Inevitable Mac OS X 10.6.4 update problems surface
There are scattered reports of problems with Apple's Snow Leopard update that was released yesterday. Ah, tradition.
Over on the Apple Discussions forum, early updaters are reporting a series of troubles after upgrading to Mac OS X version 10.6.4:
Complete installation failure.
iTunes running on an iMac caused the UI to become …
Every time El Reg report problems on software release from any manufacturer (whether it be Microsoft, Apple, Google, or anyone else), a bunch of people come on the forum and say, works for me. You do realise that these are the most useless posts ever? No big software company is going to release software that fails to work in testing. Unfortunately, the number of live configurations means that it is very hard to test on every hardware/installed software combination. Even if failures happen on less than 1% of cases, it is a huge issue for people it fails on. Also, in many cases, people with multiple machines to upgrade often have similar software and configurations on all machines so quite often failures are clustered.
Remember the Toyota recalls? The vast majority of people's cars had no problem at all. But a tiny percentage had problems with stuck accelerators, and it became an international incident. With OS upgrades, if 0.01% of people have an issue, that is still lots of people with an issue.
All I ask for is a basic understanding of statistics. With your sample size of 2, your ability to predict that no-one else has a problem is virtually non-existent. If you think Steve Jobs is a saint (or Ballmer/Gates or anyone else), fine. But please don't belittle genuine problems that users have just because your 1 or 2 cases went fine.
ok i'm an idiot, but you must admit you don't understand statistics AT ALL.
how do you calculate the 1% you mention without counting all data points? if you want to do statistics you have to count 99 positives and 1 negative to come up with the figure. don't you? if people only posted 'it failed', 'it doesn't work', etc how would you know it's 1%? in that case STATISTICALLY it's a 100% failure.
Yes, you're right about statistics, but what you didn't do is apply them to the article to begin with. Talking about blowing the problems out of proportion, El Reg, has done a fine job of turning a mole hill into a mountain (or choose any other better analogy). Trawling through support forums is about the least representative way to sample something, but a great way to whip people into a frenzy enough to read the article and get some adverts from it.
This article, and a few of the posters here, are essentially suggesting that this update is borked because it affects <= 0.01%, let's say, of users. I'm sorry, but based on what you said, it's just not worth reporting. Much like a similar proportional volume of problems for Windows update often goes unreported. This is link-bait from a publication that has a growing unhealthy obsessed with Apple, and Jobs in particular.
Actually, it is clear you don't understand anything - not just statistics.
People generally don't report success - at least not by calling helplines or posting in help forums, so you judge success by the absence of complaint. Therefore, percentage failure is the number of reported failures divided by number of sales. Simple. People in every industry in the world follow this, unless they are selling so cheap a product that people will not complain if it goes wrong.
"Apple play within a nicely walled garden and still mess up updates time after time. No wonder the market share never rises."
Never rises eh? IIRC Apple had something like 3% desktop market share a decade ago compared to around 8% today.
Posted Friday 18th June 2010 09:25 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Re: "Re: OMG: "Is this the most useless post ever?""
#
I must apologise. You must be a very wise man indeed. How stupid of me not to understand the obvious.
PS. Sorry, I must be really stupid, but what's your name? You have signed both posts differently. The first one is signed by 'Idiot' and the second is signed by 'Muppet', so who of those two are you?
And some people wonder why the iPhone is locked against just any old app being installed. What is happening for a few with MacOS 10.6.4 update is exactly what Apple wishes to avoid with the iPhone. Still, it happens with the iPhone but not as bad.
As for myself, never had a systemic MacOS update problem. Sometimes badly written apps would not run correctly, but the OS always behaved. Running MacOS since 6.0.2.
> And some people wonder why the iPhone is locked against just any old app being installed.
Yes. Because locking down your device is the answer to bad vendor supplied software updates.
No. This situation points to quite the opposite conclusion. End users should be the ones in control. They should be aware enough to decide to "just say no" to bad vendor updates or bad software in general.
