repairing permissions hangs with 1 minute to go

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repairing permissions hangs with 1 minute to go

Having sleep problems on a new 10.5.2 MacBook. Decided to repair permissions and then do Combo updater to 10.5.4

The bar gets to about 20% with 1 minute remaining and then it seemingly hangs - though you can see the bar pulsating.

I tried just verifying permissions and the same thing happens.

Tried verifying the disk and all is well.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Aug 19, 2008 6:42 AM

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Answer 1

CT

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Aug 19, 2008 6:48 AM in response to Joseph Vander

It is possible nothing is wrong and you have to just wait it out - it can take quite a while (15 minutes even). How long have you waited?

charlie

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Answer 2

Joseph Vander Author

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Aug 19, 2008 7:01 AM in response to CT

Charlie,

Thanks. After posting I found a forum that said to have patience. ( I had searched previously before posting).

I waited it out and it took about 15 minutes.

I was surprised because my MacBook Pro running Leopard does not seem to take so long. The other forum suggested that deselecting multiple foreign languages at install may make a difference.

thanks

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