10.6.3 is out!

Sad Professor

Check your Software Update.

The 10.6.3 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that:

- improve the reliability and compatibility of QuickTime X
- address compatibility issues with OpenGL-based applications
- address an issue that causes background message colors to display incorrectly in Mail
- resolve an issue that prevented files with the # or & characters in their names from opening in Rosetta applications
- resolve an issue that prevented files from copying to Windows file servers
- improve performance of Logic Pro 9 and Main Stage 2 when running in 64-bit mode
- improve sleep and wake reliability when using Bonjour wake on demand
- address a color issue in iMovie with HD content
- improve printing reliability
- resolve issues with recurring events in iCal when connected to an Exchange server
- improve the reliability of 3rd party USB input devices
- fix glowing, stuck, or dark pixels when viewing video from the iMac (Late 2009) built-in iSight camera

Full list of changes here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4014

babypink

474Mb incoming!!

J-blk

435.2MB for me .

Sad Professor

Woohoo! Just installed on my iMac and it looks like they FINALLY fixed Samba after 10.6 broke it.

My MBP is up next - 437 MB.

440Hz

436.7MB for me! This is going to be slow on this connection

displaced dub

that took less than 4 minutes to DL with my new 24mb eircom line, well they say 24 more like 15mb

440Hz

2 hours!!! I cannot believe that took 2 hours! sigh

bonnieprince

6mins on a upc 20MB connection. Sweet.

aidan_walsh

IT World suggest that the general 3D capabilities have been boosted, and new drivers installed for ATI based Macs. Could be good news for those of us waiting on Steam to arrive.

Type 17

757MB for me :eek: (27", 3.06GHz iMac) - 18 mins on a 6.5 Mb connection.

Sad Professor

iTunes 9.1 with iPad support is up now as well.

conor.hogan.2

took roughly half an hour - but i have no idea I just left it in one of my spaces and then before i went to sleep i clicked ok etc and shut it down

adox

Tried to install this update and it failed. Worse still I can't get my iMac to reboot at all. Turn it on and I keep getting a list of problems towards the upper left of the screen, and also a pop up box in different languages telling me to hold down the power button until off and then reboot. I've been doing this but it just returns me to the same screen.

adox

Seems to be a kernal panic. The main message is " version mis-match between kernal and CPU pm"@/sourcecache/xnu/xnu-1504.3.12/ofsmk/i386/pmcpu.c:720

I've tried to reboot in safe mode but it won't. I've disconnected any external harddrives etc. Also inserted my Snow Leopard disc to see if that would boot up but no joy. Anyone got any ideas?

Sad Professor

Weird that it won't boot off the install disc. Install any RAM recently?

brav

Are you able to get the boot up/start up menu when you hold down alt/option key?

adox

Sad Professor wrote: »

Weird that it won't boot off the install disc. Install any RAM recently?

Finally got it to boot off the install disc and performed a permissions repair and a disk repair. Rebooted but still stuck o. The same screen. I'm thinking of maybe doing a full erase and install? I have the discbacked up to an external hard drive through time machine so I presume it's straight forward enough? (Ive recovered ndividual file before from time machine but never a full volume).

adox

brav wrote: »

Are you able to get the boot up/start up menu when you hold down alt/option key?

As in resetting the NVRAM/PRAM? I've done that but it still doesn't solve the issue.

brav

adox wrote: »

As in resetting the NVRAM/PRAM? I've done that but it still doesn't solve the issue.

No, When you said you were unable to boot to install disk I was wondering if you could get to the startup menu, where it asks to boot to Mac HD or DVD.

If you have a backup I would just do an erase and install

ethernet

The best thing about this update is the touched-up background image of the snow leopard - there's now no visible blood around the mouth area

adox

Okay I did a erase and install and all seemed to be going ok. Have restored from Time Machine and everything is there. The only problem is most of my apps arent working, including all the Apple ones as far as I can see. Safari, Mail, iPhoto, Garageband etc wont launch. Heres what I get when I try to launch Mail:

Process: Mail [448]
Path: /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
Identifier: com.apple.mail
Version: ??? (???)
Build Info: Mail-10770000~4
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [113]

Apologies if Im hijacking this thread a bit.



Edit: Sorry, just rebooted again to see if that would help. Seems to have sorted it out. Thanks for the input. I`ll stick with 10.6.2 for now I suppose.

le_girl

I'm having the same problem as you adox. I just updated my iMac and have the gray screen telling me to reboot. I don't have everything backed up though so I may be in trouble.

le_girl

In case anyone has the same problem - I read on another forum to just reinstall Snow Leopard from the disk and this seems to have done the trick. Now I have to install the update by manual download of the combo update here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1017

CivilServant

Dunno why people are so eager to install new updates. Wait for the reviews! I'm still on 10.5.8, enjoying the old expose

Sad Professor

I've never experienced any issues installing updates, but I would never install one without a recent backup. If you want to be extra safe though you should always download the combo update.

sweet-rasmus

I love this update Before this, my OS caused Word to cancel my shut down everytime and I can finally back up my disk keys onto my hard drive again without error stopping it. Those were long months of waiting!! *Happy dance*