Ran 10.5.5 Combo Update at home on pb - got to work - No internet!

I ran the 10.5.4 + 10.5.5 combo update on my Powerbook at home last night. All seemed fine and my home wireless continued working afterwards.
I get to work this morning and find I'm unable to connect either to the non-password-protected office Wifi or the ethernet network. Normally both of these work automatically and instantly.
The office iT guy can't find any faults on the network and everyone else in the office is connecting fine. The only thing that's changed is, as far as I can tell, my OS upgrade!
Has anyone else found this? I'm repairing disk permissions just to see if that does anything. So annoying.

Fixed. I had to do set my firewall to allow all connections. This allowed Network Prefs to reset its DHCP settings. Then I reverted back to my usual firewall settings. All good now.

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Hi. I'm trying to upgrade from 10.3 on my iMac G4, 700 mhz powerpc, 768 mb sdram. The dmg application stops during write and says there was an error and to try again. I've tried again several times! Here's what the console says:
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It sounds like the .dmg is getting damaged or corrupted during the download. What sort of internet connection do you have?
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How I revived my MBA after 10.6.3 update: Combo Updater to the rescue!

Hi, just wanted to let everyone know how I managed to revive my MBA when it would no longer boot after a failed update to 10.6.3 using Software Update.
I want to provide as many details as possible, so this will be looooong.
*The problem:* Late in the evening, I got a message from SU that new updates were available. I downloaded the updates to 10.6.3, iTunes 9.1, and three other apps. The machine logged me out, did the install and then suddenly quit with an error message when the whole process was about 95% complete. It immediately rebooted as well but got stuck at the Apple logo and the spinning gear. I could only power it down by holding the power button >4 secs.
*What I tried:* I used a PC to go online and look for help. So I tried: an SMC reset, a PRAM reset, a safe boot (hold Shift key) and a single user boot (hold Command-S). Nothing worked. Slight panic, as the MBA cannot work in target disk mode (no Firewire!) and I had not yet activated Time Machine.
Luckily, I had installed Boot Camp some days ago and a version of Windows. With the new Boot Camp 3.1, Windows can read the Mac HFS filesystem. As it turned out, Windows booted fine and could indeed read and copy my files (with total disregard for any security... nice). So my most important docs were safe.
Still no Mac OS X boot though. Holding Command-V at boot (which allows you to watch the boot process) showed that the machine consistently got stuck after loading AppleCPUPowerManagement (or similar). After doing the SMC reset, it seemed to get stuck a little later, when listing the allowed WiFi channels in my region. However, nothing could get it to boot.
Now I do own an MBA Superdrive so I could boot from the Snow Leopard 10.6.0 DVD. Running Disk Utility showed that nothing was actually wrong with the SSD. It just refused to boot. So I opted to do a 'backup and install' of 10.6.0 from the DVD. It took quite a while, but ran through okay. However, after restarting, the MBA would still not boot. Argh!
*The solution:* Like many Mac users, I did not know that Macs can boot from USB drives. But Intel Macs can! So I went over to my wife's Mac Mini and used Carbon Copy Cloner to make a 1:1 copy of its system drive on a portable HD. I could at least boot my MBA now and backup my personal files in proper Mac format. Right? Eh, no. The boot went well, but under my wife's username I was of locked out of my own home directory. There are probably utilities to circumvent this, but I tried something different first.
I had read on the web that the huge 'Combo Update' files for Mac OS X sometimes do a better job at updating all necessary files. They also allow you to write the update to a different HD than the current boot drive. So... still working off the copied Mac Mini disk, I downloaded the 10.6.3 Combo Updater (>700MB!) and applied it to the MBA's boot disk. It took ages, seemed to get stuck at several points (I really hate not having a drive activity LED) but finished.
Restarted my MBA and presto! Everything fine. Immediately did a full backup and a software update of course. My MBA had gone from 10.6.2 to 10.6.0 to 10.6.3 - Safari, Java and a number of other things needed updates. But it went well.
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Your post is a bit confusing because the title mentions 10.3.9 combo updater, you also mention 10.2.9 (which doesn't exist, so I think you meant 10.3.9), and your signature indicates 10.3.5.
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Check under the Apple menu, top left of your screen, the "about this mac" item, report back here what version of the operating system you have. I am guessing it is 10.3.9, in which case I would say you are done and can go use your new system.
If you really got to the optimizing step, you do not need to reapply the combo update.
It would be nice to know why the optimizing did not complete, but it can take a very very long time, and sometimes it can appear to be make no progress for a number of minutes, then it picks up again. On older Macs, I try not to even watch it because it takes so long and it makes me nervous. Maybe there was some small power fluctuation or some such glitch, but from the sounds of things, you have a healthy system.
If you really want to finish the "optimizing" step (the sole purpose of which is to make programs start quicker), you can download a free program called Onyx and it has an option to perform "prebinding," which is what the "optimizing" does. I'd make a backup of everything before doing that -- in fact make sure you have a backup anyway because the "optimizing" freeze could always be due to some hardware problem that could get worse, so better to be safe than sorry.
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So I forced power-off, restarted, found these forums, and one of many seemingly contradictory knowledge base documents says if you're having problems with automatic Software Update, then instead download a standalone installer.
Which is why I ask the question of this thread. Normally, when I see "Combo Update", the implication is that there are multiple incremental updates stacked sequentially on top of each other, and the Combo will ensure that all intermediate updates get installed along with the most current update.
But in this case, the information at the links above does not differentiate in any way WHICH of the two someone should use if their current OS version is 10.5.5 .

