6.8. Ever since update, I've been experiencing the problem with safari reloading pages and kicking me out of websites that use flash player (back to log-in screen). I can deal with that by using another browser, however the update has really messed up my magic mouse. At first, every time I put my macbook to sleep or shut it off, the mouse would stop responding when I woke the mac up. I would have to disconnect the mouse and reconnect. But this was really eating up my batteries, so this morning I shut the mouse off when I put the mac to sleep. Now it won't connect at all. Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks in advance for your help!

Thanks Carolyn and Barry,
I did what Carolyn suggested - moving the .plist file into the trash. I have not resetting the PRAM or SMC yet.
When I go to system preferences>Bluetooth, I get a screen that says:
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Both ON and DISCOVERABLE are checked.
In the middle of the screen, it says No Devices (Set Up New Device...)
When I select set up new device, it finds my device and attempts to pair but is unsuccessful.
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Installation Problems, Permissions Problems, SW Update Problems, Solved

I'm posting here to relate some problems I've had and how I ultimately solved them, in the hope that it might help somebody.
The following relates to OS 10.5.4 on an imac PPC 1.8.
It started (at least the first symptom I noticed was) with Super Duper not working to auto-clone my drive, because the first thing SD does before running a clone job is to repair permissions on the subject drive. The repair permissions task failed with "the underlying task failed" error.
So I tried the manually repair permissions from Disk Utility and got the same "the underlying task failed" error. It's a bit alarming not to be able to repair permissions. I tried a reboot, no change. This persisted for at least a week as I didn't have time to aggressively go after it.
Then I purchased DiskWarrior (again - owned it years ago in Sys 9 days), as in my experience that was the "if all else fails" fix for everything directory-related. I booted from another blessed drive (do people still say that anymore? lol, showing my age) and ran DW on the drive in question. Sure enough DW found and fixed about 150 problems. Great I think, reboot from the original drive, run Disk Utility, repair permissions...nope! Same error. What now? I checked the console installer log for more and all the errors looked like "failure to write" permission type errors. Grr.
Verify Disk ran OK. I checked the SMART status and it was OK, as I was by now worrying about the physical drive.
Then along comes the 10.5.5 incremental update in Software Update and I get the following error: "The Installer could not install some files in "/" check permissions". Doh! Same thing with the Java update. Since I can't repair permissions I'm stuck.
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Running Disk Utility after the A&I allowed me to repair permissions successfully. Some progress. But now I had a slew of updates to get back to the present version of everything. Most installed successfully, except the 10.5.5 combo update. For that I got "package contents could not be validated". Rats.
So I decided (after reading here about SW update problems especially with combos) to manually download the 10.5.5 combo. For some reason running SW Update under 10.5.0 gave me download rates of 32kb/s, where I am used to 1.1MB/s. Projected download time 3 hrs....no way! So I booted back to my 10.5.4 clone and downloaded the 612MB at normal speed there. I downloaded the 10.5.1 incremental as well just in case.
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Music & iTunes Update Problem

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I'm soooo hoping that someone here can help me out. I'm totally stumped and have no idea what else to try.
I plugged my iPhone 3GS into my pc the the day before yesterday to clean up my music and clear off some of the apps. I started by deleting all my music so that I could start again. I also asked it to transfer any purchases that I'd made over to iTunes.
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I've been using Chrome to download iTunes so I'm now about to follow the instructions from this article http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1406 to see if that makes any difference.
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Sorry, I'm not trying to be pushy, I'm just giving this a quick bump in the hopes that it's seen a bit more...plus, I wanted to add a quick update.
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