Yeah the iPhone is locked down because Apple can't write an OS that 3rd party apps can run on... is that really your argument? It’s got nothing to do with the well-documented control that Mr Jobs insists on having over what YOU do with YOUR phone.
Even if that made any sense whatsoever the fact that Apple, with total control over the hardware base (unlike MS and Windows), can’t even update their OS without screwing up some of the major apps in use on their platform is pretty piss poor.
I’m sure all this will amount to ‘features’ that you are willing to pay for.
And some people wonder why the iPhone is locked against just any old app being installed. What is happening for a few with MacOS 10.6.4 update is exactly what Apple wishes to avoid with the iPhone.
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This would be a brilliant argument, and defence of Apple's lock-down of the iPhone. Until you remember that the update to iPhone OS 3 went horribly wrong for a significant number of people and caused the batteries to go doolally. Or was it the upgrade to iPhone 2? Oh no, my mistake, I think it was both...
And there were plenty of reports of that update bricking some people's hardware... Particularly bad in the case of version 2, where Apple totally controlled both hardware AND software.
Actually I don't think anyone expects Apple to release a perfect update that won't cause any problems at all - because testing on all configurations is a practical impossibility. There are 2 reasons Apple are taking extra grief for it:
1. The rather arrogant (and hostage to fortune), "It just works" [tm]. Which with the smugly superior 'I'm a Mac' adverts is simply begging for piss-taking.
2. Apple make it really, really, really hard (in fact impossible on the holy iPhone) to revert to a previously working OS configuration. Which control freakery deserves the regular kickings it gets Apple.
3. I know I said two. So I lied... Apple's piss-poor communications. If they'd just talk to people, and make a tiny effort to appear that they were listening, people's frustrations would be reduced immensely and then they'd be more forgiving. Which nicely links back in to point 1 about smugness and arrogance.
> And some people wonder why the iPhone is locked against just any old app being installed.
"Yes. Because locking down your device is the answer to bad vendor supplied software updates.
No. This situation points to quite the opposite conclusion. End users should be the ones in control. They should be aware enough to decide to "just say no" to bad vendor updates or bad software in general."
Let me get this right. End users should be the ones in control because when they are, they'll install 3rd party add-ins, plugins and patches that prevent the official ones from working properly...?
Better to prevent users with that kind of limited intelligence from having any say over the contents of the system at all!
"Yeah the iPhone is locked down because Apple can't write an OS that 3rd party apps can run on... is that really your argument? It’s got nothing to do with the well-documented control that Mr Jobs insists on having over what YOU do with YOUR phone."
Jobs has very little say over what I can do with my phone. There is an application for iPhone for everything I need...
"the fact that Apple, with total control over the hardware base (unlike MS and Windows), can’t even update their OS without screwing up some of the major apps in use on their platform is pretty piss poor."
If you'd looked at the posts at the Apple website (linked from the article) or read any of the people who commented here, you'd know that it's a tiny minority of users. (roughly 1 user reported each of the problems ;)
Of course, you could always compare this to the count of people who have experienced problems with MSs OS, updates and applications...
"Until you remember that the update to iPhone OS 3 went horribly wrong for a significant number of people and caused the batteries to go doolally. Or was it the upgrade to iPhone 2? Oh no, my mistake, I think it was both..."
Urrm.
It was neither.
There were problems - a very small number but greatly publicised.
I looked at the posts on the forums that El Reg linked to. There are less posts there about some of the problems than there are on this article. There only seemed to be a handful of people who had problems too...
Sorry for being smug about it, but both my Mac Pro (Early 2008) and my MacBook Pro (Mid-2009) are fine. No problems with fonts, iTunes, or anything else.
As always, this article is completely worthless without some indication of how many people are having the problem.
