Security Update got your network down?

I installed the latest OS X Security Update for 10.2.6, and Airport 3.1 and rebooted. Networking was dead. The System Pref panels were dead.

After dorking around for awhile, Curt suggested I delete:

/private/var/db/SystemConfiguration/preferences.xml

I did, and also

/private/var/db/SystemConfiguration/com/apple.airport.preferences.xml

Rebooted. All of my networking prefs were gone (yay) so I reset them to DHCP and it lives.

Thanks, Curt!

1 comment

  1. Wow, ok, that’s scary.. I installed them separately (the security update a few days ago), and didn’t have issues..

    Although at the time, I was connected via ethernet (problems with my vpn via airport).

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