Security Update 2007-008 (10.3.9 Client) went badly!

Auto updated the Security Update 2007-008 (10.3.9 Client) now my Power PC G4 won't start anymore. It's stuck on "Waiting for Apple File Service" at the startup window.
I really don't want to reinstall the whole OS right now.

You survived this beautiful little patch? Security Update 2007-008 destroyed my iBook. I can't even reset the PRAM - the backlight won't even go on... I don't hear the fan or hard drive... It does have a known backlight issue, but as a former technician I know this isn't the problem.
Has anyone had similar experience?

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10.3.9 Security Update 2007-008 Wireless Sleep issue

Hi,
had a good search around the forum and this webpage but still having a new problem with my iBook G3 OS 10.3.9 (Yes I know it is old, its grand for general webpage browsing at home ) and my Netopia (Eircom) WPA Wireless modem.
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=2005093011343164
Same old story, iBook has been working fine on Wireless since 2003 (inc previous version of 10.3) but the moment I finally added Security Update 2007-008 (10.3.9?) the automatic connecting to my home Wireless network doesn't work anymore
Every time I startup (or iBook goes to sleep)I have to go into the Airport icon and click on the network name. This has never happened before.
On Googleing this problem it seems it was never resolved by Apple?
If I could I would go back a Security Level to what I had before but not sure if this is an option? Auto-connect worked every time previously, much faster than my brand new Dell Laptop for work
Tiger 10.4 isnt really an option either due to it being a lowly G3 600mhz iBook.
Removed Airport2.kext files
Removed and re-established Network connection/Password
Removed plist files
and most of the other things on that webpage to no avail. If anyone has any ideas that would be great. Wireless Router is fine as I have a Work PC that connects automatically to it without any problem.
Cheers
Mick

Hi,
On my 15" PB, with Panther, and all the updates that came from Apple, I have tried a few ways to create what you describe; letting it go to sleep on it's own, putting it to sleep under the Apple Menu, using my screen 'corner' and Moused it to sleep... all come back alive with wireless already on with the proper network.
My set-up Location is tagged to 'Automatic'; in System Preferences > Network with 'Automatic' as the Location, and 'Network Port Configuration' as the Show... Airport is the TOP item on the lower window, and it is 'checked'.
If Airport is not on the top, the computer looks first for a connection in say the 'ethernet' (if that is the top item) until it times out and then it looks in the next one down. You could test this by leaving it alone and see how long it takes to find it... assuming you do have it 'checked' in the Port selections. To move those selections around, just click-and-drag to the location you want the order in.
If you have some thing different here, let us know. We will go from there.

More problems with security update 2007-008 for 10.3.9 not solved by reboot

I did this update and now even though airport says it's connected to my network safari will not connect to the internet. Also, internet connect and the keychain application both go to "application not responding". Any help is appreciated. Can I uninstall it?

Okay, so it was keychain that was the problem... it needed access but it took like 5-6 restarts to get the program to ask for permission, weird...
Also, sorry for topping other post as it does now seem that it was the same problem after all.

Airport icon grey after installing software update Security Update 2007-004

Yesterday I installed Security Update 2007-004 (10.3.9 Client)(April 19, 2007) and since then when I wake-up my iBook (which was functioning fine prior to closing it and puting it to sleep) the airport icon is greyed out. The only way to get the airport icon to be black (functioning)is to restart the iBook.
Has anyone else had this issue or does anyone have any ideas. I an running 10.3.9 on a 2 USB port G3 iBook with a snow airport.
Thanks.

Have you tried the simple solution posted by quovadis?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=934593
I hope it works for you.

"Security Update 2008-008 (Client PPC)" problems

Hi,
I updated my G4 yesterday with 'Security Update 2008-008 (Client PPC)' & stuck with blue screen with spinning wheel. I tried booting it in safe mode, but it didn't help. Still the same. Pressing 'C' with install disk gives access to Disk Utility, I verified permissions, which goes smooth. Can not proceed with installation since have only 700 MB available disk space & no backup.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

Hi Mahesh, and a warm welcome to the forums!
hpr3 has some good advice, but just to add...
700MB free space is a real problem, quite likely OSX will start self destructing below 2-3 GB free space, and really be slowed down with less than 20% free space on the HDD.
You simply must get another Drive & backup, so you can Install the OS again.

