Macs are not super reliable, perfect computers
Macs are nice, and I prefer my Macbook pro to my windows or linux box. However, macs are not magical devices free from problems. The latest disaster that is my mac started this morning.
I figured I should do a “System Update”. This seems like a good idea right? There were two items, Quicktime and iTunes 8.0 to update. This update all seemed to go pretty well, but then my computer was acting really slow. I opened Activity Monitor and nothing was happening. Top showed the same. What gives?
Well, the logs showed that the dynamic library loader was crashing. This is very bad, and went on for about 3 hours. I then saw another update in my System Update thing, 10.5.5! Oh joy! All my problems will be solved. The update began install, and asked me to reboot. It is doing its thing and then it says something to the affect “Update failed, please contact your software vendor.”
I tried this a few times, same thing every time.
So then I got out my install disk, and tried to see if I could do something. There are a lot of diagnostics and other useless things that don’t tell you much. I resigned to just reinstalling, and tried the “reinstall” with archive option. Guess what? That failed too. I even tried it twice.
Right now, I borrowed David’s backup harddrive and copied some of my files to it. Then I started an install that totally erases everything. Lets hope this actually works.
