Leopard’s Blue Screen of Death

After deciding to spend Friday night in the pub, rather than in a cue outside the Apple Store, I decided to head into town yesterday with Rob and Sean to get my own copy of the much anticipated Leopard (aka. Mac OS 10.5) Having battled through a crazed Apple Store I managed to get home with the software and have a huge shock.

I’d heard that there was a Window’s bashing blue screen of death easter egg in Leopard but imagine the shock when I rebooted after the install only to be presented with an aqua blue screen and a perpetual busy curser. Oh the irony.

Fortunately I still had a spare laptop and with the help of Google I found out what to do. A quick boot into Single User mode, a fsck, a mount and a few rm -rfs later and the offending framework was removed and I was up and running again… it reminded me very much of an OS 9 extension conflict, only without an extension manager to do the disabling easily!

So all in all I wasn’t very impressed! The experience has very much soured my impression of the new OS… Although, I’m already dependant on cover flow in the Finder for navigating files, I’m not sure how I’ve ever managed without it - so rolling back isn’t an option!

I know I’m not alone in having a bad Leopard upgrade experience and I’ve heard a lot of other grumbling about the new OS from other people… Let’s hope 10.5.1 will make Stacks vaguely useful and sort out the Vistesque menu bar.

October 28, 2007 | Filed Under Apple

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2 Responses to “Leopard’s Blue Screen of Death”

  1. Quit your day job. Go on. I dare you. » Blog Archive » The Leopard hunts in daylight on October 28th, 2007 3:43 pm

    […] Apparently the process isn’t always quite that easy. Here’s Tom’s less-positive account of his experience. […]

  2. Darko on October 28th, 2007 3:51 pm

    Update: My some what ancient copy of Photoshop 7’s stopped working… And (apparently) Adobe know and don’t care! *sigh*

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