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Recovering from failed 10.1.5 install
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Germany
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On one of our QuickSilver's, the 10.1.5 upgrade died mid-way through. The automatic update function now thinks the update has been applied so it isn't available. And when we try re-running the upgrade file directly (from /Library/Receipts) it simply says "there were errors ...", and won't try to install the update.
Any ideas how one can force the update to at least try to run again?
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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The files in the "receipts" folders are not the actual installer packages. They are merely, well, receipts left behind similar to an "installer log" file.
I suggest you download the standalone 10.1.5 update from Apple and try installing that.
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The server made a boo boo. (403)
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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Won't removing the receipt allow Software Update to recognize the 10.1.5 update again?
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">
<strong>According to one of our readers, the new MacOS X contains another Satanic holdover from the "BSD Unix" OS mentioned above; to open up certain locked files one has to run a program much like the DOS prompt in Microsoft Windows and type in a secret code: "chmod 666". What other horrors lurk in this thing?
10.1.5 update again?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Your just joking - right?
I have had more than one religous fruitcake looking over my sholder as I work have a panic attack when they see me type the number 6 three times in a row.
One even complained to her supervisor - no joke.
Some simple facts:
what you refer to as a satanic holdover is simply the method used to set file permissions. If that scares you then maybe you should stick with an etch-a-sketch.
If you care to rise above your fears and learn something, the 666 is an octal (number base 8) code that means give everybody read/write permission for this file or directory.
If you really can not type 666 you might try "chmod a+rw" instead. It means the same thing and you don't run the risk of getting hit by lightning.
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Your just joking - right?
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://blog.glennf.com/gmblog/archives/00000173.htm" target="_blank">Nope.</a> 
<small>[ 06-12-2002, 11:54 AM: Message edited by: workerbee ]</small>
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MBP 15" 2.33GHz C2D 3GB 2*23" ACD
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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Apple posted a Knowledge Base article on software updates that includes a section on failed updates......have a look <a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106692" target="_blank">here</a>
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Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity...
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