That was really very helpful. So for me it begs a followup.
I ran the "regular" installer since I had 10.5.5 prior to running the update. Via the automated Software Update feature, the update failed several times. However, when I came to the support forums here and then downloaded and ran the standalone update file (the regular one), the process was simple, and my system updated to 10.5.6.
I have checked my system profiler and it says 10.5.6 ...
But based on things you have said, it seems to me that I would be adding an extra layer of solid foundation for my installed OS X if I were to run the COMBO Updater now -- even though I am at 10.5.6 -- so as to ensure the thorough code set is in place.
Am I reading correctly? Is that what you would recommend? Because I already earlier downloaded the COMBO update installer file, at the same time I also downloaded the smaller standalone updater file... At that time I wasn't certain which I should run. And I'd much rather take a little extra time now to run the COMBO if it would enhance the stability of the OS on my computer.
So I look forward to your reply.
In a separate posting I made tonight, in another thread, I am annoyed that for a major OS update Apple didn't entrust their consumer marketing division to write the instructions for consumers... so that instead of just that regular ol' automated convenience of set-n-forget "Software Update", in this case it actually communicated to the customer: "You might want to update Safari and iTunes using this automated process, but we also are updating the full operating system of OS X. And thus we recommend you download that file separately and run it from your desktop as follows...."
Apple Support has historically never been in sync with the Consumer Sales side of the business -- the group that is Best in Class in knowing how to communicate with mainstream consumers.
Thank you again for your reply. I wish the Support gods would take your posting and make it STICKY so that 1000 new threads don't have to be started. But that is like praying for competence from U.S. Congress.

10.4 to 10.4.11 Combo Update (PPC) Issues - Will Not Sleep, Etc.

