Comments on: OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 Update Released

By: Jonathan Smith

Jonathan Smith — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:52:10 +0000

As of update 10.8.2 purge no loger throws an error!!

As for Yevgen’s comment: I don’t mind typing purge into the terminal every once in a while. (I pretty much always use sleep mode and never turn my mac off).

I switched to mac from windows about 1 1/2 years ago and i’m never looking back. Windows memory management is the worst!!

By: Stark

Stark — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 01:32:32 +0000

I got this problem.Putting “purge” in Terminal appearing the Error.

By: David Murphy

David Murphy — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:09:30 +0000

I get the error message, just used it for the first time a few minutes ago.

By: Dbernp

Dbernp — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:56:20 +0000

purge is for developers, Mac OS X has stellar memory management, it’s running on a unix core.

By: Yevgen

Yevgen — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:26:58 +0000

Well, purge works yet throw the message but I’ve another rhetorical question — WTH do we have to use purge at all?! Isn’t there suppose to be Memory Manager like in any other OS? What about that fabulous Grand Dispatch or whatever they call it? I’m finding this ridiculous being forced to run purge from time to time just making OS X working just normal instead of sluggish crawling through.

By: hellrotbill

hellrotbill — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:35:59 +0000

I ran purge on my 10.8.1 and it did go from 2.10 GB free to 4.08GB free. I did see the error though:

The device-file for this operating system, ‘osx-12.1.0.xml’, was not found. An attempt to revert to a previous revision of the OS device-file: ‘osx-12.0.0.xml’ has been made. Please file a Radar report with Apple, on the ‘CoreProfile’ component, version ‘X’.

By: John

John — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:00:52 +0000

Not at all…

OK, U know, but 10.8 is very fantastic OS, just this update is not cool…
Which Mac have U? -if possible to ask this…

My experience:
the little “old” ie before 2010′s Mac dont like the 10.8 OS.

…but U like Snow Leopard, then OK.

Good Snow Leoing!

By: Eshria

Eshria — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 12:28:30 +0000

Hey

Thank you John.

But I erased everything, i mean, there were too many things that bother me with 10.8

So go back 10.6.8 it’s my love, my dream 10.6.8 forever

Sorry ^^ i’m losing my mind xDD

It was nice, thank you

By: John

John — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 20:06:33 +0000

Yeah, I’ve an automator which work properly on OSX 10.8.1 without error message; it use purge…

If u want, i can send it to u…

John

By: Don

Don — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:20:19 +0000

I have the same issue and disappointed to hear it is not resolved by Apple, very disappointed.

I tried all the suggestions of MTU and new location and even router firmware update but in the end the issue appears to be 802.11n 5ghz band. I disabled it on my router and have not had any dropping. This to me is not fix but a bandaid and stinks.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:09:35 +0000

Thanks for that info Nevin!

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:14:50 +0000

I have a number of problems in 10.8.1. Right after the update, my mac went into a safeboot and froze.

Another small but annoying thing is that my notification icons have become broken and pixelated. I put a link to a screenshot of it below.

(screenshot of notification –>) http://i.imgur.com/cVNZp.png

By: Howard Brazee

Howard Brazee — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:19:03 +0000

I have a much bigger need for 10.7.5 on my wife’s computer (which is a year older than mine and won’t take Mountain Lion). 10.7.4 broke her resolution to only extremely large and extremely small, and it’s a real pain to use. Testers say that’s been fixed in 10.7.5 for a month or more, but Apple won’t tell us when it will be available for customers.

By: Nevin

Nevin — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:39:17 +0000

To those of you who are _not_ getting the error: do you have a file:

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreProfile.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Devices/osx-12.1.0.xml

as well as osx-12.0.0.xml in the same directory?

If so, how do they differ?

—

I too get the level 3 syslog error. Since level 3 errors are not critical, I helped the ‘purge’ command along by doing, in the above directory:

sudo ln -s osx-12.0.0.xml osx-12.1.0.xml

The soft symbolic link the above command creates stops the error. I think this is _probably_ safe to do and forget about for the following reasons:

the purge program falls back to the linked file anyhow, though complains on screen and in syslog(Console)

the symbolic link is non-destructive, and should a real 12.1 file be installed with proper credentials, it will overwrite the link

if one were to have a 12.1 file in place already, the ‘ln’ command would simply say ‘file exists’ and exit non-destructively.

I’m not sure why purge references a file that may or may not exist, nor why it treats its absence as an error, when that may or may not be the case. I don’t think it’s reason to put updating ML on-hold, in any case… it is _not_ a critical error.

By: Domenikus

Domenikus — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:00:56 +0000

Same problem here.