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Apple releases Mac OS X 10.3.6 update

updated 04:35 pm EST, Fri November 5, 2004

Mac OS X 10.3.6 update

Apple has released via the Software Update utility in Mac OS X. Apple also released the DVD Studio Pro 3.0.2 Update, which adds compatibility for double-layer media on supported systems, and offers improved general stability. "The 10.3.6 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for Mac OS X v10.3 Panther and is recommended for all users." Update: Apple has updated its online support document with further details on the 10.3.6 update.

Key enhancements include:

Improved file sharing for Mac (AFP), UNIX (NFS) and PC (SMB/CIFS) networks

More reliable network automounts and launch of network applications

Improved OpenGL technology and updated ATI and NVIDIA graphic drivers

Additional FireWire audio and USB device compatibility

Updated Calculator, DVD Player, Image Capture, and Safari applications

Improved compatibility for third party applications

Previous standalone security updates

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Jerome
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11/05, 04:46pm | report spam | close Reply |
Safari bug fix?

Does it fix the annoying Safari "two-try-page-loading" bug?

jlawrence10
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11/05, 04:51pm | report spam | close Reply |
10.3.6 killed my Finder

I had a kernel panic during the final stages of the update, and now when i restart the system shows 10.3.6 but i have no finder, no desktop items, no folders. HELP! What shoud l do? Running software update tells me i'm up to date. next step download the update manually and try to force it to run, but it might think it doesn't need to run. any suggestions please e-mail me at jlawrence10@mac.com.

Me�vv
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11/05, 04:59pm | report spam | close Reply |
Finally!!!

This means that the G5 Powerbooks are coming!

iFrankie
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11/05, 05:13pm | report spam | close Reply |
Updated Calculator!

Woohoo Apple finally updated Calculator! I've been waiting a while for them to update it!

TheBum
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11/05, 05:29pm | report spam | close Reply |
Placeholders

I noticed that Apple currently has only placeholder links for the standalone installers from their KBase page. I'll wait until they're resolved and then do the combo installer.

clebin
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11/05, 06:24pm | report spam | close Reply |
RE:10.3.6 killed my Finde

Open the terminal, go to the Receipts folder:

cd /Library/Receipts

Look for your 10.3.6 pkg and delete it... You should see the update in your Software Update again.

Chazzmandu
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11/05, 06:56pm | report spam | close Reply |
2-try page loading

Still an issue after updating to 10.3.6

zzimbob
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11/05, 07:32pm | report spam | close Reply |
Re: 2-try page loading

This problem has to do with IPv6 network configurations and isn't limited to Safari. It happens on all Mac browsers and even some PC browsers. The problem (at least for the Mac OS) is in the BSD subsystem. Don't expect a fix for this until Tiger.

Faceplant
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11/05, 07:46pm | report spam | close Reply |
I have to admit...

...it DOES feel a bit snappier.

Cold Feet
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11/05, 08:11pm | report spam | close Reply |
No Problemo...

Disabled all hacks, ran permissions, and had zero problems. My companies web based expense report site that always made me sign in twice before letting me in now gets in on the first try. Whewhoo...

dampeoples
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11/05, 09:08pm | report spam | close Reply |
10.3.6 Killed my goldfish

That's right, it killed my goldfish! I'm switching to PC

Jeffois
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11/06, 12:12am | report spam | close Reply |
Goldfish

If you saw the "Read me" file, you would have noticed the warning that under some circumstances, 10.3.6 breaks third-party hacks and small water beings. RTFM, buddy.

Macaholic
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11/06, 12:34am | report spam | close Reply |
Sound sleep bug...

The wake from sleep sound bug remains from 10.3.5. EVERY time I wake my G5 I have to reset the sound output from internal speaker to digital out! I called this bug in to Apple 2 days after 10l.3.5 came out. I waited patiently form 10.3.6. The bug is NOT FIXED. Rats.

Okonomiyaki
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11/06, 02:44am | report spam | close Reply |
The Stupid User Bug

I love it how people always refer to every random weird thing that only affects their machine as "The ____ Bug" as if it's a well known issue with every installation of the OS and not just some side effect of one of the 20 or so haxies they have installed.

TigerKR
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11/06, 05:10am | report spam | close Reply |
Audio: Volume+ Quality-

Hardware Config:

MDD DP 1.25 GHz G4 Tower
10.3.6 and all updates
no third party audio hardware

Description:

After updating, audio volume was increased, and quality was decreased.

Hypothesis:

I looked on the Apple Discussions and someone with the same problem said that they fixed this problem by zapping their PRAM.

