Comments on: Quick survey on OS X 10.5.7 bug triggers

By: Occupation: Girl - Compocalypse '09: The Rage

Occupation: Girl - Compocalypse '09: The Rage — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:16:07 +0000

[...] because I was the end of my rope w/ Windows ME when I switched. But they're certainly not perfect (10.5.7 I'm looking at you), and I've got a Dell desktop that I love just as much. PS – You get mad props for Camille Vs 2. [...]

By: Pent Talvet

Pent Talvet — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:43:30 +0000

24″ Intel iMac, probably last Generation White, constantly keeps crashing after 10.5.7 upd. I also have FontExplorer 1.2.3, but it doesn’t seem to relate to the problem. Most of the crashes happen, when I have some 4+ apps open, while using Safari4 or Finder or actually pretty much anything. Also I’ve noticed that browsers’ (Safari, Firefox) and iWeb window sometimes display 1px wide horizontal stripes which sometimes scroll along with the content, sometimes disappear while scrolling or resizing the window. Sometimes there are other anomalies which look like a video/graphics issues. I have Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT. Perhaps 10.5.7 and this Nvidia don’t get along well?

By: Bill McCarroll

Bill McCarroll — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:49:52 +0000

I just installed a drobo and thought that was my problem. Now I recognize it’s the recent upgrade to 10.5.7. I have the same symptoms, finder freezes, locks applications and forces a hard restart by pressing the power button.

I think I’ve stabilized things a bit by unmounting my drobo (I use it for my Aperture library) and will only go to it when I need to access my photographs. So far things seem to be running ok.

I also run dropbox and superduper.

By: George Whittam

George Whittam — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:45:58 +0000

Installed 10.5.7 with Combo Update on ALL machines (except my 10.4.11 Powerbook 12, my most reliable Mac).
On our Mac Pro Quad core 2.8, Photoshop CS3 lost it’s authorization. Had to run a special tool from Adobe to fix it.
Little Snitch became Big Pain and uninstalled it from all of my machines.
A client with an iMac24 Alum had major problems with a Drobo. Drobo support says there is a bug in the USB 2.0 system causing the computer to lose communication with devices.
Our Mac Mini Intel 2.0Ghz freezes on bootup on the blue screen from time to time, and can freeze here and there (but could be caused by 3GB RAM).
Mac Macbook Pro seems to have faired the best of all, just some annoyances with random apps that needed reinstallation (like Canon MP Navigator, DockDrop, Garagesale). Mail does seem to crash a little more often, though.

By: Dan Moriarty

Dan Moriarty — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:01:31 +0000

I just had my Finder freeze up when trying to connect wirelessly from my iMac to my MacBook Pro. I had to force reboot, and still having trouble connecting over my Network (wired and wireless). Just updated both machines to 10.5.7. I think there’s a bug at work. I’m starting to poke around, see if anyone else has this issue, and came across your post.

By: Kerry Campbell

Kerry Campbell — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:03:57 +0000

10.5.7 is erratic at best. It installed flawlessly via software update on my old G5 tower and my 867 mhz G4 powerbook. It will NOT install or boot properly from the internal drive of my Macbook Pro, though it did install fine on an external fw drive connected to the MBP.

I used superduper to clone the fw to my internal drive with no luck–I get the apple logo and spinning wheel–forever. This was after a fresh install of 10.5.6 with NO 3rd party apps installed other than SuperDuper and no migration assistant, I created a new test account with no settings at all.

This is an Apple problem. Sorry Apple, I love you, but this one is broken. When I booted off the external drive I upgraded the firmware for the fan and bluetooth hoping this would fix the problem–nope!. Now in order to run my MBP I have to boot from the external drive. I’m not certain if I can reinstall 10.5.6 with the firmware (aaarrghh!).

By: banana

banana — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:52:46 +0000

My mini updated fine, and has been fine.

I just did my Air and it says it failed, but on restart ‘about’ says it’s 10.5.7. Only problem so far is network connectivity fails. It keeps bringing up the network diagnostics and blaming it on the network (which is fine based on other computers being online). I have very little third party stuff on either machine.

