“In the wake of Apple’s recently released Mac OS X 10.5.6 update, assorted problems have been reported following the upgrade,” Chris Barylick reports for O’Grady’s PowerPage.
“According to MacFixIt, a number of users have reported problems of Mac OS X 10.5.6 booting into the Setup Assistant program upon startup. Though Apple seems to have addressed this problem since Mac OS X 10.5 (‘Leopard’) was first released, the bug has surfaced over on the Apple Discussions board,” Barylick reports.
“In some cases, users have reported that the battery menu has failed to work properly after updating to Mac OS X 10.5.6 and that some menu bar options are no longer present,” Barylick reports.
“Finally, a number of users have reported that Mac OS X’s Spotlight feature is not indexing one or all disks properly for later searching,” Barylick reports.
More info and fixes in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: All of our upgrades to Mac OS X 10.5.6 from 10.5.5 on numerous Macs proceeded flawlessly. This go ’round, all of our upgrades were accomplished via Software Update and, as always, we repaired permissions via Disk Utility before upgrading.
These stories make me really question whats going on. I have never had any sort of errors when upgrading. I am a firm believer in users screwing up their own computers, not Apple. I’d say 99% of all mistakes are user error.
PS I work in the IT industry.
And we all trust the IT industry, don’t we?
“I am a firm believer in users screwing up their own computers, not Apple. I’d say 99% of all mistakes are user error.”
Oh no, it could NEVER be Apple’s fault.
You know what’s really sad about Macpologist shills like you? Your sole motivation for your shilling is the desperate hope that someone in Cupertino will somehow stumble across your post and think, “Tiger Leopard, what a loyal, obedient Apple user he is. Good dog!”
Upgraded 3 macs (2007 Macbook, current Mini and iMac) without any issues. As done by MDN, I have always repaired permissions before upgrading OSX.
No problems with the upgrade on any of my 3 machines G4 Powerbook, Intel Mac Mini, and 24″ Intel iMac.
Well, don’t be so quick to point fingers. I tried three or four times to update via Software Update, but it would always hang at the “Configuring update” portion. I waited for forty-five minutes once before I gave up and rebooted by hand. It was only when I downloaded the combo updater on a friend’s advice that things went correctly.
For what it is worth, I am a 20 year Mac Programmer, and my machine is a box-stock (no weird system enhancements) MacBook Pro. So, I can certainly believe that people are having trouble.
Magic word: Getting. as in, I think that Apple is getting careless with some of their quality control.
In 10 years, I’ve only experienced 1 failed upgrade, and that was due to corruption on the hard drive that was fixed by DiskWarrior.
I think that’s a fairly good track record on Apple’s part.
There is a bunch of bullshit going on about these complaints. This gets too many click whores like MDN .. you guys are become shameless clickwhores support all kind of nuts.
Never had anything fail ever either. I would take some of this “report” with a grain of salt also. The issue with the battery indicators is not a bug it’s intentional. If they got that part wrong, then who knows how accurate this report even is.
I’ve never had a problem with a system upgrade on my Macs. I can’t exactly say the same regarding my windows experience. Only a month ago I had to fix a relatives windows laptop that goofed during an XP SP3 update.
@ TGAFM
Projecting again, I see? Why don’t you add an anonymous post patting yourself on the back to bolster your argument?
Douche bag.
I have never had problems upgrading and I consider myself in the middle of the pack when it comes to exacting performance from my Macs.
Although I did experience significant problems with OS X 10.0, for which I received a full refund, a couple of years after the fact, it’s been smooth sailing ever since. Has Microsoft EVER paid you back for all the years of frustration? Nope, and you continue to buy into their excuses. That’s what’s really sad.
Looking forward to Snow Leopard too! Do come back when you and the rest of the PC-using world realizes how retarded your experience is becoming with Windows.
You know what else? My multi-proc Mac running SL, is going to kick the shit out of your lame-assed winblows machine running Windows Slev3n.
Tiger Leopard is right.
Great Apple Fanboy, read his post again. He didn’t say it was never Apple’s fault. So you put words in someone’s mouth and then jump all over them for something they didn’t say. Bravo.
Loser.
I have upgraded multiple macs for more than a decade and haVE never seen the update problems that some users report. Then again I know a Mac user who had moved his Documents folder to the desktop then some months later put it in the Trash and emptied and the Trash and confirmed the action.
