Issues with 10.4.10

On Jul 14, 2007, at 10:13 PM, Andrew Laurence wrote:

> Lately both my home and work machines display "blocky" chunks as the
> screen redraws. PowerPC, one with ATI and one with NVidia. Not all
> the time, but from time to time. In the last day I've seen it a fair
> amount in Safari 3.0.2b (while QuickTime player is playing a movie in
> the foreground) and in iPhoto.
>
> Both machines are on 10.4.10, one with QuickTime 7.2 and iTunes 7.3,
> one without.
>
> Anybody seen anything like this?

No, but I haven't let Safari 3 betas anywhere near my Macs. (I do
have the beta on my Vista machine, the death of which would not be a
significant problem as the only files that matter are safely stashed
on Amazon S3.) I may, of course, not have the "right" video cards,
and I may not have created the same conditions.

   --John

Yes, I've seen it as well . . . it seems to be some sort of draw through of the tab underneath the one you're looking at. Apple's site and CNN's are particular offenders for me. I'm not using the Safari 3 beta . . . so it's not that. It happens for me in both Safari 2 and Firefox and started right around the time 10.4.10 came out.

I have seen the same thing with a PPC iMac. I can't confirm that it began with 10.4.10, but thinking back, it sounds suspect. We use Oracle eBiz apps and I was attributing it to its Java. Similar oddities of this sort have been related to Oracle apps Java and the display. Just my observations...

I got a scroll bar right through the last line of the first page of the
Waterford News, from Ireland: UK newspapers not being reliable about
some issues, recently. It displayed properly in FireFox.

The print version of the page was fine in Safari and other sites have
been fine, so far.

OS 10.4.10 Safari ß 3.0.2 (522.12)

George


rmurray wrote:
> I have seen the same thing with a PPC iMac. I can't confirm that it began with 10.4.10, but thinking back, it sounds suspect. We use Oracle eBiz apps and I was attributing it to its Java. Similar oddities of this sort have been related to Oracle apps Java and the display. Just my observations...
> --

After updating to 10.4.10, the connection between my old G3 600 iBook and my Airport Extreme (the older version) became unstable, often not working for hours, then suddenly popping back on. The connection was stable to my MacBook and my Wii.

I seem to have good company regarding this problem. The Apple Support Discussion Board for Airport Extreme (old version) is rife with entries noting the same problem on a variety of Macs. A lot of people are very upset with Apple for letting this problem linger for quite awhile. Many suggest that it might be time to bring some of those helpful wireless engineers back from the iPhone team.

I seem to have solved the problem (for now, anyway) by zapping the PRAM (I think that's what it's called) and fixing privileges (in Disk Utility), as suggested by many of the Discussion Board participants. While doing so I realized that I've solved many problems by fixing privileges -- that will be my first step for problems going forward, unless someone tells me to avoid it.