I've been running Panther 10.3.9 successfully for a long time. There are a few programs I'd like to use that require Tiger and I realized that Tiger retail disks were getting hard to come by and expensive, so I decided to buy one when I found it for a decent price.
I installed 10.4 (running repair disk and repair permissions prior) and then ran all the possible updates from Software Update. I did not select them all at once, most of them one at a time, while repairing permissions after each of them. Shortly after, things were not right.
The first thing I noticed was that I could not put the computer to sleep with either the Apple > Sleep or through the settings in Energy Saver. Expose was flakey also, it seemed to work intermittently. The eject button on the keyboard also worked intermittently. Then, with Activity monitor I would see the following items not responding: loginwindow, System Preferences and Disk Utility (not necssarily at the same time, but at one time or another.) I suppose there may have been others issues, but these are just some of the things that I noticed.
Startups, restarts and shutdowns took a long time. However, the progress bar on startups after the grey screen visually moved exceptionally fast and seemed odd.
These issues also occurred in Safe Mode.
An archive and install back to 10.4 produces a perfect running system, none of these problems occur.
Since my initial update attempt, I've tried to update with the manually downloaded 10.4.11 Combo Update (PPC) with the exact same results (no sleep, expose issues, not responding issues, slow startups, restarts and shutdowns, etc.)
I've archived and installed and updated four times - only keyboard, mouse, ethernet cable and apple speakers were attached. I'm currently sticking with 10.4 until I can find something I can do to troubleshoot this issue which may allow me to get a problem free update to 10.4.11.
Note that my computer does lose the date and time settings when powered off and today I ordered a new PRAM battery. Could a dead battery be contributing to my issue, even though 10.4 is fine?
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...only real low level kexts like old drivers for Universal Power Supplies & such, or real Haxies that dig into & change the OS somewhere.
So, if old drivers and haxies might exist, how do I go about finding them? The only program that I have that I think may be considered a haxie is DockExtender 3.1.3, http://www.codetek.com/dockextender/ (stills seems to work.) It was in my startup items when I initially performed the combo update. Since then, only iCal related items are in my startup items. Subsequent update attempts have been ran when DockExtender was not active. Also, is it note worthy that I have a non-system icon for my hard drive?
My feeling so far is that it's the HD or RAM, Tiger is twice as hard on & demanding of both.
My hard drive is a Seagate 200 GB (utilizes only 128 GB) Ultra ATA/100 7200 RPM 8 MB Cache installed around March 2006. It still has a 2 year warranty. Are you speculating that it just may not be suited for Tiger?
My memory consists of three strips of Corsair VS256MB133 G that I installed in February 2008 - these came as a warranty replacements due to a bad strip of another part number that they did not stock any more.
I don't think it's any of the APPs you aren't running.
In terms of my applications, so far I've updated Firefox (uninstalled some incompatible add-ons and themes.) Identified Font Doctor 5.1.2.9 has likely not being compatible, because it quits when selecting a folder to move troubled fonts to when diagnosing. I questioned Extensis Suitcase 10.2.2, but found out that if I trashed the Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS that the font activation errors were resolved. Safari has crashed on me a few times, but it is still version 2.0. It also crashed in 10.3.9, forcing me to use other browsers. Can I update Safari now? Software Update does not show Safari and I don't know if the combo update is the only was to update it. I'm still investigating other applications compatibility, but the true test won't happen until I run the combo update and am able to run my applications on 10.4.11.
If you had a Firewire Drive to Install to & try, that would be great.
I do have an external firewire drive, but it contains a bootable backup of my 10.3.9 system right now. I'd hate to tamper with it at this time, due to my current situation. I can check on borrowing one if necessary. Would this prove out the question regarding the hard drive and since it would be a clean install = no possible haxies or old drivers lingering around. I also have my old internal hard drive that I could use but, this would be the original from this mac and although it worked fine when I removed it, maybe it would not work well with Tiger.
Thanks,
Julie

10.4.11 Combo update not up to date?

I DL'd the combo update, and applied it to our MacBook (10.4.10). All went fine, but when I check 'Software Update', it tells me I need hundreds of MBs of updates to perform.
Is this correct?
I support a few Macs in our family, some are on slower connections. I was hoping to take this combo update on an external HD, and update them w/o needing to wait a long time for downloads. But it looks like they won't be up-to-date, unless I do that. What is the point of the combo update, if I have to dl 100's MB anyhow?
Will Apple update their combo to make it more current? Should I wait?
TIA - mwau

{quote:title=cornelius wrote:}
Actually, you could have downloaded the latest Tiger Combo Update 10.4.11 which would have included some of the individual updates you see in SoftwareUpdate. Then go to software update and install the Security ....
thanks, but... I did DL the combo updater. It is way out of date. Part of what I was hoping to accomplish was to not spend hours DL'ing all this stuff at the site (with a slow connection). I wanted to do it ahead of time, at home on my faster comnnection, and have it all ready to go.
What is the point of the combo update, if I have to dl 100's MB anyhow?
The Combo updates inlclude all updates, OS, Security, apps etc., up to the time of the release of the Combo update. Since all supported OSs are kept up to date, there are individual releases in between major Combo updates. Pretty neat system, considering you can always have an up-to-date system without much hassle. It is easiest to install the updates as they are released. Set up you Software Update application to check for updates weekly and you won't get as far behind.
Good luck.
cornelius
And that is the (Apple's and now my) problem+, 'up to the time of the release of the Combo update'+ which was last November, about 8 months ago. It is a neat concept, but it isn't all that useful when it is that outdated.
Updating weekly is a problem. This is on computers from my extended family, and they are not savvy enough to do a backup before updating, etc. So, I back them up and update them, and I can't do that once a week.
All I'm saying is, for these combo updaters to be as useful as Apple describes (download once, update several computers), they need to keep them more up to date.
Thanks for all the suggestions, some will help as work-arounds.
-mwau

