Apple’s latest update to its Leopard operating system, OS X 10.5.6, appears to be creating more problems than it’s fixing on users’ Macs.
A day after the software was released via Apple’s download service, users flooded the company’s online support forum with hundreds of complaints about the upgrade. Most centered around OS freezes and so-called “Blue Screens of Death.”
“The latest version of Leopard (10.5.6) downloaded automatically via Software Update. However, when I attempted to install, the process hangs on ‘configuring setup,’” wrote a user logged in under the name Davald.
“I have owned dozens of Apple computers since my first purchase in 1977, and I also have the OS X 10.5.6 update problem,” reported a user named Jim Needham.
User ‘Dr. Nick’ said, “Have to add that my iMac is playing up. Upgraded, and can’t get past the screen where you type your password, the screen goes blue, and it cycles through a slightly different shade of blue to take me to the login screen again.”
Another, going by the online handle Xapplimatic, said his problems weren’t limited to a single machine. “All 7 of my Macs (Intel (NSDQ: INTC) & PPC) are all hung on the installation. None of them have gotten past “configuring installation” and it’s been over an hour… I’m really worried,” he wrote.
Others reported that installation of the update caused problems with Bluetooth connections, the Safari Web browser, sound settings, energy-saving settings, and a host of other Mac features.
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