How to enable disk utility verify/fix permissions

My iMac is running os x 10.6.8 snow leopard.
A month ago the system(software) was re-installed by apple store for a fixing of booting panic.
It's all fine know but I found the disk utility's verify/fix permissions functions were disabled. My question is: what'll cause this and how to enable them?
Thanks

elimqiu wrote:
It's all fine know but I found the disk utility's verify/fix permissions functions were disabled. My question is: what'll cause this and how to enable them?
You mean verify/repair disk, not permissions. Forget about repair permissions. It's a waste of time.
As for verify/repair, you cannot repair the volume you are booted from so you need to boot from some other bootable volume. That could be Disk Utility launched on your Installer dvd or a external bootable backup.

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How to enable disk utility

dear members
i dont know how i have done this but i seem to have disabled or uninstalled my disk utility on my ibook g4. i was having problems printing at first so i sent my printer to the trash can. on my applications then utilities folder there used to be a few icons, now there is only stuff on my airport and something about java. there is nothing about disk utilitiies. when i click on the apple logo for the info about this mac the box saying "more info" is greyed out and when i hover over it it says "system profiler application button is disabled". has anyone any advice as to what i should do? if it is a case of re-installing the whole thing again from scratch will i lose all my documents and settings?

thanks for the advice. i did go into the nearest apple store and they advised me to do the same thing. trouble is, when i put in disc 1 i get the option of installing bundled software or the whole osx and software. which one should i choose - nowhere does it mention archive and restore. i am a bit timid to start trying things in case they dont work so i would appreciate a bit more detail.
you might well be a life-saver!
anne adshead

Disk Utility - Verify Disk Permissions / Repair

I run Disk Utility > Verify Disk Permissions with this rsult:
Verify permissions for “Macintosh HD”
Permissions differ on "usr/share/derby", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
The following repair was successful.
A few minutes later I run Verify Disk Permissions again with the SAME result:
Verify permissions for “Macintosh HD”
Permissions differ on "usr/share/derby", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
What does it mean and how can I stop this error?
Thanks!

There is nothing in that message that requires repairing. That is why it keeps showing up.
The permission database has to be updated every time the system is updated. If they miss a change that they have made in the system, it will get flagged as you see, but doesn't mean anything is wrong.
That KnowledgeBase article also must be updated to reflect the things they missed.
All that message is saying is that the directory derby is now replaced with a link to another directory (the l vs the d). However, mine doesn't have a link. Did you install anything that might have updated derby?
If you open Terminal and enter this code, can you post the line that has derby on it?ls -al /usr/share/
I'm repairing permissions now to see what pops up for me, but that will take a little while.
Edit: I looked into the Derby directory and Derby is a Relational Database Management System used by Apache. So, did you install something that modified Apache, PHP, mySQL or something like that? It might have altered the link.
Message was edited by: Barney-15E

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

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

Please read Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore.
Roger

How do i run the disk utility to repair permissions:confused;

how do i run the disk utility to repair permissions
i think i hav the same problem as you all iv been
restarting and deleting and renstaling but nothing seems to work
the only thing i havent don is this repair prmission
thing can someone type some instuctions on how or lead me where to
go

are you using mac OS10.2 or later?
if so, this is what I did to solve this most frustrating
problem. Go to Applications/Utilities/Disk Utilities
In the Disk Utility window, click on your hard drive, make
sure you're in the First Aid tab, then click on Repair Disk
Permissions.
Once the permissions were repaired, I took the advice of
another user here on the forum and reinstalled Flash Player 6, as
it was the one that was working before I tried to upgrade and it
screwed everything up.
Hope this helps

Help needed - disk utility cant repair permissions

after upgrading to Leopard - when few days later I verified my permissions in disk utility and ask for repair received log;
<<
Verify 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.
Permissions differ on "private/var/log/secure.log", should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r----- .
Permissions differ on "Library/Preferences", should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxrwxrwx .
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 differ on "Library", should be drwxrwxr-t , they are drwxrwxrwt .
Permissions verification complete
<<
I'm not unix knowledgeable.
please advice how to solve it?

