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Can't Repair Permissions

When I attempt to repair permissions, I get this message: First Aid failed....Disk Utility stopped repairing permissions on "Macintosh HD"because the following error was encountered: The underlying task reported failure on exit.
When attempting permissions repair using "Macaroni" I get this error message.
"Error detected while verifying/repairing permissions on disk0s2 Macintosh HD: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)
Started verify/repair permissions on disk disk0s2 Macintosh HD
Error -9972: The underlying task reported failure on exit"
I used my Installation Disk to do a disk repair but it reported that
"the disk appears to be O.K"
I ran DiskWarrior but still can't repair permissions. Same error message.
What's up with all this?

MacBook pro Penryn 17" 2.5 GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jul 25, 2009 11:41 AM

19 replies

Aug 6, 2009 10:20 PM in response to TildeBee

I'm sure glad I found this thread. I had the EXACT same problem; permissions check failure and the empty receipts folder. Fortunately, I have a Time Machine backup and found that the disappearance occurred on Aug. 1st and I was able to restore it from the July 31st backup. Thank heaven 10.5.8 came out because I was trying to repair permissions in preparation for installing it. In another month or two the older backup would have been overwritten.

I wish I had some idea of what caused the receipts folder to empty itself...

TildeBee

Level 7

31,917 points

Aug 17, 2009 8:23 AM in response to Patrick Ward1

Patrick --
To my knowledge, the Receipts folder cannot "empty itself."
It may have been done accidently by someone using the Mac,
but as far as I know, it cannot empty itself.

BFG47

Level 1

30 points

Sep 26, 2009 12:46 PM in response to AnonyMouse

When I try to repair permissions on my macbook the process stalls at about 2 minutes and never finishes. I seems to matter because i can't synch to my macbook becvause i lack permission.

kfkolonel

Level 1

141 points

Dec 16, 2009 6:29 PM in response to BFG47

I have the same problem on my iMac--my old one running OSX 10.5.6. The bar immediately moves about 15% of the way across and says "Less than 1 minute remaining", and then it sits there, never finishing.
When I click "Stop repair" it says "repair complete".
The reason that I am repairing permissions is that I have been having trouble booting up to a new internal drive I just installed, sometimes taking two or three tries before it boots. After it finally boots, everything seems ok.

Can't Repair Permissions