Unable to launch disk utility

When I now try to launch Disk Utility it immediately fails to launch. I know it has not been deleted. I tried to copy it from my PowerBook and place it in both applications and library but it won't open and gives a message that it is not compatible with this platform. I had previous problems that were corrected by an Apple qualified technician and it had worked after that. I tried to access it to repair permissions after a rather long period of not opening it (DU). How can I get it to work again? Thanks.

Reinstall the 10.5.8 COMBO update, repair permissions, and restart.

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I recently upgraded 10.5.9 to SN on my white Macbook. First I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the old drive onto the replacement drive in an external enclosure. Then I swapped drives so that the new drive is now the internal drive and the old drive is in the enclosure. I then upgraded the OS on the internal drive via SN installer on DVD.
Now when I start from the external drive in OS X 10.5.9 and try to launch Disk Utility from this drive I get a weird error message that "Disk Utility can't be launched because it's incompatible with this architecture." The only things I can think of is that Snow Leopard installs something that globally effects all perhipherals (like new disk drivers?), or that there is something in the enclosure's USB bridge which is causing this, or that installing Snow Leopard breaks the PRAM for older versions of OS X. Tech support for the enclosure vendor tells me there is nothing in the enclosure's USB that would cause this. Any insights into what's happening appreciated.

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Impossible to launch disk utility from installation disk.

Hello.
I try to launch disk utility from install disk and I got a kernel panic screen: load the install disk, restart my computer with the alt key depressed, choose the install disk, press enter. After a few minutes, again a kernel panic screen ...
Someone already had this problem? Help ?
Regards.

Many thanks. I test with the second DVD player and I got the same problem. When the install disk is inserted in the DVD player, it works perfectly but boot always stops with a kernel panic.
The only problem of my Mac is to boot on the install disk. When I launch a Leopard install, I have the same problem : Kernel Panic.
Very strange... Don't know about booting process of Mac. It seems that my Mac is not able to load a kernel image from install disk or something like that.
Here is the last report of the Kernel Panic :
1) Problem details
Mon Apr 13 10:19:12 2009
panic(cpu 5 caller 0x001A7BED): Kernel trap at 0x67886373, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x80010033, CR2: 0x00000018, CR3: 0x00e03000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x00000000, ECX: 0x00000000, EDX: 0x06fdf004
CR2: 0x00000018, EBP: 0x5564fbc8, ESI: 0x06fd8c00, EDI: 0x06fd8c00
EFL: 0x00010246, EIP: 0x67886373, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x07a30010
Error code: 0x00000000
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x5564f9d8 : 0x12b0e1 (0x4555b4 0x5564fa0c 0x133238 0x0)
0x5564fa28 : 0x1a7bed (0x45e568 0x67886373 0xe 0x45dd24)
0x5564fb08 : 0x19e517 (0x5564fb20 0x6ecf100 0x5564fbc8 0x67886373)
0x5564fb18 : 0x67886373 (0xe 0x48 0x10 0x10)
0x5564fbc8 : 0x67875540 (0x0 0x6ecf100 0x6fd8c00 0x1)
0x5564fc08 : 0x5550c139 (0x6fd8c00 0x1 0x0 0x13)
0x5564fc68 : 0x55505940 (0x6fd8c00 0x2507 0x5564fd2c 0x6fd8c00)
0x5564fc98 : 0x40c515 (0x6fd8c00 0x76796b8 0x76796b8 0x0)
0x5564fce8 : 0x437535 (0x6fd8c00 0x76796b8 0x76796b8 0x0)
0x5564fd48 : 0x18c8aa (0x6fd8c00 0x76796b8 0x0 0x0)
0x5564fdb8 : 0x12d165 (0x73f8578 0x73f8390 0x5564fdf8 0x11ee04)
0x5564fdf8 : 0x126247 (0x73f8500 0x6c9c420 0x17893c0 0x0)
0x5564ff08 : 0x196afc (0x5564ff44 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x5564ffc8 : 0x19eb34 (0x74418c0 0x0 0x1a10b5 0x6d01128)
No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbffff378
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.NVDAResman(5.1.6)@0x67872000->0x67a9efff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.5)@0x5571f000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4)@0x55560000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.5)@0x554fd000
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.5)@0x554fd000->0x55518fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4)@0x55560000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Mac OS version:
9A581
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.0.0: Tue Oct 9 21:35:55 PDT 2007; root:xnu-1228~1/RELEASE_I386
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Memory Module: DIMM Riser B/DIMM 1, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz
Memory Module: DIMM Riser B/DIMM 2, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz
Memory Module: DIMM Riser A/DIMM 1, 1 GB, DDR2 FB-DIMM, 800 MHz
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Bluetooth: Version 2.1.3f8, 2 service, 1 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
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USB Device: EIZO USB HID Monitor, (null) mA
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, (null) mA
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Unable to boot disk utility or reinstall Mountain Lion

Hello,
I bought an iMac via ebay and I am unable to boot to disk utility and reinstall mountain lion becouse the guy I bought it from didnt delete the users nor reinstall OS
I have a Pc keyboard and am pressing the correct command+r but mac just hangs on apple sign and loading.
I can enter single user terminal and this is what I did and can do. There are 4 users in the /Users
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Partition and format the external drive.
Drive Partition and Format
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.
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Boot Using OPTION key:
1. Restart the computer.
2. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the
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Unable to use Disk Utility to repair disk.

