Comments on: Ugly Mac OS X Bug

By: snolan

snolan — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:53:29 +0000

John Gruber over at Daring Fireball ran into the same nasty problem and has a suggested solution.

Mount the disk on a Mac, then use DiskUtility to repair the sparse disk image. Interesting that no one at Apple could provide an answer to this one.

By: snolan

snolan — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:28:51 +0000

Thanks Brian, I will give that a shot.. it may wait a few days, as that is one big update…

By: Brian L.

Brian L. — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:12:23 +0000

You tried re-applying the latest full Mac OS X 10.5 combo update to your computer? Sometimes the partial updates leave “problematic” files on your computer that will cause problems like this.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosx1052comboupdate.html

Regards,
Brian

By: snolan

snolan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:52:37 +0000

The error is: “Time Machine Error: The backup volume could not be mounted.”

That should prevent backups, but it is horribly wrong that a failed backup attempt should crash your entire machine… wrong and unacceptable.

By: snolan

snolan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:46:26 +0000

To be completely fair - here is a list of all Administrator activity on my MacBook Air recently:

2008/04/01:
Software Update:
GarageBand Update 4.1.2
iPhoto Update 7.1.3
Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.0
AirPort Utility 5.3.1
Safari 3.1
Time Machine and Airport Update 1.0
Security Update 2008-001 1.1
restarted

2008/04/13:
Software Update:
QuickTime 7.4.5
iTunes 7.6.2
Keynote Update 4.0.3
MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 1.0
MacBook Air Bluetooth Firmware 1.0
Front Row Update 2.1.3
restarted

2008/04/21:
Had to re-applie the MacBook Air Bluetooth Firmware 1.0
it apparently did not take the first time?
restarted

Adium 1.2.4
Camino 1.6
Firefox 2.0.0.13
vlc 0.8.6f-intel
Software Update:
MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 1.0
Safari 3.1.1
restarted