And don't try the "there are 50 posts in the thread" argument. If there are 50 posts, 1 is the person who posted the original problem. 27 are people saying "mine works fine". 15 are people saying "Macs suck". 5 are suggestions from people on how to fix it. And 2 are spammers trying to sell you Louis Vitton bags.
Also, it would also be useful to know how many of the people having problems have installed some haxie that does stuff by bypassing the OS and inserting their own code - which almost always leads to problems on upgrades.
I spent a few years at a helpdesk that supported a few hundred OSX machines, aaaand I don't recall any problems that were traced back to updates (which were applied nightly by a cronjob, because our users were, on average, dense enough to panic when an update notification appeared.)
That's not to say that Apple didn't give us a whole heap of extremely random problems, or that I rush to install updates as soon as they're out, but most of the time there was no problem with updates, and when there was, it was /always/ something incredible that had been done by the user.
One memorable example:
Power User: OSX Update broke my firewire
Me: Be right down to take a look
...
Power User: See, all of these 11 firewire devices and 2 firewire hubs don't work any more
Me: Tried plugging and unplugging?
Power User: Yes
Me: Lets try again
PowerMac G5: Starts smoking, flames shoot out the firewire port
Me: Good thing we get the extended warranty
I suspect that one wasn't any sort of software problem : -)
No issues here on Macbook 15" (5.4) with as much as possible built in Macports (Apache, Firefox, coreutiles, etc). Then again I always test it out using a Time Machine restored install on a dirt-cheap (£20 ffs!) USB drive. If you value your data at all, you'd *always* test shit this way.
No problems on my upgrade done earlier today on a Mac book pro and iMac. Of course I have not messed around with the machine. Maybe that is the key and why Apple are keen to have upgrades to predictable environments. Similar to most large corporates who have a lock down client and do not all "gifted amateurs" to mess around particularly in Windows....
I'm not one for OS wars or zealotry, but Apple? Screwed up fonts? I mean, it's not as if their core market are typographers and graphic designers is it... Oh, hang on...
It's inevitable that a small number of people will have a problem. The vast majority of issues are caused by incompatibilities with some third-party application, utility, system extension or hack that hasn't been updated for Mac OS X 10.6.4 yet.
If people weren't so keen to install hacks and other programs that make use of unsupported API's etc. there would be far less issues.
These stories are exactly why I always wait a month before upgrading to the latest update. Apple don't seem to bother beta testing anything these days, then again why should they when they have paying customers willing to do it. I double the waiting time for updating my iPhone due to the retarded practice of not being able to downgrade the OS if there's a problem.
On my ff 3.6.3 homepage /newsnow.co.uk/ totally appeared in Korean? Some screwed codepage? Lots of boxes and other junk. Resolved by forcing ff to use a working font like lucida and ignore the HTML page fonts request. Only happened on my iMac, I had recently noticed some false font "duplicates" in 10.6.3. I did the 900meg combo update.
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Inevitable Mac OS X 10.6.4 update problems surface
There are scattered reports of problems with Apple's Snow Leopard update that was released yesterday. Ah, tradition. Over on the Apple Discussions forum, early updaters are reporting a series of troubles after upgrading to Mac OS X version 10.6.4: Complete installation failure. iTunes running on an iMac caused the UI to become …
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Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 18:27 GMT
skelband
"Some well-informed poster might come up with the magic bullet." #
Linux
Well someone was bound to say it.
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:22 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Errr... #
Linux was the symptom, and Mac OS is the cure ;-)
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:24 GMT
Campbeltonian
Ubuntu says otherwise #
Every Ubuntu update is followed by a surge of online complaints about things breaking. Linux isn't the magic bullet.
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 14:30 GMT
Code Monkey
Linux > Ubuntu #
And better distros update with much less drama
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 15:05 GMT
Florcz
Now you've tasted the apple... #
Maybe it's time to try Vista ?
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 18:27 GMT
Anonymous Coward
really?... hmm.. #
updated 2 iMac today, no issues whatsoever.
