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#1 2006-01-23 8:28 pm
Help with repairing permissions
This is the first time this has happened to me. I decided to repair disk permissions, and i left the room, and when i came back, it said there was some sort of internal error or something. I wish i'd wriitten it down because the box also said stopping could do some damage, so i hit the option to not stop and continue repairing permissions, but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
Is it safe to stop repairing permissions?
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#3 2006-01-23 8:39 pm
- Colonel Panic
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Re: Help with repairing permissions
I would boot from a CD and run disk utility (Repair disk) first.
Then restart from HD and try again. (assuming itll let you repair the disk)
Have you tried repairing permissions?
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#4 2006-01-23 8:41 pm
- macnuke
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Re: Help with repairing permissions
if you weren't supposed to be able to stop it, the "Stop Permissions repair" wouldn't be available.
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#5 2006-01-23 8:47 pm
- mahakali
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Re: Help with repairing permissions
Is Disk Utility highlighted in Activity Monitor? There should also be a process called DiskManagementTo that's a spawn of DU, don't forget to check it.
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#6 2006-01-23 10:02 pm
Re: Help with repairing permissions
Ok, those that know me know problems like this are coronary inducing for me.
I went to iMac Live Chat (Apple Care) and talk to an agent that didn't tell me any more than i had no choice but to stop it because it was stalled on repair.
This was the pop up i get "disk utility has some operations in progress. quitting in the middle of some operations can leave a disk non operational"
I quit, and then ran repair permissions again, with the same result. I'm going to leave it til i get A) an external hard drive for back up and B) Disk Warrior.
Thanks for the help everyone.
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#7 2006-01-24 12:09 am
- bloodnok
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Re: Help with repairing permissions
Aha! The same thing just happened to me! I tried to repair disk permissions and about a quarter of the way through the scroll bar I got a message saying that the Disk Utility had lost contact with the Disk Management Tool and I had to quit. When I hit Quit, the message came up warning me that it might cause problems. I've repaired the disk from my restore DVD, I've run fsck, rebuilt databases and restarted repeatedly all with no improvement. Mahakali, how do I check that DiskManagmentTo you mentioned?
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#8 2006-01-25 10:50 pm
Re: Help with repairing permissions
I need to thank everyone for their input and help, especially macnuke.
Just to let everyone know, i ran Disk Utility again. Same internal error. I ran Disk Warrior and it repaired a lot of crap. Ran Repair Permissions in DU again. Same internal error. Verified disk from the OSX cd and it said everything was good, but then clicked on Repair Permissions, and it found that same internal error.
Right now, i'm at a loss as to what the problem is, but the plan is probably going to be to get an external firewire and install and move everything over to that, and then wipe the iMac and reinstall.
Again, thanks guys.
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#9 2006-01-26 12:08 am
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Re: Help with repairing permissions
Godspeed with that.
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#10 2006-01-26 3:04 pm
- macaddictguy
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Re: Help with repairing permissions
justine,
It's always a good idea to have an firewire external hard drive and another internal hard drive ( if your Mac has room for another internal drive ).
At this time I would do an archieval install from your installer DVD/CD. This will give you a fresh OS plus a folder containing the previous OS.
Of course you will now have to update the fresh OS and re-authorize third party software. Some third party software may have to be re-installed.
I was curious to know if you had run an apple system update just before all this happened? I had somewhat similar problems when I updated to QT 704 and OS 10.4.3 to 10.4.4.
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#11 2006-01-26 3:52 pm
- ckm
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Re: Help with repairing permissions
My advice would be to clone the drive to an external one, then completely wipe the drive (7-pass) and start anew. You could always clone the drive back to the Mac from the backup, if you wanted to.
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#13 2006-01-27 4:22 am
Re: Help with repairing permissions
Try deleting the application chess and its preferences.
Another option would be to strip iTunes 6 of its intel code with this application
These are suggestions that I have read about on macfixit.
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#14 2006-01-27 7:25 am
- macnuke
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Re: Help with repairing permissions
Older Macworld Thread on the same topic.
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