Anyone had any problems with it? mine updated last night on the hotel internet connection, also pulled down a safari update at the same time. Updates installed fine, the machine rebooted and nothing will launch.

I get a desktop, I get the dock and all icons, but nothing will launch, I just get an error saying that app X failed. Looks like some system files are missing or corrupted in the root looking at the error messages.

Downloaded the stand alone update, but the installer fails half way through, very similar messages.

Lucky for me I am in Cardiff and 190 miles away from my Time Machine backup :( Thank god for my Windows 7 bootcamp partition, at least that still works until I get home at the weekend.

Anyone else had an issue?

I upgraded to Snow leopard, but off a disc (from apple, £7 I think ) Had no problems so far, the only thing I have a problem with is that when I go into Windows and then back to Mac my clock and date are wrong, the date is 2001 and the time is usually 01-00, don't know why it does it and it's always the same date and time......Ps:- doesn't do it everytime :rubchin: :ne_nau:

Another Ps......."You call being in Cardiff Lucky" :eek:

Fatty's lucky he's there... I'd 'ave him otherwise!

Fatty's lucky he's there... I'd 'ave him otherwise!

When you're ready, I'll be waiting for you in Splott:mad:

I upgraded to Snow leopard, but off a disc (from apple, £7 I think ) Had no problems so far, the only thing I have a problem with is that when I go into Windows and then back to Mac my clock and date are wrong, the date is 2001 and the time is usually 01-00, don't know why it does it and it's always the same date and time......Ps:- doesn't do it everytime :rubchin: :ne_nau:

Another Ps......."You call being in Cardiff Lucky" :eek:

Cardiff's great mate, one of the best places in the UK, mind I do come from the Wolverhampton area originally.

On Topic, it's not the upgrade to Snow Leopard from Leopard, apple released a patch to Snow Leopard this weekend, mine picked it up last night, installed it and trashed itself.

Nore Irony, I'm in Cardiff, but don't have my Time Machine ....................... "Who" could help me?

When you're ready, I'll be waiting for you in Splott:mad:

With his stable of angry ho's filing down their good tooth ready to give ewe a slammin'

When you're ready, I'll be waiting for you in Splott:mad:

Woop woop!

So this is it Just Working hey... goodness knows what's going to happen when it doesn't.

Serious answer though is no i can't really help, but I've heard of a few issues with the SL patches.

Not run the update yet, but thanks for the heads-up, I think i'll put the update on hold until i've got a couple of urgent jobs for clients out the way this week. Will report back once I run them.

Mine would not reboot properly afterwards, i got a blue screen with a swirly wheel for the best part of an hour before i bit the bullet and switched it off assuming it wasn't doing something in the background, on reboot it came back fine i have not had an issue since.

Mine went perfectly without hitch on both my 15" unibody MBP and my fiancee's 17" MBP (my old one)

Carl:thumbup:

Mine would not reboot properly afterwards, i got a blue screen with a swirly wheel for the best part of an hour before i bit the bullet and switched it off assuming it wasn't doing something in the background, on reboot it came back fine i have not had an issue since.

I've read on many occasions in the past of peoples Mac's taking ages to reboot after a s/w update & sometimes then immediately rebooting themselves again. Other times people have had to do as above & pull the plug & reboot again.

I presume you have tried re-rebooting but like you say it sounds more like some system files have become corrupted.

The best Mac support sites I have found are Apples own & macosxhints forums.

Hope you get it sorted.

Well, it's fubared

I ran the disk utility and the update has corrupted the Mac partition. I have not got my OSX Disk with me so can't restore the disk from Time Machine, the mrs is sending my Snow Leopard disk out in the post to me today.

I phoned Apple and they then got back to me so I can't knock them for customer support in this instance and it turns out there is possibly a problem with 10.6.2 and Bootcamp 3 running a 64 bit OS.

So, my Windows 7 bootcamp partition works faultlessely and that's how I am typing this post. I would hold off of 10.6.2 if you are running Bootcamp 3 and a 64 bit OS on it folks.

Is this no good to you Fluffy?

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5068890/Mac_OS_X_10.6_Snow_Leopard_%28Final_Retail%29

...I get a desktop, I get the dock and all icons, but nothing will launch, I just get an error saying that app X failed...

...I ran the disk utility and the update has corrupted the Mac partition...

I'm a bit confused now. :confused:

Did you boot into single user mode to get the disk utility running or did that particular app work ok? If you get a desktop, dock & disk utility it may be possible to fix without re-installing, although a re-install from disk would probably be the quickest & easiest way to fix.