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:32 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Is this the most useless post ever? #
Every time El Reg report problems on software release from any manufacturer (whether it be Microsoft, Apple, Google, or anyone else), a bunch of people come on the forum and say, works for me. You do realise that these are the most useless posts ever? No big software company is going to release software that fails to work in testing. Unfortunately, the number of live configurations means that it is very hard to test on every hardware/installed software combination. Even if failures happen on less than 1% of cases, it is a huge issue for people it fails on. Also, in many cases, people with multiple machines to upgrade often have similar software and configurations on all machines so quite often failures are clustered.
Remember the Toyota recalls? The vast majority of people's cars had no problem at all. But a tiny percentage had problems with stuck accelerators, and it became an international incident. With OS upgrades, if 0.01% of people have an issue, that is still lots of people with an issue.
All I ask for is a basic understanding of statistics. With your sample size of 2, your ability to predict that no-one else has a problem is virtually non-existent. If you think Steve Jobs is a saint (or Ballmer/Gates or anyone else), fine. But please don't belittle genuine problems that users have just because your 1 or 2 cases went fine.
Idiot!
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 06:03 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Relaaaaax Win-ston! #
Agree with everything you say but, chill out dude! :)
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 06:04 GMT
Dick Head
So when individuals report failure... #
...it's a meaningfull metric of the quality of the product. When individuals report success it's meaningless.
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 08:50 GMT
Martin
Not quite that.... #
....but, as the ranter above said, the default position is that it will work. And it WILL work for 99.several nines% of updaters.
But those that fail are the interesting ones - especially if yours has also failed. They can be grouped together and solutions found.
I agree - "Well, mine worked OK" is about as futile a post as you can make on here when discussing updates. Won't stop them happening, though.
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 09:11 GMT
Anonymous Coward
OMG: "Is this the most useless post ever?" #
ok i'm an idiot, but you must admit you don't understand statistics AT ALL.
how do you calculate the 1% you mention without counting all data points? if you want to do statistics you have to count 99 positives and 1 negative to come up with the figure. don't you? if people only posted 'it failed', 'it doesn't work', etc how would you know it's 1%? in that case STATISTICALLY it's a 100% failure.
So. Join the club, idiot #2.
:)
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 09:11 GMT
Mark Aggleton
Massive Fail #
But Apple don't actually have many hardware configurations to test it on, unlike MS and, I hate to say the word, Linux.
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 09:13 GMT
Anonymous Coward
@AC ala Winston #
Yes, you're right about statistics, but what you didn't do is apply them to the article to begin with. Talking about blowing the problems out of proportion, El Reg, has done a fine job of turning a mole hill into a mountain (or choose any other better analogy). Trawling through support forums is about the least representative way to sample something, but a great way to whip people into a frenzy enough to read the article and get some adverts from it.
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 10:07 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Epic Fail #
Apple play within a nicely walled garden and still mess up updates time after time. No wonder the market share never rises.
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 14:42 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Hang on... #
This article, and a few of the posters here, are essentially suggesting that this update is borked because it affects <= 0.01%, let's say, of users. I'm sorry, but based on what you said, it's just not worth reporting. Much like a similar proportional volume of problems for Windows update often goes unreported. This is link-bait from a publication that has a growing unhealthy obsessed with Apple, and Jobs in particular.
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 14:46 GMT
chr0m4t1c
But #
The Mac *isn't* a walled garden, users are free to install any old third party stuff on them, just the same as every other desktop OS.
I seriously doubt that any of the users experiencing problems are working with a fresh install of the OS on vanilla hardware.
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 15:10 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Re: OMG: "Is this the most useless post ever?" #
Actually, it is clear you don't understand anything - not just statistics.
People generally don't report success - at least not by calling helplines or posting in help forums, so you judge success by the absence of complaint. Therefore, percentage failure is the number of reported failures divided by number of sales. Simple. People in every industry in the world follow this, unless they are selling so cheap a product that people will not complain if it goes wrong.
