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Mac OS X 10.4.1 Is Out
MrBadbar writes "Software Update just informed me that an update to Mac OS X (10.4.1) is now available. The updates include mail, address book, dashboard widgets, Safari, iLife, and other miscellaneous fixes. At this rate, it's only about 18 more weeks until 10.5."
my powerbook's hard drive started grinding horrendously a couple of hours after upgrading to tiger. i erased my drive and did a clean install, but the problem persisted, and it kept locking up several times an hour. apple tech support told me to zero my drive and start over, but it crashed 3/4 of the way through the zeroing process, and now my drive will no longer mount.
good thing i had cloned my system to my fw drive right before installing tiger the first time... but my powerbook is going to have to be sent off for a couple of weeks to get the drive replaced.
shame i didn't wait until 10.4.1...
- california geek girl
The gpgmail 1.1 bundle seems to have broken under 10.4.1. It was working nicely under 10.4.
~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
seems to have been renamed to:
~/Library/Mail/Bundles (Disabled)/
A warning dialog box is displayed notifying you that the bundle is no longer supported the first time you start up Mail under 10.4.1
Nope. Still not enabled, as the Quartz Debug Tools menu shows: you still need to manually enable it.
Since Tiger wend GM at the end of March, it's been a month and a half for bug fixing, with the last two-plus weeks of that period essentially the public beta of the OS.
I've already installed it on my PowerBook, and after a few days' time I'll see if it's the update that makes it worth recommending for most of my clients to start their testing. Usually, it seems to take Apple a couple more point releases to really get the major kinks out, so I'm expecting Tiger to hit its stride around mid-summer.
For those of you unfamiliar with Apple release cycles - expect to see a point release like this every 4-6 weeks initially, followed by a cutback to every couple of months later on. Security updates are typically released on a separate basis, about once per month, and will be available for Panther as well for the foreseeable future. Even 10.2 still gets some security fixes now and then. And there will be occasional updates to the iApps and other stuff that are done separately.
There's also a few Safari bugs that snuck in late in the cycle that haven't been addressed yet - Safari is unchanged in 10.4.1.
-- Josh Turiel
"2. Do not eat iPod Shuffle."
According to the Knowledge Base about the update, all previously-installled third-party Mail.app plug-ins will not load. I assume that means that you just need to reinstall them.
Even if you reinstall after the upgrade.
.4 or so, to an AVERAGE of 2, and the temperature inside the box was hovering at 140 degrees.
.2 to .4, the process table is still full of these:
I have a PowerBook 1.5GHz with 2GB RAM, and under 10.4 the internal drive and both firewire disks (one a FW400, the other a FW800) would spin perpetually, my load average went from the normal
All of this has been corrected in 10.4.1 (for me). Load average is back down to
483 mdimport 0.0% 0:03.16 4 67 65 1.83M 7.40M 4.72M 41.8M
but it's no longer grinding all the disks into oblivion.
I can also reboot now. Since 10.4 I could not shutdown or reboot, had to open terminal and reboot manually.
So far this update has resolved many issues I was experiencing.
Anybody know what the deal is with Q2DE?
I installed 10.4.1 update without incident.
BUT I had a problem earlier with a grinding noise in the hard-disk area on my powerbook.
Turned out to be that the hard disk was faulty.
IDE type Hard drives have an area of space reserved for "reallocating" bad sectors. If your disk is really bad this area will fill up. When there is no more space left to reallocate to you will get a SMART error.
Click on "About this Mac", click "more info" and select your drive from the ATA section. You will see the SMART status there.
If you get this then you need to replace the drive.
I ended up replacing my drive with a 7200RPM Momentus - MAN I'm happy the old one died now!
Your signal strength isn't any lower with Tiger. The AirPort signal strength indicator has actually been retooled to show, not the signal strength, but the speed of the connection. This is a change from Panther.
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I can access both my Debian boxes fine from my Mac. Didn't change a thing after a clean install except specify the correct workgroup in the Directory Access app. I'm not even sure if I need to do it or not, but everything works and I'm fine with that.
Have you checked your logs to see why Samba is failing?
But you know what?
I'm actually not kidding. I was swapping pretty bad with 10.4.0 which was causing some real pain. So far, no swap.
Hm. Works for me. Debian stable running a stock samba, mounted in Tiger from the regular old Network pane of the Finder. Only real change I made to /etc/samba/smb.conf was to bump SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF from 4096 to 65536.
This update still did not enable Quartz 2D-Extreme on my system, so on a hunch, I enabled it manually, as per this hint, and wow... Really nice!
I had temporarily enabled it under 10.4.0 via the debugging tool, but the speed difference was nowhere near what I'm getting after booting the entire OS with it enabled!
A lot of people are reporting bugs with this being enabled, which is likely why Apple still hasn't enabled it by default. But I've had absolutely 0 bugs so far - Which to be honest has only been about 2.5 hours, but still... It's enough to at least justify trying it out IMHO. Using the hint I reference above, you ocan always "reset" it to off, if you do run into problems.
For what it's worth, I'm going to be leaving this on unless some (any!) problems pop up tomorrow. It's very impressive! Even apps which I wouldn't think would be impacted, such as Remote Desktop (controlling an XP box from within OSX) are noticably faster.
For the record, I'm running a dual 2Ghz w/2gb of ram, and an ATI 9600. Your mileage may vary.
The 10.4.1 Update changes approximately 500 file system objects, not counting files modified only by prebinding.
The summary:
476 changes
16 additions
0 removals
Detailed list of modifications is available here.
For reference - these changes were captured by the OpenSource build of Tripwire, patched for Mac OS X. It's pretty likely that any changes captured on your system will differ in a few ways, but the basic theme should be consistent.
Jason
An object at rest cannot be stopped!
Spotlight re-indexes the system HD. that was a unexpected and gave me reason to go to gym while it finished. I hope future updates dont suffer the same performance hit.
Too bad that I still can't send mail over IPv6 with Mail 2.0.1, like I could with the Panther version of Mail.
(The reason is that Mail inserts some random characters in the domain name in the EHLO line when the connection is over IPv6.)
I had problems connecting to my Samba server running on Debian when I first installed 10.4.
It appears as though 10.4 requires the password exchange to be encrypted, so in the smb.conf file:
; encrypt passwords = false
(note the semi colon).
I used to run plaintext passwords with 10.3 for some reason. I think it was because 10.3 didn't like encrypted password exchange with Samba, but I may be mistaken (poor memory).
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Cisco released an update (4.6.03.0160) on 5/13, but be aware that it's for single-processor configs only. Check out http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 12696 for some initial reactions.
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Benefits of Quartz 2D extreme: speed, quality. Graphics render faster and look better especially during transformations (like the genie effect).
Can your hardware handle it?
Go into "About this Mac" and click "More Info"
Select the video card for more detailed information
Look for:
Core Image: Supported
Core Image-capable graphics cards include:
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
ATI Radeon 9600 XT, 9800 XT, X800 XT
nVidia GeForce FX Go 5200
nVidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL, 6800 GT DDL
Full details.