Can't Repair Permissions

Hi,

I recently sold my iMac and bought a G5 powermac, subsequently I upgraded to Leopard. I did a clean install. The problem is that now when I try to repair permissions it just sits there with the bar 1/5 full and doesn't move right from the start. I've tried all of the obvious stuff like letting it sit(for over an hour) and restarting the computer but it just won't budge. It's not a huge problem because I haven't really been having trouble with any programs or anything but I don't want to run into trouble in the future and not be able to resolve it this way.

I know there are other programs out there that will do the same thing, but I'd really rather just stick with disk utility.

Is anyone else having this problem? Do you think it'll be resolved in an upcoming(soon I hope) update.

Other than that I like Leopard. It's more responsive then I thought it would be(although I've never run 10.4 on this computer so I can't compare).

Thanks a lot!

edit: sorry the specs are:
Power Mac G5
1.6 GHz SP
1.25 GB RAM

dogmatagram said:

I know there are other programs out there that will do the same thing, but I'd really rather just stick with disk utility.

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I would at least let main menu have a crack at repairing permissions

http://www.santasw.com/

How much time are you giving it dogmatadram?

Repair Permissions does not seem to move for about fifteen minutes, and flies through all those to be ignored SUID warnings. If still won't work boot from the install DVD, go to utilities, verify disk and run Repair Permissions there.

Repair Permissions is much, much more involved under Leopard than previous OS's.

Or try from safe mode.. Hold shift when booting computer up and run repair in safe mode, then reboot like normal and try again.

Thanks

Maybe I wasn't giving it enough time. I'm just used to it only taking a few minutes in Tiger. I didn't know that the process changed a lot in Leopard.

I'll try leaving going for longer this time and if that doesn't work I'll try safe mode, and if that doesn't work I'll use Main Menu.

Thanks!

Are you at 10.5.1? I believe there was a problem with 10.5, but was fixed in 10.5.1.

I am running 10.5.1 and it turns out there wasn't a problem; apparently I'm just very impatient.

I did get some questionable feedback though.

Like this:

ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Desktop".

as well as this:

Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DiskManagement.framework/Versions/A/Resources/DiskManagementTool" has been modified and will not be repaired.

Is this normal? It's very different from the results I got on Tiger.

The SUID File problem has been discussed in this thread: http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82036&highlight=SUID+file

As for the permissions thing in Leopard... OS X 10.3.x Panther seemed to have disk permissions problems which were fixed almost entirely in OS X Tiger 10.4.x but from what I've read here and there, Leopard seems to have reintroduced the disk permissions problem again!

Try these apps:

MainMenu
YASU
MacJanitor

I had a similar issue and used YASU - seems to have solved the problem.