iChat Plays Poorly with Apple Security Update

Just installed a security update from Apple, and now iChat AV crashes every time I start it up. Oh, well, I wasn’t having much luck getting the video working very well, anyway. Got some good advice and restored iChat 1.0, which works fine.

Meanwhile, a bunch of disk permissions got whacked. My Applications folder was rendered read-only — a hassle I only discovered when I couldn’t install an application update. Ran the “Repair Disk Permissions” feature of Disk Utility, and now at least that problem seems to be solved.

Someday I’ll learn not to be the first on my block to install updates to operating systems…

UPDATE: I’ve tried just about everything to get iChat AV working, with no success. I reverted to iChat 1.0, then reinstalled AV, and it still crashes reliably. Guess I’ll revert again. Sigh…

Comments

Posted by: Matt Wagner on July 15, 2003 02:07 PM

AV still works for me after the security update. (shrug)

Posted by: Alfredo Octavio on July 15, 2003 03:25 PM

Could be a corrupted pref… Have you tried another user in the same machine? (first trick of Mac OS X troubleshooting)

Posted by: Alice Marshall on July 16, 2003 07:31 AM

Someday vendors will learn not to send upgrades and new operating systems to journalists until AFTER they have been debugged.

Posted by: Rod Moodie on July 16, 2003 09:21 AM

No problems here with security update and iChat AV! imac 800mhz 15″ flat panel running 10.2.6.

Posted by: Dan Gillmor on July 16, 2003 09:54 AM

Regarding vendors and journalists: I tend to be a Bermuda Triangle for new technology in any event. If there’s a bug I’m likely to be bitten…

Posted by: Jeff Carlson on July 16, 2003 11:14 AM

I had the same problem at first. I booted with a Mac OS X installer disk and used Disk Utility to verify the disk and also repaired permissions. That did the trick. Hope this helps!

Posted by: nobody on July 16, 2003 03:37 PM

nobody testing

Posted by: Bill Vlahos on July 16, 2003 08:54 PM

I’ve installed the updates on a number of Macs and none of them have the problems you describe. IChat AV works fine on all of them.

Posted by: Alice Plebuch on July 16, 2003 10:08 PM

No problems here with iChat AV and security update.

Posted by: Joe Le Merou on July 17, 2003 07:08 AM

Different big problem with the Update related to disk images but iChat AV is working.

Posted by: bang on March 2, 2004 01:18 PM

iChat Plays Poorly with Apple Security Update

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