done - and now I have following info after running disk utility repair :
+Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”+
+Stopped by user+
+Permissions repair complete+
+Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”+
+Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.+
+User differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/lib/jvm.cfg", should be 0, user is 95.+
+User differs on "System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Libraries/classlist" , should be 0, user is 95.+
+Permissions repair complete+
Can you advice what should I do next to fix it.
thank you
Tomasz

Disk Utility Verify Weirdness

My wireless mighty mouse started acting erratic again today. The Bluetooth 2.0 update from a few weeks back seemed to fix this problem for a good 10 days or so but unfortunately, the erratic mouse problem is back. So I ran some tests on my hard drive. I ran TechTool Deluxe 3.1.2 from my extended AppleCare package. I tested the drive hardware, did a format check and directory scan, surface scan and tested the processor and RAM. No problems were found.
I restarted after this and then ran Disk Utility and repaired permissions. Then I did a "Verify Disk" with Disk Utility and the progress bar (barber shop pole) stopped spinning part way in (it almost looked like it was locked up) and I got a spinning beach ball and couldn't click anywhere on the desktop. The verify disk procedure eventually completed and no problems were found. So out of curiosity, I tried this again and the exact same thing happened. So I did a Safe Boot and ran Disk Utility once more, then restarted again and now Disk Utility seems to work normally again.
I also tried a free utility today called SMARTReporter 2.3.9 and I wasn't too impressed with it (no comparison to Smart Utility 2.0.2). SMARTReporter claims to be compatible with 10.5.
So I wonder what happened and why Disk Utility locked up on me? Is TechTool Deluxe 3.1.2 at fault here? I wonder if it is even compatible with Mac OS X 10.5.7 since it hasn't been updated in about a year and a half now (since 02/08/08) - what's up with Micromat? Or perhaps SMARTReporter 2.3.9 isn't so smart after all? I tried running Disk Utility on our PowerBook G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.11 and I noticed that the barber shop pole also stops spinning part way through a verification so maybe I just haven't noticed this close enough before?
Any ideas, advice or help would be appreciated - things seem to be okay now but I'm a bit worried about my hard drive.
Thanks,
Gerard

Thanks for letting me know everything is A-OK with the boot device issue. I think the startup disk was deselected because I reset the PRAM. Regarding the erratic mouse, I still have this problem and it is driving me insane - I've got a replacement coming from Apple. It must be defective. I keep seeing these errors in the system log:
Jun 21 11:55:53 <my computer> kernel[0]: IOHIDSystem: Seize of IOHIDPointing failed.
Jun 21 11:55:53 <my computer> kernel[0]: IOHIDSystem: Seize of IOHIDEventDriver failed.
And this error started only after updating to 10.5.7 from 10.5.6:
Jun 21 11:59:32 <my computer> kernel[0]: IOHIDSystem::relativePointerEventGated: Capping VBL time to 20000000 (was 34304537)
My whole system just feels generally "flaky" right now. I'm assuming these are related to the mouse. I've been getting them for months. What is the best way to test your system - with Disk Utility or is there a special TechTool Deluxe test I should run (surface scan, directory scan, volume structure, etc.)?
Thanks again,
Gerard

How to use disk utility to repair an encrypted disk partition

I have run the Disk Utility verify function against my system partition. It tells me there are minor issues that need fixing up and I should run the repair disk function, by booting using Command-R and using the Disk Utility to repair the drive.
Problem is, when I boot using Command-R and select Disk Utility the partition is shown greyed out and the Verify and Repair options do not work. I think this could be because the partition is encrypted. The utility does not offer me the chance to unlock the partition with my passphrase.
How can I repair the filesystem errors on this partition?

