Multiple app crashes, disk utility has no First AId tab

My Apple apps are almost all crashing; Mail, Ical,System Profiler, iChat, and when I try to repair permissions, Disk Utility loks very different and only gives me a screen to restore a disk - no First Aid, in fact no tabs at all.
I verified the disk using my install dvd - it saw no problems.
Before this happened, I installed Journaler, repaired permissions and also backed up to an external drive - initially using Silverkeeper 1.2. When that said system error, I realized it was not the latest version. 1.3 ran fine. Then I (stupidly) used Macjanitor to do clean up. I see now that there is a more recent version of that too. Have I cleaned out some essential file?
I am reading the link on xlab about multiple app crashes and searching the archives here - any help would be deeply appreciated!
Phoebe

It was a classic mistake - I did a backup after the update, and had a setting in Silverkeeper that copied more recent files BACK to the computer from the external drive. Dumb Dumb Dumb... Since parts of my 10.3 System and Apps were more recent than the out of the box Tiger Dvd, I then had a mix of 10.3 and 10.4 trying to work together. Big mess, glad I figured it out. Did a clean install of Tiger, then added all my files from the backup.

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Entitled "writeconfig.crash.log"
Host Name: Bobs-Big-Mac.local
Date/Time: 2006-05-15 21:08:17 -0800
OS Version: 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
Report Version: 2
Command: writeconfig
Path: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Admin.framework/Resources/writeconfig
Version: ??? (???)
PID: 2707
Thread: 0
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2 com.apple.Foundation 0x90a2d8e0 -[NSObject(NSForwardInvocation) forward::] + 0x198
3 libobjc.A.dylib 0x90866810 objcmsgForward + 0xb0
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5 writeconfig 0x0000ec84 0x1000 + 0xdc84
6 writeconfig 0x0000ad88 0x1000 + 0x9d88
7 writeconfig 0x0000abfc 0x1000 + 0x9bfc
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r4: 0x9086eb88 r5: 0x20000000 r6: 0xbffff110 r7: 0x00000000
r8: 0x00000001 r9: 0x0030d370 r10: 0x00000239 r11: 0x28000442
r12: 0x90a23528 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000000
r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x00000000 r19: 0x00000000
r20: 0x00000000 r21: 0x00000000 r22: 0x00000000 r23: 0x00000000
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HT203176 My computer gets bogged down in disk utility "gathering disk information." I can't get past this to reach the first aid tab. The little icon just keeps going round and round. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.

My Mac crashed today for the first time in the seven years I have owned it. I was working in Photoshop. It had been getting slower and slower in Photoshop. Now I can't start the computer at all. Using the Installer CD, I can't get through to use the Disk Utility to try to fix it. The computer gets bogged down in disk utility "gathering disk information." I can't get past this to reach the first aid tab. The little icon just keeps going round and round. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.

You may have had a hard drive failure. Have you been hearing any unusual sounds? Have you been getting messages about a full hard drive?
Will it boot in Safe Mode? See What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode? (Mac OS X)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107392 Takes a while to run, but it usually "fixes" problems.
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
 Cheers, Tom

My Disk Utility has disappeared

Hello. My disk utility has disappeared, i can't find. I used the Apple Hardware Test on the Install Disc but it does not find error. What can i do? Help me please. Thank you

You can use your original install disc and Pacifist:
http://www.charlessoft.com/
That should get it back for you.

Disk Utility has been trying to make a partition on hard drive for a long time

Disk Utility has been trying to make a partition on hard drive for a long time, I want to make 2nd partition and install the Snow Leopard on 2nd disk,
Lion is very slow on my Early 2011 MBP.

I am using MBP early 2011 with Osx Lion,
Lion was slow for me and I have no external HD to backup my files,
Than I want to make 2 partititon of my internal HD to backup my files to it, and also want to install Snow Leopard to that new partition using the CDs comes with my MBP.
After that.
I was using Disk Utility to partition my MBP to install Snow Leopard to my second part. While partitioning my Disk Utility did not complete and wouldn't continue the process, I waited about 30 minutes to see if it fix itself, so I cancelled it and restart the Mac, upon rebooting I opened Disk Utility to try again and I noticed I lost 400 gigabytes of space. I tried to "Erasing Free Space" but after a couple of minutes it finished and the same problem 400 GBs of lost space.
Is there a way to fix this and regain my lost hard drive space?

