![]() First use the following commands (in the Terminal, located in Applications/Utilities) to turn off Spotlight: In other cases, you can resolve spotlight issues by using the mdutil command-line utility in Terminal, turn off indexing for each of your drives. Some users have reported that volumes become inadvertently placed here after the update. If Spotlight does not function properly after updating to Mac OS X 10.4.8, make sure that your startup volume (or any other volumes you desire to search) are not listed in the "Privacy" tab of the Spotlight pane in System Preferences. It is possible to open spotlight window via the shortcut, but not directly from the menu, when clicking on the blue loupe nothing happens." "Since upgrading to 10.4.8 I cannot use the spotlight button in the menu. Spotlight issues Some readers have reported problems with regard to Spotlight after applying Mac OS X 10.4.8, including an inability to access the function. Then navigate to the Displays pane of System Preferences, go to "Color" and re-select the new Color LCD profile. Repairing the errors seemed to moderately help, but the tint is still a little too blue for my taste."Ī poster to Apple's Discussion boards, " mymacluvsme" has posted a custom color file (download) that appears to resolve the blue tint in some cases.Īfter downloading this file, place it in the directory: I also opened Colorsync Utility and ran a verification & repair to my Colorsync profiles. Also, oddly enough, switching to 'Thousands of Colors' removes the blue tint. You can change this in Displays by re-calibrating, with some degree of success, it appears. The default calibration seems to be much bluer. "I can without question say that I am experiencing the 'blue tint problem' that some other users have experienced. ![]() More on the blue tint, fixes Users continue to report an issue where a slight blue tint that cannot be remedied through the available profiles in the Display pane of System Preferences after updating to Mac OS X 10.4.8. After that I was booting into 10.4.6, Automatic Software update then chose the Combined Update for 10.4.8 and that installed no problem." "After waiting for a total of 4 hours for a gray screen to progress to an operating computer, I again booted off the install CD and did an Archive and install. This fixed it, thanks a lot!"įinally, some users have had to resort to an Archive and Install, then re-application of the Mac OS X 10.4.8 combo updater - also as described in our startup tutorial. I followed your instructions: booted from CD, repaired permissions and removed manually cache files. "Just to let you know that the after the Mac OS X 10.4.8 update on a MacPro 2.66, the Mac would not boot (grey screen with Mac logo forever). Other users report success with a mixture of our suggested workarounds. ![]() Note that Mac OS X 10.4.8 started twice after fixing permissions." I booted from a remote drive, fixed permissions, and was able to boot from the startup drive. Other users report success with using Disk Utility (located in Applications/Utilities) from an alternate startup drive (or another machine): I was able to re-apply the combo updater after mounting the MacBook Pro via a FireWire disk mode from my intel mac mini. The system would kernel panic during the grey screen at the beginning of the boot process. "I was unable to boot after the 10.4.8 combo update failed on my MacBook pro. Many users with panics at boot are having success with some of the suggestions listed in our tutorial: "Startup fails (particularly after a system or security update) solving."įor instance, David Bills reports that re-applying the combo updater from a separate drive (as described in the tutorial) eliminated a persistent kernel panic at startup on his MacBook Pro. I'm in the process of reinstalling 10.4.7 for a SECOND time. I tried the Mac OS X 10.4.8 upgrade again - same result. Applying 10.4.8 resulted in the overlay / gray 'Please Restart Your Computer"'only seconds into the boot process. MacFixIt reader Andrew writes (I have a Core Duo 17" iMac.
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