Mac OS X 10.4.6 Special Report: Double restart is expected behavior
Some PowerPC-based Macs exhibit a double restart after application of the Mac OS X 10.4.6 update -- as noted in Knowledge Base article #303411.
MacFixIt reader Gray Tait writes:
"The updater worked just fine on my Intel iMac, but for my wife's G4 iBook, I downloaded the standalone and after the installer had finished I restarted the ibook. It took an age for the process to start and finished. There was a lot of hard drive activity as the round thing went around and around (probably 2 minutes) then the computer without warning rebooted itself and the process started again. Finally it go to displaying the Finder screen and about a minute later after more drive activity, it finished."
This double restart is to be expected and should not cause concern.
Index:
- Release Notes/Download links
- General purpose workarounds
- List of updated Apple applications
- Update process recommendation
- AirPort network not automatically re-joined after sleep
- Bluetooth: Connectivity issues
- Dock Auto Hide/Show function broken -- fix
- Double restart is expected behavior
- Energy Saver issues -- system will not automatically shut down, etc.
- FireWire problems
- Font issues -- fixes
- Improvements
- iSync Issues -- Issues with hacks for unsupported devices; Sony Ericsson K700i won't synch
- Menu bar items missing
- Networking issues: Problems with proxies
- Photo booth distortion
- Printer issues
- Problems logging in from Windows systems
- Reminder: Have enough free drive space before installing
- Reverting (downgrading) to Mac OS X 10.4.5
- Safari: Image loading problems
- SCSI drives not recognized
- Server volumes cannot be written to -- fixes
- Special permissions messages no longer appear in Disk Utility
- Spotlight issues -- make sure drive is not in Privacy tab
- Startup problems -- will not proceed after update, etc.
- Streaming Audio -- fixes
- Third-party applications: Fix for Photoshop save on crash; Word crashes; more
- Update Installer cannot find destination drive
