Repair Permissions runs for hours

Following an update from Mavericks to Yosemite 10.10, I find that when I use the Disk Utility to repair permissions, it runs for hours, seemingly repairing every one of the 680,000 files on the iMac. If I reboot, and repair permissions again, it begins the same long process all over again. Should I re-install Yosemite from an online source?

Does the last line of output say that permission repair completed successfully? If so, what you see is normal. Repairing permissions is a waste of time and always produces reams of meaningless warnings.

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Hi,
Thanks for the reply......
Is this a fresh installation? If so, what version? Which OS?
Ans: Yes This is a fresh installation...After InstallationAll concurrent Managers are up and running...
Was this working properly before? If so, what modifications have you done?
Ans: As this is a fresh installation. This is first time to run the requests. After installation, when i run the requests, I got error like libmawt.so is not opened. I have given libmawt.so file path in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. After setting libmawt.so in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. this time I did not before error. but request is running for hours..there is no end.
Have you tried to recover the CM from OAM?
Ans: ya, I tried, but not helpful.
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Ans: I got status as Inactive and no manager
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Review your error messages for the cause of the error. (=<POINTER>)
_ 2 _
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Repair permissions runs then Mac shuts down

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With iTunes 10 and iOS 5 synchronizing my iPhone (3GS) via USA and Wifi does not stop in the last step. Runs for hours. iPad Synchronization is fine. Any ideas to solve it?

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I had a problem on my PB G4 further to running Repair Permissions from a Tiger boot disk: it took almost a night for Disk Utility to read through the database and to repair permissions.
I decided to proceed with an A&I of Leopard, using my 10.5.1 DVD followed with a 10.5.3 Combo update. I ran Repair Permissions at this stage, which took 15'; I believed that I had worked it out.
Unfortunately, there were a couple of other Apple updates to carry out - e.g; Quicktime, as well as a few non-Apple software re-installs which used to run smoothly prior to my initial Repair Permissions issue.
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I do not intend to run through the whole A&I process again.
Does anybody have a clue to speed up this painful Repair Permissions process?
Thanks in advance,

Disk Utility's Repair Permissions doesn't do anything for items in a user's home folder, or if an application is not installed using Apple's installer, so for the most part it is pretty much useless - although some people swear by it (others at it). You really shouldn't be messing with the permissions at all on system files and folders (this includes the "apply to enclosed items" from the Get Info), so it won't do anything anyway unless these get messed up.

IMac Harware Test runs for hours, repairpermission too

My iMac G5 started having failures last year already. So I first ran Disk Warrior and everything turned out well for a while. But now, the system started showing the endless rotating whell when booting, and I could not do an Archive and Install. So I diagnosed a HD failure and bought a new HD.
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Hello,
You re absolutely right. I did too many things at the
same time.
Yes, repairs and trouble-shooting need to be done systematically. And, it needs to be done with tools appropriate to the task.
Using one tool to do this, and then another tool to fix the first tools mistakes, and then jumping to another one just doesn't work well.
I finally reinstalled the system and tomorrow, while
I'm at work,
Yes, that will be the way to go.
You should consider that while you are at work, the system will be sitting there completed. So, if your fans run full speed while in the diagnostic test (I cannot remember for sure if they did or not on my system), then they will continue to do so until you come back.
I don't know if I'd leave the computer there for 8 hours with fans at full speed and the screen unmoving on maximum brightness. That just doesn't sound ideal to me.
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I'll have Hardware Test running at home.
I was just quite exasperated because Hardware Test
said it would take about 15 Min, so after an hour, I
thought it was stuck.
That's understandable.
I promise to be a goob boy now and stop thinking my
Mac was a box of Lego where I can unbuild and rebuild
everything like I please.
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Repair permissions runs very slow

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Ray and all,
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You shouldn't be running Permissions repair booted from the install disc, in the first place. Stop it, shut down and Safe Boot. Hold Shift key down at startup chime. Give it longer to boot than usual. If you can get it to boot up, you must delete some things to make room. Likely candidates are in your home folder, music, movies, documents, pictures. The Safe Boot will, if possible, repair your drive.
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