Solution:

Zapping the PRAM does fix the audio volume/quality problem for me.

surferboy
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11/06, 07:10am | report spam | close Reply |
Broke Safari

I have never had an issue or a Bug after an update until today. I install the update via software update on my iMac, and when I restarted, Safari does not work anymore. I was using the 1.3beta developer version. I am in the process of re-installing....

surferboy
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11/06, 07:17am | report spam | close Reply |
still broken

Just re-installed and it still does not work: any thoughts?

Ilgaz
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11/06, 07:29am | report spam | close Reply |
Sound improved here..

Interesting, listening to realone broadband radio, I actually figured sound quality is INCREASED with update.

Zapping PRAM after OS updates is a good idea imho.

surferboy
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11/06, 07:45am | report spam | close Reply |
still broken II...

fixed permissions after update- safari still broken. Just deleted it and downloading the combo install- will run that and try again. any thoughts in the meantime are appreciated....

Kees
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11/06, 07:55am | report spam | close Reply |
-

stay away from developer builds if you don't know what you are doing?
You probably screwed up webcore, the combo update should fix that,

Macaholic
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11/06, 11:02am | report spam | close Reply |
The Stupid Commenter Bug

It's amazing how some people on this forum assume that if they don't have a problem, it must be a haxie or a stupid user mistake. If you don't have anything useful to say, SHUT THE !$@& UP! You are NOT helpful, other than to demonstrate the STUPID COMMENTER BUG.
The wake from sleep sound bug is a KNOWN problem with the PowerMac G5 that has been documented on Apple's discussion board beginning the day after 10.3.5 came out and is not fixed in 10.3.6. I was simply letting those G5 users that use the OPTICAL output for their sound that the problem remains. IF there are any G5 users out there who USE the OPTICAL/DIGITAL outputs on their G5 and DO NOT have their internal speaker turn back on EVERY TIME they wake from sleep, I would be interested in hearing that.
I have NO haxies, strange 3rd party drivers, or other confounding software packages intalled. This abnormality persists through clean installs, new user creations, and all other routine problem solving routines. This is a KNOWN BUG and needs to be fixed by Apple.

benhur
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11/06, 11:42am | report spam | close Reply |
I'm not updating . . .

....will let some other sucker update and list the problems here.

I was the sucker last time with 10.3.5 and it seemed to work great but then introduced even greater problems later after we deployed it to 200+ computers. Even Apple was baffled. We had to downgrade to 10.3.4.

Lesson learned. Just wait and see how it plays out. Here's hoping it is a great update and doesn't break anything.

keittl.com
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11/06, 12:06pm | report spam | close Reply |
Panic

I left the update install last night before I retired for the evening. In the morning I had a black screen. The only sign of life was that the keyboard lights were working (i didn't think to SSH to the machine).

I restarted the machine (power button). I went straight into single user mode with the view of running fsck to fix any possible file probs. As it was booting into single user mode it got a kernel panic.

Turning on normally also produce a kernal panic very early on.

I had no way of getting the machine started.

I tried booting with CMD-V (verbose) and it booted ok.

I'm now currently doing a backup and will see how it goes from here.

fritzw
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11/06, 12:15pm | report spam | close Reply |
Mac OS X 10.3.6 Updaters

go to http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/

The links are up for the updaters to 10.3.6 for both client and server installations.

macimmortal
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11/06, 12:29pm | report spam | close Reply |
No probs here:

Just updated one Powerbook 17, one Quicksilver G4 and a G3. Zero probs. Followed the adviseable procedure of rebooting into single user, running fsck, rebooting normally, running disk utility and fixing disk permissions, run software update, reboot, fix disk permissions again. Sure, you probably shouldn't have to do all of this, but I never seem to have a problem with updating any of my 100+ computers.

sixcolors
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11/06, 01:58pm | report spam | close Reply |
Broke 1.8DP G5

Fresh outa box and it's broken... Sits at Login Window and dies. f****** apple should test this stuff before releasing it!!!

MacGallant
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11/06, 02:13pm | report spam | close Reply |
sound problem & MDD

Apparently there is a sound volume & quality prob with MDD and OSX 10.3.6 update, Many are talking about it in the Apple Forums (under OSX Panther) and Macrumors.com.

I didn't experience any distortion or sound quality problem just the volume being louder.

I tried to zapping the pram but the sound volume remains.

The temporary solution:
I either have to unplug or replug my speakers or to put the MDD to sleep and wake it to get the sound to show it's true sound values then I manually reduce it back to my original sound volume increment with the sound keys on my keyboard.

But the sound volume problem will resurface when I restart.

Macaholic
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11/06, 02:21pm | report spam | close Reply |
DVD Player fixed

At least they fixed the DVD player bug. On my (and other's) G5, the DVD player would randomly lock up the OS requiring a power-down restart. This would occur almost always sometimes in the first 30 minutes of playing a DVD. It did not occur at the same place on the DVD and occurred with all of the DVDs I tried, whether new or old. I was able to watch an entire DVD on my G5 for the first time last night since 10.3.4.

maxdecibel
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11/06, 03:00pm | report spam | close Reply |
Re: The Stupid Comment..

