Uh oh… We here at MacShrine are skipping this update and just holding out for Leopard. Why have all Mac OS updates recently been causing crashes? Is Apple just slacking as Leopard is coming out soon?
The 10.4.9 update hung my computer, and its been hanging other people’s as well. Mine ran and reported an error, then failed to fully restart the computer - it just sat there on my wallpaper with no finder or menu bar for ages. I powered the system down and then up again and it just hung on the gray Apple boot screen with the swirling circle. After 15 minutes I tried again, no love. Disk Repair from the install DVD made some minor repairs but never solved the problem. In the end I made a disk image of my drive onto an external and did a reinstall, which seems to have gotten me back on track, all my apps, files, settings, etc, are all in tact, apart from a couple of stray System Preference add-ons I had, and my Account photo is AWOL. Not bad, all things considered.
I back up, I’ve got DVD-Rs with loads of stuff squirreled away, but clearly a regular disk image routine is also in order for times like these. Lesson learned… until Time Machine comes along!
March 16th, 2007 at 2:25 am
Within a few hours of updating to 10.4.9 on a Powerbook, I got a kernel panic I’d never seen before, where the screen dims and a message “You must restart” or some such appears above it.
When I updated to 10.4.9 on a iMac G4, it hung at reboot. I had to power of and on, and it came up o.k.
March 16th, 2007 at 2:28 am
Same thing happened to me. Had to reinstall the OS. No more updates for me.
March 28th, 2007 at 11:52 am
I’ve got a Mac Mini (1.4Ghz ppc) which I use as a (very) small web and email server. It had been running for a year without a crash. Since the software update to 10.4.9 it has been crashing every few days. I haven’t had any problems with my iMac though, only the Mini. I’m very annoyed as it’s ruined a totally stable machine that I require 24/7 uptime from. Is it possible to downgrade back to a previous version? I don’t want to do a clean install as it will require days of work to set everything back up again. I can’t go back to a backup disk as I’m using RAID mirroring for backup - but this causes 10.4.9 to crash even more often. I want my totally reliable, uncrashable OS X back now, Apple.
August 3rd, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Brilliant!