 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / May 2008Security update on a MB
A friend has just bought a MacBook. I helped him set it up, which is pretty simple but I could see he needed the help; until now he has used only Winboxes. It's running 10.5.2. First thing I/we did, as you do, was to run Software Update. He wanted ten items, including Safari 3.1.1 (instead of 3.0.4) and Java and iTunes and the whole thing... Including Security update 2008-02 (I think it is- the machine's at his place and I'm now back home). His ADSL connection, via AOL (don't ask- it works for him) was not hugely fast, but it all seemed to come down okay except the security update, which instead of being 55MB or so as announced, went on until it had downloaded over 100MB. Then the MB restarted, as it should, but stopped during the installation process. Really stopped. Nothing doing. So I forced a restart. And it seemed to start okay, except that Safari was still 3.0.4. So I ran software update again, which now only offered the security and the Safari updates. I said go, and it clearly ran from locally downloaded files. Again, the security update failed with no progress. Restart; this time I just selected Safari update, and it worked perfectly well. All that remains is the security update. Which won't install. It looks like the downloaded update is corrupted in some way. I'll have to get rid of it, and try again. Where is it stored, and what's it called?  SignaturePeter > It looks like the downloaded update is corrupted in some way. I'll have > to get rid of it, and try again. Where is it stored, and what's it > called? What about just downloading the security update directly, and installing it? <http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/securityupdate2008002v11leopard.html> You even get to check if the update is corrupted or not :-) Cheers, Chris > What about just downloading the security update directly, and installing it? > > <http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/securityupdate2008002v11leopard.html> > > You even get to check if the update is corrupted or not :-) Thanks. Good idea- except that from tomorrow morning we'll be on wet string in Geneva, so it'll have to wait for a fortnight or so... Will the existence of what I suspect is the corrupted download file interfere with the future operation of Software Update? Because it certainly seems to now... SignaturePeter >> What about just downloading the security update directly, and installing it? >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > interfere with the future operation of Software Update? Because it > certainly seems to now... I really don't know. I'd have thought that SU would only try to download stuff that it knew wasn't installed, so a mangled download shouldn't matter. Maybe removing ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate/ helps? We agreed with Bella that anything in Caches is recreatable, so removing it should not cause a problem. Cheers, Chris > > Will the existence of what I suspect is the corrupted download file > > interfere with the future operation of Software Update? Because it [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > download stuff that it knew wasn't installed, so a mangled download > shouldn't matter. Okay. But when I was running Software Update on the MacBook, it always went to the 'corrupted' file and didn't offer to try to download anything further (except for Garageband update and something else that we didn't want). So it looks as though it is seeing the file there, and looks no further. So I reckon I'll have to delete it by hand. Thanks for the help. This has not *quite* been the Mac experience as I would wish it, although I don't think that the chap that bought the MB was particularly aware that things weren't going right. My feeling is that I didn't in any way push him to get a Mac, in fact I told him that if he was happy with his Dell he should stick with it, so I feel that although I'm very happy to help him, I'm not really responsible for his problems. But of course it doesn't really work that way; I'd like it to be a great experience for him. And although everything else has worked very well indeed, this has been a bit of a bummer. I'm just glad he got it from John Lewis, in case of any more glitches. In the mean time, his wife has a Dell desktop which he wanted to get networked by Wifi rather than Ethernet, as they are repainting and moving machines about. I slotted in a Belkin Wifi card and it worked absolutely fine, easy-peasy. Hmmm. SignaturePeter >>> Will the existence of what I suspect is the corrupted download file >>> interfere with the future operation of Software Update? Because it [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > we didn't want). So it looks as though it is seeing the file there, and > looks no further. So I reckon I'll have to delete it by hand. Yeah, but if you download the update directly and double-click to install it, SU simply doesn't get a look in. *Afterwards* SU'll see the package is installed and (hopefully) not bother with the cached thing. > In the mean time, his wife has a Dell desktop which he wanted to get > networked by Wifi rather than Ethernet, as they are repainting and > moving machines about. I slotted in a Belkin Wifi card and it worked > absolutely fine, easy-peasy. Hmmm. Even Windows has to get it right sometimes, eh? Cheers, Chris > Yeah, but if you download the update directly and double-click to > install it, SU simply doesn't get a look in. *Afterwards* SU'll see the > package is installed and (hopefully) not bother with the cached thing. Yes. I'll try that when I get back; after all, that MacBook's up to date in every other way, so it's probably not an emergency matter. Time to sort things out then. Meanwhile, I'm trying to remember the juju for getting Anne's TiBook on line via dialup. Ought to be a piece of cake, but it's been months since I did it last and until I actually have it sorted I'm never totally happy. SignaturePeter |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.