Shit got ill in the Leopard upgrade

September 27, 2009 / Tiger to Leopard upgrade woes.

Since upgrading Abraham, the best little PB12 there ever was, from Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.5:

  • Airport card fails to connect to the default network when waking from sleep.
  • Mail.app sometimes fails to sync with the IMAP server when waking from sleep.
  • Local virtual hosts I’d set up for web development were deleted.
  • Cisco VPN client errors out on launch.
  • I sometimes get weird video artefacts when resizing or switching windows.
  • Safari keeps trying to access Keychain.app when a username input element receives focus even though I’ve always instructed it not to save passwords.
  • Command + Tab switching sometimes leaves the wrong app on top.
  • Everything feels a bit slower.

Abe has a 1.5 GHz PowerPC G4 processor with 1.25 GB of memory. Last of the mighty twelve-inchers.

3 responses

  1. Dan Todd

    That’s strange. I upgrade my First Gen Macbook from Tiger to Leopard and then on to Leopard Server with no problems.

    Did you do an upgrade or a clean install? I did a clean install and then a restore from backup/migrate to return my files and settings each time.

    Yesterday’s upgrade of the iMac to Snow Leopard went smoothly with the only issue being that Quicksilver refused to load. A quick deletion of the plug-in directory (I think) solved it. I’ll let you know more as it happens.

    September 27th, 2009 at 5:31 pm #

  2. Brian Christiansen

    Can’t blame the specs, my friend… we’re rocking 10.5 on the PB12″ 867mHz w/ 640MB RAM and a 40GB drive!

    :-)

    Oh, yeah, it’s slow. But not slower than Tiger.

    September 27th, 2009 at 10:51 pm #

  3. Adrian Cooke

    Did you do an upgrade or a clean install? I did a clean install and then a restore from backup/migrate to return my files and settings each time.

    Dan, no, I used the default upgrade option. I’m going to try a clean install instead. Too many issues that I can’t seem to resolve.

    Brian, I know, I also recently upgraded Elena’s old 867 MHz PB12 and it ended up feeling faster than before.

    October 10th, 2009 at 6:44 pm #


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