[Virtualacorn-list] Mac OS X 10.5.7

[David Pitt]

Hi,

I upgraded to OS X 10.5.7 before the advice not to do so was issued. VRPC is
now extremely reluctant to start, it reports itself as unregistered and the
product ID is different. It does eventually restart, where eventually really
does mean eventually. Once it is working the advice is not to turn the
computer off but to put it to sleep. That is in any case reasonable, the
"Everything Mac" handbook does recommend putting the machine to sleep unless
one will be away from it for more than a few days. (That handbook is less
than clear as to why that is a good thing to do but googling revealed that
if a Mac is sleeping when its maintenance scripts are due to be run, in the
small hours, they will be run on awakening. If the Mac is always off at the
appointed time the scripts never run.)

The catch is enforced restarts after upgrades, that's VRPC gone again. I
have just had the Safari 4.0.1 and Bluetooth updates followed by no VRPC
again. Even after ten restarts VRPC is still not running. But even that is
not consistent, after a previous upgrade VRPC did work after the restart and
did go on to keep working over a number of restarts and power downs.

I have been round the 'permissions' and 'combo upgrade' loops to no avail.

Otherwise 10.5.7 has been absolutely fine, on two machines.

As I understand it, or not as the case may be, VRPC is tied to its host's
MAC address, but there must be more to it than that as the iMac does know
its MAC address at all times.

Has anyone cracked this, what is it in 10.5.7 that is amiss, or am I alone
with this issue?
 
-- 
David Pitt

MessengerPro on iMac