Muppet.
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 15:47 GMT
magnetik
Fail yourself #
"Apple play within a nicely walled garden and still mess up updates time after time. No wonder the market share never rises."
Never rises eh? IIRC Apple had something like 3% desktop market share a decade ago compared to around 8% today.
Posted Friday 18th June 2010 09:25 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Re: "Re: OMG: "Is this the most useless post ever?"" #
I must apologise. You must be a very wise man indeed. How stupid of me not to understand the obvious.
PS. Sorry, I must be really stupid, but what's your name? You have signed both posts differently. The first one is signed by 'Idiot' and the second is signed by 'Muppet', so who of those two are you?
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 18:28 GMT
David Kelly 2
And some people wonder why ... #
And some people wonder why the iPhone is locked against just any old app being installed. What is happening for a few with MacOS 10.6.4 update is exactly what Apple wishes to avoid with the iPhone. Still, it happens with the iPhone but not as bad.
As for myself, never had a systemic MacOS update problem. Sometimes badly written apps would not run correctly, but the OS always behaved. Running MacOS since 6.0.2.
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 21:08 GMT
JEDIDIAH
Silly Propaganda #
> And some people wonder why the iPhone is locked against just any old app being installed.
Yes. Because locking down your device is the answer to bad vendor supplied software updates.
No. This situation points to quite the opposite conclusion. End users should be the ones in control. They should be aware enough to decide to "just say no" to bad vendor updates or bad software in general.
The nanny is a junkie.
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:23 GMT
Anonymous Coward
@Kelly #
Yeah the iPhone is locked down because Apple can't write an OS that 3rd party apps can run on... is that really your argument? It’s got nothing to do with the well-documented control that Mr Jobs insists on having over what YOU do with YOUR phone.
Even if that made any sense whatsoever the fact that Apple, with total control over the hardware base (unlike MS and Windows), can’t even update their OS without screwing up some of the major apps in use on their platform is pretty piss poor.
I’m sure all this will amount to ‘features’ that you are willing to pay for.
Twat
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 09:17 GMT
I ain't Spartacus
The control-freak defence... #
And some people wonder why the iPhone is locked against just any old app being installed. What is happening for a few with MacOS 10.6.4 update is exactly what Apple wishes to avoid with the iPhone.
----------------
This would be a brilliant argument, and defence of Apple's lock-down of the iPhone. Until you remember that the update to iPhone OS 3 went horribly wrong for a significant number of people and caused the batteries to go doolally. Or was it the upgrade to iPhone 2? Oh no, my mistake, I think it was both...
And there were plenty of reports of that update bricking some people's hardware... Particularly bad in the case of version 2, where Apple totally controlled both hardware AND software.
Actually I don't think anyone expects Apple to release a perfect update that won't cause any problems at all - because testing on all configurations is a practical impossibility. There are 2 reasons Apple are taking extra grief for it:
1. The rather arrogant (and hostage to fortune), "It just works" [tm]. Which with the smugly superior 'I'm a Mac' adverts is simply begging for piss-taking.
2. Apple make it really, really, really hard (in fact impossible on the holy iPhone) to revert to a previously working OS configuration. Which control freakery deserves the regular kickings it gets Apple.
3. I know I said two. So I lied... Apple's piss-poor communications. If they'd just talk to people, and make a tiny effort to appear that they were listening, people's frustrations would be reduced immensely and then they'd be more forgiving. Which nicely links back in to point 1 about smugness and arrogance.
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 11:38 GMT
Anonymous Coward
RE: Silly Propaganda #
> And some people wonder why the iPhone is locked against just any old app being installed.
"Yes. Because locking down your device is the answer to bad vendor supplied software updates.
No. This situation points to quite the opposite conclusion. End users should be the ones in control. They should be aware enough to decide to "just say no" to bad vendor updates or bad software in general."
Let me get this right. End users should be the ones in control because when they are, they'll install 3rd party add-ins, plugins and patches that prevent the official ones from working properly...?
