[jgwdoc]

Just installed it. No problems yet. All the Apple Apps work fine. Boot Camp also works normally.

[DaveyJJ]

I've tried three times now to download it and it errors out with a message about unable to open due to code signing or. some-such. Weird.

[jgwdoc]

That seems to be a relatively common problem on the Apple Discussion forums. Repairing permissions first and using the stand-alone installer or the Combo update seems to have resolved the issue for most (but not all) people.

[DaveyJJ]

Ugh. That was the worst system update since 10.0.3. Endless looping blue screens to the point where I had to do a hard restart. It then rebooted itself three more times before normal. Awful.

[teflon]

i think ill lea`ve it a few days and combo update...

[The Liberator]

Wanna be on the safe side, eh? How much of the upadate was the for 4850 drivers, (just out of curiosity)?

Thanks, Liberator.

[Ranger_Joe]

I always back up before I install OS updates, and am I glad that I did this time. Last night I downloaded and applied the 10.5.7 update and upon completion, instead of being prompted to restart my computer, I got a kernel panic. I restarted the computer, and after 15 minutes of waiting, the computer started up showing version OS 10.5.6 in the about box. I've restored my Macbook Pro to the state that it was prior to the 10.5.7 update. I'm going to wait until the weekend to see how things go before trying again.

[dojoboy]

All went well for me.

[Hansi]

Ranger_Joe, on May 13th 2009, 03:48 PM, said:

I always back up before I install OS updates, and am I glad that I did this time. Last night I downloaded and applied the 10.5.7 update and upon completion, instead of being prompted to restart my computer, I got a kernel panic. I restarted the computer, and after 15 minutes of waiting, the computer started up showing version OS 10.5.6 in the about box. I've restored my Macbook Pro to the state that it was prior to the 10.5.7 update. I'm going to wait until the weekend to see how things go before trying again.

Just repair permissions and install the combo update.

[teflon]

Thats what I did. I ran SuperDuper to backup pre-update, which also repairs permissions before the clone, then installed the combo update instead of the delta (I also got the combo because theres several other 10.5 machines in the house, so this just saves time and downloads).

no problems here.

[Sargiel]

I repaired permissions before installing after reading some peoples less than ideal experiences - but was pain free

[DaveyJJ]

I've never understood repairing permissions before installing an update. Updates run as root so are not restricted by permission settings, is that not right?

[Sargiel]

I don't normally .. but I was infected by fear after reading jdwdoc's post *points finger*

[Tesseract]

Combo update worked fine. Fixes the ATI shadows bug, which is nice.

[jgwdoc]

Sargiel, on May 13th 2009, 12:09 PM, said:

I don't normally .. but I was infected by fear after reading jdwdoc's post *points finger*

All these tech geeks on the Apple forums were screaming about repairing permissions first. Don't feel that I know enough to disagree with them, so I did it that way. After all, it only adds 5 min to the process. More important, for sure, to back-up first.

[Pegasus]

Them damn fear-mongers. I've never bothered to do anything special for updates. I've yet to encounter a problematic one.

[Kaoro]

Pegasus, on May 13th 2009, 10:30 PM, said:

Them damn fear-mongers. I've never bothered to do anything special for updates. I've yet to encounter a problematic one.

Me neither, but reading the horror stories has made me always use the combo updaters because it seems they have less problems.

[Sargiel]

jgwdoc, on May 13th 2009, 11:30 PM, said:

All these tech geeks on the Apple forums were screaming about repairing permissions first. Don't feel that I know enough to disagree with them, so I did it that way. After all, it only adds 5 min to the process. More important, for sure, to back-up first.

That's something I really need to do.. I'll save my pennies and buy a swanky external drive to use for Time Machine. Question though - if my iMac's drive died .. is it easy to clone to a new HDD via a Time Machine backup drive ?

[Ranger_Joe]

Hansi, on May 13th 2009, 12:02 PM, said:

Just repair permissions and install the combo update.

Sound advice, but I didn't want to take a second chance. I just wrapped up some work and now have Friday plus the weekend to play around with 10.5.7.

[Vulpine]

Sargiel, on May 14th 2009, 07:05 PM, said:

That's something I really need to do.. I'll save my pennies and buy a swanky external drive to use for Time Machine. Question though - if my iMac's drive died .. is it easy to clone to a new HDD via a Time Machine backup drive ?

Very easy indeed. Boot from the Mac OS X install DVD, and pick "Restore from Time Machine" in the menu. It'll wipe the internal drive completely and restore from the Time Machine drive, leaving you right back where you were.