In the process of doing the combo now…..

By: Mo

Mo — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:55:41 +0000

It’s been a pain.
I installed the update 10.5.7 a while back, since then every application seems to be crashing – safari, finder, occasionally even the crash reporter.

I have uninstalled all other applications or plugins.
The bummer is that I am traveling now and don’t have the CDs with me.

Any solutions/suggestions will be useful.

By: RoughAcres

RoughAcres — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:18:08 +0000

Just updated software on PPC iMac to 10.5.7 last night – today I tried to open my CS2 InDesign documents and…. NOTHING.

I get a message “cannot handle the request because a modal dialog or alert is active” when I try to open the document directly; when I try from within the application, I get NO options whatsoever… everything, and I mean EVERYTHING is greyed out and unavailable. Even “New.”

Anyone know about this? Have I made a dreadful mistake updating the OS???

Please. I’m desperate – have .indd documents I must access NOW.

Thanks,

Rough

By: Colin K N A U F

Colin K N A U F — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:40:02 +0000

I have had more headache without resolution with the 10.5.6 ….and cheered when 10.5.7 was supposed to cure the Bluetooth headaches….NOT….it is not better… maybe worse….plus Safari in combination with 10.5.7 is slow … just making a bookmark take for ever….makes me think I am on my old Mac CI…remember those?
My bluetooth mouse (Rocketfish) was excellent and still is on my iMac…but on my Macbook 2.16 won’t do anything but make me angry….jumps around stalls and even takes off on its own like it is possesed….the wheel and buttons work fine…tracking is either off or eratic…but just when you think…oh goood this fixed it….it starts the messing around again….It must be making Apple rich selling replacement mice that don’t work either.
I can’t believe this issue still exists with all the reports I read on line….there are a ton of us suffering from this issue…while they all hang out in the apple tree figuring out what the next iPod will be make of and what colours go well with bubble gum!

By: Apple OS X 10.5.7 overheats some Macs – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:01:09 +0000

[...] affected. It probably varies by factory run and by model. (My MacBook Pro, for instance, is fine.) Third-party stuff and Migration vs. Tabula Rasa System Install seems to have no bearing on whether or not your Mac will choke on the [...]

By: beth

beth — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:11:20 +0000

As soon as I got my aluminum MacBook last week, I installed all the software updates that showed up before I installed any of my other programs.

I had Safari crash the first time I used it.

Firefox has been a maniac. I’ve called support 3 – 4 times and they’ve each had me doing crazy stuff that hasn’t worked.
It’s taking forever to load stupid pages and then gets disconnected.

Today I had a few windows open and the whole thing crashed. I could move the Firefox windows around but I could not minimize or close. The whole top was grey. I tried all the shortcuts to force quit and nothing would happen. This was after the spinning ball for at least 45 minutes.

Finally I had to shut down. I’m installing the combo now. If it doesn’t work, I’m still in my 2 weeks to return the computer. Bummer ’cause it’s gorgeous.

By: Jeffrey Zeldman | Web Standards Planet

Jeffrey Zeldman | Web Standards Planet — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:02:31 +0000

[...] Quick survey on OS X 10.5.7 bug triggers 15 hours 2 min ago Update: see OS X 10.5.7 overheats some Macs. Fellow Mac users, let’s see if we can isolate the triggers of the OS X 10.5.7 blues. If we learn the cause, others may know whether it’s safe for them to update, and we may provide Apple’s engineers with a clue on how … [...]

By: Dave McCourt

Dave McCourt — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:19:30 +0000

Similar problems here with freezing, finder lock-ups, etc. I’m on a PPC 1.6ghz G5. Running DropBox and Font Explorer X. Was all fine before 10.5.6. Looking to archive and install and go back to 10.5.6. Worst Apple update ever.

By: Kerri

Kerri — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:27:06 +0000

Well, things were going pretty smoothly with the update today. I’ve had no major problems, but just discovered one majorly inconvenient problem: In my find windows “thumbnail” view, all of my png files are show with the default ‘PNG’ icon rather than a preview icon of the actual image file. Majorly inconvient when trying to sort through all my web app icon libraries.