The update to 10.4.6 may not have gone as badly as I thought. There are rumors that permissions cleanup tasks make the install take longer. To my mind it was just hung. Got to a message about IPv6 and then just stopped.
So I reverted back to 10.4 and ran the massive updaters overnight. After a slow login this morning, all seems well, though for reasons I can’t make out, I got no email. I usually have 20-30 pieces in the inbox and a bunch more filtered out. Only the filtered email was delivered.
Boy howdy, does it use some memory: after a fresh reboot this AM, it still needed a Gb of swap space to buttress the 640Mb onboard.
white:~ paul$ du -hc /var/vm/ 1.0G /var/vm/ 1.0G total Knowing what I know now, I would have waited or skipped this upgrade.