Warning: SUID file has been modified and will not be repaired.
Any courageous guesses to the meaning of this somber conversation reported in Disk Utility following a permission repair after installing OSX 10.5 ?
Thank you Frederick
G5 Dual 2 GHz PPC G5 Macbook Pro 15" refurb w/Shoulder Chip on,
Mac OS X (10.4.10),
Seagate 160 G and Seagate 300 G
Thank you for your contribution ElBiggus
I have little critical to say about terse warnings . They get your attention which is cool .
It appears to me that in contrast to the verbose reports or log files that once comprised these same actions that this is preferable .
It is the level of the report in terms of time , hierarchal reach , and cpu resources that grab my attention . I suspect that when it is addressed by Apple it will be either in a System update or unscheduled update . By which form Apple chooses we can measure the seriousness of this little matter . If they wait for a regular update it speaks to the idea that it is a livable problem .
I choose to maintain a regular Permissions repair as it appears to be good way to begin dealing with disk maintenance for me . For folks who feel it is trivial or soporific it might be a poor choice for contributing their valuable insights . However I appreciate the grounds for which folks base their reasoning as it not a topic I am able to penetrate very deeply . Thanks !
"You can safely ignore this message. It is accurate, but not a cause for concern."
(Apple Support 2007-11-06 — Document No. 306925)
My question: Can any of you that receive this error message message reach another Mac using Back to My Mac? I am unable to connect to my desktop from any location except when I am on my home network. This is why I "repaired" permissions and started down this path in the first place.
Well for what its worth, when I updated to Leopard one of the first things I did was check for any updates. I installed the few that were available, and ran disk permissions. I too received the same SUID Warning. But to perhaps add some credence to some of the previous posters who suggested this message is merely a check of the original "receipt" to those in the current state, I installed Leopard a couple days later on my wife's machine and ran Disk Permissions and did not receive this message. Tonight, however, I ran the software update on her machine and one the updates was for ARD. It did mention it was for all users, so I installed it. Afterward ran DP and she then too had the message.
Just upgraded to 10.5.1 and now get this SUID error on;load_hdi; DiskManagement.framework; DesktopServicesPriv.framework; Resources/runner; Resources/readconfig; writeconfig; authopen; OwnerGroupTool. Told they have been modified and will not be repaired.
I just got my MBP yesterday, set up a couple of accounts, customized system prefs, then ran Software Update which found 8 updates, ran the updates, it asked to restart, hit the restart button, came back later to see SU apparently stalled in the "configuring 8 updates", left it for another hour, no progress. Restarted the computer. Checked SU & it showed 3 updates needed downloading. Decided to repair permissions first. Got error: Warning: SUID file "Systems/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDA gent" has been modified and will not be repaired." Booted from install disc, ran Disk Utility, same error.
Shut down the stupid, stupid computer. Went back to the aging e-Mac Tiger computer to troubleshoot the new, much-too-expensive-to-have-these-kinds-of-issues computer. I am blessed in that the e-Mac was deemed too decrepit by Apple to support Leopard. {Editorial: Should have stayed with Panther.}
To repeat what someone mentioned above. I have this same issue but apple has responded that you can safely ignore the warnings. the list each of the warnings to expect and that can be ignored in the doc at the following.