First Aid Tab Missing!

I've been having trouble with my hard disk. Disk First Aid was useless. I finally was able to rebuild the directory with Disk Warrior and boot up from my disk. Now I'm seeing all kind of weirdness...
In Disk Utility, the First Aid tab is gone! No matter which volume I select, all that I have are tabs for erase, RAID, restore or partition. (I had to boot from the install DVD to repair permissions.)
Anyone seen this before? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
G5 Dual 2 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3)

This would suggest that you have more than directory
problems, you also have damaged files. Disk Warrior
only fixes the directory, it does not fix files.
You could try TechTool Pro 4.1.1, which does have
routines to do some file fixing. However, you would
likely be better off reinstalling OS X. Assuming the
drive is OK you could do an Archive and Install. You can also try
additional disk repair by booting from your Tiger
DVD, then select Disk Utility from the installer's
Utilities menu. Use DU to repair the drive. If DU
reports errors it has fixed, then re-run Repair Disk
until no errors are reported.
Do not Archive and Install unless the drive is
verified as OK.
i've done all that, and more...
seems i have to replace my drive. but thanks for replying...

Disk utility has no 'partition' tab

I may be asking a really stupid question here, but I hope someone can enlighten me. The disk utility app that is on my Powerbook G4 has four tabs, "First Aid", "Erase", "RAID" and "Restore". Everywhere I read, it seems that there should be another tab called "Partition". I have no such tab!
I purchased a new LaCie 320 GB external hard disk. I wanted to partition it for use. Disk Utility seems to be the preferred choice for this. Am I missing something on my computer?

You guys are amazing. Thank you both. I was indeed not clicking on the parent disk name (where it shows XXGB so-and-so disk), rather I was clicking on the child partition name (the disk came preformatted as FAT32). Clicking on the parent name showed the partition tab, and I used it to partition the disk into 2 partitions, one with OSX Extended (for storing stuff) and one with OSX Extended Journaled (where I would keep a bootable clone of my computer).
Yay!!

10.4.11 Installed -Safari Crashes, Disk Utility Won't Open

Installed 10.4.11 yesterday via software update on our 2.0GHz Core Duo Macbook Pro.
After installing Safari crashes seconds after opening (it freezes then crashes) and then I downloaded the 10.4.11 update from Apples website (using firefox) but Disk Utility won't open it. If I try and launch disk utility myself it just bounces in the dock once and closes. Please help!

Same here - two identical iBook G4's, both updated to 10.4.11 - one is fine and everything works, the other one has the following problems: safari crashes 100% of the time, USB devices are failing to be recognised (mouse, storage key etc).
Looking in /var/log/system there is an error message saying a previous version of a kernel module is already loaded (cant get to the original error message text sorry!).
Looking on other forums looked like a simple 'trash the cache' fix - which I did - and hey presto the usb devices started working - but not safari. Messing around trying to flush out a safari cache failed after a few attempt, as did fixing file perms, zapping PRAM, booting from open firmware, and all the other usual things mentioned in the forums.
As it happens the iBook has nothing precious on it - so though to reinstall from the original installation disk. iBook G4 specific OSX Tiger distribution disk 1 inserted, but iBook now refuses to boot from it - holding down the c key on reboot just pops up a blue screen with a folder icon on it and an alternating finder and question mark logo - as in 'error I can't find a system on this installation disk' - the iBook then boots from the internal disk - getting nowhere fast.
Out come the Leopard install disks, and iBook quite happily boots from there and is right now doing a clean install from them (like I said nothing precious on there and thats why I cant get to the original error message...).
I've seen lots of posts about folks struggling to boot from the original install disks recently - wondering if patch 11 did something to knock the OSX version number on the machine greater than the version on the shipped G4 install disks??
And there is something very odd about patch 11 that seems to have hit this iBook and not my other one - they both installed fine, they have identical software apps on them and they are both the same spec.
Can't help more than this - but given I've seen these issues raised in several places worth adding to the thread.

