"No Valid Packages" Error ???

2011-01-02 Thread Cliff Rediger
My father-in-law, George (94 years young), has this PPCG4 "tower" I guess you call it, running 10.4.11. It's quite slow (to my sensibility) and he regularly has things fail to open or other troublesome stuff that is frequently solved by re- booting, which of course he forgets to do. Anyway, I'm

Re: "No Valid Packages" Error ???

2011-01-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 2, 2011, at 7:47 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: I get an error message informing me that "First Aid Failed! Disk Utility stopped repairing permissions on "HD" because the following error: "No Valid Packages" I told George that he had "no valid packages", and he agreed, but we'd still like to ha

Re: "No Valid Packages" Error ???

2011-01-03 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/01/02 19:23, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jan 2, 2011, at 7:47 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: I get an error message informing me that "First Aid Failed! Disk Utility stopped repairing permissions on "HD" because the following error: "No Valid Packages" I told George that he had "no valid packages"

Re: "No Valid Packages" Error ???

2011-01-05 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Jan 2, 9:53 pm, "Tina K." wrote: > Packages are stored in /Library/Receipts, it might be worth taking a > look to see if the folder contains any packages (.pkg) or not. Thanks for the responses. I tried the safe boot thing and Disk Utilities gave the same error message. Library/Receipts cont

Re: "No Valid Packages" Error ???

2011-01-05 Thread Baldassare Guzzo
Sounds like a problem at the post office. Try UPS or Fed Ex. According to Apple its because a file called "BaseSystem.pkg" is missing from /library/receipts. Just get the file from anywhere and drop it in. This is for 10.3 and 10.4. On Jan 5, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: > >