Missing SENT & REPLY email msgs after installing Security Update 2006-008

I'm using Mail Version 2.1 (752/752.2) to handle my Mac.com and Comcast email traffic.
Today I realized that I cannot access/find any of my outgoing email messages sent prior to January 2, 2007. Any emails that I sent prior to that date are missing from my "SENT" mailbox(es). Also, whenever I click on the "Reply" icon next to an incoming email that I answered (prior to 1/2/07) a window pops up with the following message:
"Mail was unable to find your response to the message “(fill in the blank)”. You may have deleted the message."
I am 100% certain that I did NOT delete any of these sent messges.
Coincidentally (?) I installed Security Update 2006-008 (PowerPC) on January 2, 2007 as well. Did this update cause my sent messages to be deleted? Is anyone else having this problem? Anyone have any suggestions to recover/find my missing emails?
Thanks!

I’ll be out for several ours. If Spotlight cannot find those messages, it probably means that they’ve indeed been deleted for some reason. In that case, if you don’t have a backup, your only option would be to try to salvage as many deleted *.emlx files as possible with a data recovery tool such as Data Rescue II, TechTool Pro, or FileSalvage. Of these, the only one I know for sure that can currently recover deleted *.emlx files is FileSalvage. Stop using your computer right now if you want to try that, as anything you do with the computer may cause the deleted files to be overwritten.

Security Update 2007-005 - Cannot find Server under Server Admin

After I installed Security Update 2007-005 all my machines began to have problems. I was able to get them all running except my server, it is a PowerMac G4 running Mac OSX Server 10.4.9. When I click on my server in Server Admin it acts as though the server does not exist. I am able to boot to the machine and connect to the shared drives from my client computers. However the web server is not working at all.

However when i disconnect and try to connect
with the hostname
When you say ‘hostname’ do you mean its .local name? or its FQDN?
the server admin buttons show up
as little padlocks instead of the normal green. It
does not let me connect.
This is intersting! Whats described is not mentioned in any Apple Server documentation that I’ve seen – perhaps someone knows different? I’ve never seen a padlock icon in Server Admin Services list. My experience has been you can connect to Server Admin and it shows green against services running, or you can’t connect but have the server left in the list and all services are red. Workgroup Manager shows a padlock if you are not authenticated to Open Directory node, is this what you mean?

Applications not responding apparently after Security Update 2007-009

Mail, iTunes, Skype, MSN Messenger, MainMenu, Emule, Safari and god know what else aren't responding after Security Update 2007-009.
Hi,
I recently purchased a new phone that does not work with macs, so I bought an application from Feisar to make it work. The application isn't freeware, so I think it is very unlikely that it bogused my system. Anyway, I installed the software, but only afterwards noticed it didn't work for my phone model with the USb interface, only through bluetooth, which I don't have. Moreover, and, in my opinion, more importantly, I also downloaded and installed security update 2007-009. After the update, I mandatorily restarted OS X and instantly noticed Mail, iTunes, Safari, Skype and Messenger not working. I click on them on the dock, they bounce (usually once, but it has occured to be more) and nothing happens. I don't get the little arrow below the icon. I see the applications in the applications folder, so they are not missing. I searched and searched on the internet and, apparently it is, to say the least, herculeanly complicated to downgrade from a software update. I tried to repair permissions and it didn't work. I tried the apple hardware test and everything came out perfect. I restarted many times and the same keeps happening.
So I wasted half my day yesterday trying to fix this, looking into forums and trying to talk to people about it and there it absolutely no answer. Yesterday I installed the programs necessary to sync my phone in my wife's macbook and nothing bad happened. So I'm guessing it isn't about the phone plugins I installed. I've tried to download combo updates but they crash as soon as I try to install them - I even tried to install a 10.4.10 update.
This is the error message I get:
Command: Installer
Path: /Applications/Utilities/Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Installer
Parent: WindowServer [114]
Version: 2.1.9 (104)
Build Version: 36
Project Name: Installer
Source Version: 1040000
PID: 603
Thread: Unknown
Link (dyld) error:
Symbol not found: _WebCoreUnicodeDirectionFunction
Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/WebKit
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.frame work/Versions/A/WebCore
/System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/WebKit
I put part of in on google to check if there was anybody discussing anything related and someone suggested - bizarrely enough - updating adobe reader. I did it just in case and, of course, it didn't work. I repaired permissions a million times already, I rebooted in safe mode, I scaned the computer with apple jack (which reapetedly said that I had a "fan failure!"), I verified the disk with diskutility - which showed nothing. I tried downloading an anti-virus (ClamXav), but I couldn't open it also, I trashed my prefs, I deleted all internet plugins, but still.... nothing.
The most likely line to follow here is the "fan failure" message in apple jack. I looked inside my g5 and all fans except for the one close to the Hard Drives aren't spining. I'm not sure this means they aren't functional or whether the temperature isn't high enough for it to be turned on. Temperature must be around 26-28 degrees Celsius today. There is nothing on the internet about that fan failure that's close enough to my case.
I'm about to quit and take it to the very expensive - yet reliable - authorized tech support apple has in Rio. Any ideas, anyone?

