I downloaded it the day it was released, but I did not have time to install it. When I got home from work at night, I saw people were having problems. So, I have it on my desktop, but have not installed it, and I guess now I will not.
Audio in anything skips if you are using Ethernet a lot. And I have a server going nonstop that is very busy. And music playing almost as much. Hope the update comes out tomorrow!
For those having ethernet issues with this update, I found this on Macupdate:
"AppleGMACEthernet Patch fixes the issues with the 10-base T ethernet cards when upgrading from Mac OS X 10.2.6+ to 10.2.8. It simply downgrades the AppleGMACEthernet.kext file from 1.3 to 1.2.4."
3:01 AM -> Time Remaining: 1 hour 38 minutes...correction. 1 hour 40 minutes.
3:02 AM -> Time Remaining: 1 hour 52 minutes.
Looks like I'll break the 2 hour mark soon...
Yup.
3:03 AM -> Time Remaining: 2 hours 2 minutes.
God dammit.
Yeah. This is sucking. Hard to tell, but I do think there is a performance penalty. I am suddenly being a lot less cocky about my Powerbook on the plane. . .
Anyone figured this out for sure? Have we lost battery life? Any workarounds? And any word on a fix for this god-awful update? Boy, they shure learned me.
They have had over a week now to fix the update. Considering this has left many people with rather annoying problems it seems like that should of had a fix out by now. Did it take them this long last time?
Well, I already updated to 10.2.8... and I have had NO problems.
When I saw thay had "pulled" the update, I said... " whoops... what in the hell have I just done now? "
They say that theres a problem with the Ethernet kext, and it buggers up your ethernet connectivity in some way, but I have broadband, and nothing is wrong with my machine at all... Nothing at all...
So my analysis of this fiasco is this :-
People (as usual) must not be looking after their Macintosh properly (eg: repairing permissions, running Nortons and the likes, optimising their drives with Speed Disk, using Disk Warrior every week) and when they update their OS or Apps, something is not in sync, or has its permissions damaged, or its date and time of Creation, or Modification altered in some way, so that component dosent get updated by the updater because it thinks it is a newer version, or it dosent have the right permissions for the component, so it dosent update that component, and...
BANG CRASH ....Problems.... mixed and matched pieces of OS..
KERNEL PANIC CRASH BOOM!
"oooh whats happened to my mac?",
"ooh noooo! its all Apple's fault!, the villans!"
... when after all it is really just the users fault for not running a tighter Mac, like looking after it. if you dont look after it.... things go wrong, especialy after you update OS or other Software's. If you learn more about OS X, and Unix etc, and dont be so ignorant, you will be more happier and better off, and hopefully error free... getting you work done, not troubleshooting updates.
nihat you're new here. Welcome to wild and wooly AI. I'll cut you some slack.
Believe me we know what we're doing. I repaired permissions before and after, I uninstalled APE, I left the Snow theme on but it stayed fine, and Transparent Dock stopped working so I upgraded and fixed it. My Ethernet always works too. However it makes the audio in any application skip and also I think might be slowing my machine down more then usual. Even MIDI audio skips when there is Ethernet network activity. Also one time I restarted and all of a sudden all the Menu Extras in the top right were gone. I had to manually place them all back up except Time and Battery. Again I have everything up to date, and no ghetto crap. I am surprised they didn't fix this Monday. If they don't fix it today or tomorrow then either Panther better come out next Tuesday or it's a real bad bug or they are just lazy.
Well, I already updated to 10.2.8... and I have had NO problems.
When I saw thay had "pulled" the update, I said... " whoops... what in the hell have I just done now? "
They say that theres a problem with the Ethernet kext, and it buggers up your ethernet connectivity in some way, but I have broadband, and nothing is wrong with my machine at all... Nothing at all...
So my analysis of this fiasco is this :-
People (as usual) must not be looking after their Macintosh properly (eg: repairing permissions, running Nortons and the likes, optimising their drives with Speed Disk, using Disk Warrior every week) and when they update their OS or Apps, something is not in sync, or has its permissions damaged, or its date and time of Creation, or Modification altered in some way, so that component dosent get updated by the updater because it thinks it is a newer version, or it dosent have the right permissions for the component, so it dosent update that component, and...
BANG CRASH ....Problems.... mixed and matched pieces of OS..
KERNEL PANIC CRASH BOOM!
"oooh whats happened to my mac?",
"ooh noooo! its all Apple's fault!, the villans!"
... when after all it is really just the users fault for not running a tighter Mac, like looking after it. if you dont look after it.... things go wrong, especialy after you update OS or other Software's. If you learn more about OS X, and Unix etc, and dont be so ignorant, you will be more happier and better off, and hopefully error free... getting you work done, not troubleshooting updates.
i cannot stress this enough.
Nick.
You are an idiot. I've had the mac for less than a week. Get bent.
yeah it screwed me up too future-ex, however one thing I think is its not reporting it right, valid my battery life isn't as much as it supposed to be, but I think its lasting longer than what it says up top.
Comments
It works perfectly for me.
and random complete lock ups
and audio skipping
and PISS THE **** OUT OF ME APPLE.
pile of crap
Originally posted by othello
over time, more kernal panics than i can remember, and audio skipping in itunes.
pile of crap
Originally posted by NeilyB
me too...
