Install Woe - What could be the problem?
Hi all,
I'm hoping someone can help me.
Got a new Printer (Xerox Phaser 8560), and have been installing drivers all over the office, MacIntel and PPC computers, many and no problems until I went to install on my iMac PPC, which resulted in the installer program crashing right after it attempts to find the printer on the network. I tried installing as root user with the same result. I made sure permissions were rebuilt, but always the same installer crash.
To make a long story short, I reinstalled Leopard from scratch, and it's still doing the crash when I try to install the driver. On the new install, I did "transfer" over my settings from the previous install, so I guess that helps narrow it down. But what could be the problem here?
Suggestions gladly accepted.
Thanks, and so long for now, TOM
Hi,
I think I may be on to something. I had removed a program (System Preference Pane) called ABFR, A Better Finder Rename 7, which was for Tiger, but it got carried over into Leopard. After it caused a problem with iCal, I learned that it wasn't for Leopard, so I removed it.
When I went into the latest install of Leopard System Preferences, there it was, and when I tried to remove it with a control click, I got an error which said it couldn't be removed because of an error.
I had brought over the settings from the previous System and didn't realize it was going to bring that over somehow. Looks like a totally new Leopard install and a total rebuild from scratch is in order. I wrote an e-mail to the developer, but I have my doubts.
Those little programs that install those System extensions should have them all disabled by Apple when you do a major software update. I hadn't used that program for years, but there it was causing trouble, and now it might still be causing trouble.
FYI, Xerox recommends using the drivers from their site and not any drivers supplied by Apple, either Tiger or Leopard.
Thanks, and so long for now, TOM
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