iStat Menus installation mystery solved
I was disappointed when Snow Leopard broke iStat Menus, but even more disappointed when the new version of iStat Menus — which aims to fix the problem — wouldn’t install for me. So I was left waiting for the next update . . .
But then iTunes 9 came out — and it wouldn’t install either. Now I knew something had to be up with Snow Leopard. It was one thing for third party freeware not to install — but a flagship app from Apple?
After a bit of searching, I found this thread in the Apple support forums, and had a hunch in might be related. So I went into the Language & Text preference and clicked on the Input Sources tab. I unclicked the box beside the Canadian flag. If you’re having the same problem, I would suggest unclicking anything that seems international.
It turns out the installers were working, but the wrong type of keyboard input would prevent a dialogue from popping up to ask for your administrator password. Clearly, this is a bug in Snow Leopard. The good news is that I don’t have to wait for OS X 10.6.1 to get iStat Menus working. Or iTunes 9 for that matter.
Posted Wednesday, September 9, 2009 in How-to
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