Same here. Fixed a problem I had with Safari too.
Even though I still plan on doing a reformat and install with Panther. That's how I always do it.
U know the volume get's automatically changed sometimes which is annoying if you are trying to make music.
"AppleGMACEthernet Patch fixes the issues with the 10-base T ethernet cards when upgrading from Mac OS X 10.2.6+ to 10.2.8. It simply downgrades the AppleGMACEthernet.kext file from 1.3 to 1.2.4."
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12907
Just thought this may be helpful. I haven't had problems myself, but I'd be interested to know if it helped for others that do.
Originally posted by BR
NO! This is some crazy ****ed up backwards world!
2:58 AM -> Time Remaining: 1 hour 20 minutes.
2:59 AM -> Time Remaining: 1 hour 25 minutes.
3:00 AM -> Time Remaining: 1 hour 34 minutes.
3:01 AM -> Time Remaining: 1 hour 38 minutes...correction. 1 hour 40 minutes.
3:02 AM -> Time Remaining: 1 hour 52 minutes.
Looks like I'll break the 2 hour mark soon...
Yup.
3:03 AM -> Time Remaining: 2 hours 2 minutes.
God dammit.
Yeah. This is sucking. Hard to tell, but I do think there is a performance penalty. I am suddenly being a lot less cocky about my Powerbook on the plane. . .
Anyone figured this out for sure? Have we lost battery life? Any workarounds? And any word on a fix for this god-awful update? Boy, they shure learned me.
Andrew
When I saw thay had "pulled" the update, I said... " whoops... what in the hell have I just done now? "
They say that theres a problem with the Ethernet kext, and it buggers up your ethernet connectivity in some way, but I have broadband, and nothing is wrong with my machine at all... Nothing at all...
So my analysis of this fiasco is this :-
People (as usual) must not be looking after their Macintosh properly (eg: repairing permissions, running Nortons and the likes, optimising their drives with Speed Disk, using Disk Warrior every week) and when they update their OS or Apps, something is not in sync, or has its permissions damaged, or its date and time of Creation, or Modification altered in some way, so that component dosent get updated by the updater because it thinks it is a newer version, or it dosent have the right permissions for the component, so it dosent update that component, and...
BANG CRASH ....Problems.... mixed and matched pieces of OS..
KERNEL PANIC CRASH BOOM!
"oooh whats happened to my mac?",
"ooh noooo! its all Apple's fault!, the villans!"
... when after all it is really just the users fault for not running a tighter Mac, like looking after it. if you dont look after it.... things go wrong, especialy after you update OS or other Software's. If you learn more about OS X, and Unix etc, and dont be so ignorant, you will be more happier and better off, and hopefully error free... getting you work done, not troubleshooting updates.
i cannot stress this enough.
Nick.
Believe me we know what we're doing. I repaired permissions before and after, I uninstalled APE, I left the Snow theme on but it stayed fine, and Transparent Dock stopped working so I upgraded and fixed it. My Ethernet always works too. However it makes the audio in any application skip and also I think might be slowing my machine down more then usual. Even MIDI audio skips when there is Ethernet network activity. Also one time I restarted and all of a sudden all the Menu Extras in the top right were gone. I had to manually place them all back up except Time and Battery. Again I have everything up to date, and no ghetto crap. I am surprised they didn't fix this Monday. If they don't fix it today or tomorrow then either Panther better come out next Tuesday or it's a real bad bug or they are just lazy.
Originally posted by nihat_y
Well, I already updated to 10.2.8... and I have had NO problems.
When I saw thay had "pulled" the update, I said... " whoops... what in the hell have I just done now? "
They say that theres a problem with the Ethernet kext, and it buggers up your ethernet connectivity in some way, but I have broadband, and nothing is wrong with my machine at all... Nothing at all...
So my analysis of this fiasco is this :-
People (as usual) must not be looking after their Macintosh properly (eg: repairing permissions, running Nortons and the likes, optimising their drives with Speed Disk, using Disk Warrior every week) and when they update their OS or Apps, something is not in sync, or has its permissions damaged, or its date and time of Creation, or Modification altered in some way, so that component dosent get updated by the updater because it thinks it is a newer version, or it dosent have the right permissions for the component, so it dosent update that component, and...
BANG CRASH ....Problems.... mixed and matched pieces of OS..
KERNEL PANIC CRASH BOOM!
"oooh whats happened to my mac?",
"ooh noooo! its all Apple's fault!, the villans!"
... when after all it is really just the users fault for not running a tighter Mac, like looking after it. if you dont look after it.... things go wrong, especialy after you update OS or other Software's. If you learn more about OS X, and Unix etc, and dont be so ignorant, you will be more happier and better off, and hopefully error free... getting you work done, not troubleshooting updates.
i cannot stress this enough.
Nick.
You are an idiot. I've had the mac for less than a week. Get bent.
It also seems to be less real-life battery-time not only display.
Can this damage the battery? Should I leave my Powerbook at home and let it connected? Can I uninstall this update without erasing my HD?