Yes...
Actually I gave it another try. I discovered that by right-clicking on the partition it prompted me to unlock the volume. After entering my password I was able to run the repair.
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Question on Disk Utility Verify

I have a two-week old 27" iMac, 1 TB SSD, 32 GB RAM, 1 4 GB RAID-0 external G-Drive (external Max OS drive), 2 4 GB external G-Drives (1 used as partitioned backup (1 TB for Boot Camp, 3 TB for Time Machine), 1 planned for Windows external drive). I also bought and installed the Paragon NTFS and CampTune applications.
Have setup Boot Camp on the internal 1 TB SSD (127 GB partition) and finally got things to work, but, I am continually having issues with WIndows crashing (either in the middle of use, or during startup or shutdown with the KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE. I have been Googling, and this seems associated with the use of external drives?
The last time I got this, I was unable to boot back into Mac partition, and ended up having to hold down the Option Key at boot, and select the right partition to boot from, I then started verifying all my drives and paritions with Disk Utility, and was finding and repairing various issues (everything seemed to repair fine) and also the Mac HD partition seemed to have Permissions issues, which seemed to repair fine.
But, in the process of doing this, am noticing an issue, or at least a difference between the Mac HD and and the External Mac-formatted Verify logs. The External drive ALWAYS tells me the drive is good, while the Mac HD has done that only once, and usually seems just to stop with "Checking Volume Information" as the last entry. Not sure this is an issue, or not, but was looking for ANY cause for the continual Windows issue.
Disk Utility Log Dumps are below, first the internal Mac HD (two partitions, Mac and Boot Camp, checking only the Mac partition), second the External G-Drive, formatted Mac RAID HD. Both times, I am selecting the drive partition below the actual physical HW.
The Boot Camp partition checks good.
Thanks.
2014-06-15 01:54:28 -0600:
2014-06-15 02:16:43 -0600: Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
2014-06-15 02:16:43 -0600: Starting verification tool:
2014-06-15 02:16:43 -0600: Checking file system
2014-06-15 02:16:44 -0600: Performing live verification.
2014-06-15 02:16:44 -0600: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2014-06-15 02:16:44 -0600: Checking extents overflow file.
2014-06-15 02:16:50 -0600: Checking multi-linked files.
2014-06-15 02:16:51 -0600: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2014-06-15 02:16:59 -0600: Checking extended attributes file.
2014-06-15 02:17:01 -0600: Checking volume information.
2014-06-15 02:17:01 -0600: Repair tool completed:
2014-06-15 02:17:01 -0600:
2014-06-15 02:18:21 -0600: Verifying volume “G-RAID with Thunderbolt”
2014-06-15 02:18:21 -0600: Starting verification tool:
2014-06-15 02:18:21 -0600: Checking file system
2014-06-15 02:18:21 -0600: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2014-06-15 02:18:21 -0600: Checking extents overflow file.
2014-06-15 02:18:21 -0600: Checking catalog file.
2014-06-15 02:18:23 -0600: Checking multi-linked files.
2014-06-15 02:18:23 -0600: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2014-06-15 02:18:23 -0600: Checking extended attributes file.
2014-06-15 02:18:25 -0600: Checking volume bitmap.
2014-06-15 02:18:25 -0600: Checking volume information.
2014-06-15 02:18:25 -0600: The volume External_1 appears to be OK.
2014-06-15 02:18:26 -0600: Repair tool completed:
2014-06-15 02:18:26 -0600:
2014-06-15 02:28:20 -0600: Verifying volume “BOOTCAMP”
2014-06-15 02:28:20 -0600: Starting verification tool:
2014-06-15 02:28:20 -0600: Checking file system
2014-06-15 02:28:20 -0600: Checking Volume /dev/disk1s4...
2014-06-15 02:28:20 -0600: Type of the filesystem is NTFS.
2014-06-15 02:28:20 -0600: Volume label is: BOOTCAMP.
2014-06-15 02:28:21 -0600: Verifying 9820 file(s) with EAs...
2014-06-15 02:28:28 -0600: $UpCase file is formatted for use in Windows 7/8/8.1.
2014-06-15 02:28:28 -0600:      51.90 GB in 87120 files.
2014-06-15 02:28:28 -0600:      65860 KB in 22860 directories.
2014-06-15 02:28:28 -0600:          0 KB in bad blocks in 0 fragments.
2014-06-15 02:28:28 -0600:     231124 KB in use by the system.
2014-06-15 02:28:28 -0600:         64 MB occupied by the log/journal file.
2014-06-15 02:28:28 -0600:          4 KB in each allocation unit.
2014-06-15 02:28:28 -0600:   31175679 total allocation units on volume (118.93 GB).
2014-06-15 02:28:28 -0600:   17488312 allocation units available on volume (66.71 GB).
2014-06-15 02:28:28 -0600: No repairs were necessary for volume /dev/disk1s4.
2014-06-15 02:28:28 -0600: Repair tool completed:
2014-06-15 02:28:28 -0600:

