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Old 01-12-2009, 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by outwithspam View Post
Also noticed that after the kernel upgrading using Andy's package installer, several apps no longer work. Most notably, Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint and Filemaker give me the message "The Application Microsoft Word quit unexpectedly". Trashing the prefs didn't solve the problem. My new mantra, a couple of weeks into this experience is "It's not a computer, it's a hobby"!
Louise
How did you update to 10.5.6?

Open Terminal and type:
uname -a
Reply back with what it says your kernel is. It should look something like: 9.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.0 Voodoo; Release 1.0 :xnu-1228.7.58/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386

The DMG you downloaded should have a folder called "Files" in this folder you will have the 9.5.0 System.kext. We can install it manually. Open the DMG and drag system.kext to your desktop and type the following in Terminal (These commands rely on the system.kext being on your desktop:

1. Give yourself root privileges to modify files.
Code:
sudo -s
2. Change directory to /s/l
Code:
cd /System/Library/
3. Remove the existing system.kext. (You can back this up first if you like)
Code:
rm -rf Extensions/system.kext
4. Copy the 9.5.0 system.kext you extracted from the download
Code:
cp -r ~/Desktop/system.kext Extensions/system.kext
5. Set proper permissions to the extensions folder
Code:
chmod -R 755 Extensions/
6. Set proper ownership to the extensions folder
Code:
chown -R root:wheel Extensions/
7. Touch the extensions folder
Code:
touch Extensions/
8. Remove the extensions cache to force OSX to rebuild it with the new system.kext
Code:
rm -rf Extensions.mkext
9. Repair permissions to the entire drive
Code:
diskutil repairpermissions /
Reboot with -v -f

You should now have matching kernel and system. There are shorter ways of doing these commands but this should give you a better understanding of the process.

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