12-30-2007, 11:14 PM
I just upgraded one of my machines. I did upgrade, not Archive and Install, which I'll do for the others. I had a lot of trouble upgrading.
First, it hung after restart on a blue screen. This was apparently caused by an old APE. Minor glitch, but fixable. After I thought I had that fixed, Leopard hung loading the finder. That turned out to be a problem with divx software. Fixed that, and lo and behold, somehow my user account got switched from Admin to Standard ?! Had to then log in as root and switch it back.
All in all, very minor glitches. But 3 in one install, for an apple software product, has never happened to me. Some turned out to be third-party faults, but in the end, I think it reflects poorly on Apple. APE and Divx are not at all uncommon for a mac user to have installed; was there not adequate beta testing? And switching an account from Admin to Standard sounds like an Apple bug.
Usability seems fine so far, but the troubles installing it reflect poorly.
First, it hung after restart on a blue screen. This was apparently caused by an old APE. Minor glitch, but fixable. After I thought I had that fixed, Leopard hung loading the finder. That turned out to be a problem with divx software. Fixed that, and lo and behold, somehow my user account got switched from Admin to Standard ?! Had to then log in as root and switch it back.
All in all, very minor glitches. But 3 in one install, for an apple software product, has never happened to me. Some turned out to be third-party faults, but in the end, I think it reflects poorly on Apple. APE and Divx are not at all uncommon for a mac user to have installed; was there not adequate beta testing? And switching an account from Admin to Standard sounds like an Apple bug.
Usability seems fine so far, but the troubles installing it reflect poorly.