I believe many software update problems are PEBKAC related.
4 macs updated-no issues at all.
None of my Macs have hacks or other dubious stuff installed(stuff that modifies the OS).
I believe the problems people are having are user created-they installed hacks, mods without understanding the consequences.
9 macs of all different flavours in my house and office – all updated flawlessly – and I have er… ah… system enhancements for Safari (dumped them – will deal with ads for a while until fixed).
I dnld the combo – run repair permissions before – run in safe mode – upgrade – restart – repair permissions again and
Snap!!!
All is good!
to all the people who don’t ay attention to us who have done this for-phuquen-ever and don’t listen:
quitcherboechen!
Tiger Leopard, one thing that most of “the IT industry” doesn’t get is that it’s always easy to blame the consumer. Truth be told, things should be made as close to foolproof as possible so that the consumer can’t do the wrong thing.
BTW, I’ve worked in the IT industry since 1983, so I guess my view of the industry is valid too.
I actually have an issue. Safari and password rememberance don’t seem to mix any more. It’s as if Safari thinks my machine is always set to ‘public place’ or something. This is under my daily use, secondary account and not my admin account.
For example, my.yahoo.com keeps asking me to re-login, and it remembers nothing, not my id or pw, though I tick the box to ‘remember me for 2 weeks’ – this only happens on this upgraded Safari app, and didn’t happen before 10.5.6.
I then cleared the cookies, and even ‘reset Safari’ but after a short while, prompting me to re-login when I go to my.yahoo.com or mail.yahoo.com.
quite annoying…
Repair permissions, run the combo updater, repair permissions, have no problems.
Always, always, always run the combo updater and you’ll be happy.
…and, as always, we repaired permissions via Disk Utility before upgrading.
Duh, Software Update requires Admin password, which can overwrite any permissions.
@TGAFM
“You know what’s really sad about Macpologist shills like you? Your sole motivation for your shilling is the desperate hope that someone in Cupertino will somehow stumble across your post and think, “Tiger Leopard, what a loyal, obedient Apple user he is. Good dog!””
Shill?? Maybe I see one for Microsoft. ??? Hmmm???
In general, I see two types of commenters about Apple these days. MS shills like TGAFM and mostly calm rational Apple users that like Apple hardware and software and usually feel sorry for MS Shills.
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I have not heard of anyone saying that Apple “Pays” anyone to write good things about them. However, its public info that Microsoft pay to spread good about themselves and bad about others. (free mega laptops to reviewers, $15,000 for “good” blog articles, $300,000,000 to help convince the unsuspecting that Vista does not suck. ))
Sorry, I am losing my sorrow for MS Shills and replacing it with contempt. Its ok if you think I picked the wrong machine or software, but when you libel me (“Your sole motivation for your shilling is the desperate hope that someone in Cupertino will somehow stumble across your post “) personally, then you have crossed the line.
I do find that most of these shills / trolls are fairly easy to spot. They usually resort to baseless name calling (“Macpologist shills”) for no reason whatsoever.
I do think that people that use MS software and shill for MS should not be punished…… they are being punished as we speak.
Just a thought.
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Excuse me guys but I think the problems are very real and have to be acknowledged and properly addressed.
For some of you, it’s so clear it doesn’t need glasses: “Download the combo, then run repair permissions before updating, then run in safe mode, then start the upgrade, then restart, then repair permissions again and snap! All is good!”
This steps are not documented by Apple, are not part of the update instructions and no one, outside long time Mac OS X users that had plenty of problems before and already discovered the solution do. Everyone else, is prone to problems AS MY WIFE’S MACBOOK IS!
She has the exact same problems described by the people of PowerPage. All. Of. Them.
So, stop berating users that don’t do anything they’re NOT asked to do.
Oh, and talking about the myriad steps you have to do for a successful update make you sound like you’re using WINDOWS! Yeah! I said that!
Half dozen Macs. No problems.
and, as always, we repaired permissions via Disk Utility before upgrading.
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I’m probably going to sound stupid to you all for asking this, but what does this mean? Why do you need to do this?
I upgraded two Macbooks with no problems. Although, I have yet to see how this update really helps me.
I might be crazy, but I could swear the option to switch power profiles (Better Performance, Better Battery Life, Custom, etc…) was present in previous versions and is now absent in the power/battery options menu item. It can still be set via System Preferences, however.