Disk Utility - FIX PERMISSIONS

When i try and fix permissions it just hangs saying it will be done in one minute....I tried it at the apple store on their macs and had the same problem on multiple machines...Any thoughts on what the deal is here?

Yes the estimate it calculates is approximate and it always talks longer than 1 minute... it takes a few minutes on mine on a fairly clean install...
No problems if you wait though...

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    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.
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    When I run disk utility, verify permissions I get "WARNING SUID file system/Library/Coreservices/Remotemanagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAge nt has been modified

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    That worked, but now when I go into disk utility, both the verify and the repair disk permissions are greyed out on that drive.
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    Probably not, at the moment. Seems to come with Leopard. Have a look through the Mac OSX 10.5 forum threads for more on this issue. There are some interesting explanations about how Leopard's permissions repair functions differently than Tiger's, and why that means repair permissions will take much much longer now.
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  • Disk Utility Repair Permissions ?

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    What can I do to get it to go away and what is it?
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    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
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    I'm trying to verify and/or repair disk permissions on my RAID0 array but the utility only briefly flashes the progress bar and does nothing.
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    2011-09-28 17:00:52 -0700:
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    2011-09-28 17:00:54 -0700:
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    Turns out this is a Lion issue and only happens on RAID arrays. Apple is looking into it.
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  • Problem With Disk Utility - Repair Permissions

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    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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