Better to prevent users with that kind of limited intelligence from having any say over the contents of the system at all!
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 11:38 GMT
Anonymous Coward
RE: @Kelly #
"Yeah the iPhone is locked down because Apple can't write an OS that 3rd party apps can run on... is that really your argument? It’s got nothing to do with the well-documented control that Mr Jobs insists on having over what YOU do with YOUR phone."
Jobs has very little say over what I can do with my phone. There is an application for iPhone for everything I need...
"the fact that Apple, with total control over the hardware base (unlike MS and Windows), can’t even update their OS without screwing up some of the major apps in use on their platform is pretty piss poor."
If you'd looked at the posts at the Apple website (linked from the article) or read any of the people who commented here, you'd know that it's a tiny minority of users. (roughly 1 user reported each of the problems ;)
Of course, you could always compare this to the count of people who have experienced problems with MSs OS, updates and applications...
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 11:40 GMT
Anonymous Coward
RE: The control-freak defence... #
"Until you remember that the update to iPhone OS 3 went horribly wrong for a significant number of people and caused the batteries to go doolally. Or was it the upgrade to iPhone 2? Oh no, my mistake, I think it was both..."
Urrm.
It was neither.
There were problems - a very small number but greatly publicised.
I looked at the posts on the forums that El Reg linked to. There are less posts there about some of the problems than there are on this article. There only seemed to be a handful of people who had problems too...
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 18:28 GMT
Chris Haynes
No problems here... #
Sorry for being smug about it, but both my Mac Pro (Early 2008) and my MacBook Pro (Mid-2009) are fine. No problems with fonts, iTunes, or anything else.
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:22 GMT
Chris_Maresca
No problems either.... #
Updated a 2nd gen Mac Mini and an early black Macbook....
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 21:05 GMT
Alan Denman
30% #
No doubt if you all aid Apple the 30% the world would be a happier place,
I'm being quite contradictory in that half these apps would be banned anyway.
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 21:08 GMT
Mr F&*king Grumpy
This is getting REALLY tedious #
"A MacBook Pro lost Internet access"
"A". One. Singular.
FFS, grow up.
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 21:09 GMT
Steen Hive
No problems #
Except the damned ATI framebuffer *still* doesn't work on my Toshiba. The cheek! ;-)
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 21:09 GMT
David Simpson 1
Sinking Ship of OS X #
A little quote from one Jonathan Ive
" I told Steve we have to include the mac and he told me that the mac platform is a sinking ship and iOS is future"
How many more updates will we get before Apple weld the doors shut ?
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:48 GMT
Ryan Nix
Where did you hear that? #
I believe it, but I would be shocked if Ive told anyone that.
Posted Friday 18th June 2010 15:13 GMT
Eponymous Howard
@David Simpson 1 #
You made that up didn't you?
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:21 GMT
Mad Hacker
frickin' gamma rays #
You say it could be due to "frickin' gamma rays" although not in a Mac Pro as they use ECC memory that counteracts the effects of gamma rays.
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:22 GMT
Joe Ragosta
How many? #
As always, this article is completely worthless without some indication of how many people are having the problem.
And don't try the "there are 50 posts in the thread" argument. If there are 50 posts, 1 is the person who posted the original problem. 27 are people saying "mine works fine". 15 are people saying "Macs suck". 5 are suggestions from people on how to fix it. And 2 are spammers trying to sell you Louis Vitton bags.
Also, it would also be useful to know how many of the people having problems have installed some haxie that does stuff by bypassing the OS and inserting their own code - which almost always leads to problems on upgrades.
Nothing to see here.
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:23 GMT
Nexox Enigma
OH, Gamma Rays... #
I spent a few years at a helpdesk that supported a few hundred OSX machines, aaaand I don't recall any problems that were traced back to updates (which were applied nightly by a cronjob, because our users were, on average, dense enough to panic when an update notification appeared.)
