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Mac Pro (old or new) experiences on Yosemite

flowrider said:
^^^^I also had installation issues, installing the Final Release over PB6. My post from another thread:
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Interesting, I upgraded over PB6 on a laptop with no issue.

Seems fine so far. Consistently though Safari has a hinky-jinky thing going on in text boxes (small matter). Overall feels zippier, probably because of the clean interface. Love the dark look, absolutely love it.

Having trouble (not Mac Pro related) getting Android Studio and IntelliJ to run. It wants me to install a legacy JDK from Apple and won't recognize the JDK 8 I have installed. More Java hate from Apple here.

VMware is running just fine.
 
Hi Folks,

Upgraded my machine last night from Mavericks. It rebooted to a blank screen. I tried to boot off an external disk...no luck. Too late at night for me. Forced quit and went to sleep. Booted it up this morning and again to a blank screen. Currently have a machine on and the screen off. Will come back to it later in the day.

Alt Out!
 
Alterior101 said:
Hi Folks,

Upgraded my machine last night from Mavericks. It rebooted to a blank screen. I tried to boot off an external disk...no luck. Too late at night for me. Forced quit and went to sleep. Booted it up this morning and again to a blank screen. Currently have a machine on and the screen off. Will come back to it later in the day.

Alt Out!
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Sounds like what I had above. If you have an alternate machine (Win, Mac or Linux) ssh in and kill the Window manager (ps aux | grep Window; kill -9 <PID>). Worked for me.

Handoff is intermittent with the nMP and a iPhone 5S. Tried it with Mail and it recognized the mail on both sides but then got stuck forever. On both directions. "#1 Infinite Loop" indeed.

Notes handoff seemed to work but I'm not sure if that was coming through iCloud update or Handoff.
 
Hi Folks,

Checked my classic Mac Pro again. Still has a blank screen. I don't have another machine unfortunately. Not sure what to do. Sounds like this behaviour is not normal. I've looked on the Sonnettech site (on my iPad) for any compatibility issues with Yosemite and the Tempo SSD Pro pice card. No information found.

Alt Out!
 
dmylrea said:
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I finally found there was a OS X Server 4.0, but it wasn't a free upgrade, it was another $19.99. Is that normal that if I already bought into OS X Server I have to BUY each and every major version upgrade?
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Normal not just for Server but pragmatically for the AppStore app (not fueled by high growth ). This used to cost several hundred dollars. At $20 a pop 5 upgrades is $100. If Apple sold millions of copies the price probably would go down but they don't so it doesn't.


What is the proper way to update to Yosemite with Server, since both can't be done simultaneously?
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OS X Server: Upgrade and migration from Lion Server or Snow Leopard Server http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5381

OS X Server: Upgrade and migration from Mountain Lion http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5996


Apple seems to be more than a little behind the curve since searching the KB for "OS X Server upgrade migration" didn't turn up a Yosemite version of the document/procedure. More than kind of helpful to put that in the KB before ship the product.

Not sure Apple's KB articles are fully thought through. Were possible it probably would be prudent to shutdown services , do full back-up, and then don't bring them fully back up until after the two phase upgrade.

Another approach indirectly implied there is clean install , service install and then data/config migration onto this clean os instance. Whether that is viable or not depends upon how much needs to be moved and outage constraints.
 
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I have updated 4 machines so far, and my cMacPro was the one with no problems. :) I had been running the Yosemite Beta in a controlled environment since it was released, so I didn't expect any real issues on the Mac Pro.

I did notice some issues however:

If you have OS X Server, update it while still under Mavericks as once you upgrade to Yosemite the Server updater says your OS is too new. I assume they will fix this bug soon.

When I tried to do a clean install on one system, and migrate my old system over, I needed to omit some large libraries for it to fit on the target drive and I was unable to "unselect" by clicking on the box to remove the "X" in it. I was unable to find any discussion on this problem by searching.


-howard
 
1 - upgraded from Mavericks, smooth as silk.
1 - upgraded from PB6, went smooth but converted partition to CoreStorage LV
1 - clean install on a blank drive, went smooth, resulted in a CoreStorage Logical Volume

Photoshop CS6 working well
FCPX 10.1.3 - Very slow application startup (25-30 sec.). Once started, works normally.

All other apps.mworked well except that my Kindle Reader app. isn't compatible.

I also have th "Herky-Jerky" keyboard report when typing in a webform text box. Otherwise, Safari is also quicker and scrolled smoother.
 
I've try both just upgrade from 10.9.5 and clean install + recover profiles / apps only by migration assistant. Both works fine, no crash or error.

So, on my 4,1 (as per my signature), all

Orico USB 3.0 card + all USB devices
HD7950 Mac Edition card (including audio out through display / HDMI port)
Tempo SSD + 840Evo

works fine.

Photoshop CC, Bridge, Lightroom, Parallel 10, works flawlessly.
 
Woke up this morning to an awake nMP. Grrrrrrr, I hate it when Macs have sleep problems. Which, them seem to inevitably do. So annoying, why can't Apple make it work 100% like Windows?

Theoretically my computer could have gotten bumped or something so I don't call it a Yosemite problem yet, but it's more than likely as I didn't have this happen before. My power settings were for no wake on LAN btw.
 
