Safari stopped working in Tiger

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Safari stopped working in Tiger

I just reformatted my hard drive after a power outage caused some conflicts. Cloned the backup of Jaguar and then loaded Tiger (after all the repair file permissions. Everything workd just fine except Safari. It said pages were forbidden or unreachable. All the bookmarks transfered, but I have double click them to get to the page, if it loads at all. Any ideas?

QS 2002 G4 dual 1.2GB and 1.5 Ram, Mac OS X (10.4.6), 1.5GB Ram ATI 9800

Posted on Jul 27, 2006 7:07 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 28, 2006 6:11 PM in response to mactothefuture

Ok let me be a little more specific. Safari will only load my start page any other page I get an error page that states Forbidden. FireFox works just fine in all pages, so it does not appear to be network related, Mail works fine also. I have repaired permissions emptied caches with no change. As you can see in the previous post this all happened after a power outage and the hard drive had to be completly erased and 10.3.9 was cloned onto it. Then I upgraded to Tiger on that same drive...everything seemed to be fine with all the other applications, of course no Safari. I read in a post somewhere about dumping a plist file but I don't know which or where to find it.

Safari will not even load the Apple web site and the buttons linking to other web sites have to be clicked 2 or more times and it may get a partial page or just another Forbidden, or you don't have the privilages.

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Answer 2

Jul 28, 2006 7:01 PM in response to mactothefuture

I am using Safari in 10.3.9 and it works just fine only will not load pages in Tiger 10.4.6. If that helps.

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Answer 3

TildeBee

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Jul 28, 2006 7:15 PM in response to mactothefuture

mac --

A couple thoughts/questions for you, OK?

1. While in Tiger, select the Safari (one click) that's in your Applications folder
and do a get info (Apple key with i key). From the get info box:

2. What version Safari is it?

3. Do you have Read & Write Permissions? Or is it owned by the System?

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Answer 4

Jul 28, 2006 7:21 PM in response to TildeBee

I will have to re-boot to find out the read write part but it is versions 2.03.

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Answer 5

TildeBee

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Jul 28, 2006 7:31 PM in response to mactothefuture

mac --
You need 2.0.4 for Tiger.
If it were me, I would apply the 10.4.7 Combo update

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosxupdate1047comboppc.html

This should bring your Safari up to date
plus fix any little wiggles in 10.4.6.

Hope this helps.

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Answer 6

Jul 28, 2006 7:39 PM in response to TildeBee

Thanks Bee I will try that but I want to get my ethernet hooked in for it because I heard that people have had trouble with the upgrade after doing it wireless. I did have the upgrade once but that is when the trouble started with the power outage. So this may have to wait until tomorrow, but I will let you know this weekend how it went. thanks for answering though!

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TildeBee

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Jul 28, 2006 8:41 PM in response to mactothefuture

Mac --
I might have been in error on my Safari version number.
2.0.3 (Safari) probably was for 10.4.6.
My sincere apologies.

However, I still think the concept of applying the Combo Update to 10.4.7
is a good one.

Sorry about the mix-up.

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Answer 8

Jul 29, 2006 5:12 AM in response to TildeBee

No problem Bee I agree with you about the update and I will get to it later today.

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Answer 9

Jul 29, 2006 6:16 AM in response to mactothefuture

I tried removing the plist file and still got the same error "Forbidden

You were denied access because:
Access denied by access control list." does this help anyone figure out what is going on?

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Answer 10

Jul 29, 2006 10:23 AM in response to mactothefuture

Hi, mac-

I believe it's a "permissions" issue of some sort...

I would suspect that it's either network or Safari related, probably at the system level. However, creating and testing in a new user account wouldn't hurt and might help confirm it's at system level, if it doesn't resolve it.

You might check your Network Preference Pane and turn off any proxies that may be enabled.

What are the specific permissions indicated when you do a Get Info on the Safari application?

You might also download and run Onyx in automation mode and delete your caches. (You can use another cache cleaning utility if you already have one.)

Gary

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Answer 11

Jul 29, 2006 7:45 PM in response to Majordadusma

You know sometimes it is all so comical. As it turns out you were (as usual) correct it was the permissions somehow Safari was locked, for me and the proxie was checked as you predicted in the Network settings, an easy fix once you know what direction to take. Thanks Gary you always jump in and lend a hand.

Up and running and getting ready to download 10.4.7 through an ethernet this time and not wireless G.

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Answer 12

RicB

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Jul 29, 2006 10:12 PM in response to mactothefuture

Hi Why does wireless down load of the update fail vs ethernet?
Ric

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Answer 13

Jul 30, 2006 9:42 AM in response to RicB

Hi, RicB!

A download might possibly become corrupted during transmission either way. All it takes is a tiny bit of data loss to ruin the entire software package. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen...

My layman's thoughts on wireless failures is that there's perhaps a greater likelihood of the "blip" occurring over the airways versus a land line (Mac to ethernet cable to wired modem...) Competing signals can interfere; signal strength can be unstable at times, etc. I'd compare it to the general stability of the signal from a wired telephone versus a cell phone, the latter which might sometimes lose a signal by simply turning one's head with the phone to one's ear.

Gary

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Answer 14

Jul 30, 2006 9:51 AM in response to mactothefuture

Great news, Mac!

Frankly, I'm no Safari or networking guy by any stretch of the imagination, so I was a bit concerned about where to go with this if the above suggestions didn't work or provide more clues. Glad you found the problem and resolved it! 🙂

Gary

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Answer 15

Jul 30, 2006 10:22 AM in response to Majordadusma

Well Gary that sucsess was short lived. Safari started doing the same thing, areas forbidden, changing my permissions. Very odd behavior. I did send a bug report to Apple about it. In the mean time I am using FireFox as my default browser it works better anyway. I will clean the caches again and see if that helps. I couldn't even get to the discussions group it just kept going back to the same page over and over. Very strange.

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