Gone back to Tiger
That's it. Time Machine doesn't work with parallels on my common setup (MBP with lacie ext hdd), Mail just refused to open, photoshop has crashed, three times in two days a transparent curtain has descended and told me to reboot, screen artifacts remain after closing safari, etc. It's not worth it, yet. At least for me. I use an intel mbp 17' all day using PS and FCP, wireless (yeah, that's messed up too) and some soundtrack pro. It's just after 4am here in the mountains and I am going to spend the next four hours going back to tiger.
I agree, its not worth it - yet.
Tried the archive and install method first - When Leopard started up all I got was a blank desktop and loads of weird stuff. Went with clean install (everything backed up so no probs), booted up fine, ok! here we go! - Oh, straight into the dark curtain crash! Right, reboot, straight back to the dark curtain - great! Just kept doing this cycle. Now, I got this iMac with 10.2 installed and have done all the OS upgrades to 10.4 over a few years and
never had one crash ever and now thats all my mac does
The 3rd install attempt seemed to work for a day or so but then I started getting the probs as mentioned by the OP.
I really wanted to use Leopard on my iMac G5 but after installing I get most of the problems that dcghile is experiencing plus my mac was running at 78 degrees c with user cpu at 100% or near to it. This was with nothing running, or nothing I was running!
So yes, after constant random crashes, mail suddenly losing all the user accounts (nice!) and the aforementioned heat issues I reverted to Tiger 10.4.11
iMacs been running for a couple of days constantly now, idles at 35 degrees, maxes out around 60, all apps work as they should. I miss Time Machine but SuperDuper! is doing fine here.
Leopard is sitting in the drawer. I will use it but not for a while yet.
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