On 7/6/2010 9:45 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
The problem is that Apple Security Updates are cumulative, and you're
trying to use an OLD update that predates updates you've already
installed. You need to download and reinstall the LATEST Security
Update for Tiger, NOT the old one from 2005. I
Great tip. Thanks.
On Jul 7, 2010, at 11:03 AM, nestamicky wrote:
If Software Update has been working for you (it might not if it
can't mount the .dmg files) you could also use Software Update to
reinstall either the latest Security Update or even the entire
10.4.11 COMBO Update by
At 9:33 PM -0600 7/5/2010, Nestamicky wrote:
I've spent the whole evening trying to find out the solution to this
one. Fresh 10.4.11 install. Completely fresh with all updates that
were done immediately after the istall. Then I went first to VLC,
then Firefox, then Adium, none of the .dmg
On Jul 6, 12:02 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
At 9:33 PM -0600 7/5/2010, Nestamicky wrote:
I've spent the whole evening trying to find out the solution to this
one. Fresh 10.4.11 install. Completely fresh with all updates that
were done immediately after the istall. Then I went first
On 05/07/10 10:22 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
I created a new user with no privileges and he is able to read the *.dmg stuff
and decompress it. After that I can login as myself and use the decompressed
files to proceed with installations.
There must be something in my home directory that should
At 5:52 AM -0700 7/6/2010, nestwasright wrote:
On Jul 6, 12:02 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
At 9:33 PM -0600 7/5/2010, Nestamicky wrote:
I've spent the whole evening trying to find out the solution to this
one. Fresh 10.4.11 install. Completely fresh with all updates that
were
On 7/6/2010 7:21 AM, Dan wrote:
Well, that looks ok, so it's not the mount points. hum.
Try booting into Safe Mode (shift key held down). Login and see if it
works then. Then reboot normally.
Try creating a new user account.
- Dan.
I will do these later today. I know this is a very
Greetings
Starting with the Disk that your .dmg files are being stored, select
(highlight) then get info, and tell us who has what permissions.
If you are the administrator for the system and you don't have Read
Write permissions, unlock the permissions (a lock icon) and then
select your user
On 7/6/2010 10:33 AM, gifutiger wrote:
Starting with the Disk that your .dmg files are being stored, select
(highlight) then get info, and tell us who has what permissions.
If you are the administrator for the system and you don't have Read
Write permissions, unlock the permissions (a lock icon)
Greetings Again
This is what my mount point looks like when using the ls -la command.
Starting with cd / using the root login
drwxrwxrwt@ 7 root admin 238 Jul 6 07:12 Volumes
Then moving to by cd /Volumes and again using ls -la
drwxrwxrwt@ 7 root admin 238 Jul 6 07:12 .
On Jul 6, 2010, at 9:46 AM, gifutiger wrote:
Greetings Again
This is what my mount point looks like when using the ls -la command.
Starting with cd / using the root login
drwxrwxrwt@ 7 root admin 238 Jul 6 07:12 Volumes
Then moving to by cd /Volumes and again using ls -la
On Jul 6, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Are you running 10.4?
Mine looks like this:
On my 10.6 system, that is.
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On 7/6/2010 11:13 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Are you running 10.4?
Yes, this is 10.4.11. I will try the safe boot. I'm still crazed about
what could have gone wrong, especially since the OS/machine was not used
prior after the fresh install. When you say logging in as a different
account
On 7/6/2010 10:52 AM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote:
Can you open the .dmg files booted from an external disc?
I have not tried this yet, as it will require taking apart the
laptop---no time for that now, not on this kind of issue anyway--and
installing the HD to an external. And I can't think of what
On Jul 6, 2010, at 10:21 AM, nestamicky wrote:
When you say logging in as a different account will fix it, do you mean that
if I created another admin account, and then log back into the older account,
the problem will be gone? Or, do you mean create a new one and delete the
old one,
On Jul 6, 2010, at 10:24 AM, nestamicky wrote:
On 7/6/2010 10:52 AM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote:
Can you open the .dmg files booted from an external disc?
