[X-Newbies] Re: software updating

[John McGibney]

I got a long delay after the 10.4.4 upgrade too. No pinwheel just a  
long grey screen then into the blue screen and then final startup  
routine.

John

On Jan 17, 2006, at 8:22 PM, david_elmo wrote:

> I just used software update on my QS 933 to get latest on Tiger,  
> just the Mac OS update, about 28 MB. It said to restart or shut  
> down afterwards. I said ok restart. QS went off as usual and then  
> on but just froze screen with that Xish icon at the centre, no  
> spinning mouse curser or anything no matter moving the mouse. I had  
> to switch off at the power! (What else can one do ? On my old 7300  
> I had escape keys and power buttons.). Anyway, restarting did not  
> help. I held option down and picked to start in 9 and it did but  
> had to check/repair the 9 volume as it had noticed it had not been  
> shut down properly. At least the machine noticed something!
>
> I simply chose my X vol in startup control panel and restarted and  
> this time it fired up in reasonably short order. There is no proper  
> message about "your new update has been loaded or is being... "  
> then or before.
>
> Last time I updated Tiger (a whopping overnight download on dial  
> up!) it restarted fine allbeit taking its time. I take it that no  
> cursor and no sound from the tower for minutes on end (I reckon 10)  
> meant it was frozen? Iam talking after the download is all over and  
> I am trying to restart...
>
> Anyone else experience trouble of this kind in online updates? Any  
> safer ways of doing it? Maybe i should have chosen "shut down" from  
> the two options given when the download was complete (from the  
> software update facility)? Why exactly is there not a third option  
> like "do this later"? Why can't one _not_ drop one's dialup and  
> continue working and next time one restarts, the software will do  
> its embedding? Why is the download in such a hurry? Will the  
> machine definitely forget to load the new if it does not hurry?
>
> Excuse me. I now feel a bit better. But still puzzled.
>
> David Elmo
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