My grief continues on my wife's 24" white iMac, 2006 vintage
Safari crashes every 30-45 minutes.
SystemUIServer crashes, once, twice daily
System Preferences crashes, once, twice daily
Airport Base Station crashes, once, twice daily
I tried to install both the Combo and Incremental 10.6.8 updater but that does not work. Even in Safe Boot mode, I am told that the checksum could not be validated (or some such wording). I twice (re)downloaded the updater in case my copy was corrupt, but still no joy.
I also tried installing 10.6.8 from a different volume and again, same problem.
When I try the incremental update via Software Update, the install gets about 95% completed when I am advised that a problem was encountered, installation terminated, and to contact the developer.
DiskWarrior indicates no uncorrectable directory errors.
Repairing permissions was to no avail.
I have never been unable to update my OS.
It seems as though my OS is so hosed that I cannot even update it. Can that be?
Now what?
