At 9:40 PM +0800 4/09/2007, Shay Telfer wrote:
Hi Everyone,
To add to Ronnie's and Bob's, during the week-end I installed an application
on my G5 OS X 10.3.9, being careful to switch off my 3 external firewire
devices. After installation I tried the usual - Repair Permission using Disk
Utility installed on my hard-drive. However the latter did not launch
completely and therefore I was unable to use it.
Trashing its .plist file did not help either. So I had to restart the
computer on its original instal DVD and use Disk Utility for there to Repair
Permission. This was carried out successfully.
And, this did somehow fix the installed version of Disk Utility which is
working beautifully now.
So, I guess that if all else fail it is worth trying booting the machine
from its instal CD/DVD and run Disk Utility for there.
Disk Utility on the hard drive v the install CD/DVD will probably use
different receipts to repair permissions.
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=2006050407462364>
(Requires an annoying macfixit subscription)
or more freely available, a list of the 46 receipts respected by the
DiskManagementTool (as used by Disk Utility):
<http://www.macfixit.com/comment.php?mode=display&sid=2006050407462364&title=mac.column.ted%3A+Unravelling+the+Repair+Disk+Permissions+controversy&type=article&order=&pid=20881>
Have fun,
Shay
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