Disk Permissions will not run using Disk Utility app

I just recently (yesterday) ran disk utility to repair permissions and this is the message I received "First Aid Failed - Disk Utility stopped repairing permissions on “Macintosh HD” because the following error was encountered:
No valid packages" I ran it multiple times, restarted 3x and still the same message.
What in the heck in this? Never got this error message before.
Mike

Open the /Library/Receipts/ folder and look at the items inside; there should be roughly 62 items inside, which may significantly vary depending on your configuration. Some of these receipts are necessary for Repair Permissions to operate; if you've deleted these, you can copy them from another system. If you cannot get these back, you need to create another Mac OS X installation or reinstall Mac OS X on your existing system to get new ones.
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