Disc utility repair permissions issue

When I repair disc permissions, a whole slew of errors are found. it says they're repaired, but if I run it again, the same errors appear. This happens even if I relaunch the program or shut down the computer. The same errors are ALWAYS there. I don't think it affects the performance, but this never happened with any of the other OS on my MACS over the past 15+ years and is quite annoying. Does anyone know how to resolve this??

Hi, if it's the "ACL found but not expected" errors, this fixed it for one person...
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Disk utility repair permissions stops altogether

I tried running Disk Utility Repair permissions and received a grey message box saying it stopped repairing permissions because of the following error:
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit.
This same error message was repeated in the usual information box that disk utility uses to provide detail about what it is doing.
I believe the problem occurred because I selected Macintosh HD and added another user (myself) to read/write in the disk permission section of the information window, and I also applied that to all enclosed items. I did this in the first place because of repeated attempts and failuire to install the latest version of skype into my applications folder (being told that I didn't have enough permissions to complete the overwrite task). When I tried verifying the disk I received the error message "ERROR: could not freeze volume permissions denied"
I switched users to a specific administrator account that I reserve for troubleshooting, but got the same result when I tried running disk utility.
As a not unrelated issue when I attach my ipod touch, itunes says that it cannot recognize this ipod, then after about the third time simply doesn't acknowledge my itouch exists.
everything was working well until i did this large change permissions operation.
So does anyone have any idea what I have done (wrong) and how I can fix it?
thanks
John

John Fountain wrote:
I believe the problem occurred because I selected Macintosh HD and added another user (myself) to read/write in the disk permission section of the information window, and I also applied that to all enclosed items.
Uh-oh. You completely trashed your whole system by doing that. Boot up from your Leopard DVD and restore that last Time Machine backup that was made before you made that mistake. If you don't have any backups you will have to reinstall Leopard.
I did this in the first place because of repeated attempts and failuire to install the latest version of skype into my applications folder (being told that I didn't have enough permissions to complete the overwrite task).
When that happens, just trash the old application first, then drag in the new one.
When I tried verifying the disk I received the error message "ERROR: could not freeze volume permissions denied"
I switched users to a specific administrator account that I reserve for troubleshooting, but got the same result when I tried running disk utility.
Changing permissions on the HD and applying to enclosed items hosed your whole system. That's what's causing all your problems. It's doubtful that you will be able to repair it. Restore your system from backup, or reinstall.

I messed up badly by trying to restore my brand new macbook pro by doing restart then command R and choose disc utility repair now when I start ,all I get is the white screen with a folder and a question mark,What can I do???help please

I messed up badly by trying to restore my brand new macbook pro by doing restart then command R and choose disc utility repair now when I start ,all I get is the white screen with a folder and a question mark,What can I do???help please

Can you still boot to the Recovery partition using Command and R whilst booting? Or did you wipe the Recovery partition as well?
If your Recovery partition is still intact, you can simply boot to it and reinstall the OS via the Internet. If you wiped the Recovery partition, you can hold down Command, option and R keys whilst booting and boot into true Internet Recovery mode. You'll be able to reformat the hard drive, erasing all partitions (format it as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" with a dingle GUID partition) and then reinstall the OS that shipped with your machine.
Note that you should use a physical Ethernet connection when restoring over the Internet - it's three times slower if you use wifi.
Try your Recovery partition first and if that doesn't work, use Internet Recovery.
Clinton

Disk utility - repair permissions keeps reporting same issues

my machine has been unstable for a while, and i thought it was time to repair permissions.
normally, after being run a couple of times, there are no more to be repaired. however, this time, the same 35 lines of permissions being changed are displayed over and over. also after rebooting.
1. why aren't the permissions finally corrected?
most issues concern 'System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents', 'System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iPhotoAccess.framework/Versions/A/Resources/P lugins' and a couple of warnings that suid-files are changed and won't be repaired.
2. i never used front row, - what's happening?
3. what's with the suid-files?
4. will reinstalling leopard help my situation?
5. if i use time machine to restore, how can i be sure the problems don't persist? or 'get back in'?

why aren't the permissions finally corrected?
Apple changed the structure of some of its packages without updating the repair permissions mechanism. Until and unless they release a patch, nothing done will stop those messages from appearing. Disregard them.
i never used front row, - what's happening?
You installed a package which updated it.
what's with the suid-files?
Those messages are normal.
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Disk Utility Repair Permissions conflict for ./Private and ./private

After applying the latest Security Update 2008-003 (PPC) (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/securityupdate2008003ppc.html), Repair Permissions in Disk Utility has conflicting requirements for permissions on ./Private and ./private. One of them is wrong. This diagnostic needs to be fixed.