External drive crash, disk utility unable to repair

I have a 250GB LaCie external disk. I use it to store files that I use with Final Cut. Unfortunately I had a Final Cut crash while the disk was running (or maybe it was the external disk that crashed). This has caused my disk to cease operation. Mac OS recognises it and suggests a repair but disk utility cannot repair it. Is there a way I can recover any of the files from the external disk?

Disk Warrior is known to work much better. http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/index.html

Repeated crashes, disk utility says disk is fine

My Macbook Pro (2007-era?), running Snow Leopard, has been suffering frequent crashes for the past several months. There appears to be no consistent trigger, but I will suddenly get the down-from-the-top screen of death that tells me I need to press and hold the power button to turn it off. When it starts up again, the problem appears to have something to do with spinlocks and mutex'es. I have tried repairing disk permissions, but that doesn't work. Interestingly, if I repair disk permissions twice in a row, the second time still reports that it is changing permissions. When I run "check disk" from the disk utility, it says my disk is fine. Even booting from the startup disk and running "repair disk" reports that the disk is fine. Any ideas?
Side note 1: The battery no longer works correctly, so if the power cord is unplugged the computer runs for a minute or two and then shuts off unexpectedly. I attempt to avoid this, and when it does happen I immediately repair disk permissions.
Side note 2: I have MATLAB R2010b installed, and this often crashes itself, reporting a segmentation fault. The MATLAB crashes and system crashes do not appear temporally correlated, and the system will crash even when MATLAB is not running. Deleting and reinstalling MATLAB does not solve the problem.
Thanks for any help!

Sample crash report:
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x226ec0): "thread_invoke: preemption_level -1, possible cause: unlocking an unlocked mutex or spinlock"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1504.15.3/osfmk/kern/sched_prim.c:1471
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)

Restore Multiple Partitions Through Disk Utility With AppleScript?

Hi!
I need an AppleScript to restore a bunch of partitions from a master drive to a stack of external target drives. I don't mind partitioning them 1st, if necessary.
The master drive has 16 partitions, all equally sized, and I'd like a script to run that will have Disk Utility to just go down the list restoring each partition to the matching 16 partitions on one of the target drives.
Anyone know of or have anything l could use for this? Any advice on making this script? I'm not an advanced AppleScripter. And finally, would there be any way to have the script partition the target drives as well?
Thanks in advance!

Camelot wrote:
And can you explain why why the IDs in the repeat script end in s, as in disk1s?
Sure - disk0 refers to the entire disk and all its partitions. The s denotes a slice (aka partition) on that disk.
So disk0s4 refers to the fifth slice/partition on disk0 (slices are 0-based, so disk0s0 is the first partition).
Note that the boot volume is commonly disk0s2 - the third partition since there's likely a partition map and a EFI boot partition before the actual boot volume. You'll need to look at the partition map of a sample disk to work out what the appropriate numbers are.
10-4. Thanks! I figured that was the case from the info I'm viewing about my disks. Makes perfect sense!
So I gave the script a whirl and here's the result I got in Apple Script Editor:
Basically, it seems to be trying to restore part1 of source to slice1 (device) of target. Here are the results from Terminal shell:
[1] 84221
[2] 84222
[3] 84223
-bash:     : command not found
-bash: part: command not found
[4] 84224
-bash: --target disk2s: command not found
-bash: part: command not found
-bash: --erase: command not found
[1]   Exit 127                          do shell script "/usr/sbin/asr restore --source disk1s"
[2]   Exit 127                part
[3]- Exit 127                " --target disk2s"
[4]+ Exit 127                part
I'm thinking I should change the script to specify the 1st partition on disk2 like this:
do shell script "/usr/sbin/asr restore --source disk1s" & part & " --target disk2s2" & part & " --erase" with administrator privileges
Make sene? Please lemme know whatcha think!
And thanks!

Multiple app crashes, disk utility has no First AId tab

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