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I have been having problems updating software and it was suggested that I installed the 10.6.8 combo update, this i have done and since then my mac mail 4.5 won't open - 'you can't use this version of Mail with this version of Mac OS X ' message!!
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I have downloaded the Combo update from Apple's site [around 650Mb].
-Double Clicking the .dmg mounts it.
-Double clicking on the mounted icon runs the installer.
-After clicking 'Next' a couple of times I have to select the location of the install
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I have no idea what to do & I don't want to mess up my macbook.
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10.3.9 combo update gone wrong

Hi. I started out with a base os of 10.3.5. I recently got DSL so i decided to update the computer. I used the auto-update and it downloaded the update. After a restart, I had it update again. After a second restart, I went online because I noticed that the finder did not match the pictures online(I.E. it has the functions to switch user, not log out) I tried repairing disk permissions figuring that it could just be something odd. I found:
A.it ran 10.3.9 software
B.It could not run "diskimagemounter" to open .dmg files
C.it was missing all the drivers for USB and sound
D.After being shut down, it would not reboot using the hard drive's X folder.
E.(After searching through many boxes [i just moved] i found the disk) Archive and (install?) always has errors at 1%
F.Disk First Aid fails saying,
"Disk utility stopped repairing 'Macintosh HD'
because the following error was encountered:
The underlying task reported failure on exit"
In the repair log it says:
Repairing disk for "Macintosh HD"
Checking Catalog file.
invalid key length
Volume check failed
I don't want to clean install this computer because my sister needs files off of the hard drive..
Can i create a new disk partition in which to install a second copy of 10.3.5, boot off that one, and move all the files?
G5 Mac OS X (10.3.5)
P.S. it won't boot at all off the hard drive currently and my warrenty has exspired

If your Mac won't boot at all from it's own hard drive, and you can't repair the disk or do an Archive & Install, or erase the disk, your only option would seem to be to move those files your sister needs off the hard disk, then erase the drive and reinstall OS X from scratch.
However, if what you said about using the auto-update (Software Update) feature was true, you did not do a 10.3.9 Combo Update. This has never been part of Software Update and would not show up when you run it. You must have done a 'delta' update from 10.3.8 to 10.3.9 instead. If you reinstall 10.3, you would then need to download and install the 10.3.9 Combo Update, which is approximatelyy 117 MB in size.
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Mulder
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Do Combo Updates include new hardware drivers / info?

So I'm having a debate with fellow OS X techies and we're split and would like to know a more definitive answer.
Do OS X Combo Updates actually take into account new hardware released after the .0 release of an OS? So for instance, 10.6 was released. Since then several Mac models have been introduced. Can I use the 10.6 retail DVD on the newer Mac models if I cannot locate those discs, and then run Combo Update to 10.6.4 on say a recent MBP? Or must I use the 10.6.3 MBP discs and move to 10.6.4 for true compatibility?
When 10.6.5 is released to the public, can that be used for the new Mac Minis that have a special build of 10.6.4?

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And changes to support new processors, memory configurations, native booting into 64-bit kernel mode, to name a few changes.
Eventually all of those changes should make their way into general available standalone updates (delta and combo) at some point.
As for your need to build images, I'll leave that to others to sift through. My gut feeling, that OS X Server is the only time/place that would fit in. Windows Home Server NAS products like HP Smart MediaServer NAS support TimeMachine, SuperDuper, and ability to manage a mix of Macs and PCs. Something an Xserve in a client-server environment, with even more tools to deploy and handle remove images and push updates (and store updates locally rather than each seat have to redownload all over again).
Nehalem family of processors shipped in early 2009, before that was Penryn and found in say Mid-2008 iMac, Early Mac Pro 2008 (I'm sure you know or can find that on Apple or even Wikipedia on Macs and Intel processors).

12 Hours to Install Leopard? Combo update 4 hrs

Hello and TIA
I have the unit below, and it required 12hr to install Leopard 10.5.2 from disc. (erase and install)
The combo updater as indicated by the Software update is now requiring about 4 hours. Is this normal
The reason I did a complete erase and install was my MPro was getting slow and the beach balls. I ran checks on the disc, appears fine? RAM appears fine also
HELP!
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I unplugged all the unessesary devices and etc, ran Disk Utility after install?
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Curious and perhaps helpful. Your ratio of installing Leopard to the update is 3:1 which is very close to what I got, only much slower. I just thought of this.
Your numbers are consistent and it takes your optical drive out of the equation.
Your HD may have bad sectors or you may not have enough RAM, but whatever it is, it's simply slower.

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