Unless you are using the case-sensitive file system, they are not different directories.
I have not yet installed this update, so I haven't seen this issue. I would say don't worry about it. In over six years of using OS X, I have never encountered anything in Repair Permissions that actually needed to be fixed. But I have seen plenty of nonsense like this, where it references the same file using different names, with different modes associated with the various names.

When I go to disc utility, repair disc is not functioning, neither is the verify disc. There is a statement that says,"start up from the mac OS X intallation disc and then choose utilities Disk utility. However there is no option for that

Verify disc and repair disc are not working. They give me the option to install the "installation disc" click on utilities>Disk utility from there. When I try this, there is no option to do this that I can find. Can anyone help me to do this?

You can't run Repair Disk from the Utilities folder. With 10.4, 10.5 or 10.6 put your install DVD into the optical drive (CD/DVD drive) and reboot. Be sure to either use the disc that came with your Mac, or, if you installed a later Mac OS X version from disc, use the newer disc. As soon as you hear the boot chime, hold down the "c" key on your keyboard (or the Option Key until the Install Disk shows up) until the apple shows up. That will force your MacBook to boot from the install DVD in the optical drive.
Or if you are running 10.7 Lion or 10.8 Mountain Lion, boot from the recovery partition (Command +R on boot) and use Disk Utility to repair your OS 10.7 or 10.8 partition.
When it does start up, you'll see a panel asking you to choose your language. Choose your language and press the Return key on your keyboard once. It will then present you with an Installation window. Completely ignore this window and click on Utilities in the top menu and scroll down to Disk Utility and click it. When it comes up is your Hard Drive in the list on the left?
If it is, then click on the Mac OS partition of your hard drive in the left hand list. Then select the First Aid Tab and run Repair Disk. The Repair Disk button won't be available until you've clicked on the Mac OS partition on your hard drive. If that repairs any problems run it again until the green OK appears and then run Repair Permissions. After repairing use Startup Disk from the same menu to choose your hard drive for restarting from your hard drive.

Disk Utility Repair Permissions ?

Hello,
I'm experiencing a persistent disk permissions repair issue using disk utility.
With each re boot I get the following needing to be repaired...
"Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26."
I repair and re-run Repair Permissions again to find all is ok - however it comes back again when I re-boot.
What can I do to get it to go away and what is it?
thank you for your time.

Reports of "spurious" information in Repair Permissions are wide enough that there are Apple articles on the reports for Jag and Panther (like here. Admittedly, they are much fewer in Tiger and Leo.
"cups" is a printing subsystems, so some driver you've installed may be "taunting" Disk Utility. If you can print, you're OK.

Repair permissions issue

having updated my intel imac with 10.5.1, I have repeated issues reported by disk utility when repairing permissions - these are below.
should these be of concern? is there something i can do to, or files i can delete, to fix?
BEGINS
Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
Warning: SUID file "usr/libexec/load_hdi" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DiskManagement.framework/Versions/A/Resources /DiskManagementTool" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Reso urces/Locum" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Install.framework/Versions/A/Resources/runner " has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Admin.framework/Versions/A/Resources/readconf ig" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Admin.framework/Versions/A/Resources/writecon fig" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "usr/libexec/authopen" has been modified and will not be repaired.
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Sites".
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/OwnerGroupTool" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Desktop".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Documents".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Downloads".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Application Support".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Assistants".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Audio/MIDI Drivers".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Digidesign".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Audio/Sounds/Alerts".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Audio/Sounds/Banks".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Audio/Sounds".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Audio".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/ColorPickers".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Compositions".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Favorites".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/FontCollections".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Fonts".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/iMovie/Plug-ins".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/iMovie/Sound Effects".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/iMovie".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Input Methods".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Internet Plug-Ins".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Keyboard Layouts".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Printers".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Screen Savers".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Sounds".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Voices".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Movies".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Music".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Pictures".
ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Public".
Permissions repair complete
ENDS