Maybe it is a security update thing! I have had similar troubles with my CS2 and other simple apps like TextEdit not opening, just doing that single bounce... I have tried EVERYTHING and now, after reinstalling my entire system, have lost access to my own user profile.
I'm assuming you have tried starting up with your original system install disk in the computer, while you turn it on, hold the option key, it will allow you to run another hardware check, as well as to do an archive install if it comes down to that.
good luck, please let me know if you find out something else that might be causing the problems... i've noticed that alot of mac threads have similar probs listed.

Please help: PPC Tiger 10.4.11, dock crashes after security update 2008-008

I had no problems so far, everything worked great on my iBook G3 PPC 700Mhz 10.4.11 till I installed the latest Apple Security Update 2008-008 through Software Update in System Preferences. After restarting my system is gone crazy. The dock crashes like every three seconds, usually when I click on something, besides that I cant click normally, I have to like click 2 or 3 times to get something opened and also the mouse jumps from one place on the screen to another place on the screen. A security update is ought to fix a problem, not to create a problem. I cant and wont do a new systeminstall, it will take me days to get my iBook back in the state it was a couple of days ago with all the applications and other third party components. Please help me fix this problem to get my iBook back to normal as it was a couple of days ago.
Thanks in advance.

Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), & use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, try dragging these 2 files to the desktop then reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist

System preferences shot after Security Update 2006-008 - no sound any more

All sorts of strange problems after running the 2006-008 security update, yet only affecting one my two MacMini:
System Preferences completely "shot", with the Date&Time item/icon looking very odd.
The little flag for language/keyboard setting and date/time did not show any more in the top menu bar -- basically everything left side of the blue Spotlight magnifying glass icon was gone.
Also Safari much more prone to quit.
Managed to delete some prefs and cached stuff and to replace the System Preferences application with the one from the other (working ok) Mac.
(I wish such components were available on the web!)
However: Currently I get no sound whatsoever. When I check the option to have the little speaker symbol displayed in the menu bar it shows. But as soon as I click it once, it vanishes from the menu bar.
In the Sound window, I have Volume set to full, yet everything is greyed out, "Sound off" is checked without my doing, while "Display sound volume in the menu bar" unchecks itself everytime(!)
And, very odd: While resetting PRAM and the fsck-routine working ok (no problems found) and disk utility claiming to have repaired all permissions, I can not run a reset of Open Firmware/nvram with the O-F-Apple-Alt key combination (I'm using an original Apple USB Keyboard for this, since I'm aware that my 3rd party keyboards from Logitech and Microsoft often refuse to perform such kind of "low level" tasks).
Mac Mini 1.66 GHz 2 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.8) German language OS

finally found the solution to my problems at
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20061229012312895
Late-Breakers
Friday, December 29 2006 @ 01:23 AM PST
Security Update 2006-008 Special Report: General fixes for common issues
"Re-apply the Mac OS X 10.4.8 combo updater Once again, re-application of the current combination updater (Mac OS X 10.4.8 for PowerPC or Intel) has proven useful in the case of Security Update 2006-008. Doing so overwrites potentially problem-causing files".
while it is widely known that the folks from redmond do release software before all the bugs are removed, i was not aware before that apple is following the same approach: using their customers as guinea pigs when it comes to updates. there is plenty of reports on MacFixIt about all sorts of troubles with previous apple os updates.
Mac Mini 1.66 GHz 2 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.8) German language OS

Security Update 2008-008 knocks out router

Since installing security update 2008-008 on two computers (MacBook Pro and Power Mac G5, both running OS 10.4.11) earlier this week, my router (Belkin Wireless G model F5D7230-4) no longer connects me to the internet. I also found that my Network preferences had been unlocked and "changed by another application" (or some similar message). It was extremely difficult to get past this message in order to make any changes to these preferences. I was finally able to be quick enough to click on OK on the message and then on Assist Me before the next identical message window returned. From there I could lock Network Preferences. But nothing looks off in the configurations.
Any ideas on getting my router connected again?

