Beware of the leopard! [Updated]
by Tateru Nino 
Dec 28th 2007 at 9:45AM
Filed under: Bugs, News items, Second Life, Mac
Massively readers with a love of the Leopard - specifically MacOSX, are cautioned that the latest Leopard build breaks all available Second Life viewers, according to Macenstein. That's build Leopard 10.5.2 -- 10.5.1 works just fine. The application fails just around the point that it's finalizing region connections and preparing to render.
If you've already installed 10.5.2, your only hope would seem to be to either wait for another build or reinstall back to 10.5.1. Ouch. Apple and Second Life don't seem to be having a great time together just lately.
If you're a regular Second Life users who uses MacOSX, absolutely stay away from the 10.5.2 Leopard build!
[Updated] Please note that 10.5.2 is currently in beta. This may be fixed by the time it goes live. We'll be certain to keep our eye on this issue and let you know how things are shaping up as it gets closer to release.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
DC Flyer said on 10:33AM 12-28-2007
10.5.2 hasn't been released into "the wild" yet -- it's still in limited developer release, so people visiting SL with 10.5.2 are acting as beta testers, whether they want to or not.
Hopefully those people will file bug reports with Apple through their Apple Developer Connection account (which is where they got the 10.5.2 seed, hopefully . . .)
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Loki said on 12:02PM 12-28-2007
thanx for the warning, i'll stick to 10.5.1
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Cyn said on 11:56AM 12-28-2007
Thank you for posting about this.
I already can't use Windlight with my MacPro, 2GB, while I am lag free with the regular client. Bummer to know that Leopard will be even worse.
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Mark Crump said on 1:03PM 12-28-2007
It's worth mentioning that this is a dev build and what's broken may well be fixed by the time it launches. Or, the problem could be solely on Linden Lab's end in which case we could wait a bit for a fix.
Hopefully, it'll get fixed. But we wanted to at least warn people this problem exists.
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Ari said on 1:20PM 12-28-2007
Another clear example of sensationalism.
Intentional? I don't know. But the way your article is written it is not made clear that this whole issue refers to a TEST BETA version of the OS X update.
As presented on the original article:
"Faithful Macenstein reader dolfke writes us with a warning to Second Life users hoping to test out the latest 10.5.2 Leopard build. According to dolfke, 10.5.2 breaks SL functionality in a big way."
Note how THEY clearly use the words "test out the latest". Still not entirely bullet-proof clear they are referring to beta (they do a bit later in the post) - but YOUR version is considerably more vague.
Gotta get those clicks and views, huh?
Heh, it's why I don't bother watching CNN, FOX and all the rest any more. All sensationalized BS.
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Mark Crump said on 1:53PM 12-28-2007
To be fair, there may have been some internal miscommunication (I'm on staff here). I saw the note on Macenstein and sent out the link to the staff since I didn't have time to write it up.
In hindsight, I should have noted it was a development build and this should be a heads-up warning that when it goes live, residents might want to make sure it's been fixed before rolling the update down.
I'm not throwing Tat under the bus here. I'm throwing myself under it.