I manage a NetBoot environment of 60+ machines with two servers serving the images in tandem. The images have not changed since March. About three weeks ago Safari died on all NetBooted machines; it now starts up for 5-10 seconds only to crash. Students now use FireFox.
It seemed highly unlikely to me that both images had suddenly sprung the same defect, but I restored from backup to both servers: No effect.
Tossing prefs had no effect either.
Until now I had assumed something was wrong within my NetBoot setup, but today I got reports from two laptop users who experience the exact same problem.
An upgrade to Safari v3 beta did solve the problem on the laptops. However, I’d rather not put the Safari beta in my production environment, unless it is the only way.
Our Apple Tech rep. hadn’t heard of this before.
Has anyone here seen something similar?