Hi CecG, and a warm welcome to the forums!
To stop the pop-up, Go to System Preferences: Security. Check the box next to "Require password to unlock each secure system preference." Then lock Security.
Try this cure for Security update...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1730909&tstart=0
Then... Try putting these numbers in Network>TCP/IP>DNS Servers, for the Airport Interface...
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Then Apply

Prey game not launching after Security Update 2007-004

After applying Apple Security Update 2007-004, Prey (Mac version) is not launching and continuously crashes on my computer. I have uninstalled all game files and reinstalled the game from the original DVD but with no success. Repairing disc permissions, updating prebindings and other usual maintainence meaures are unfortunately not helping. I have an external USB hard disc running Mac OS 10.4.9 without the Security Update applied and Prey works properly when my computer boots up from this external hard drive. It is therefore apparent that Apple Security Update 2007-004 has most probably caused Prey to become non-functional as prior to this the game was working without any problems whatsoever.
Has anyone else expereinced this problem and are there any suggestions?
Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Contact the game author's site and report it so they can update it.

Airport Problems after Security Update 2007-004

Ever since I've installed Security Update 2007-004 my Airport connection has been dropping about every 15 to 30 minutes. Sometimes Airport will stay connected but will stop working until I renew my DHCP lease (I get the same IP though). When it drops I click on the Airport icon to reconnect but my network doesn't always show up. Sometimes I have to turn Airport off and back on again to make it show up, and a few times I've had to reset my computer to make it show up.
I have a MacBook Pro with an 802.11n card. I'm using two different routers; one at work, and one at home. The work router is a Linksys N router while the one at home is a Linksys G router.
I've tried all the tricks. Repairing Permissions, deleting the extension caches, installing the standalone updater, but nothing is working.

Deleting AppleAirPort2.kext solved the problem for some...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=934370&tstart=0
While others had to rollback the AppleAirPort.kext to version...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4310165&#4310165
Installing the Security update 1.0.1 from 5/01/2007 helped others. Reapplying the Combo Update again helped a couple of people.

Delay when opening Airport menu bar item following Security Update 2007-005

When I first got this computer, there was one annoying quirk: when I clicked on the Airport menu bar item at the top right, there would be a roughly 1 second pause before the menu actually appeared. I recall hearing other people having the same experience at the time. Airport worked fine, but this delay was really annoying: since you're not sure if the system registered your click, so you click again, but then it registers the second click which causes the menu to disappear as soon as it appears, and you click again, and fall into this ridiculous cycle of fighting the sluggish menu item.
Before long, this issue disappeared following some update (I can't remember which).
After installing Security Update 2007-005, this exact same annoyance has reappeared. (I can confirm that the presence of the 802.11n Enabler update has no effect on the problem.)
Is anyone else noticing this? Is there anything I can do to fix it?

Hi
Can you tell people how you cured the problem, so that those who search looking for answers to a similar problem know how to fix it?
Steve
I haven't got a problem myself, BTW)

AirPort problem after installing Security Update 2007-007

Help! I installed the security update 2007-007 on my Mac mini os x and now my AirPort is not detecting any signal. Should I backup the system and then reboot? I'm not really sure what to do. I have tried almost everything I can imagine. I checked through the user logs and all was functioning properly until the update installed. All of the settings for the network and internet connect say that they have failed.
Please help! I am not particularly familiar about backing up -- how do I do this? (please spell out for me, I'm really new to mac!)
Thanks in advance

Can't help with the airport problem, since I don't do wireless. As for backing up, these should get you pointed in the right direction:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106941
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/installswupdates.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/backuprecovery.html
Since you're a newcomer to the Mac, peruse these:
Switching from Windows to Mac OS X,
Basic Tutorials on using a Mac, and
MacTips Learning Centre.
Additionally, *Texas Mac Man* recommends:
Quick Assist.
Welcome to the Switch To A Mac Guides, and
A guide for switching to a Mac.

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