Has anyone encountered the following issue? I created a 10.5.7 image using InstaDMG and discovered that Console.app has difficulty reading the ASL database. If you open up Console.app and choose the “Console Messages” or “All Messages” option in the side bar you get nothing and if you manually view /var/log/system.log you get an entry like this:

Error: status 2 returned by _asl_server_query

It appears that the /var/log/asl folder is there with .ASL files, but something isn’t jiving. This doesn’t appear to happen when you upgrade a 10.5.6 system to 10.5.7. Something that I might try is to make a 10.5.0 machine and then boot it and then apply the combo update afterwards. I.e. is it something in the 10.5.7 combo update that doesn’t do stuff properly on a different target volume.

FWIW, the resulting machine is an Intel machine. I have not tested the image on a PPC yet.

So has anyone else done 10.5.7 builds and seen this?