At 9:08 AM -0700 01/19/2006, Bruce Johnson wrote:
System upgrades involve many changes to system software, drivers,
etc, some changes are made immediately, some won't take place until
after a restart. It's a dangerous state to run a computer in.
That said, you can just ignore the jumping icon, move the notice out
of the way and continue working, if that is such a big deal.
IMO, Apple made a mistake here. That dialog should have a death grip
on your Mac.
Folx should use care pushing such aside, even temporarily. You hit
the wrong thing and you can end up with a frozen Mac... Then you
loose whatever you haven't saved yet, or worse.
It then froze or so I thought? Sort of just blue lit screen with X
logo thingy not moving at all for at least 10 mins so I pulled
plug. Restarted it and things seemed normal again...
Sometimes this happens.
Went thru this repeatedly with the Panther and Tiger test installs I
did on my 300-MHz B&W (while I was adding and subtracting 3rd party
hardwares). There *is* disk activity happening... It's rebuilding
something, perhaps a kernel cache. A few times, it was fully hung.
But usually if I left the machine alone for 30+ minutes, the boot
finished.
You can also tell Software Update to save the downloaded updates, I
forget where it puts them, perhaps the Library/Receipts folder.
Oh! Gotta go look for that. :)
- Dan.
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