Repair Permission still problematic

I still get the following when trying as Disk Repair Permission:
Repairing permission for "Macintosh HD"
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit.
Permission repair complete.
Anyone else experience same?
Otherwise upgrade to Leopard on this machine seems to be working ... weird.
ApB

Yes, I have this same problem with repair permissions on one of my external drives. Another drive (a brand new one I got for Time Machine) gave a similar error message when TM tried to format it; I was only able to format it by rebooting in Tiger, after which the drive appears to be fine. So, there are problems with Disk Utility, but I don't have a solution.

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