Do a backup. Boot to the Recovery Volume (command - R on a restart or hold down the option key during a restart and select Recovery Volume). Run Disk Utility Verify/Repair and Repair Permissions until you get no errors. See if the internal drive checks good.
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I accidently used Disk Utility to fix a partition. I cant boot in with any USB drive. Help.

I accidentally used Disk Utility to fix a partition. It erased it. I desperately need to restore it.
I have an imac without a cdrom. How do I create a bootable usb with testdisk as for some bizarre reason it seems impossible to create a bootable usb drive for osx. I tried GParted and the ultimate boot disk that both have test disk.
I am stumped. Why can't I boot into my imac with a usb? I have a mac air that I just cant seem to create a usb drive with testdrive thats bootable. I even tried rEFit but no luck.
Anyone have an idea? How do I fix my system ?

I have an imac OSX 10.8.
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I created it using:
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dd if=./target.img.dmg of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=1m
It did not work. It would not boot. I also tried Gnome Partition tool and that did not boot either. I need my old system as it has important data
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*Problem with Disk Utility* - +repair permissions don't work anymore+
After upgrading to OS X 10.5.1 tried to correct permissions with Disk utility. But I'm not able to repair permissions, because I get this message every time "fault: The underlying task reported a fault at concluding." and permissions repair stops. Has anyone else had this problem and does anyone have any idea how to get this working again?

Will try installing OS X 10.5.1 again from the downkoad that you recommended. Won't be able to do this untill after the New Year but I'll let you know if this helped. I had another problem after he 10.5.1 upgrade and that was that the Security update 2007-009 also refused to install. Could this be related too the problems with Disk utility and the permissions problems.

Disk Utility: cannot Repair Permissions, even on Leopard installation disk

After reinstall of iLife '08 and Software Update completed, I ran Repair Disk Permissions. Got an immediate red note "error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (sic)." with a flag: "First Aid failed. Disk Utility stopped repairing permissions on 'Mac HD...' because the following error was encountered: The underlying task reported failure on exit."
I went to my Leopard Installation disk and ran "Repair Disk." No problem found. From the Installation disk, ran Repair Disk Permissions. got the same RED INK comments and flag, First Aid failed.
Restarts don't help. Also, so far I have not found an application which is NOT working despite this Disk Utility problem, happy to report ;-))
Additional background. I was reinstalling iLife to fix iPhoto after a clean reinstallation of Leopard and reincorporation of files and apps vis Time Machine. It had been several weeks and iPhoto appeared to be the only app which was not quite right.

Disk Repair can trigger "underlying task" but I've never heard or seen a Permissions Repair do so.
You should never use the DVD to repair permissions. You should be using the same OS version. And of course you can always repair permissions from your boot drive; or from backup/clone or alternate "emergency" drive. Otherwise, the DVD and older version of DU will be wrong.
I know I read that on MacFixit, but I am not sure I bookmarked it.
Don't rely on Apple First Aid, even a clean bill of health doesn't mean there aren't problems which Disk Warrior can deal with.

