Comments on: For Some, Installation Problems Spoil Leopard's Release

By: Kamran, Lahore

Kamran, Lahore — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:30:38 +0000

hi,

Help.

(leopard installation failed) I cannot install. The error is: appleHDA.kext failed to load:unable to locate 'layout-id' property

((intel core 2 CPU 1.86

with 4 gb ram))

Plez Help

ex ped: This is not the best forum for help. Can you reach 1-800-MYAPPLE from there? If not, I suggest you try Apple.com/support, go to discussions, and search for people who have solved similar problems.

By: Mike, Staten Island, NY

Mike, Staten Island, NY — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:02:51 +0000

HOLD ON HERE! ….with regard to that BLUE SCREEN supposed problem… MAYBE THERE IS NO PROBLEM AT ALL? …. way too many people are jumping to conclusions here……. I too had seen this blank blue screen on install of Leopard on my G4 Laptop… of course i cannot speak for anyone els… but when the blue screen appeared and did not seem to go away… rather than give up and assume that it crashed… i had patients and let the computer sit for about 10 min… SURE enough… eventually… the computer booted up… im assuming that the upgrade just took a long time… granted… im on a G4 Laptop… not one of those fast and fancy INTEL models… needless to say… it DID eventually start up and i have not seen any major issues… sure there a few bugs… but most are minor enough for me to continue to work until there is an update… AND just for the record… im not running a simple setup… i have tons of software that was already installed… some are major applications like Adobe CS 3 as well as other third party software …all working without issues…. i have to say… im IMPRESSED with LEOPARD… HAVE PATIENTS OUT THERE PEOPLE… Realize that if you are doing Archive and Install… A lot of your hard drives out there are HUGE… and large amounts of data take time to backup…

By: alex, Lincoln CA

alex, Lincoln CA — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:26:44 +0000

hello. so i'm helping my friend upgrade her mac to leopard. i'm a pc guy so i'm having a little trouble figuring this one out. when i plug the cd in it says click here to upgrade and then it reboots the computer. when the computer reboots it spits the disk out, there for stopping the installation. is this a hardware problem, or has this happened to anyone else?

By: daisy, Denver CO

daisy, Denver CO — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:23:55 +0000

I have to ask, is there anthing preventing one from putting Leopard on an external Firewire 400 La Cie Drive 30 GB, not only clean but erased with the Leopard Disk Utility that comes with the DVD?

I don't have the app enhancer whatever everyone is saying to disable; I actually blew away the drive (erased it) by using Leopard's Disk Utility. It had been acting fine; copied all the files I wanted off of it, it made no bad noises, so was surprised the erase failed- twice. After several tries, and reboots, and finding the correct selection under Parition options, it mounted, and the OS install got to 28% complete— and hung there for 20 minutes. Drives are spinning, just no joy. Here's the weird part- after rebooting- noW no Firewire drive seems to exist at all, from the Mac Book Pro's perspective running Tyger, nor from Disk Utility, or System Profiler, or Terminal, not from the Leopard DVD either. No FW devices found. Something bad happened here folks.

I took the La Cie drive, plugged it right in to my old trusty iBook running Panther, voila! mounts in seconds, looks fine, acts fine.

Now… what the heck happened there? I worked as a tech for Apple, and I have never seen this before.

On my G4 tower with dual 867s, without reformatting the drive, but doing a clean install, Leopard started out beautiful, and now… it never wakes up from sleep.

I'd keep an eye on the boards and wait til they find fixes for these issues. When it gets worked out, it will be stunning. But there are gnomes in it now.

By: Jim, McLean a

Jim, McLean a — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:31:11 +0000

I have just installed the Leopard upgrade on a relatively new MAC Book with no Application Enhancer software of any kind. Disaster!!! The blue screen breakdown got me. I called support, waited a half hour and got disconnected mid call, apparently because the 6PM PST quit time arrived. But no explanation before pulling the plug on me. Think long and hard before you buy this now.

By: hazem, cairo, egypt

hazem, cairo, egypt — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:54:40 +0000

it's very simple.

blue screen comes when you have been installing Application Enhancer on Tiger before upgrading so you have two solutions:

1) repeat the installation choosing Archive & Install from options this time

2) enter single-user mode by pressing Command+S while starting your mac, then run this commands by the sane order

fsck -fy

mount -uw /

rm -rf /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/ApplicationEnhancer.bundle

shutdown -r now

By: H. Libby, Indian Wells, CA

H. Libby, Indian Wells, CA — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:58:47 +0000

I just converted from Microsoft to Apple and this headache was my first experience. This along with no instructions on how to convert a litany of things to my Apple. How can a company sell themselves as an upgrade yet you have to go to 3rd parties to get explanations of how to do things? Apple may have a good product but their assistance for the average Joe is just not there.

By the way, only the Archive and Install worked for me but most Apple technicians did not even know of it.

By: Emad

Emad — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:04:49 +0000

Personally, I upgraded without a problem, but I guess I was lucky because there is another scary story at http://www.thetechbrief.com/2007/11/02/leopard-let-out-of-the-cage-too-soon/

By: Paul Canning, Bonita Springs, FL

Paul Canning, Bonita Springs, FL — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:26:48 +0000

After upgrading my 20" swivel-arm G4 iMac to Leopard from Tiger, my applications work OK, but the OS refuses to work properly. I am unable to use Finder, unable to close applications and unable to shut the computer down short of hiting the power button. After 3 hours on the phone with Apple Care, I'm still in the same boat. They said they would forward my problem to the engineers and get back to me. This is my first REAL disappointment with an Apple product. You start to get a little bit uneasy when even the tech staff is dumbfounded.

By: Tom, Roanoke Va.

Tom, Roanoke Va. — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:44:13 +0000

Installed Leopard on two Macs today, an alu. iMac and a 1.33 iBook. No problems, great upgrade. If you stay away from the haxies, you'll be OK!