I have not tried this yet, as it will require taking apart the laptop---no
time for that now, not on this kind of issue anyway--and installing
On Jul 6, 2010, at 10:24 AM, nestamicky wrote:
On 7/6/2010 10:52 AM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote:
Can you open the .dmg files booted from an external disc?
I have not tried this yet, as it will require taking apart the
laptop---no time for that now, not on this kind of issue anyway--
and
On Jul 6, 2010, at 10:39 AM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote:
On Jul 6, 2010, at 10:24 AM, nestamicky wrote:
On 7/6/2010 10:52 AM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote:
Can you open the .dmg files booted from an external disc?
I have not tried this yet, as it will require taking apart the
laptop---no time for that
At 10:33 AM -0700 7/6/2010, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jul 6, 2010, at 10:21 AM, nestamicky wrote:
When you say logging in as a different account will fix it, do
you mean that if I created another admin account, and then log back
into the older account, the problem will be gone? Or, do you
Some old notes I wrote down when I was having problems on 10.3.9.
I don't remember all of what I tried but here is what I wrote at the time.
no mountable file systems
Gregory Weston uce RemoveThis @splook.com wrote:
Any error messages being reported to the screen or to the console.log
On Jul 5, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Nestamicky wrote:
Console outputs: diskimages-helper: unable to activate drive -
error 0xe0002c9 (-536870199).
Here is the solution:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080127213553144
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Try booting into Safe Mode (shift key held down). Login and see if
it works then. Then reboot normally.
While in Safe Mode I was able to mount and install VLC. Once I
restarted normally, I was unable to mount the same VLC. Seems as
though we reverted to the same problem.
Try creating a new
On Jul 6, 10:33 am, gifutiger gifuti...@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings
Starting with the Disk that your .dmg files are being stored, select
(highlight) then get info, and tell us who has what permissions.
If you are the administrator for the system and you don't have Read
Write permissions,
I'm going to go with some issue with the user account, (in which case logging
in as a different user will fix it) or something messed up that a safe boot
will fix.
You're on the right track with the Safe Boot. As per previous post,
just a few minutes ago, I was able to install vlc while in
On Jul 6, 2010, at 4:28 PM, nestwasright wrote:
I'm going to go with some issue with the user account, (in which case
logging in as a different user will fix it) or something messed up that a
safe boot will fix.
You're on the right track with the Safe Boot. As per previous post,
just
On Jul 6, 3:58 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
On Jul 5, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Nestamicky wrote:
Console outputs: diskimages-helper: unable to activate drive -
error 0xe0002c9 (-536870199).
Here is the solution:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080127213553144
I
At 6:21 PM -0700 7/6/2010, nestwasright wrote:
On Jul 6, 3:58 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
On Jul 5, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Nestamicky wrote:
Console outputs: diskimages-helper: unable to activate drive -
error 0xe0002c9 (-536870199).
Here is the solution:
On Jul 6, 2010, at 8:21 PM, nestwasright wrote:
I have tried this solution by burning the image onto a disk and
installing from there, as suggested from another link from
macosxhints, since .dmgs are not mounting. Anyway, once I burned
Security Update 2005-009 ( Tiger Client) from this
I've spent the whole evening trying to find out the solution to this
one. Fresh 10.4.11 install. Completely fresh with all updates that were
done immediately after the istall. Then I went first to VLC, then
Firefox, then Adium, none of the .dmg files will mount.
Console outputs:
On Jul 5, 2010, at 8:33 PM, Nestamicky wrote:
I've spent the whole evening trying to find out the solution to this one.
Fresh 10.4.11 install. Completely fresh with all updates that were done
immediately after the istall. Then I went first to VLC, then Firefox, then
Adium, none of the
At 20:42 -0700 7/5/10, John Carmonne wrote:
On Jul 5, 2010, at 8:33 PM, Nestamicky wrote:
I've spent the whole evening trying to find out the solution to this one.
Fresh 10.4.11 install. Completely fresh with all updates that were done
immediately after the istall. Then I went first to VLC,
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