Disk Utility's "Repair Permissions" doesn't

On my MacPRo running Leopard 10.5.4, when I repetitively execute "Repair Permissions," Disk Utility repeatedly gives the following output:
Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26.
ACL found but not expected on "Applications".
ACL found but not expected on "Library".
But Disk Utility's "Repair Permissions" fails to make the necessary repairs, as subsequent runs yield the same results. Is this a "normal" thing, despite the above output messages, or do I have an underlying problem requiring further investigation? If necessary, suggestions as to how to proceed?

red_menace wrote:
I'm not sure where a list is (there is bound to be one around somewhere).
This contains one or two left over from previous OS X versions (eg, the group "nobody") and may be incomplete (it is complete for my machine … ):
nobody -2 nogroup -1
wheel 0 daemon 1
kmem 2 sys 3
tty 4 operator 5
mail 6 bin 7
procview 8 procmod 9
owner 10 everyone 12
group 16 staff 20
smmsp 25 _lp 26
_postfix 27 _postdrop 28
certusers 29 _keytabusers 30
utmp 45 authedusers 50
interactusers 51 netusers 52
consoleusers 53 _mcxalr 54
_pcastagent 55 _pcastserver 56
_serialnumberd 58 _devdocs 59
_sandbox 60 localaccounts 61
netaccounts 62 _mdnsresponder 65
_uucp 66 _ard 67
dialer 68 network 69
_www 70 _cvs 72
_svn 73 _mysql 74
_sshd 75 _qtss 76
_mailman 78 _appserverusr 79
admin 80 _appserveradm 81
_clamav 82 _amavisd 83
_jabber 84 _xgridcontroller 85
_xgridagent 86 _appowner 87
_windowserver 88 _spotlight 89
accessibility 90 _tokend 91
_securityagent 92 _calendar 93
_teamsserver 94 updatesharing 95
_installer 96 _atsserver 97
_lpadmin 98 _unknown 99
com.apple.sharepoint.group.1 101 com.apple.sharepoint.group.2 102
com.apple.sharepoint.group.3 103 com.apple.sharepoint.group.4 104
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Disk utility verify comes back with a errors.

I am running Mac OS X 10.5.8.
When I run the disk utility verify it comes back with a message saying that it cannot repair the errors found on the drive. I also get msgs that the file counts and directory counts are not what they are supposed to be.
What do you recommend I do? Are these errors serious or should I ignore them. I only noticed these errors yesterday after my computer would not boot. I had to actually take out the power cord from the back of the computer and hold the power buttom down for 20 secs and then reattach the power cord. Only then did it boot again.
I am thinking about doing a complete reinstall from scratch however, there may be a chance that some other disk utility out there can fix my problems....any ideas?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Since your system is having trouble booting, you should probably fix those errors.
When Disk Utility can't repair a problem, you have some choices. Many people buy Disk Warrior or TechTool Pro, with Disk Warrior the preferred program, to fix those sort of errors, assuming they aren't caused by failing hardware. Those sound like 'soft' errors that Disk Warrior can repair (see their web site).
If you want to check your hard drive hardware, you can run the Apple hardware test (run the extended test), and SMART Utility is another program that will give you insights into the health of the hard drive.
If you have a good backup, another option is to boot to an OS X DVD (or a bootable backup), use Disk Utility to erase the hard drive and write zero's to it, then restore your backup. If you go this route, make sure you have a good backup because you'll be erasing, permanently, everything on your hard drive.

Disk Utility: Can Repair Permissions = no. Why?

Disk Utility: Can Repair Permissions = no
Why?

It might help a little more if you would explain your situation enough so that people can make a guess what the problem might be. My guess is that the Repair Permissions button is grayed out - you can only repair permissions on a volume that has OSX installed on it. See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106712 for more information.

How to enable disk utility verify/fix permissions

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