The changing life and times of Leopard

Hey everybody, just a few tips on safe upgrading/updating.

*Backup everything using a good cloning tool.
*reverse/disable third party hacks and addons.
*repair permissions before and after an update.
*use the Combo updater rather than Software update for system upgrades.
*boot into single user mode and do an fsck (or run disk repair from startup cd/dvd)
*if you have problems, there are countless forums for sharing and troubleshooting. TUAW is good for sharing, but not appropriate for effective troubleshooting. If you're having lots of problems, you may have to do a clean install, then run the combo updater and then reconfigure all your stuff. The backup comes in handy for that.

This update completely crashed my wireless network and now I can't get it to work. I don't even know who's wireless I'm on right now. I have no clue how to fix it, but it said that there was a system with a conflicting IP address on my wireless. I don't have time machine running because I just got leopard, so I don't know how I can go back and uninstall the update.

"Just visit the "Desktop and Screen Saver" System Preference pane and un-check the "Translucent Menu Bar" check-box in the "Desktop" tab."


say what?
there's no "Translucent Menu Bar" check-box in the "Desktop" tab.

Eric - Some more info on my setup - I have a linksys router using wpa with a hidden ssid. This issue happens with bluetooth turned on or off. This issue is pretty consistent, in fact, it happened before I could log on and add this comment. If you want anymore info, let me know.

After my upgrade, Safari started behaving strange. Font size changes on every web-site, and I need to readjust font size (a-A) all the time. Get some of the text readable this way, but if page consist of text with different font size, it becomes very messy. Even writing this makes problem: I had to click several times to increase font, but then other text becomes unreadable. Help!

I have actually had a lot of problems since the upgrade. Airport loses my connection everytime I put my computer to sleep and I have to either reboot or manually enter the ssid and password. This was tolerable (it has happened since the day I upgraded to Leopard) but since the 10.5.2 update, when my machine goes to sleep, I still lose wifi about 50% of the time but it doesn't matter because the computerslows to a crawl, the mouse becomes very jumpy, and that happens about 80% of the time. Of course, that is when it actually decides to wake up from sleeping. About 30% of the time, the screen won't even turn on and I have to hard reboot to get any life. I rebooted my machine 5 times last night due to these issues. Maybe this is their way to get people to buy the Apple Care, I did last night just in case.
If anyone is wondering, my Macbook Pro is less than 4 months old and is the 2.2 gig proc. 4 gig ram, 160 gig hdd, all updates current.

I and quite a few other people have been having an issue in Leopard on the MacBook (primarily) where trying to run DVD Player after the computer's been on for a while causes an instant kernel panic.

It doesn't panic if you run DVD Player after a reboot, but if you wait a while and use the Mac, and then go back to it, DVD Player will cause the kernel panic.

This is the only program doing it. It's specific to DVD Player and it has nothing to do with preferences or application support. It seems to be tied to the graphics memory.

It's driving me crazy. Before this, I never had kernel panics. Now, I can't use one of the core programs on OS X without seeing the grey curtain of death.

10.5.2 didn't fix it. Neither did the graphics update. All we in the Apple discussions seem to be able to do on our end is report it every time we get a kernel panic.

Anyone else have this?

The ability to share DVD/CD drives is a new feature of 10.5.2 (System Preferences:Sharing)

Anyone know how to get the old server/sharepoint icons back? The new kids holding hands is a bit nauseating...

BT

Ron
Oddly, I only find it by mousing to an empty desktop real estate area, then right clicking, and going to the options there. I never found it anywhere else!