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Mac OS X 10.2.8 Update, Take Two
javaxman writes "OS X users will find Mac OS X Update version 10.2.8 is available via 'Software Update'. If you did not install the previous 10.2.8 update, the size of the new update is 40.6MB. If you installed the previous update, the size of the new update is small, ~680K... if you can connect to the network, that is. Clearly you get different downloads depending on what you did with the previous 10.2.8 update. Apple Knowledge Base article 25524 has the details. It looks very familiar. I'm installing mine right away, how about you?"
This may fix the ethernet problem, I don't know, it didn't affect me, but there were other problems with 10.2.8, www.MacFixIt.com made a fairly extensive list.
./System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.util. New permissions are 33261 ./System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.util, should be -rwxr-xr-x , they are -rwsr-xr-x ./System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.utilm issions corrected on ./System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.utilu p differs on ./private/var/run/utmp, should be 0, group is 1 ./private/var/run/utmp ./private/var/run/utmp
This definitely does not fix the crashing problem. (on my beige G3)
It can happen at any time, and is sometimes mistaken as an inability to wake from sleep, but you can get it to happen reliably by trying to repair permissions.
It outputs the following, then shuts down the display, and needs to be hard-restarted.
2003-10-03 17:36:12 -0400 - Repair of privileges has started
We are using special permissions for the file or directory
Permissions differ on
Owner and group corrected on
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Permissions corrected on
"The worst tyrannies were the ones where a governance required its own logic on every embedded node." - Vernor Vinge
I don't want to start a holy war here, but I was really scared that 10.2.8 ate my battery life for good. I'm so happy to see the familiar 4h+ is back (battery is about a year old; iBook 800 12").