That's not to say that Apple didn't give us a whole heap of extremely random problems, or that I rush to install updates as soon as they're out, but most of the time there was no problem with updates, and when there was, it was /always/ something incredible that had been done by the user.
One memorable example:
Power User: OSX Update broke my firewire
Me: Be right down to take a look
...
Power User: See, all of these 11 firewire devices and 2 firewire hubs don't work any more
Me: Tried plugging and unplugging?
Power User: Yes
Me: Lets try again
PowerMac G5: Starts smoking, flames shoot out the firewire port
Me: Good thing we get the extended warranty
I suspect that one wasn't any sort of software problem : -)
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:23 GMT
Phil Rigby
Flash #
It's all Flash's fault (probably).
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:23 GMT
Francis Begbie
Hrm #
No issues here on Macbook 15" (5.4) with as much as possible built in Macports (Apache, Firefox, coreutiles, etc). Then again I always test it out using a Time Machine restored install on a dirt-cheap (£20 ffs!) USB drive. If you value your data at all, you'd *always* test shit this way.
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:23 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Mac OS upgrade #
No problems on my upgrade done earlier today on a Mac book pro and iMac. Of course I have not messed around with the machine. Maybe that is the key and why Apple are keen to have upgrades to predictable environments. Similar to most large corporates who have a lock down client and do not all "gifted amateurs" to mess around particularly in Windows....
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:24 GMT
Stu Wilson
3 here #
you know there's a laundry list of thing that can go wrong on any update
but i've got 3 macs here all updated fine with no issues.
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:24 GMT
Fraser
I'm not one for OS wars, but... #
I'm not one for OS wars or zealotry, but Apple? Screwed up fonts? I mean, it's not as if their core market are typographers and graphic designers is it... Oh, hang on...
I wonder how this one got past quality control.
Ah well, oopsie...
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:27 GMT
ceebee
oh I remember... #
the old rule about Mac OS updates... never update to even number versions!!
there was a famous System 6.06 update. I think it lasted about a week before replaced with System 6.07.
but I did an update on two macs last night .. no problems at all.
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:28 GMT
Anonymous Coward
No probs #
Absolutely ZERO problems here.
It's inevitable that a small number of people will have a problem. The vast majority of issues are caused by incompatibilities with some third-party application, utility, system extension or hack that hasn't been updated for Mac OS X 10.6.4 yet.
If people weren't so keen to install hacks and other programs that make use of unsupported API's etc. there would be far less issues.
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:28 GMT
Psycho Flump
Beta testing? #
These stories are exactly why I always wait a month before upgrading to the latest update. Apple don't seem to bother beta testing anything these days, then again why should they when they have paying customers willing to do it. I double the waiting time for updating my iPhone due to the retarded practice of not being able to downgrade the OS if there's a problem.
Still the early adopters are good for a laugh.
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 06:04 GMT
Eponymous Howard
@Psycho Flump #
Fuck me, all you need to do is browse mac blogs and follow the seeds as they are released.
Apple sometimes arse up, but when things go wrong it is more often 3rd parties (such as Logitech using haxies, against Apple guidelines).
Posted Thursday 17th June 2010 11:40 GMT
Anonymous Coward
RE: @Psycho Flump #
To say nothing of the fact that most of these "problems" have got a mere 1 person affected by them...
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:29 GMT
David Shaw
I got the broken ff fonts #
On my ff 3.6.3 homepage /newsnow.co.uk/ totally appeared in Korean? Some screwed codepage? Lots of boxes and other junk. Resolved by forcing ff to use a working font like lucida and ignore the HTML page fonts request. Only happened on my iMac, I had recently noticed some false font "duplicates" in 10.6.3. I did the 900meg combo update.
(Nexus.froyo fun next week??)
Posted Wednesday 16th June 2010 22:29 GMT
JonHendry
No problems here #
CS5 is fine. iTunes is fine. Fonts are fine.
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