Migration Assistant Crashes when importing from ext HD using Time Machine

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I'm having issues restoring a harddrive using migration assistant to import a TimeMachine backup.
I've just reinstalled Mac OS X 10.5.8 onto a Mac Pro 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon with 2GB RAM.
I've done all updates and repaired permissions on bootable drive and repaired the external disk where the TimeMachine is stored.
The TimeMachine is stored on an external harddrive with USB2.0 connection.
I can load Migration Assistant, select migrate from TimeMachine, but when the import users screen appears after 40 seconds or so Migration Assistant crashes.
Here is the console report:
Querying receipt database for system packages
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : admin05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : aeroplane05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : apple05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : bike05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : boat05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : car05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : cat05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : dragon05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : duck05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : fish05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : football05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : lily05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : mouse05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : panda05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : rhino05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : shark05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : snowflake05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : starfish05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : sunflower05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : tiger05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 Migration Assistant[123] Long name checked : zebra05
01/12/2010 17:07:20 [0x0-0x11011].com.apple.MigrateAssistant[123] mmap: Cannot allocate memory
01/12/2010 17:07:20 [0x0-0x11011].com.apple.MigrateAssistant[123] vm_allocate failed
01/12/2010 17:07:20 [0x0-0x11011].com.apple.MigrateAssistant[123] vm_allocate failed
01/12/2010 17:07:23 Migration Assistant[123] An uncaught exception was raised
01/12/2010 17:07:23 Migration Assistant[123] connection went invalid while waiting for a reply
01/12/2010 17:07:23 Migration Assistant[123] * Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidReceivePortException', reason: 'connection went invalid while waiting for a reply'
01/12/2010 17:07:23 Migration Assistant[123] Stack: (
2459639787,
2478489147,
2459639243,
2459639306,
2540575982,
2540572201,
2459662410,
2459662514,
240556308,
2540350973,
2540349860,
2462499157,
2462498834
01/12/2010 17:07:24 com.apple.launchd[75] ([0x0-0x11011].com.apple.MigrateAssistant[123]) Exited abnormally: Trace/BPT trap[/SIZE]
Has anyone experienced a similar issues?
Many thanks in advance.

saleemmartin wrote:
Hi Pondini,
Thank you for your reply, your help is much appreciated.
The original problem was: On one user account the user root directory was not writable (i.e. the user couldn't save any work to their documents), so I tried to reset the permissions in the "get info" menu, but after that the OS X directory didn't start. I did successfully repair all permissions using Disk Utility (running from the external harddrive OSX i mentioned in my last post).
Do you think Disk Utility didn't repair all the permissions? In this case, the permissions on the Time Machine backup might still be corrupted.
That doesn't affect user permissions, only permissions on files installed by OSX or Apple apps. And you can't repair permissions on your backups, since that's not a "bootable" volume.
It seems that my Migration Assistant crashes routinely after 40 seconds (or so) no matter which options you select (if any). Even if I leave the app searching for user accounts on the Time Machine it crashes.
If I'm quick i'll be able to deselect all users except admin, or if I'm slow I won't get so far. No matter what, it still crashes.
Oh, it hadn't sunk in that it was crashing before you make selections. Now that I re-read your first post, I see you did say that, sorry.
The app never allows me to view installed applications.
No, it won't. You can only select or omit them.
I don't know whether you have a problem with your Mac or the backups.
You mentioned earlier that you'd done a +*Repair Disk+* on the TM drive, so if there's a problem with them, it's something DU can't fix.
Have you done a +*Verify Disk+* on your internal HD? If not, make sure it's ok.
If so, something may be amiss with the +Migration Assistant+ app. I'd suggest downloading and installing the "combo" update. That's the cleverly-named combination of all the updates to Leopard since it was first released, so installing it should fix anything that's gone wrong since then, such as with one of the normal "point" updates. Info and download available at: http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10_5_8_ComboUpdate Be sure to do a +Repair Permissions+ via Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder) afterwards.

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