I got the following sometime after updating to 10.5.1. Eudora 6.4 hangs/crashes after it gets mail. OK, I switched to Mail for now. Today Mail hung/crashed, and then iPhoto (iLife '08) *really hung* and even Force Quit wouldn't come on...had to force Shut Down on the PowerPC, then restart. I followed with Repair Permissions.
Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD '05”
Warning: SUID file "usr/libexec/load_hdi" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DiskManagement.framework/Versions/A/Resources /DiskManagementTool" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Reso urces/Locum" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Install.framework/Versions/A/Resources/runner " has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Admin.framework/Versions/A/Resources/readconf ig" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Admin.framework/Versions/A/Resources/writecon fig" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "usr/libexec/authopen" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/OwnerGroupTool" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Permissions repair complete

Disk Error during Disk Utility Repair Permissions

I was wondering if anybody else has experience a Disk Utility Internal Error while repairing the permissions on their system disk. What did they do to correct this issue?
A snapshot of the error can be viewed at:
http://www.enabled.com/~noah/pictures/Picture1.pdf
Thanks in advance.

Tom
I sympathise if you are on dialup! Here is the post you need (originally posted by Mac Fool):
Just to catalogue the solutions listed above
Here's what I did, and it worked fine.
1) Move iTunes onto the Desktop.
2) Run Disk Utility
3) Go to HD>Library>Receipts and trash all iTunes .pkg files EXCEPT for iTunesX.pkg and iTunesPhoneDriver.pkg
4) empty Trash.
5) move iTune from Desktop back to 'Applications'.
Hey presto. you should now be able to repair permissions again.
HTH
Just as Beavis posted above
BTW, the link "here" does take me directly to the post, but clearly it loads the entire topic first.

OS X System Freezes While Running Disk Utility repair permissions

While trying to pepair permissions systom freeze up. So I put in the startup disk hit restrat holding down c and tried to repair permissions that way and it froze up that way too. I had to manually turn off machine. What is going on?

Thanks for your response, I only have one disk. 10.5.1 I have 10.6 on usb drive. I will try running Disk Utility from the first DVD and instead of repair permissions try to repair your drives. The reason I was repairing permissions is I have an app called video converter and when I opened it I got an error window. Ok I will try repair disk. If that doesnt work I guess I will have to reinstall the os? Is that right? Ok, here I go to try it.

Ran disk utility repair permissions....now I can not open any applications on my Mac mini

my Mac mini (mid 2011. OS X 10.9.1). Was running very slow so I ran repair permissions...after re-booting my computer I can not open any apple applications. I keep getting a pop up window that says " finder quit unexpectedly". When trying to open safari " safari quit unexpectedly". I can open skype, google chrome. The computer indicates that wifi is on and connected - however I can't seem to log into Skype or access any web pages. What to do next?
One more thing, I keep getting pop up windows asking for passwords for different items if or keychain...I have tried to put in my password, but that doesn't work. Not sure what password it is looking for but the window won't go away even when I hit cancel

Boot into your recovery partition (restart, hold down ⌘R until you see the Apple logo), and use Disk Utility to repair your hard drive. OS X: About OS X Recovery
Then see if you can restart normally.

Boot camp partition/disc utility repairs problem

First post, so heres my what i'm running - Mac Book 2.16, OSX 10.5.2, 2 GB RAM and 111 GB Hard Drive
I've been messing around with Boot Camp the last couple of days and I finally got windows xp SP2 to running, however I ended up deleting the partition so I could make it bigger. When I tried to make the partition again boot camp told me to repair my drive with disc utility. I ended up doing it from the installation disc and did the repair from there no problems. When I get back to boot camp it tells me to run disc utility to repair? Any help would be great!

Backup to another drive. 'nuke your current partitions and use the Partition tab in Disk Utility to set as 1 Untitled (rather than "current") and you'll be fine.
BCA needs to find one large free unfragmented contiguous chunk. Also, drives reformatted with Leopard (fresh) do better than systems upgraded in some manner from Tiger to Leopard. Partition maps seem better.
Lots and lots and lots of threads that are 100% identical to yours floating around - daily occurrence. Everyone that 'cuts it short' and wants larger, cutting corners, not planning for growth.
Plan for SP3 which will be out eventually, sooner more than later.
If you don't need to run native Windows, then Fusion/Parallels is a lot less troublesome.

Disk Utility repairs permissions; 1 hour later they're un-repaired again.