It boots to my normal OSX desktop, but takes around 30 minutes to get there, when it's booted, everything looks normal, dock is present but all auto start software fails to launch, all apps fail to launch with the exception of BBC Iplayer desktop and a couple of utilities like the disk utility.

Disk utility will verify the disk and say it needs repairing, but the repair disk option is greyed out. repair permissions will run and finds several errors then just tell me the disk needs repairing.

Hey, this stuff happens as long as my data is safe thats all that matters. My only real frustration is that Time Machine, whilst brilliant back up software won't let you do a full system restore unless you can boot from an OSX install disk, where any Windows backup software will let you do it.

I would post screen shots, but preview crashes, and any new install of an app, including trying to run the installer for the update dies also :rotz:

It does sound like the easiest & safest thing will be to wait for the install disk & do a restore from that.

Lucky that you have a Windows install to use in the meantime. I think I might stick my install disk & a Ubuntu PPC live disc I have into my laptop bag. I've only got the one OS on my laptop.

Disk utility will verify the disk and say it needs repairing, but the repair disk option is greyed out. repair permissions will run and finds several errors then just tell me the disk needs repairing.

Disk Utility won't let you repair the disk it's running from. Try repairing the HD using Disk Utility on, and when booted from, the Install CD when you get it. If it's something Disk Utility can actually repair (I've not found that very often) then it may save you reinstalling and starting from scratch.

Disk Utility won't let you repair the disk it's running from. Try repairing the HD using Disk Utility on, and when booted from, the Install CD when you get it. If it's something Disk Utility can actually repair (I've not found that very often) then it may save you reinstalling and starting from scratch.

I am just going to boot it off the OS CD and then restore using Time Machine, I have got a TM backup from Sunday afternoon so all that will be missing is the update that fooked it all

Fluff - what with you workin away all the time, get in the habit of either keeping an OS boot DVD with you (doesn't have to be SL - normal Leopard will boot it albeit without full functionality) or even better, get yoursell an external HD and install SL on that. You can then, if needed, boot from the external and even keep a copy of all your apps on there if you need.

Before I saw your later posts I was gonna ask whether you are running boot camp. I suspect that has a lot to do with it. Although BC is good I just don't think they have got the partitioning quite at 100% yet. I had problems under leopard trying to get a BC to run at all, even after a clean install. Besides I prefer the flexibility of having a file-based VM running under Parallels although VMWare fusion and now Sun virtualbox will both do it too. Might be really useful for you mate, you can create a 'base' build of various OS's, sysprep em and stash em. Then when you need to create a new VM you just take a copy, run through mini-setup and bob's nobbin yer auntie. If you need to revert back to an out-of-the-box build when you're doing training sessions it makes it a piece of cake. Just copy, hack about, delete and repeat. I use it for windows server testing or coming up with server configs for documentation before we commit it to live hardware.

Parallels 5.0 has just come out and it's not only faster but it also supports stuff like full aero and fullscreen across multiple monitors which is something I've been waiting for for ages.

Worth thinkin about mate. You can always keep your boot camp partition as well as most of the VM solutions support booting from BC partition, but honestly it gives so much more flexibility than just BC alone.

eh up Neilo

I use VMware Fusion for 99% of the windows stuff I do on the Mac, but I can't get Vag-Com to work properly in it, and can't have a blast of CoH or COD on it so I need to bootcamp it.

Normally I have the DVD in the laptop bag, only reason I have not got it with me is because I have brought my Camera bag with laptop not my normal laptop bag as me and a local boy down here in Cardiff went off on a photo session tonight.

Debbie to the rescue she has posted it down to me so I should get it up and running tomorrow. Nice avatar btw

eh up Neilo

I use VMware Fusion for 99% of the windows stuff I do on the Mac, but I can't get Vag-Com to work properly in it, and can't have a blast of CoH or COD on it so I need to bootcamp it.

Normally I have the DVD in the laptop bag, only reason I have not got it with me is because I have brought my Camera bag with laptop not my normal laptop bag as me and a local boy down here in Cardiff went off on a photo session tonight.

Debbie to the rescue she has posted it down to me so I should get it up and running tomorrow.

Fair enough, the one week you forget your boot DVD, that's when Jobs decideds to stuff ya

Nice avatar btw

Cheers, should change it soon though eh! Amanda doesn't seem keen on me getting the SP1, might just wait til spring or buy a cheap shonker. Just seen the P-Torque group buy on remap + filter @ £225....really tempted if I don't buy the SP1. Insurance would go up £20 a month though, is the only downside. :(