Curioso!

I did an upgrade yesterday, and this did not go smoothly, Leopard bit me hard:

1. After the upgrade, the login screen showed all my users, but it refused my password. This issue is described on Apple Support: Unable to log in to account after an upgrade install. Repairing it requires booting to single user mode (press cmd-S during boot) and then enter this non-trvial sequence of commands:

   mount -uw /
   launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist
   dscl . -delete /Users/curioso AuthenticationAuthority
   passwd curioso
   

   and type in twice the password that you already had.

2. After the upgrade the user interface freezes of my new iMac 24 inch got very bad. I had one or two freezes before the upgrade, which was not too bad. But now the freeze seemed to happen anytime I went to the dock to unhide it. I set the dock to not hide automatically, which seems to help.
   Update: dock hiding probably has nothing to do with it. I booted in safe mode, and this disables the ATI graphics card device driver.
3. Quartz Composer does not seem to recognize my video card, so most screen savers do not work. Still struggling with this one.
   Update: this is because I booted in safe mode, and then the graphics driver is disabled.

Update (3-nov-2007): I applied the iMac 1.3 update, but the freezes persist. The problem is clearly related to the ATI Radeon HD 2600 GPU that is used in the iMac.

Update (15-nov-2007): Freezes were fixed by the Apple iMac graphics firmware update 1.0.

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