Hi,
It seems that all audio hardware go nuts after waking up. The audio hardware vendors are suggesting to not putting the CPU to sleep.
I myself don't have an optical I/O device running on my G5 (I hear some negative thangs about the optical ports consuming excessive CPU power - correct me wrong), but I set the Energy Saver to 'never sleep'. I'm not taking chances; while it may use more energy, I cannot let it blow my speakers or lose my project files...
To wrap it up, yes, it's a bit of a problem ;-)

Jablabla
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11/06, 10:16pm | report spam | close Reply |
worked fine

Ran the update it worked fine. No problems detected yet.

OpenGL seems to be working great on the ati9800xt card.

New Dual 2gig G5. Oh, it feels great baby. My last mac was a 500gig G4 upgrade.

Hmm, one thing I wish is that the finder would not clutter document icons over my disk icon. Though minor, it can be irritating.

Otherwise, a-ok.

LouZer
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11/06, 10:41pm | report spam | close Reply |
Re: worked fine

Hmm, one thing I wish is that the finder would not clutter document icons over my disk icon. Though minor, it can be irritating.

Here's siomething I Just read that supposedly helps this. Click on the desktop somewhere, then choose "View Options" menu under the view menu. Make sure the "Show item info" option is unchecked.

JohnD
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11/07, 08:14am | report spam | close Reply |
Install size..

34 Mb for my G5, 14 MB for my Powerbook G4 1.33 ghz ..

bobthenob
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11/07, 10:43am | report spam | close Reply |
Safari "double-load" Bu

This just started happening to me within the last 30 days or so and is limited to Safari on all 6 of my machines, so it's not some OS thing that has been there forever.

Something broke Safari a little while back, but what that was I'm not sure (my fault for not paying closer attention to it). I Hope this update does something to fix it.

I run all my machines very "Apple" -- no Haxies or silly "enhancers". This is definitely a bug in Safari.

medmuse
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11/07, 12:36pm | report spam | close Reply |
Killed

I ran permissions, DW and installed from SU. Everything seemed OK but after hotplugging a USB pcmcia I got several kernal panics and ran DW again. I had several overlapping files (including MACH) and after running several times it would not fix all. I started from a BootCD and ran TTP and DW again and then deleted the 3.6 package, downloaded the stanalone and ran it. All seems well now but I am concerned.

WALLSTREET II PANTHER VIA XPOSTFACTO

jumbojet
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11/07, 03:37pm | report spam | close Reply |
Re: TigerKR's Audio Bug

I also have a MDD DP 1.25 GHz and noticed this audio bug. However, I zapped PRAM and I STILL HAVE THE PROBLEM! Reducing system volume to about 45% and increasing my speakers output seems to be a decent temporary fix.

Distortion seems to happen the most on the trebel end of the spectrum.

jumbojet
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11/07, 03:42pm | report spam | close Reply |
Re: Sound Again

I took a posters advice and put my computer to sleep for a bit, that fixed the problem. I'll post back next time I restart, but can't do that right now.

weed_
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11/07, 04:07pm | report spam | close Reply |
update failed or not?

updated my last gen Tibook 1G (15") this afternoon
after I went back to the screen, it was black
last what I habe seen was "Optimizing volume ..." before I left the screen.

Now, "About Finder" shows 10.3.6 as well as the System Profiler. while in Software Update under "Installed Updates" there is the last installation from Aug 10 (10.3.5).

I'm doing a backup now and afterwards a retry of the 10.3.6 update.

zac4mac
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11/07, 08:14pm | report spam | close Reply |
OKFine I'll put a subjec

Ran the update on a G5DP2 and an 800iBook(G3). No problems seen on any of several apps run since. Repiared permissions on both, found nothing to fix.

Leffler
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10.3.6 No Finder

I have a client that crashed during a software upgrade to 10.3.6. She had not verified permissions first as she did not know this may have been a good idea. Her screen went blank and blank upon restart. I was able to reinstall but the menu bar in the finder is not showing. The dock is fine and I can open other applications and the menu bar is working great in these other applications but not in the finder. Disk utilities says everything is working properly. I tried command/esc but the dialog shows a blinking finder and will not allow me to restart the finder. Nothing appears to work. However, none of the files appear to be missing via the SFPut and SFfind dialogs. That at least is a good sign. Any suggestions?

seekalynn
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yes problem

After update, G5 cannot recognize external HD.

- the info on the hard drive is still there... I checked on other computers. Now I am on a mission to find out how to downgrade to 10.3.5 without losing any info.

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Apple releases Mac OS X 10.3.6 update

updated 04:35 pm EST, Fri November 5, 2004

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