(March 2009 24" iMac. Lion 10.7.3)
I repair permissions on Macitosh HD (boot volume) every-other week. I've noticed that the same permissions seem to need repair each time. Here are the last seven lines from the Disk Utility window from the May 19 run:
One hour later, I repeated the operation. Here are the last seven lines:
I might be overly sensitive, but I detect certain similarities between these results. In fact, it looks like Disk Utility repairs exactly the same permissions every time and those permissions are corrupted shortly after they are repaired.
What's going on here? Should I be alarmed? Or should I panic?

I'd like to delete this post (if I knew how). There are several other threads on this topic, and other contributors report exactly what I observe. It turns out it's a harmless artifact of upgrading from 10.5 to 10.6 to 10.7, rather than doing a clean install of Lion. This article is reassuring: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448
I shoulda searched more thoroughly before posting.

Disc Utility REPAIR Help

Recently, I was trying to partition my HD with Boot Camp Assistant.
The message returned was that "some files could not be moved".
So then I started up Disc Utility and clicked VERIFY DISC.
After that an error message comes up that I have to repair from my installation CD.
The problem?
I'm in Bangkok right now and the disc OS X 10.6 is in the UK.
I was wondering if I could use my other disc OS X 10.5 to perform the repair instead.
I'm not going to be back in the UK for awhile and really need to repair my disc.
Any suggestions?
Also, willl repairing my disc require me to back up my files in case of data loss?
Message was edited by: g280495

g280495 wrote:
Recently, I was trying to partition my HD with Boot Camp Assistant.
The message returned was that "some files could not be moved".
So then I started up Disc Utility and clicked VERIFY DISC.
After that an error message comes up that I have to repair from my installation CD.
I think are being told that the Windows partition cannot be made because your files are too widely spread over your drive (i.e., the "some files could not be moved" message).
There are several ways to try to accomplish what your want to do--if you successfully get your repair done. I am not sure if the 10.5 disk will do the job or that you should even try using this disk for the repair. Can you borrow a Snow DVD or go to an Apple Store for Snow repair help?).
Given the repair, IMO, the best way to proceed is to make a bootable clone of your internal volume on an external and, then, restore/clone it back to your internal. This approach will defrag your drive. Test the clone after making it to be sure it boots. I would not use a defragger on OS X if I could help it. Doing so can be destructive. For casual cloning, just use Disk Utility. To clone using Disk Utility (DU):
1. Start DU;
2. Choose Restore;
3. Drag your internal volume to the source box;
4. Drag your external partition or volume to the destination box;
5. Choose Erase Destination; and
6. Click restore

Problem With Disk Utility - Repair Permissions

Is anyone else having this problem. When I go to verify or repair permissions using Disk Utility, it behaves nothing like it did in Tiger. For 1, takes like 10 minutes... took about 2 before. And 2, I keep getting a Warning message:
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
I installed Leopard doing an Erase and Install.... so this was a fresh - full install. What's the deal?

Oh for the love of god, it begins again!
Folks, chill out!
Leopard introduces a completely different "installer package receipt" format called a flat file format based on SQLite. The database file on my Mac (from a pre-release version of Leopard) is the following:
/Library/Receipts/db/a.receiptdb
The file is 140 MB in size and contains a ton of information. Sorry, I'm currently burning my final copy of Leopard to a DVD otherwise I'd run Repair Permissions here on the pre-release version I'm currently running and comment on the results. I did notice that it takes a while longer than in Tiger. It's quite possible that Repair Permissions in Leopard is looking at many more things than just the basic file permissions that it did in Tiger, Panther, or Jaguar.
Access Control Lists (ACLs) are an additional, advanced type of permission setting for files and directories. The fact that Repair Permissions in Leopard even mentions ACLs suggests that it's concerning itself with a great deal more things than it did in Tiger, Panther, or Jaguar.
I didn't get that message about ARDAgent in the pre-release versions, I'll take a look at it more once I finish burning and installing the release version.
ARDAgent is part of Apple Remote Desktop, and 'SUID' refers to a "SetUID" executable. (For more info on SetUID, you might check out my page on http://homepage.mac.com/mdouma46/fdup/fdup.html where I wrote a utility to repair the permissions of Jaguar Disk Utility's Repair Permissions feature. All that warning is saying is that Disk Utility isn't going to alter the permissions on the file. I honestly don't think it's anything to worry about, nor are any of the other messages that it reports.

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