CUI CUI CUI error 10.7.3 all apps crashes

Maby a little help instead of a lecture?

I mounted the drive as said in Disk Utility.

I typed 'installer -pkg /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ 10.7.3\ Update\ Combo/MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.3.pkg -target /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD'

Though...it said 'Error the Package path speciafied was invalid'. I think it might be because I installed Lion on my Crucial M4 SSD intern hardrive.

So my question is 'what should be typed in termnal?'

Tom and All,

Just got a call from Apple Care, Which was gathering information for Engineering they called me investigating the issues I had. Sent screen shots I had taken and other info to them.

They are on top of what happened and working hard to figure it out!

Is there any reason you aren't just using the recovery partition? That may have happened had cloned your drive instead of installed Lion directly. But the recovery partition is easy.

Of if you have access to another mac, that's your best bet.

Well since you decided to start out by blasting me when all I have done is write two post on this site on how I managed to solve this without having to explain to non-UNIX types how to deal with terminal (and the one reply to Tom agreeing with his assertion that if what's on your drive is important to you then have a clone of it in case something like this happens), I'd suggest you try the boot from Recovery Partition (if you have that available on your SSD) and try the Re-Install Lion option. If you choose the terminal option or are not able to boot to the recovery partition then keep in mind the path to your Combo Update image is going to be case and space sensitive - well, at least space sensitive. I think the method you are trying to use is also covered in detailed steps near the start of this thread. Probably in the first four pages of the thread.

I hope you get your system up and running.

The only proper, and well documented, way to install a major update pack since day 1, is not to do it from software update. You should always install it after downloading the combo updater and follow the procedure below. This will greatly reduce, or eliminate, chances for problems:

Download the combo updater and follow the following method:

1. Run disk utility and do a verify disk, and if clean, a repair permissions.

2. reboot the machine

3. apply the combo update

4. after reboot, rerun disk utility and repeat verify disk and repair permissions.

5. reboot

6. run software update and apply any other patches.

If you decide to take the chance and run the software update package, do that at step 3 (instead of the combo update).

Hi All,

Just had apple call me on the phone and they are looking into the problem. They asked for an image of my machine to help them resolve the problem. So keep you chin up. Keep Calm & Carry on. 😉

Help is on the way

It's a bit disappointing that Apple and those who worked on it can but out a broken update through software update they admit it on the Macupdate site and say the fix is Combo update which luckily I always use. But the fix they give at the moment is to put the combo o er the update which doesn't help anybody who cannot launch any programs to download it. It is a mess from Apple and something that simply shouldn't happen these days.

Here's what worked for me: (was frozen after installing COMBO update)

Start in recovery mode (Cmd+R after chime)

Repair disk (in disk utility) then repair permissions.

Restart.
Things seem alright now...

boyfromoz wrote:

I don't find much different because Lion has always worked great for me. But maybe Apple might think about making the Combo Update the default update in software update ?

They can do that, or set SU to download the full Delta update. This is the first time since I am on Mac where the Delta update has brought issues as well, but most of the time Delta Updates are safe.

In this case however, the issue seems to be more consistent with people upgrading their Macs with the 10.7.3 Software Update version, which is specially tailored for the user's Mac and take (or puts) bits and pieces of the update depending on the user's current system configuration. I find this behavior is often problematic and it has been proven from time to time during each maintenance release of OSX. I used to have a 7-day rule before installing some updates but due to the little stability in OSX Lion it has served as a incentive to bypass that rule and change it to a 2-day update cool-off rule. I think Apple got it mostly right in 10.7.2 & 10.7.3. if these updates can be used as an indicator it seems to me that the subsequent 10.7.4 and 10.7.5 updates will be also massive in size as bugs continue to be squashed by the Apple Developer team; and I think we might see a 10.7.9 or 10.7.10 if the next iteration of OSX (known as 10.8, so far) is released in the 2013 Summer/Fall timeframe. I hope that my Mac's reliability and stability improves with the current Lion update and there are indications so far that this is the case.

I am VERY annoyed that apple haven't pulled this update yet, I only did it tonight and it screwed everything up, thank GOD for time capsule and time machine back ups.

How am I, as a user supposed to know not to allow a system update to go ahead? I'm not, that's the whole reason behind these automatic system update programs.

I don't expect apple to be allowing crappy system destroying updates out into the wild and then keeping them there and allowing people to continue downloading the problem file 3 days after they've been made aware of the issue.

The download files should have been pulled immediately.

had the same problem. Opened a case with Apple support and eventually forced to visit my Apple store for a system restore. Was informed by Apple technical staff at Raleigh, NC store NOT TO INSTALL 10.7.3 UPDATE. Was instructed to wait until next update instead.

Upon my visit today I was standing next to 3 other customers with the SAME problem. The Apple store was full today of customers with technical issues in part to the recent update.

I am confident that Apple was attempting in good faith to post a critical update to fix other issues. Instead the 10.7.3 update created chaos as many users were left with unusable hardware that crashed every installed program - except iCal and Address Book.

I hope that Apple creates a fix to replace the snafu in 10.7.3. I cannot stress enough that Apple Store Technical Support was telling its customers after the reinstall of Lion to NOT download 10.7.3. However to wait for an update at a later date.

Hi guys,

I fixed this issue by reinstalling the combo update with remote desktop.

You can mount the combo dmg on a "good" system and drag it into the package installer.

This worked fine for me!

Good luck!

I received a phone call in Australia today from the US from an Apple technician. Wow that is good customer service!! I hadn't spoken or complained to them but they read this forum and asked if I was ok. I told him that I had restored back to 10.7.2 and was going to wait. He said as I had 10.7.2 I could download the combo update and it would be ok.

I will do this next week.

Thanks Apple tech for reading this and taking the time to call me.

Cheers

That may be the only proper, well documented way to install the patch, but if Software Update offers such an update in an alternative manner, how is a user to distinguish this is not an advisable way to install such an update?

There's the rub, the update was offered via Software Update, and I suspect that most people wouldn't expect a vendor to offer such an update via a method that wasn't in fact a recommended way to deliver it? Doesn't that make sense?

In my case, recovery involved (on a mid-2011 Mac Mini, with relatively little on it - fortunately) :

1. Recovery Partition.

2. Time Machine restore back to 10.7.2

3. Installation of the combo installer 10.7.3

And now everything appears all good.

As I said however, if a vendor offers an update via a delivery mechanism, one would expect it to be a valid and recommended means of delivery. I find it strange that Software Update is not a recommended means of delivery for major updates. I'll keep that in mind for the future.