1953 OS X 10.5 Leopard is a cat that's turning out to have a fair few fleas. Apple has released a gaggle of Knowledge Base articles on how to cope, plus a new developer note document. Here are profiles of and links to some recent articles posted.



Mac OS X 10.5: "Blue screen" appears after installing Leopard and restarting
Mac OS X 10.5: Installer destination window does not show drives
Mac OS X 10.5, iMac (Late 2007): Stuck in a "loop" at the login window after upgrading to Leopard
MacBook (Late 2007): About the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard installation disk
Mac OS X 10.5: Time Machine backups are not visible
Mac OS X 10.5: Time Machine stops backing up to external disk
Introduction to What's New in Mac OS X
Mac OS X 10.5: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions reports a permissions issue with ARDAgent





Mac OS X 10.5: "Blue screen" appears after installing Leopard and restarting

After completing an upgrade installation of Leopard and restarting the computer, a "blue screen" may appear for an extended period of time.

Products affected
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Solution
You may have third-party "enhancement" software installed that does not work with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Use one of these solutions.....

You can check it out at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306857






Mac OS X 10.5: Installer destination window does not show drives

When installing Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, destination volumes may not appear in the installation window for a while, even though the volumes are visible while started from Mac OS X 10.4 or in Disk Utility.

Products affected
• Mac OS X 10.5

Solution
Wait a few minutes for the volume(s) to appear.

The Mac OS X 10.5 installer window does not show hard drives that are still being checked in the background, and there is no status indicator regarding this. The larger the disk volume, the longer it may take for this to complete. After the disk check has finished, the drive(s) will appear and be available for installation.

For more information, visit:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306861







Mac OS X 10.5, iMac (Late 2007): Stuck in a "loop" at the login window after upgrading to Leopard

After installing Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on a 20-inch or 24-inch iMac (Late 2007) computer, you may not be able to log in at the login window. Your login name and password are apparently accepted, but after a blue screen appears for a few seconds, the login window reappears instead of your desktop.

Products affected
• 20-inch or 24-inch iMac (Late 2007) computer with 2.0, 2.4, or 2.8 GHz processors
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

For suggested solutions, visit:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306965






MacBook (Late 2007): About the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard installation disk

The Mac OS X 10.5 installation disk that shipped with your MacBook (13-inch Late 2007) is designed for use on this computer only and not intended for any other computer.

The installer prevents this software from being installed on other Macintosh computers and other Mac OS X 10.5 installation disks will not work on the MacBook (13-inch Late 2007).

You can check it out at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306766






Mac OS X 10.5: Time Machine backups are not visible

In the Mac OS X 10.5 Time Machine "time travel" window, past backups may not appear if your computer name includes certain characters.

Products affected
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
• Time Machine

Solution
Check your computer name in Sharing preferences. Make sure the computer name only includes ASCII characters from following set:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
0123456789

If this is a new Mac, make sure the computer name uses the same as what was used on your previous Mac.

You can check it out at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306928






Mac OS X 10.5: Time Machine stops backing up to external disk

After about 10 GB or more of data is backed up to an external disk, Time Machine may stop backing up. This may happen the first time Time Machine backs up your files.

Products affected
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
• Time Machine

For more information, visit:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306932






Introduction to What's New in Mac OS X

This document provides developer-level information about features that were introduced in different versions of Mac OS X.

This document is not intended as a complete list of features for each new version of Mac OS X. Instead, it focuses on those features that affect the development of third-party software, providing overviews of each feature along with insight as to how and when you might use them to create your own software. Wherever possible, this document also provides links to other Apple conceptual and reference documentation for that feature.

You can check it out at:
http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/MacOSX/WhatsNewInOSX/index.html






Mac OS X 10.5: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions reports a permissions issue with ARDAgent

Issue or symptom

The following message may appear in the Disk Utility log window when repairing disk permissions.

Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent has been modified and will not be repaired.

Products affected
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Solution

You can safely ignore this message. It is accurate, but not a cause for concern.

You can check it out at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306925

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