TS1541: Solutions for troubleshooting installation, startup, and login issues in Mac OS X v10.5

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mobHACK
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Q: What if the blue screen is caused after you installed the Apple OS X v10.5.x update and then after installation it fails to load and go to blue screen?

You show the supposed answer to third party installation failure's. But what if you keep getting your perfectly running PowerBook G4 gets a security or general apple software update screen and then after I do the update, after reload it goes and sits on the blue screen. I've already had to re-install the **** OS once onto a partition of the hard drive. I don't want to have to delete the whole drive just for your updater's F up that causes a perfectly running mac to get an update installation from Apple, so what does any apple user do, we click install and restart. So how would I to know that first time that it would cause me working mac to completely fail and cause me to install the OS again onto it.  But now see this is the most F***ed up sh*t, you no longer support the PowerBook G4 17" hardware or software. But we still get update notices from you.  So I say your updater screwed my working computer to sit on blue screen, and your fix doesn't even work find a file and delete it. I would if that file even was an actual file.

17" PowerBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.3), 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM, 1.67 GHz

Posted on Jun 16, 2012 6:01 PM

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  • by mobHACK,

    mobHACK mobHACK Jun 16, 2012 6:10 PM in response to mobHACK
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    Jun 16, 2012 6:10 PM in response to mobHACK

    BUMP BUMP BUMP found an Archived reply to someone elses issue that was never fixed or investigated ***!

    https://discussions.apple.com/message/7050692#7050692

    the last replying persons issue is mine now again. And after Apple's updater.

  • by BDAqua,

    BDAqua BDAqua Jun 16, 2012 9:53 PM in response to mobHACK
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    Jun 16, 2012 9:53 PM in response to mobHACK

    Hello, We're just other Users here.

     

    Could be many things, we should start with this...

     

    "Try Disk Utility

     

    1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.

    2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)

    *Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*

    3. Click the First Aid tab.

    4. Select your Mac OS X volume.

    5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."

     

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214

     

    Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.

     

    (Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)

     

    The usual reason why updates fail  or mess things up, is if Permissions are not fixed before & after every update, with a reboot... you may get a partial update when the installer finds it doesn't have Permissions to change one obscure little part of the OS, leaving you with a mix of OS versions. (Well, the Installer actually uses superuser Permissions to do it's work, but after reboot it doesn't guarantee communication with other existing needed files Permissions.)

     

    Some people get away without Repairing Permissions for years, some for only days.

     

    If Permissions are wrong before applying an update, you could get mixed OS versions, if Directory is the slightest messed up, who knows!

     

    If many Permission are repaired, or any Directory errors are found, you may need to re-apply some the latest/biggest updates.

     

    May even need to do an Archive and Install if you have room on the HD, but saves all your files and gives a new OS...

     

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120

     

    I only use Software Update to see what is needed, then get them for real via...

     

    http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/

     

    That way I can wait a week or so, check the forums for potential problems, and get Permissions & such in order +before+ installing.

     

    If all the above fails, then it appears to be time for a relatively painless Archive & Install, which gives you a new/old OS, but can preserve all your files, pics, music, settings, etc., as long as you have plenty of free disk space and no Disk corruption, and is relatively quick & painless...

     

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120

     

    Just be sure to select Preserve Users & Settings.