10.6.3 update hiccups and workarounds

+1 for update problems.

The log: Software Update notified of updates; I accepted installation and it proceeded normally. I accepted restart and the updates were installed.

Upon restarting, I got a very long gray screen that lasted ~ 60s. I held power, restarted, and got the same thing. I held power, then reset PVRAM. (I'm sure you're thinking I'm not very patient, but the gray screen was so unusual as to seem hung.) Resetting PVRAM indeed made the gray screen wait time much shorter.

During subsequent booting, the spinner stopped and the boot process appeared to hang for at least 5 minutes. I held the power button and tried another reboot with same result. I then rebooted holding shift (safe mode boot); that booted to a login screen, at which point I rebooted again to get out of safe mode.

The final reboot went normally, except that I got a blank royal blue screen for perhaps 5 seconds before login. On login, I got a dialog box that asked me to find "System Events", whatever that is (a file, I presume); I clicked cancel.

Everything appears to be running correctly now, but that was a pretty rocky update.

By contrast, I just updated several machines to Ubuntu 10.04 without a hitch.

after the update i lost my "sharing" module in system preferences. This really sucks, doono what to do now.

Hosed my Macbook Pro. Restored from backup. Heard that this update has problems with permissions, so I'm performing a full backup on 10.6.2, then will verify/repair permissions, and try applying the update again.

Installed 10.6.3 last night, went to bed, tried to signin this morning but had password
issue... it reverted back to previous password from a couple of months ago !?!?!

Anyone else ever heard of this?

Both my iMac (21.5") and my MacBook Pro (late 2008) are experience the same thing: A lot of heat!

I let the iMac download the update overnight, restarted it and shut it down. After 6 hours I turned it on and then about 40 min. later it was hot, really hot...

The MBP was about the same, very hot. Less than the iMac though...

Both machines were erratically synching to MobileMe (it deleted my favorites) and Safari on the iMac get blurred when launching a site from Top Sites.

Waiting for the 10.6.4... Bummer!

(applied delta update to 10.6.3 yesterday) Upon arriving home this evening I found that my i7 iMac had experienced the very first kernel panic I've seen on a Mac since (I think) Panther. Upon restart it was able to recover a panic log to send off to Apple which appears to implicate backupd as a culprit. In any case I'm downloading the combo updater to apply as I write this. Perhaps combo plus some Command-Option-P-R love will prove to be a cure.

I didn't had a completely different problem it seems. After the install it was slow to shutdown and reboot but once it finally did it came up to the apple graphic/chime and then a kernel panic and would never go past that point (even disabling extensions). I was also unable to restore from my time machine initially. I had to flatten and install 10.6 fresh off the disc (via remote disc over airport since its a MBA) then flatten it again before it would recognize my time machine and restore from it.

A couple of restarts were slower than usual, But then, I reset my PRAM (Command-Option-P-R) and my hard drive, and it restarted quicker than usual.

Early 2008 MBP here and things are fine. Initially I had slow startups after reboot but didn't notice that this time around. Graphics are fine and somethings do seem to be snappier.

Given that I haven't worked the unit real hard yet. The only real problem that I've had with 10.6.2 was video playback sometimes freezing. Unfortunately the laptop hasn't ran enough to see if that problem has been cleared.

Right now it is two thumbs up.

Dave

If anyone else has experienced the graphics card going crazy, try installing smcFanControl and setting the fans to 4000 RPM+, bit noisey but seems to keep things cool and stop the graphics bugs...