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Kissargi · Aug 18, 2003, 02:49 PM

10.2.3 runs perfectly on my power mac (1 ghz mdd) but 10.2.6 crashes 3-4 times a day, ive tried removing ram, zeroing hard drives, permissions, everything and still it crashes. So i just went back to 10.2.3 and life has been good untill I get speed download 2 and find that it only works on 10.2.6!!!

Its a cruel world.... I just hope 10.3 runs without crashes on here.

Anyone else had problems with 10.2.6?

SMacTech · Aug 18, 2003, 02:54 PM

10.2.6 has been good to me on my 4+ Macs that I own, and several more that I admin.
Seems you have done the usual things to try and fix. I assume you are getting a kernel panic? Maybe you can send some info from the crash logs.
So you were using speed download with 10.2.6? Did you remove it before reverting to 10.2.3?

gorickey · Aug 18, 2003, 02:56 PM

Why 10.2.3? You can't run 10.2.4, or .5 either? Hmmm...

-Q- · Aug 18, 2003, 03:11 PM

10.2.6 has been good to me on my machines. I can't imagine what would be causing the issue...

sniffer · Aug 18, 2003, 05:15 PM

No idea either. But I had my share of strange problems in some elder versions of X b/c of some unknown reason. But 10.2.6 have been OK to me.

Ghoser777 · Aug 18, 2003, 05:41 PM

10.2.6 has been problematic for me... I get apps that just sit there and won't force quit for long periods of time. Sometimes force quiting them (from the dock or force quit panel) works if I do it a couple times in a row, but I've found that

Code:
sudo kill -9 pid

isn't working all the time either! Last night, QT was choking on an mpeg, and I couldn't get it to die until after killing off the loginwindow and logging back in (I couldn't log out, as QT kept causing it to timeout). This kind of stuff has been happening to other apps too, but not nearly as bad as last night.

Here's hoping for 10.3!

Matt Fahrenbacher

Sharky K. · Aug 18, 2003, 05:46 PM

did you try removing USB hardware?

Ghoser777 · Aug 18, 2003, 06:34 PM

Originally posted by Sharky K.:
did you try removing USB hardware?

I have none - my parents stole the mouse I was using with my laptop (like a year ago).

Matt Fahrenbacher

gorgonzola · Aug 18, 2003, 07:21 PM

10.2.6 has been 100% for me. No crashes, no bugs.

Macpilot · Aug 18, 2003, 09:43 PM

I am having trouble with my "Dazzle" Compact Flash card reader. iPhoto takes FOREVER to recognize it, and then about half the time when removing it it takes down the whole system.

I don't remember this happening in 10.2.5.

I also lose my internet signal too many times.

Airport shows a strong signal, but everything is offline. Wierd.

I have tried different channels with Airport Admin and that works sometimes.

Tonight I have noticed troubles with Sherlock wherein I launch it and it forgets all the Stocks I have previously selected.

Same old troubles with Mail. Forgotten passwords, STMP unable to send mail. I hope they fix Mail in Panther because it is unrelilable.

khufuu · Aug 19, 2003, 01:15 AM

My guess is that you have bad spot on your drive that's just in the 'right' spot so that 10.2.6 chokes. Zeroing the drive won't fix the problem. I got Apple to replace my hard drive when this happened to me. My biggest indication was that I kept getting the spinning color wheel cursor all the time.

I haven't worked that any disk utilities for the Mac yet so I can't suggest a specific one but I'd consider buying/borrowing one to see if you can't diagnose the exact problem.

Good luck...

bastion · Aug 19, 2003, 02:00 AM

Aha, so I'm not the only one who experiences these crashes. All sorts of apps crash on me from time to time, including but not limited to Entourage X, Proteus, Safari, Final Cut Express, iMovie, Word X...

I'd say it happens a few times per week.

quandarry · Aug 19, 2003, 02:40 AM

i run 10.2.6 on several macs with no problem except for the cursed twirling beachball even on my fastest machine...

i even run it on my blueberry imac 350 with little problems...except for what the g3 350 won't support...

now i'm about a universe away from any kind of techno knowledge...just going by what i read somewhere...memory is failing me where...could've been here...

from what i read, a corrupted font[s] can wreak havoc on osx...
it even crashes some font repair utilities from what i understand...

Kissargi · Aug 19, 2003, 08:41 AM

hmmm, i do get the beachball of death quite alot, im going to order the 3 yr extented cover from apple soon so ill see what the software i get with that says about my hard drives.

Macpilot · Aug 19, 2003, 08:50 AM

Originally posted by Kissargi:
hmmm, i do get the beachball of death quite alot, im going to order the 3 yr extented cover from apple soon so ill see what the software i get with that says about my hard drives.

As far as I know, you don't get any software with Applecare, if that is what you are talking about?

dfiler · Aug 19, 2003, 12:11 PM

My OS X install hasn't been stable since the DVD drive in my dual 450 started fritzing out. I've had to unplug the thing to prevent intermitent but lengthy (and temporary) complete hangs. It seems that a lot of programs will hit the filesystem in a way that tries to access the drive.

Not that this is a common problem... it just illustrates that hardware can get progressively worse and cause inexplicable crashses.