[Firehunter]

Alright, I've been upgrading all the computers in the Women's Center from OS 10.1 to OS 10.2. This is because Eudora cannot use SSL under 10.1 and the campus requires all e-mails users to use SSL starting today. Haven't had a problem upgrading till today. . .so here's the problem:

After the upgrade, the login window shows up and you type the password and it acts like it is logging in with the blue progress bar and everything then the screen disappears and the menu bar at the top shows up, then it goes back to the login screen. You type the password again and it does the exact same thing. It's pretty much stuck in a loop. Any suggestions on how to fix it without loosing all of her files? I've checked apple's site without much luck.

[chabig]

I would make three recommendations:

1) Always update using the latest combo updater. This will almost certainly fix your problem.

2) After updating, reboot to single user mode and run fsck.

3) Finally, repair the disk permissions.

I am sure the first step will fix your problem. And the other steps are just good steps to prevent trouble.

Chris

[Firehunter]

Originally posted by chabig:
I would make three recommendations:

1) Always update using the latest combo updater. This will almost certainly fix your problem.

2) After updating, reboot to single user mode and run fsck.

3) Finally, repair the disk permissions.

I am sure the first step will fix your problem. And the other steps are just good steps to prevent trouble.

Chris

what do you mean by using the latest combo updater?? I'm still pretty new to macs.

[chabig]

No problem...

Last year Apple released Jaguar, which was OS X version 10.2.0. Apple's version numbers always consist of three numbers separated by dots.

- The first number is the major version. In this case, 10 indicates OS X.

- The second number is incremented when major new features are added. In this case, the 2 indicates version 10.2, the third release of version 10 (after 10.0 and 10.1).

- And the third number represents interim release numbers, which are usually released to fix bugs or support new hardware. New features are not usually added. As of today, the lastest version of OS X for most people is 10.2.6, the sixth interim update.

Let's say your Jaguar install disk installs version 10.2.0. Each time Apple released a new update (10.2.1, 10.2.2, etc.) they release an incremental updater that updates your system from one release to the next. Essentially, it just installs all of the changes for that release and that release only.

However, they also post a combo updater within a few days of each release. The combo updater is larger and it includes all of the changes going back to the beginning. So if you have 10.2.0 on your disk, you can just run the combo updater to get 10.2.6 without having to run the .1, .2, .3, .4, .5, and then the .6 updates. See?

Experience with OS X has shown us that when updating from 10.2.x to 10.2.(x+1) it's more reliable to simply run the combo updater instead.

It's perfectly safe to always update with the combo updater. I've done this every time and my machine is stable as can be.

Chris