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Vista SP1 Update Locks Out Some Users
Echostorm writes with word that Windows Vista SP1, which began rolling out via Automatic Update, has left some users' machines unbootable. The update loops forever on "Configuring updates: Stage 3 of 3 — 0% complete. Do not turn off your computer." "Shutting down"... restart and loop. Echostorm notes having found traces of what sounds like the same bug in early beta releases of SP1. It's unclear how many users are affected. So far there is no word on a fix from Microsoft.
If games, XP. Else, Linux.
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask where they're goin' and hook up with 'em later.
I upgraded to 10.5.2 last week... not sure what went wrong. Machine rebooted, and after providing my user name and password, it would go blue (the color of my desktop) for about a second, and then kick me back to the login screen. I booted into safe mood, booted off the Leopard disk and repaired permissions, repaired disk, reset the password, and that didn't work.
Then I did a clean Leopard install, and imported the user settings from my Time Machine backup (so I wouldn't have to manually reinstall all of my programs). Same thing happened, so I was forced to repave my laptop and reinstall all of my applications.
I'm just putting this out there to silence all of the anti-microsoft folks. A few users get screwed when an OS is updated, that's always been the case.
Oh, I did try to put Ubuntu on there between Leopard installs. Everything installed without issue, except the wireless performance was dismal (as in three minutes to load Google, timing out on everything else), and I couldn't get the VESA drivers to recognize the laptop resolution, and I couldn't get the proprietary ATI drivers to work with Compiz. It's very, very, close though. (On a side note, the Leopard disk utility is incapable of partitioning once Linux has been installed, so I had to nuke the partitions with the ubuntu installer before Leopard would successfully partition without the error: Resource Busy.)
Yes, but the Ausssie's didn't come up with it, an kangaroo had to show them. :-)