You know, the -one- time I dont' follow the daringfireball upgrade method, I'd get burned. Really stupid to not follow it for a beta safari. I figured it would do something sensible like install in parallel.
I don't know if it was related to not rebooting pre-patch like I usually do, but the installer hung, and left me without key bits of Safari Installed.
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/JavaScriptCore.framework/Versions/A/JavaScriptCore Referenced from: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/JavaScriptGlue.framework/Versions/A/JavaScriptGlue Reason: image not found
So I can't run Safari...or Quicksilver...or (worst of all) Installer.app. Seems like many people with similar problems.
I have backups...so I'm hoping I can piece enough of Safari back onto the system to get Installer.app to run, then run the beta-3 uninstall and be done with Safari 3 forever (or at least until it comes out for real).
Interestingly, Safari 3 installed successfully on the PC, but the proxy support is badly broken/half-hearted.
Here's to hoping I can get things on the Mac back in order.
Update:
So I pulled:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/JavaScriptGlue.framework
and
/System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework
Which were missing after the aborted beta-3 install and restored them from backups. That let me run Installer.app, and I was able to run the beta-3 uninstaller successfully, and after the reboot I'm back up and running. Quicksilver runs, I'm posting this in Safari (never thought I'd be so happy to see "Version 2.0.4 (419.3)" in the Safari about box)...seems like I'm back up.
Probably not willing to chance another run at beta-3...we'll see, I might try it with the right procedure, or wait to see if Apple updates the installer.
Update 2:
BrendonG has a good idea about where to get the files if you don't have backups, they are in the combo-updater for 10.4.9. Kind of a large download, but then you can get them out of the package and restore them enough to run the uninstaller.
Update 3:
Probably final update, "boxhead" has the easiest fix, finding where the installer backs up the files, /Library/Application Support/Apple/.SafariBetaArchive.tar.gz
Good digging.
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