Updates

10.5.6 is out

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The 10.5.6 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac.

For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3194.
For detailed information on security updates, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.

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Who is going to do it first ?



And as well as that there is [ for me ayway ]

Keyboard Firmware update

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This MacBook and MacBook Pro firmware update addresses an issue where the first key press may be ignored if the computer has been sitting idle. It also addresses some other issues.

The update package will install an updater application into the Applications/Utilities folder and will launch it automatically. Please follow the instructions in the updater application to complete the update process.

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And who is going to do that one first ?

I'm doing the combo http://support.apple.com/downloads/Mac_OS_X_10_5_6_Combo_Update

Thanks for the heads up. I'll do it right now.

Macbook downloading now... no firmware update, but I've done two in the last week anyway

Not convenient to do the iMac yet.

Must be hot off the press, I checked earlier and there was nothing.

Double restart after the combo install.

Macbook done- two restarts, no problems.

Macbook- 377MB, iMac 190MB

Downloading the iMac one, but the restart will have to wait.

Downloading now.

Double restart ??

oh how I love them

Only the update for 10.5.6 shows for my MacBook. That is already done, with the iMac for when I get home tonight.

MacFriar

Is this the equivalent of an air raid siren?

In her case probably.

Notice she has not been heard from since I goated her into doing the update. I am sure the fire service is already on standby.

MacFriar

Edited by deleted (Mon 15-Dec-08 19:59:11)

You are a rotten lot - remember I had 2 to do

All done and dusted

Actually that double restart was the fastest I have ever had

I only ever download one copy for both machines.

I can't be bothered- I just run software update and let the machines get on with it .

Easy enough.

Two restarts but all in all quite painless.

That 190MB download translated to over 7GB when Time Machine got hold of it


edit- OK, maybe 4GB. I'd forgotten a major tidy-up of the iTunes library

Edited by billford (Mon 15-Dec-08 22:56:12)

I wonder - and now I'm asking something very very dangerous I know

has anyone else noticed a change on Shutdown ?

Remember , those of you who actually do Shut Down , the dialogue box which says

" Are you sure you want to shut down now ?
If you do nothing now the system will automatically shut down in ........ "

Now fill in that gap please - I want to see if other machines say what my MacBook now says

Mine briefly flashes "1 minute", then counts down in seconds... same as it always did as far as I can remember.

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At last!! The new mail chime now works on my MBP. Previously it only worked when there was another sound playing.

Hmmmm - mine always said 2 mins - now it's 1 min and I only noticed it yesterday

One minute here ... but since I so rarely shut down, I can't remember what it used to say.

Did the MacBook Pro yesterday, double restart no problems so far. Did the PMac G5 and the Hackintosh today, G5 ok but minor sleep problem with Hackintosh.

Always was one minute here. Maybe you were delayed.

MacFriar

I was waiting for something like that from you

Mine was always a 2 min shut down - it's just that last night it seemed very very fast - so I had a look at it today and found it was only 1 min. now

I could say something, but then I would be in deep trouble, though it would probably be true.

MacFriar

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but then I would be in deep trouble

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And if it's what I think it is, not just with goldie

No Bill, I could guarantee it with only be with her.

MacFriar

And you know perfectly well that there is just that certain 'something' that holds me back from saying what I would love to

Since the update, I have noticed one particular annoyance, Safari (which I have to use for two particular sites) hangs up and must be forced quit. I have dutifully sent the various reports to Apple. Anyone else notice this issue?

MacFriar

I noticed that on one site... but I can't remember which one it was now, it was just a link from an email (one I trusted!)

Report sent to Apple also.

Hmm seems to have been OK for me after looking at some photos.

Safari closed OK

This one site that I have the particular hang is from my ISP email account. There have been at least 8 instances of hanging since the upgrade.

MacFriar

The update did cause one major problem for me and it's taken several days of head scratching and hair-pulling to fix it.

I administer a Mac Mini which runs as a mail server. It's not mine and the person I run it for has only just informed me that it has stopped receiving email. It's a low volume domain anyway and very little important email comes to it.

The Mac Mini runs Postfix with Amavisd, Clamav and Spamassassin.

Following the update it stopped accepting SMTP connections on its external IP address - I could only connect on localhost port 25.

I checked the Postfix main.cf and it had correctly got inet_interfaces = all but postconf -n still only showed inet_interfaces = localhost

After a lot of searching I came across this;

Topic : Firewall enabled/changed after 10.5.6 update? and there was the answer.

The update sneakily put another inet_interfaces = localhost entry at the very bottom of the main.cf file which overrode the previous settings.

Arrgggh! It's taken me several hours of investigating (and a recompile of Postfix from source) to find out that Apple broke it with such a simple change.

Edited by caffn8me (Mon 12-Jan-09 01:19:07)