Apple software crashes and unable to repair disk permissions

Help please someone.
Safari, Software update,and installer all crash and I can't repair disk permissions as this I get a red error message Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit. Everything else and Firefox seem to work fin. I have tried to reinstall Safari but installer crashes immediately with
23/11/2008 16:12:52 0x0-0x48048.com.apple.installer292 Referenced from: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/JavaScriptGlue.framework/Versions/A/JavaScrip tGlue
23/11/2008 16:12:52 0x0-0x48048.com.apple.installer292 Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaScriptCore.framework/Versions/A/JavaScriptCore
23/11/2008 16:12:54 com.apple.launchd76 (0x0-0x48048.com.apple.installer292) Exited abnormally: Trace/BPT trap
23/11/2008 16:13:18 0x0-0x4b04b.com.apple.installer300 dyld: Symbol not found: _ZN3KJS14JSGlobalObject18getOwnPropertySlotEPNS_9ExecStateERKNS10IdentifierER
NS_12PropertySlotE
Don't really want to wipe drive and start again as I have lost Leopard disc.
Macbook Pro 2ghz Intel Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Have you used FontBook to disable some of your fonts? If, in the process, you disable a font the system that an Apple app needs, those apps will not launch but third-party ones will. I suffered this on my desktop machine. I allowed FontBook to "resolve duplicates" and it disabled off some fonts that it shouldn't have. Took a week to figure out what happened.
If you have played with FontBook, you may wish to review this excellent font management article:
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html

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10.4.7!
i did a disk repair, had minor problems which were
repaired.
i took the iTunes iPod stuff from the
library/receipts folder.
the error message is : no valid package.
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but get a failed error.
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have nor problems with the computer?
thanks
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COMPLETED
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- I pushed the "stop disk permission repair" button, then quit disk utility, then cold booted the machine again.
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Location: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607495&#607495
How often should I Repair Permissions?
You do not need to Repair Permissions on a regular basis.
There are only three occasions you need to do this:
1. When you have just installed something that required you to run an Installer, rather than just copying some software to a folder. This should be done for both Apple and non-Apple software.
2. When you have been working on your OS X files or folders while booted from OS 9, or remotely connected via a non-OS X machine, since OS 9 and other systems do not handle OS X's permissions correctly.
3. The other case is if your system is behaving strangely, when you should run Disk Repair from your CD followed by Repair Permissions. This is just to eliminate these things before going on to further trouble-shooting.
Otherwise you can happily forget about Permissions!"
So, it would appear I do not need to do anything else; the machine seems to be working properly. Is there anything else I need to do? thanks for the help! Bob

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There are many situations where problematic permissions can result in poor system performance, producing the spinning beachball, application or system crashes, freezes, unexpected quitting etc.
If software were a simple, single, executable file, permissions might not be so critical, but in reality, each application is a collection of components, loaded and executed or opened and read at appropriate times as the software itself is running. You can see some of these components if you right-click on an application icon and select 'show package contents' from the contextual menu - you'll then see a number of folders and files which are part of the app itself. There are other files too - library files - which applications have to have access to and which are 'prebound' to the application to help it run efficiently.
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Repairing permissions causes MacOs to run through it's system-level files and ensure that ownership and access rights for each is set correctly, thus resolving these issues.
Permissions can get messed by a number of things - not least being that the same file may be shared between applications and permissions thus set correctly for one but not the other, by installation of software or an update etc which overwrites a file or alters permissions for it, by some utilities or applications which do not entirely conform to the appropriate programming guidelines and thus alter files or permissions in ways that MacOS doesn't recognize, or just by simple error!
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Repair Disk Permissions - ODD !

I learnt yesterday about the importance of Repairing Disk Permissions although I admit it makes no sense to me why the whole permissions thing is about and the Apple web page about it may as well be in martian. Nonetheless I did repair disk permissions on my MBPro with 10.4.11.
So today I turned to my new MacPro with OSX 10.5.7 which I've had for 3 months and did a Repair Disk Permissions to see what happened. Slowly it created a LONG list of Permissions that differ and repaired them, eg: Application/iTunes....../Code Resources, should be -rw-rw-r-- they are lrw-rw--
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Yet again, this task took a long time (much longer than it does on my MBPro with 10.4.11) and I can't be sure but I swear it identified some of the same permissions that needed repairing before, which supposedly were repaired, less than 30 minutes ago. EG : that listed above !
WHY would it need to repair permissions twice if the only thing going on in the interim was playing music on iTunes and downloading Firefox via Safari ?

Niel,
just so you know where I got the idea from, KLAUS1 Posted: Jun 13, 2009 8:16 PM
"*Repairing permissions is important, and should always be carried out both before and after any software installation or update*."
at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2037707&tstart=0

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This is the second time I've seen this after running my Repair Disk Permissions. Does anyone know what this means?
Group differs on ./usr, should be 0, group is 80
Owner and group corrected on ./usr
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I've had my Mac for 2 years and run my Repair Disk Permissions regularly - I've only seen this once before a few months ago and now.
Also, where would I find ./usr
Thanks for any help or info.
BJArt

