Techsurvivors

Archives => 2003 => Topic started by: csonni on September 23, 2003, 08:28:45 PM

Title: OSX 10.2.8 pulled by Apple
Post by: csonni on September 23, 2003, 08:28:45 PM: Thought some of you might not be aware of this:
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/0.../23/1028pulled/
Title: OSX 10.2.8 pulled by Apple
Post by: Bill on September 23, 2003, 08:40:18 PM: So that's what the (main or close) problem is.
Thanks for the info!
Title: OSX 10.2.8 pulled by Apple
Post by: Gary S on September 23, 2003, 08:59:23 PM: Yeah. I'm not going to 10.2.8 until the bugs are worked out and it gets a clean bill of health.

10.2.6 is fine for now.
Title: OSX 10.2.8 pulled by Apple
Post by: Epaminondas on September 23, 2003, 09:08:14 PM: << So that's what the (main or close) problem is. >>

Problems:

It cracked my LCD and all the colors ran out.
Title: OSX 10.2.8 pulled by Apple
Post by: ljocampo on September 23, 2003, 09:33:54 PM: I have a 533/G4 using ethernet to connect with and I'm typing this with the 10.2.8 update. I haven't noticed anything wrong with my system except maybe it runs a little better.
Title: OSX 10.2.8 pulled by Apple
Post by: RobW on September 23, 2003, 09:37:13 PM: Now, if I can get them to pull OSX.2.5,6,and 7 I'll be up to date again!
Title: OSX 10.2.8 pulled by Apple
Post by: swhitset on September 23, 2003, 09:53:45 PM: Great,

I waited until tonight to install the update, and the first thing I see when I come back here is this. Oh well, I haven't noticed any problems yet. The problem isn't supposed to affect anything but a few Powermacs. I did see that someone on the Maccentral feedback forums claims to have the problem on an 800 mhz imac (what I am typing this from) but so far, so good.

Steve
Title: OSX 10.2.8 pulled by Apple
Post by: kelly on September 23, 2003, 10:51:13 PM: Those dealmac posts have been pretty amusing.
Title: OSX 10.2.8 pulled by Apple
Post by: kps on September 23, 2003, 11:13:47 PM: I guess I must be lucky, 'cause I've had no issues with the update...none so far, on either the G4 Sawtooth tower or the 12" Powerbook. The powerbook actually boots much faster.
Title: OSX 10.2.8 pulled by Apple
Post by: gmann on September 23, 2003, 11:41:45 PM: I wish they had pulled it before I dl'd it. It really messed up a lot of things on my silver. I had to wipe the hard drive. I tried to backup from my slave drive, but CCC froze up 1/3 of the way through.
Title: OSX 10.2.8 pulled by Apple
Post by: Epaminondas on September 23, 2003, 11:49:15 PM: I'll wait until OS X.x. . . . is ready for prime time.

(Still on 8.6 on the Mac). :-)
Title: OSX 10.2.8 pulled by Apple
Post by: pendragon on September 24, 2003, 04:16:24 AM: If Apple releases 10.2.9 and then pulls that, no doubt 10.3 will be free. I know that is true because Bernie told me so.

Harv
Title: OSX 10.2.8 pulled by Apple
Post by: rongold on September 24, 2003, 04:45:46 AM: Although 10.2.8 updater disappeared from
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120244> yesterday, the disappearance was temporary. Able to download the combo updater without any problem this morning. My 17" G4 iMac has been running on 10.2.8 without any problems since obtaining update via Software Updates.
Title: OSX 10.2.8 pulled by Apple
Post by: Al on September 24, 2003, 04:52:59 AM: Interesting, I had a problem with this update too, but it was with a beige G3. I posted the problem on Apple Discussions about wierd activity with ethernet and Mail program. Since it was a fairly virgin install of OS X, I tried wiping the drive clean and reinstalling 10.2.0 then updated again to 10.2.8. Now all seems to work okay on that beige.

On my B&W it has worked fine so far.
Title: OSX 10.2.8 pulled by Apple
Post by: taliesin on September 25, 2003, 07:00:37 AM: I'm waiting.
Have only just really got back to the Mac after a bit of a break.
Saw the update and dire warnings here and at MFI at the same time.
Bad, bad, bad...

I've been burned twice now with Apple updates and I'm not risking another one till it's clear that it's clean.

"If Apple releases 10.2.9 and then pulls that, no doubt 10.3 will be free. I know that is true because Bernie told me so."

Loved it, Harv.
If only!!
Title: OSX 10.2.8 pulled by Apple
Post by: Paddy on September 25, 2003, 08:29:26 AM: Ron, as of 9:26 AM EDT today, the 10.2.8 update is "temporarily unavailable" at that URL and Apple has posted another article about workarounds for those with 10.2.8 related problems:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107669
Title: OSX 10.2.8 pulled by Apple
Post by: Bill on September 25, 2003, 04:05:22 PM: Just talked to a friend who downloaded the update when it was on apples site and stashed it till there was time to install it.
She installed it an hour ago on her PB without checking to see if there were any issues first.

"(((HELP!! How do I get my dock back?)))"

Got her up and running with the dock ~~~ just by telling her to reboot and running permissions ~~~. It worked!

Was going to have her pull the dock prefs out and reboot. Didn't have to.