Security Update 2007-004

Following this update, it took me a whole day to get my Mac back into sensible operation. Virtually all my apps unexpectedly quit after a few minutes of operation. (Including mainstream apps such as Mail, Safari and even the Dock) The console revealed this was due in each case to ATS (AppleTypeServices)...

Exception: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (0x0002)
Code[0]: 0x00000002
Code[1]: 0x902d6690
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ATS 0x902d6690 AnnexFileFlushUnusedAnnexEntries + 24
1 ATS 0x902d5f54 ActiveContainerTimerFired(__CFRunLoopTimer*, __CFDictionary const*) + 248

It continued to occur even in Safe Mode. Repair permissions and zapping PRAM made no difference. The disk verified ok. Apple Hardware Test revealed no problems.

Despite loads of messing about clearing font caches, repairing fonts, the only effective solution so far has been to re-install "Mac OS X 10.4.9 Combo Update (PPC)" - which I had to do from a second Mac - with the failing Mac booted in target mode.

This has solved the ATS problem. But I think it leaves some elements of the security update in-place - I can't connect via SMB to my W2003 server anymore.

Bad update!

:(

: My system: Mac G4 dual 1GHz Mirror 1G RAM

Apple Support Forums has this thread going for this known issue:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=933272&tstart=0

There are a few workarounds but nothing that apparently resolves this 100%. This sucks.

Ogre

@jake

You're right, as soon as it came back from sleep my networks are gone again.... Sonofa...

@Ogre
does it still work after you put your mac to sleep? because mine doesn't.

Restarted again and despite a minor heart attack when I got the OS Folder Icon+pinwheel it did boot and now Airport is back.

Killed my Airport as well. 10.3.9 on G4 800Mhz iMac. Won't recognize a single wireless network now. . . . great.

Any ideas?

well this update definitely did a number my on airport because now every time I want to connect to a wireless network I have to restart my computer (clamshell 300 10.3.9) any idea how I can un-install this update until apple comes to and fixes it?

@random: Thanks! It's so strange, the last time I checked, my ROM version was B03 as well.

And the way those firmware updates normally go, you can't miss them. So how did I get to B08 without noticing? Hmmm.

alright, seems the recent printer install did some nasty things to my hard drive, but all is well now

@Lars:
mine is Boot ROM Version: IM51.0090.B03
SMC Version: 1.9f4

but i compared this with what i used to have, and it's exactly the same, no firmware update as far as i can tell.

can't install the thing at all, gives me an error, saying, hey it didnt work, and you can find the .pkg in the trash, try installing again.
so i take it out of the trash, didnt install, tried updating normally, no go, im on an iMac 20" core 2 duo with 10.4.9.. had no apps running while attempting the update, but did reboot after the first failed attempt, and it rebooted twice, without the update!

im going to see what happens on my macbook c2d