I'm the only one that uses my Mac....
The operating system is made up of many small applications called processes. Each of these processes has a user (owner) and a group associated with it. Open the Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder and select All Processes in the drop down menu. You are not alone! You should see yourself running applications (processes) and at least root and nobody listed as users. You may be the only login user on your computer but the operating system contains many non-login users that control different processes. The root user primarily controls the operating system. In OS X the root user is a non-login user unless you make root a login user.
Who am I?
Every user has a primary group associated with that user. Let me do the "heavy lifting" from within the Terminal application. Of course you can try the command to see the ---text_output---. I'll use the command id to see who I am:
[purplehaze:~] fred% id
---text_output---
uid=501(fred) gid=501(fred) groups=501(fred), 79(appserverusr), 80(admin), 81(appserveradm)
I'm user 501(uid) whose shortname is fred. My primary group(gid) is 501 or fred. I belong to 4 groups. Because I belong to the group admin, I can install system software and perform tasks only the root user can do.
Who are they?
Let's look at the id for the root user:
[purplehaze:~] fred% id root
---text_output---
uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 1(daemon), 2(kmem), 3(sys), 4(tty), 5(operator), 20(staff), 31(guest), 80(admin)
root's primary group (gid) is 0 or wheel. You can express users and groups in words or numbers. The root user belongs to many groups tied to running the operating system. Let's query the netinfo database for all the users on my computer showing the uid and gid in numbers, their shortname, where their home folder is, and their realname:
[purplehaze:~] fred% nireport . /users uid gid name home realname
---text_output---
-2 -2 nobody /var/empty Unprivileged User
0 0 root /var/root System Administrator
1 1 daemon /var/root System Services
99 99 unknown /var/empty Unknown User
25 25 smmsp /private/etc/mail Sendmail User
26 26 lp /var/spool/cups Printing Services
27 27 postfix /var/spool/postfix Postfix User
70 70 www /Library/WebServer World Wide Web Server
71 71 eppc /var/empty Apple Events User
74 74 mysql /var/empty MySQL Server
75 75 sshd /var/empty sshd Privilege separation
76 76 qtss /var/empty QuickTime Streaming Server
77 6 cyrus /var/imap Cyrus User
78 78 mailman /var/empty Mailman user
79 79 appserver /var/empty Application Server
501 501 fred /Users/fred Mark Jalbert
502 502 saraswati /Users/saraswati saraswati
Users above 500 are login users. User 501 was created when I installed my system software . User 502 is another login user on my system that I created. I have the ability to create other users because I belong to the group admin (80) Remember- only the root user or users who belong to the group admin can perform changes to the OS. Users below 500 where created by the operating system during installation and are responsible for running processes tied to the OS.
Hopefully, I haven't lost you in to much techno babble. You are not the root user but you are a member of the group admin. This allows you to take on the role of the root user and make changes to the operating system. As I said before- It's not a big deal whether the /usr folder has the group admin associated with it. If repairing permissions will not permanently change the group to 0 (wheel) then I suspect you may have some file corruption. From the Finder > Go menu > Go to Folder... type /usr and click to Go button to see inside the /usr folder.

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Later, I decided to try to use Onyx, however, I couldn't access it and suggested to repair disk permissions and restart Onyx. I did that it still have that message. I later tried in another account, then in Safe Boot in my primary account and nothing changed. I can't even uninstall Onyx unless I repair disk permissions.
I seemed to have problems syncing my iPod Touch 2g with iTunes saying that it couldn't sync because there was another sync client. I'm not sure if this is also related.
It seems like that there is a system wide problem.

I did stumble over that same thread and attempted to follow it. Something didn't work. I wasn't sure where '/tmp' was and using Terminal to perform the operations somehow didn't solve it. After revisiting the thread you posted, I figured out what was tmp which was located on the Macintosh HD -there was /tmp. Then I followed the steps and voilà, the archive did work. Along with Onyx and everything else.
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3 days old?, just pack the machine up and tell them you want another one, that this one is a lemon.
They will likely take your word for it and just give you another rather than you demand your money back instead.
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The Leopard version of Repair Disk Permissions is broke. No matter what it is doing behind the screen, it comes up with the chirpy "Repairing Disk Permissions. Estimated time: Less than 1 minute" then proceeds to wait five minutes (on a 160 GB MacBook Pro of recent vintage) before starting to move the bar from its initial, deceptive, 20% fulfilled position.
This performance and feedback flies in the face of Apple's own software behavioral edicts.
After the five-minute wait, it takes an additional 4:30 to move the bar to the end, even when it's the second run on the same drive. The reported times are NEVER accurate, never even approximate until the last 50 seconds.
And don't even get me started with all the reported failures to fix anything that consistently show up every single time.
In five minutes (300 seconds) my computer has the ability to impose 4.4 Billion computational cycles on the task of sorting out whatever ails my hard disk--per second. That's just a TRILLION point three total mathematical operations that might be brought to bear on thinking about what to do before starting to access the disk and fix its errant map of data.
To give that some scale, at one second per math problem, that equals around 42 thousand years. Which ought to be time enough to evolve the program into a more advanced version...
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It's an interesting but irrelevant observation.
Disk Repair is not a mathematical operation - it obviously involves many disk reads - often the slowest component on a computer in terms of access times. Should any repairs be required - the system will then write and likely re-read to ensure the write was successful.
You are trying to figure out future events - how long the next action will take based on prior events - sometimes things change that make past performance a poor estimate of future performance.
As for estimating times - I've programmed this - and observed many attempts to do so - few work well or offer estimates anywhere near accurate. Observe the estimated times to complete a download in iTunes or the time to copy a file. I have seen many cases where the estimates said "10 seconds" and I waited minutes for them to complete.

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I tried repairing the disk permissions and received the following error message:
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
Got the same error message when verifying the disk permissions. The verify disk option also failed.
Whenever I run this application to check for updates, it just bounces in the dock and disappears. Then I get this error box that says "The application Software Update quit unexpectedly". It then gives me 3 options to "ignore, report, and relaunch".
Any ideas would be appreciated.

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I may abandon this Seagate thing for something more compatible. What's out there that we know works reliably for us?

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