Sounds like hardware problems, perhaps a bad startup drive. Paul On Jan 19, 2008, at 11:26 PM, David Mann wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2008, at 10:39 PM, keith_w wrote: > >> Would you mind elaborating on what Leopard broke? > > My entire Macromedia MX 2004 suite stopped working - it thought it > hadn't been registered but the registration function would crash > every time. > Getting my mail pretty much killed the machine. It would go into a > strange state where apps could not be launched. The icon would sit > there bouncing in the dock. If you tried to shut the machine down, > it still thought the app was running and could not kill it (even a > sudo kill -9 from a shell would not get rid of it!). So I often had > to hold the power switch which is a bit of a sledgehammer approach. > That's when I decided to stick with webmail until I could get it all > sorted out. > Safari would crash after a few minutes if I was lucky. So would > Firefox. Camino was reliable so I used that. > Photoshop CS2 seemed to work OK even though Adobe give no assurances. > Printing went completely up the spout; I couldn't even set up my > printers. > I didn't get around to trying my film scanner or the Spyder. By that > time I knew I was fighting a losing battle. > > The 10.5.1 update didn't help so I reverted to Tiger and everything > has been fine since. Safari is crashing occasionally but it's > nowhere near as bad as it was on Leopard. > >> Are you referring to how your Power Mac responds to Leopard? > > I think my machine may have a lot more to do with it, except for the > Macromedia suite which is definitely not Leopard-compatible (it's an > old version which is no longer supported). I don't think I have bad > hardware as Tiger is pretty solid. Plus the hardware test ran > through OK. > > It took me about a week just to get Leopard to install. If you have > problems one of the first things Apple suggests is removing all 3rd- > party memory but that only left me with 256Mb - the installer > requires 512 :) Once again I curse Apple's policy at the time of > including stupidly inadequate amounts of memory in their high-end > line. > > Cheers, > > - Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
