DrunkenBlog

Severe problems

I'm nearing the end of my rope with 10.3. I've really enjoyed the speed increases and some of the UI refinements- but it's the stability that is killing me. And I'm not the only one... a lot of developers affectionately dubbed the release "punter", inferring Apple got in sight of the goal and instead of bringing the ball in, just gave a good kick and hoped for the best...

...with some pretty damn awful results. I was lucky enough not to have been bit by the firewire bug (causing you to lose all your data on external firewire drives), nor a lot of the others.

I have a few machines- but my powerbook is my "rock". I don't mess with it- everything is very vanilla. With 10.2, by and large the worst I had to deal with it was that after 5 days or so it'd be craving a reboot. Things would get slow, etc.

But with 10.3, I've had way too many kernel panics, lock ups, etc. Most of them have been with the finder... I had a kernel panic today emptying the damn trash. Repairing permissions fixed it. As we speak I am doing two large transfers in the background, and they've both hung. iChat seems especially prone to cause them too- I've come back three times to a machine that won't respond, but a new iChat window is in the background, so it happened after someone tried to message me.

Five kernel panics or full hangs in two days.

I've done everything- reformatted, reinstalled from scratch, swapped out RAM... and just for kicks, went back to 10.2.8, where everything works fine, and I even have airport connectivity again.

This stuff is not good.

 Posted by drunkenbatman
    January 07, 2004, at 08:51 PM