Cubemmal said:
So far it seems just fine, other than a few incompatible plugins. Nicely they warn you about this right after install now

  • Wacom Control Panel plugin and driver (auto uninstalled)
  • GPGTools
  • One other, darn it I forgot.
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Add Apple Shake to the list of program which do no longer start under 10.10.0.
 
One of the cautious up-graders here - even though I've had beta it's been in it's own SSD in sled 4 and not my default setup.

Nice to see CS6 is working ok pretty much from the start, USB 3 too and when I know CUDA and Nvidia drivers are ok the temptation to upgrade will be getting enough to shove those the Bluetooth LE Airport cards into the 3,1 and the MBP2011 when I get a spare couple of hours. The latter is the main problem - so much to do..
 
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Preference Desktop Pane

Liking Yosemite but in system prefs the Desktop and screen saver pane will not open. Instead I get an error saying 'Could not load Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane.'

Anyone know the fix?

Thanks
 
I read on Gearslutz that it's really important to turn off any trim enablers that most of us will be using. Otherwise you can run into problems with blank screen restarts etc.

Hopefully this helps someone!

Ed
 
Glad this thread exists. My MP is my main work machine and while I usually avoid .0 releases Mavericks has been a nightmare on my 09 MP. Random sleep/wake issues, finder bug (name field is 2000px long) and other random issues. Almost ready to gamble and just upgrade today.
 
AppleDroid said:
Glad this thread exists. My MP is my main work machine and while I usually avoid .0 releases Mavericks has been a nightmare on my 09 MP. Random sleep/wake issues, finder bug (name field is 2000px long) and other random issues. Almost ready to gamble and just upgrade today.
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This is probably the release to gamble on, given the extensive public beta, but there's always a chance...

Apparently Parallels 8 isn't supported in 10.10 and I'm not in the mood to send them more change given that I only use it for XP games, so I guess I'll create a 10.9 spinny disk partition when I do upgrade.
 
fuchsdh said:
This is probably the release to gamble on, given the extensive public beta, but there's always a chance...

Apparently Parallels 8 isn't supported in 10.10 and I'm not in the mood to send them more change given that I only use it for XP games, so I guess I'll create a 10.9 spinny disk partition when I do upgrade.
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Installed it today and so far so good. Finder seems to finally remember I don't want the "Name" field to 2000px long every time I have an open dialog box in an app. Sleep worked for a short period. I have to test over an hour of sleep to see if it's really fixed. On Mavericks it seemed that if the system slept for over an hour it would freeze and I'd have to power down/restart.
 
Mid-2010 six-core with an EVGA 670 SC and latest nVidia web drivers.

Updated last night with no problems problems so far. The OS seems faster overall. Able to play games in the latest Parallels, and Photoshop CC launches without issue.

Loving the new GUI redesign.
 
Early 2008 MP (see my signature for the details). As I had to update a late 2013 rMBP too, I created a USB install drive via the Terminal method and made a clean install on the SSDs of both machines. Everything went flawlessly.

I was a bit surprised to see that my MP completed the installation process no less than 10 minutes earlier than the rMBP.

Later I made a clean install of Snow Leopard on a separate drive of the MP for compatibility purposes. Startup Disk in Yosemite recognizes both, while (as expected) Snow Leopard is blissfully unaware of Yosemite and I have to boot it via the Option key.
 
Cubemmal said:
Woke up this morning to an awake nMP. Grrrrrrr, I hate it when Macs have sleep problems. Which, them seem to inevitably do. So annoying, why can't Apple make it work 100% like Windows?
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You're kidding, right? Been in the IT business for almost 30 years, and I have yet to see a Windows PC where sleep works 100% (the average is about 50%). Good for a laugh, though!
 
Mac Pro 5,1, did a fresh install.

Booting off a dual SSD in RAID 0 running on RocketRaid644L card. It takes a VERY Long time to boot up and then displays an error saying "Your computer crashed unexpectedly" or some such (does this every time), then has this weird progress bar (recovery thing??). Once it boots, everything works as expected

Anyways, once it boots my 3rd party USB 3 card has intermittent connectivity. Flashed 7970 seems to do okay. I didn't do much on it before I restarted back into 10.9.5 -- clearly not ready for prime-time yet.

Also, I had to fix permissions to get my 3rd party keyboard modifier (Alt --> ) keys to stick-- again, on a FRESH install. It's the little things...

I didn't expect everything to work perfectly, but it would've been nice to have it at least useable.

I also don't like my computer knowing my full name and being linked up to iCloud (yes I know it's optional, but I like the idea of Hand-off). I wonder what data it's collecting and sending to Tim Cook's masterbatorium now...
 

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2008 mac pro
Did a clean erase and install.
The mac pro seems to wake from sleep every few hours.
Yes wake for ethernet access is disabled. No other software has been installed yet.
Looks like I'll be going back to 10.9
 
dmylrea said:
You're kidding, right? Been in the IT business for almost 30 years, and I have yet to see a Windows PC where sleep works 100% (the average is about 50%). Good for a laugh, though!
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All my PCs have slept fine from Windows 2000 on my old K7 AMD to the Win7 I'm running on my NUCs and my Gaming PC. All the PCs at my work seem to wake up fine. In fact I can't remember the last time I ran into a PC with sleep problems in the last 10 years.

All my Power Macs and Mac Pros have had sleep problems on and off since 2005 ('04 ?)
 
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