“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.
Tiger Leopard/Leopard Tuger: There are no general problems with the update 10.5.6. If you are having problems it is due to 3rd party software and drivers that are ill-advised for installation on Leopard and which you need to first remove. I do not believe you have been a Mac programmer or that you have been a programmer for 20 years. I think you may not even own a Mac and if you do, it is not your primary computer.
TGAFM: Why post here? If you want to bash Apple, why do it here? Why not do it on a pro-MS site?
Safari keeps on crashing on my computer since the update.
I upgraded my 6 year old from Leopard 10.5.5 to 10.5.6 with not even a hiccup. Sync works fabulous as does everything else.
…to “Apple Fanboy massacre” That Dog Don’t Hunt.
If you don’t like Apple products DON’T BUY ‘EM. I’ll never understand what you are doing on this site anyway. Don’t you have anything better to do with your life than try to make others as miserable you are in your PC prison?
Update procedure:
1. Download the Combo update.
2. Verify (and repair, using something like DiskWarrior if necessary) hard drive. Verify again till no problems are found.
3. Repair permissions.
4. Run the Combo update.
Never had problems after doing this.
Has anyone noticed that you can again view .wmv files, using Flip4Mac, inside Mail.
It broke on the previous update and only played audio unless you dragged it out of mail.
4 years and 3 Macs from Panther to Tiger to Leopard, and no upgrade problems on any of them…
I have to say I have been a little upset with the Software Update Utility.
Every time I do an update and “reboot” my iMac, I have to chase it down the hall, reconnect all the plugs and find the mouse… wherever it landed. Onetime I rebooted and the Mac broke a window. It took me half the day to figure out how to get it off the roof!
So bottom line, Apple really needs to fix their Software Updater. It’s not doing my machine any good.
It ain’t 10.5.6, I’ve been unable to get Spotlight to work on my main machine since I upgraded to Leopard.
Never had a single update fail since Panther (on either my G4 ibook, 2006 macbook pro, 2005 mac mini, or late 2008 macbook). Always used software update and have almost never repaired permissions first.
Guess I’m just lucky? I usually wait a few hours before updating just to gauge others’ experiences.
@ JAYGEE: if your System items have the wrong permissions then they may not be updated or worse only imcompatib;e items are updated.
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_permissions
@ 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
“we repaired permissions via Disk Utility before upgrading” ????
I use a Mac since 2006, because it works, and I have never had any problems, but is this something I should be doing before up grading, I am a user, not a techie
I’m with you HotinPlaya.
If it was so important, why wouldn’t it be a part of the update process?
it’s unnecessary except in extreme cases and apple says so…
used to do it until i searched the knowledge base.
Just upgraded to 10.5.6 less than 10 minutes ago. I didn’t repair permissions, or do anything special other than eject my external hard drive before rebooting. Not a single issue.
The only times I have ever had problems with OS X upgrades was going to a new full point release. Way back when I moved from 10.1 to Jaguar, I had an issue. My wife had a problem with setting the time zone on her new Leopard MacBook after migrating her files from a Tiger iBook, but it was easily fixed thanks to the Apple Support Discussion boards.
I have never had a problem applying an update, in seven years and four Macs.
——RM
Updated my uni-body MBP through software updater without repairing disk permissions before. Everything went off smoothly without a hitch.
I did the update on two Macs using Software Update, and it went smoothly. They were previously running fine with 10.5.5, and continue to run fine with 10.5.6. I have not noticed any difference, in fact, which I suppose is a good thing in my case.
For the “dot-dot” updates, I run Repair Disk while booted from another disk, and then run Repair Disk Permissions while booted normally. Then I run Software Update – has worked every time.
It is not necesary to repair permissions on OS X. Updates going wrong have nothing to do with permissions.
It is a myth comparable to the glossy displays. In reality, glossy displays are better for color acuracy, not worse.
@anaknipedro,
Repairing permissions is like a routine that a basketball player does before shooting his free throw. He doesn’t have to do it, but it makes him feel better.
Upgraded 3 Macs w/o issue: Macbook Air (current gen), Macbook Pro (previous gen) and a Mac Pro (previous gen). Didn’t repair permissions or do anything in preparation for the upgrade. Frankly, I’ve never had an issue upgrading OS X in all the years I’ve used it (since 2002).
I know for a fact that it’s user error. My grandparents can try something over and over, and if they don’t do something just right it won’t happen. I come over and I “fix” it and I’m a genius because of it. They were only clicking the wrong button or didn’t check the right box. This is user error. If you can’t upgrade your computer correctly, don’t do it.