Why does Disk Utility repair permissions not run?

I'm trying to verify and/or repair disk permissions on my RAID0 array but the utility only briefly flashes the progress bar and does nothing.
Logs show a whole lot of nothing:
2011-09-28 17:00:44 -0700: Disk Utility started.
2011-09-28 17:00:52 -0700:
2011-09-28 17:00:53 -0700:
2011-09-28 17:00:54 -0700:
2011-09-28 17:00:54 -0700:
2011-09-28 17:05:29 -0700:
2011-09-28 17:05:30 -0700:
2011-09-28 17:05:30 -0700:
2011-09-28 17:05:30 -0700:
Each time is an attempt at clicking on verify or repair.
Any idea why that is?

Turns out this is a Lion issue and only happens on RAID arrays. Apple is looking into it.
For anyone with the same issue, the command line version of disk utility does work, i.e:
diskutil repairPermissions /

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Tony, if you think it isn't working because all you see is the blue & white "barber pole" display instead of the all blue progress bar during the repair, rest assured that this is just a display bug & the repair actually is being done. It can take a long time for the repair -- much longer than in Tiger, so be patient -- give it as much as 10 minutes or more to complete & you should see the 'permissions repair complete' message eventually.
If you are seeing something else, my apologies for assuming otherwise. Please describe more about why it isn't working & perhaps we can help you.

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Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit.
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I believe the problem occurred because I selected Macintosh HD and added another user (myself) to read/write in the disk permission section of the information window, and I also applied that to all enclosed items. I did this in the first place because of repeated attempts and failuire to install the latest version of skype into my applications folder (being told that I didn't have enough permissions to complete the overwrite task). When I tried verifying the disk I received the error message "ERROR: could not freeze volume permissions denied"
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As a not unrelated issue when I attach my ipod touch, itunes says that it cannot recognize this ipod, then after about the third time simply doesn't acknowledge my itouch exists.
everything was working well until i did this large change permissions operation.
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John Fountain wrote:
I believe the problem occurred because I selected Macintosh HD and added another user (myself) to read/write in the disk permission section of the information window, and I also applied that to all enclosed items.
Uh-oh. You completely trashed your whole system by doing that. Boot up from your Leopard DVD and restore that last Time Machine backup that was made before you made that mistake. If you don't have any backups you will have to reinstall Leopard.
I did this in the first place because of repeated attempts and failuire to install the latest version of skype into my applications folder (being told that I didn't have enough permissions to complete the overwrite task).
When that happens, just trash the old application first, then drag in the new one.
When I tried verifying the disk I received the error message "ERROR: could not freeze volume permissions denied"
I switched users to a specific administrator account that I reserve for troubleshooting, but got the same result when I tried running disk utility.
Changing permissions on the HD and applying to enclosed items hosed your whole system. That's what's causing all your problems. It's doubtful that you will be able to repair it. Restore your system from backup, or reinstall.

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Does disk utility repair disk delete any files on the external hard drive?

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Disk Utility repairs permissions; 1 hour later they're un-repaired again.

(March 2009 24" iMac. Lion 10.7.3)
I repair permissions on Macitosh HD (boot volume) every-other week. I've noticed that the same permissions seem to need repair each time. Here are the last seven lines from the Disk Utility window from the May 19 run:
One hour later, I repeated the operation. Here are the last seven lines:
I might be overly sensitive, but I detect certain similarities between these results. In fact, it looks like Disk Utility repairs exactly the same permissions every time and those permissions are corrupted shortly after they are repaired.
What's going on here? Should I be alarmed? Or should I panic?

I'd like to delete this post (if I knew how). There are several other threads on this topic, and other contributors report exactly what I observe. It turns out it's a harmless artifact of upgrading from 10.5 to 10.6 to 10.7, rather than doing a clean install of Lion. This article is reassuring: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448
I shoulda searched more thoroughly before posting.

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I ended up taking one of the existing partitions, making it smaller and then adding a partition of the size I needed -- created out of the space freed up. I also erased the original partition that I couldn't change and Disk Utility now says I can make it smaller, but not bigger.
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I repaired permissions because I reinstalled Epson drivers, and reinstalling Epson drivers has given me a permissions problems in the past which was cured by running permission repair. As it is an easy prophylactic step to take, I did it again.
It may not be needed, but that is not the issue, which is why, when the permissions are indicated as repaired, are they not.
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Oh for the love of god, it begins again!
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Leopard introduces a completely different "installer package receipt" format called a flat file format based on SQLite. The database file on my Mac (from a pre-release version of Leopard) is the following:
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I didn't get that message about ARDAgent in the pre-release versions, I'll take a look at it more once I finish burning and installing the release version.
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A snapshot of the error can be viewed at:
http://www.enabled.com/~noah/pictures/Picture1.pdf
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Tom
I sympathise if you are on dialup! Here is the post you need (originally posted by Mac Fool):
Just to catalogue the solutions listed above
Here's what I did, and it worked fine.
1) Move iTunes onto the Desktop.
2) Run Disk Utility
3) Go to HD>Library>Receipts and trash all iTunes .pkg files EXCEPT for iTunesX.pkg and iTunesPhoneDriver.pkg
4) empty Trash.
5) move iTune from Desktop back to 'Applications'.
Hey presto. you should now be able to repair permissions again.
HTH
Just as Beavis posted above
BTW, the link "here" does take me directly to the post, but clearly it loads the entire topic first.

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Reports of "spurious" information in Repair Permissions are wide enough that there are Apple articles on the reports for Jag and Panther (like here. Admittedly, they are much fewer in Tiger and Leo.
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