Hi all
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1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair"
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Unable to leave Disk Utility / no Startvolume

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You have 14 days to return the computer w/no questions asked.
You have 90 days of FREE phone tech support on top of your standard 1 year warranty unless you also purchased AppleCare which gives you an additional 2 years of coverage plus FREE phone support.
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Unable to open Disk Utility

I've recently purchased a new external hard disk, and I am not able to use on my Mac unless I format it. So, I formatted my external hard disk, and now I would like to change the format, Mac OS Extended (Case-Sensitive, Journaled) to a format that can be read both on Mac and Windows.
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Dk17 wrote:
My computer comes with the Mac OS installed in it. I can't seem to find or remember an install DVD.
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I continue to run into an odd problem on one of my server setups. It is a 1.33 GHZ Xserve running OS X Server 10.4.11. There are four ATA drive installed (two of which are mirrored using Softraid 3.6.6). There are a total of 6 Firewire drives on the Firewire 800 Bus. Three of those are used for sharing out files and the other three are for various backups.
What happens is that I sometimes run into an issue where dmg files will not mount. There are no error messages and nothing in the log, they just don't open. Likewise I am unable to launch Disk Utility, it just spins and spins never displaying the drives, again nothing in the logs, no crashreporter. I have also found out that the same thing happens in System Profiler when I try to get a list of drives on either the ATA bus or the Firewire bus. Mind you they all show up on the desktop. Likewise I have had no luck getting them to list or run permissions or the like from the diskutil commandline. Now I am able to mount actual drives. When I swap out the offsite backup drive it mounts the new drive just fine. However... when I eject the drive and it has disappeared from the desktop and then I remove it... I get the removal error.. you didn't put the drive away properly message.
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"I have had this problem for a very long time, was just too lazy to post it until now. Since I got this G5 (about a year ago), it has be unable to launch Disk Utility - the entire system simply freezes. This was true for the original Panther install, still true when I re-installed from the re-install discs, and is still true now that I have upgraded to tiger (10.4.4 at this point), so I assume it must be hardware... when I start the G5 into target disk mode, and boot to it's drive with my laptop, the same instance of disk utility runs fine. I have sent the G5 in 3 times, and each time they said it was fixed when it wasn't. Now the warranty is expired, and I don't know what to do with this. Any suggestions? "
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Get the Tiger install disks, not the upgrade over Panther disks and first DU Erase w/zero option the original drive. Install Tiger and grab your data from the Panther clone over time.
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Any ideas? This G5 has had problems with anything relating to files/drives for a while, this particular one never goes away no matter if I have a fresh install or what, so if it's a hardware problem, is there any way I can fix it myself?

What is your laptop, and what is it running? Tiger?
Might want to start here:
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/help/
It can help walk you (and us) through what steps..
#1 boot into Open Firmware and reset nvram
#2 boot to your Apple Hardware Test disk using OPTION key and run tests
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MacGurus FAQ with sections on maintenance, troubleshooting, links to other FAQs, G5 References, SATA, etc.
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http://www.macsales.com for one.
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MacFixit has a good (long, 5 part) tutorial on corrupt prefs, and Ted Landau has an excellent book on troubleshooting as well. Books on Mac OS X
http://www.apple.com/macosx/resources
Also, things rarely "fix themselves" but rather the problem just gets buried, over-written. The best thing to do along with running fsck is to invoke Applejack and delete all those cache files and folders and swap files, which is where most of the file corruption is likely to occur, and that is just two of the 5 functions of Applejack, repairing permissions and repair disk (why when you probably ran fsck first) as well as look for corrupt plist (prefs).
Set aside a 10GB partition for Emergency OS X only, that you can use to repair and test your other drives and partitions. Maybe on FW drive.

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Hello!
The last week I have not been able to launch iPhoto. When I tried to troubleshoot last night by going through solutions on the forums, I realized that I couldn't launch Disk Utility either. I have since run the Disk Utility from the Mac OS Panther Install Disk, gone through several troubleshooting procedures (font cleanups, cache cleanups, hard-disk space cleanups, etc.) but with no success.
The last troubleshooting doc I went through recommended checking Console for a log of problems, and sure enough, the only comments in the Console Log were related to iPhoto and Disk Utility. Can someone please advise regarding the below comments and how to fix??
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-Sarah
Mac OS X Version 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
2006-08-13 10:31:53 -0600
dyld: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto truncated or malformed library: /System/Library/Frameworks/DiscRecordingUI.framework/Versions/A/DiscRecordingUI (file is empty)
dyld: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto truncated or malformed library: /System/Library/Frameworks/DiscRecordingUI.framework/Versions/A/DiscRecordingUI (file is empty)
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