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From: Ian Piper on 24 Apr 2010 07:23
On 2010-04-23 22:07:11 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said:

> On 2010-04-23 21:10:58 +0100, Ian Piper said:
>
>> On 2010-04-23 15:21:35 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh
>> <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> said:
>>
>>> Maybe the 10.6.3 update didn't apply fully? Boot up on your other
>>> partition and apply the combo update to the dubious one.
>>
>> How do you do that? I booted off the other partition (10.6.2) but it
>> only seemed to offer an update to that partition.
>
> You're not sharing /Library/Receipts between the two partitions are you?

I don't think so. I set them up completely separately and as far as I
can tell they are independent. Surely when you do a software update it
only affects the boot drive you are on, doesn't it? So my question was
how would I apply a Software Update to a *different* boot partition,
which is what I think Jaimie was advising.

Or maybe I've completely misunderstood - wouldn't be the first time!


Ian.
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From: Chris Ridd on 24 Apr 2010 07:48
On 2010-04-24 12:23:01 +0100, Ian Piper said:

> On 2010-04-23 22:07:11 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said:
>
>> On 2010-04-23 21:10:58 +0100, Ian Piper said:
>>
>>> On 2010-04-23 15:21:35 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh
>>> <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> said:
>>>
>>>> Maybe the 10.6.3 update didn't apply fully? Boot up on your other
>>>> partition and apply the combo update to the dubious one.
>>>
>>> How do you do that? I booted off the other partition (10.6.2) but it
>>> only seemed to offer an update to that partition.
>>
>> You're not sharing /Library/Receipts between the two partitions are you?
>
> I don't think so. I set them up completely separately and as far as I
> can tell they are independent. Surely when you do a software update it
> only affects the boot drive you are on, doesn't it? So my question was
> how would I apply a Software Update to a *different* boot partition,
> which is what I think Jaimie was advising.

"Boot drive" only tells you where / is mounted from. The packaging
system uses /Library/Receipts to work out what to install, so if that's
mounted from elsewhere that'll obviously confuse things.

I don't know how you'd tell software update to install to a different
disk. There's no obvious control over this in the GUI or commandline
interface. Maybe booting the SL DVD lets you do this?

> Or maybe I've completely misunderstood - wouldn't be the first time!

Or me - ditto! :-)

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Chris

From: Ian Piper on 24 Apr 2010 17:49
On 2010-04-23 12:51:47 +0100, Ian Piper <ianpiper(a)gmail.com> said:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a weird problem with my MBP today. It was showing some problems
> with starting up MAMP, so I decided to reboot. On startup I got the
> grey screen with a dark grey no entry sign (circle with a diagonal
> line through it) and it went no further. I could start it up in safe
> mode, though it took longer obviously. It even started MAMP OK once
> booted, which knocked on the head my initial theory about that being
> the cause.
>
> Has anyone come across something similar? Given that it starts in safe
> mode but not in normal mode, is there anywhere obvious that I could
> look for the source of the problem?
>
> I've recently updated to 10.6.3 and installed the latest security
> update.
>
>
> Ian.

Don't know whether it is of any interest, but I seem to have resolved this.

After having exhausted all of the usual channels - zapping the PRAM,
removing all unneeded login items, etc., I reluctantly decided to
reinstall Mac OS X on that partition. I resigned myself to the
irritation of having to reinstall everything and at least I knew my
documents were all backed up. So in went the Snow Leopard install disk
and off I went. After the installation it rebooted and somewhat to my
surprise the installation had only installed the OS - all of my
applications, settings and documents were all still there. I had
somehow expected all of those to have been lost in the installation.
How nice of Snow Leopard to do that for me. However, this was Snow
Leopard 10.6, so I now needed to re-apply all of the subsequent
updates. I have done that too, and fortunately it boots OK now. I came
very close to completely wiping my machine and starting from scratch.

So I'm still none the wiser as to why this happened in the first place,
but all seems to be well now.


Ian.
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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 25 Apr 2010 10:51
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:48:14 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com>
wrote:

>I don't know how you'd tell software update to install to a different
>disk. There's no obvious control over this in the GUI or commandline
>interface.

Isn't there? I wasn't paying close attention, but I'm sure previously
all Combo updates have a "which disk?" step in the Installer script...

(goes off and checks)

Yes, about four panels in there's a "Change install location" button.

Cheers - Jaimie
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From: Chris Ridd on 25 Apr 2010 10:58
On 2010-04-25 15:51:37 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh said:

> On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:48:14 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I don't know how you'd tell software update to install to a different
>> disk. There's no obvious control over this in the GUI or commandline
>> interface.
>
> Isn't there? I wasn't paying close attention, but I'm sure previously
> all Combo updates have a "which disk?" step in the Installer script...
>
> (goes off and checks)
>
> Yes, about four panels in there's a "Change install location" button.

Ah. I don't think I've ever installed a combo update, or installed a
software update by hand.

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Chris

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