Safari /failure!

donenoch · 03-05-2009, 01:44 PM

I've recently come across a safari issue... on random machines through out the district(i work for) we have machines (13" macbooks/white) that have their safari just out of the blue stop working... at first the app will load but not load any web pages no matter what you do... then the app will not work at all... (as in will not load... you open the app and it stops... no error messages, nothing...) anyways we cast "our" district stander image on every machine that comes through our office and do a quick machine check...(boots, logins, ect.) anyways i was just wondering if their is some kind of a bug in safari 3(we run OSX 10.5.5... until the end of this school year... late may.) the only way we have found to fix this is by reimaging the machine...(which come with alot more work... backing up data, rebinding the machine, restoring data...ect.) keep in mind that since we do bind our machines and our image has permissions for different groups that just "reinstalling" the app is equally as difficult. lastly im just looking for a temp fix (if their is one) for next school year im going to have safari4 put into our image...

don

benwiggy · 03-06-2009, 07:37 AM

Trashing prefs and emptying caches doesn't help? You don't have any add-ons for Safari, do you?
Are there no clues in the logs for what might be causing this?

Also, the most recent OS version is 10.5.6. Perhaps your image should include that.

donenoch · 03-06-2009, 10:25 AM

oh yeah im gona refresh the entire dist. image (alot of the crap on it is.... archaic at best lol) as far as the logs for it ive gone through them and nothing pops out to me or coworkers.... and the students "arent" able to get add-ons... but everyone knows how well telling tech kiddies no works... me and bruce(one of the coworkers) could see if that mite be an issue or a factor to it (add-ons) thxs benwiggy

-don

03-05-2009, 01:44 PM	#1
donenoch Prospect Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Barrow, Alaska Posts: 14	Safari /failure! I've recently come across a safari issue... on random machines through out the district(i work for) we have machines (13" macbooks/white) that have their safari just out of the blue stop working... at first the app will load but not load any web pages no matter what you do... then the app will not work at all... (as in will not load... you open the app and it stops... no error messages, nothing...) anyways we cast "our" district stander image on every machine that comes through our office and do a quick machine check...(boots, logins, ect.) anyways i was just wondering if their is some kind of a bug in safari 3(we run OSX 10.5.5... until the end of this school year... late may.) the only way we have found to fix this is by reimaging the machine...(which come with alot more work... backing up data, rebinding the machine, restoring data...ect.) keep in mind that since we do bind our machines and our image has permissions for different groups that just "reinstalling" the app is equally as difficult. lastly im just looking for a temp fix (if their is one) for next school year im going to have safari4 put into our image... don

03-06-2009, 07:37 AM	#2
benwiggy League Commissioner Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: London Posts: 5,843	Trashing prefs and emptying caches doesn't help? You don't have any add-ons for Safari, do you? Are there no clues in the logs for what might be causing this? Also, the most recent OS version is 10.5.6. Perhaps your image should include that.

03-06-2009, 10:25 AM	#3
donenoch Prospect Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Barrow, Alaska Posts: 14	oh yeah im gona refresh the entire dist. image (alot of the crap on it is.... archaic at best lol) as far as the logs for it ive gone through them and nothing pops out to me or coworkers.... and the students "arent" able to get add-ons... but everyone knows how well telling tech kiddies no works... me and bruce(one of the coworkers) could see if that mite be an issue or a factor to it (add-ons) thxs benwiggy -don