Comments on: Time Machine & AirPort Update breaks 10.5.2 Combo Update [Update 2]

By: madgunde

madgunde — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:46:26 +0000

@Beandip
First off, make sure you are running Mac OS X 10.5.2. You most likely typed something incorrectly. Copy and paste the command rather than re-typing if possible. It’s all one command that should be entered on a single line, including the 9C31 at the end, which has a space preceding it.

By: Beandip

Beandip — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:55:49 +0000

I seem to be having a problem with the first command; after typing the command and entering my password I receive the following message:

Rep argument is not a dictionary
Defaults have not been changed.

Am I doing something wrong? I’ve tried half a dozen times making sure to check my typing on each attempt and I can assure you I have typed exactly what you posted.

Thanks.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:53:44 +0000

Thanks - It’s almost June and no 10.5.3 — found your page and applied the workaround without incident. (so far… )

By: madgunde

madgunde — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:26:47 +0000

@Bobby
Yeah, looks like Safari 3.1.1 has replaced it and Apple no longer offers the 3.1 updater. I’ve updated the instructions. Thanks!

By: Bobby

Bobby — Sat, 24 May 2008 13:02:21 +0000

The Safari 3.1 link is broken.

By: madgunde

madgunde — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:10:16 +0000

@DJ

There is a space between ProductBuildVersion and 9C31. If you just select the entire command and copy and paste, you’ll see it’s there. This is also the best way to avoid making any typos.

By: DJ

DJ — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:38:14 +0000

Please confirm there is no space between ProductBuildVersion and 9C31 in the first Terminal instruction.
Thanks

By: madgunde

madgunde — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:56:57 +0000

Thanks V.K., I’ve updated the instructions to use the full path.

By: V.K.

V.K. — Thu, 22 May 2008 04:09:01 +0000

Thanks for providing the link to the original apple support discussions thread. I have one correction to the fix.

For the command in 2. you need to either give the full path to the file

sudo chmod 644 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist

or cd to that directory /System/Library/CoreServices/ first. Might seem self evident but someone with no unix knowledge will not know this.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:16:54 +0000

My system has been down most the day with intermittent crashing over this issue. Thanks for the fix on what may otherwise have been a very frustrating problem to figure out. System runs excellent now… Thanks again for taking the time to post!

By: Shintocam

Shintocam — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:58:50 +0000

Thanks for this! I looked around for other people with this problem and everyone assumes you are a) either an idiot and don’t know how to run an update or b) pirated the software. I have the exact same problem as you, but sadly my current install is quite unstable. Hopefully 10.5.3 will come out soon as I really don’t want to do a clean install and then have to set up all my software, VMware, etc…all over again.

By: Richard Price

Richard Price — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:54:59 +0000

The workaround worked perfectly. Thanks.

By: madgunde

madgunde — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:04:11 +0000

“Ah well. The lack of an updated 10.5.2 Combo could mean the 10.5.3 is upon usâ€¦”

I think you hit the nail on the head there Lars!

By: Lars

Lars — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:57:27 +0000

Cheers, I thought my system somehow got corrupted as well because I couldn’t apply the 10.5.2 Combo, but it has a clearly defined reason for it.

Why Apple doesn’t keep track of these things is beyond me. Rather dumb of them not to anticipate that this build change would render the Combo update inoperable.

Ah well. The lack of an updated 10.5.2 Combo could mean the 10.5.3 is upon us…