On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 06:16 PM, Barbara Needham wrote: > Well, I see you are on OS 10.2.4. And kernel panics mean something > wrong > with more than PowerMail. May I suggest 10.2.5, which is a free upgrade > for download but ALSO has a CD which you can buy. It is a huge download > so don't try it on dial up. I sent for the CD and it was well worth > it. A > WHOLE BUNCH of bugs are out of it. [10.2.6 is an easy download after > that.
I do have the 10.2.6 combo upgrade I downloaded prior to my system going wonky. I had avoided the 10.2.5 upgrade because of the fairly consistent problems I'd read about. > PowerMail does depend on the operating system; I had a situation the > other day where I couldn't drag and drop anything within PowerMail > before > it happened system wide; but sure enough it was a system problem not a > PowerMail problem. > > In the meantime try shutting down your computer and restarting from > scratch. It's supposed to fix some stuff on start up. Thanks, Barbara. It does seem that I've been through quite a few startup cycles already (most of which were followed by a Repair Permissions session), but perhaps I need to do a real shutdown for the night and see how things are in the morning. On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 08:45 PM, Mikael Byström wrote: > It is recommended by many to only use Combo updaters also when doing > incremental updating, as some people discovered that they were not > affected by certain problems affecting a smaller percentage of users, > when they had used Combo updaters. Yes, I'd read that, too. Fortunately, I'd downloaded the full combo updaters when they were available and saved them on my disk. > I had problems with the "blue screen of sudden quit an restart all > apps" > in 10.2.6, so I went back to 10.2.5. It may have been my system though. If I recall correctly, I did install the 10.2.6 upgrade and started having problems which contributed to my decision to do a complete erase and install of 10.2 followed by the 10.2.4 combo upgrade. But I'm still having system-wide problems, so I may have to look elsewhere for those causes. It does seem a stretch that an OS problem would prevent me from opening the PM database, but I don't know enough to eliminate that as a cause, either. Mark ---- http://www.gerberstudio.com B&W G3 (Yosemite) w/OWC G4 500 OS 10.2.4 PowerMail 4.1.3
