Lion fails to repair disk permission

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Lion fails to repair disk permission

During my regular maintenance, I ran "verify disk permissions" on Disk Utility recently and discovered 16 items on the list to be repaired. I subsequently ran "repair disk permissions" and saw that every single one of them were repaired excluding the "Warning: SUID..." thing which is expectable. Everything went as normal and there was no irregularity in the process, except the same items reappeared again on the list when I re-ran the "verify disk permission".

I repeated the process a few more times - nothing changed.

I tried to do it via the recovery partition - the result is the same

I did the process manually via Terminal - still took me nowhere.

I wonder if anybody has experienced similar problems and knows the solutions. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

In case needed, please find the '16 unrepairable permissions' below:

Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Support/Rem ote Desktop Message.app/Contents/Resources/pl.lproj/UIAgent.nib"; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r--

Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreen.app/Contents/Resources/pl.lproj/MainMenu.nib"; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r--

Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Support/Rem ote Desktop Message.app/Contents/Resources/pt_PT.lproj/UIAgent.nib"; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r--

Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreen.app/Contents/Resources/pt_PT.lproj/MainMenu.nib"; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r--

Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Support/Rem ote Desktop Message.app/Contents/Resources/pt.lproj/UIAgent.nib"; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r--

Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreen.app/Contents/Resources/pt.lproj/MainMenu.nib"; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r--

Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Support/Rem ote Desktop Message.app/Contents/Resources/sv.lproj/UIAgent.nib"; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r--

Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreen.app/Contents/Resources/sv.lproj/MainMenu.nib"; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r--

Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Support/Rem ote Desktop Message.app/Contents/Resources/ru.lproj/UIAgent.nib"; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r--

Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreen.app/Contents/Resources/ru.lproj/MainMenu.nib"; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r--

Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Support/Rem ote Desktop Message.app/Contents/Resources/no.lproj/UIAgent.nib"; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r--

Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreen.app/Contents/Resources/no.lproj/MainMenu.nib"; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r--

Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Support/Rem ote Desktop Message.app/Contents/Resources/fi.lproj/UIAgent.nib"; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r--

Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreen.app/Contents/Resources/fi.lproj/MainMenu.nib"; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r--

Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Support/Rem ote Desktop Message.app/Contents/Resources/da.lproj/UIAgent.nib"; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r--

Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/LockScreen.app/Contents/Resources/da.lproj/MainMenu.nib"; should be -rw-r--r-- ; they are drw-r--r--

Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired

Finished verify/repair permissions on disk0s2 Macintosh HD

Posted on Aug 14, 2011 3:33 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 14, 2011 3:41 AM in response to Grande Latte

SUID are messages you can safely ignore.

Mac OS X: Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions messages that you can safely ignore

I repeated the process a few more times - nothing changed.

It's not necessary to repeat the process, there's nothing wrong.

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Aug 14, 2011 3:52 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Thanks for the reply, Carolyn.

Sorry if I didn't not make my post clear. I knew about the SUID and it's not the SUID that I am talking about. It is the same 16 unrepairable permissions that I am having problem with.

To avoid anymore confussions, hence I crossed out the SUID part.

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Answer 3

Aug 14, 2011 3:57 AM in response to Grande Latte

During my regular maintenance

Is your Mac running ok? Because the only time you need to verify permissions is if there's a problem with the Mac OS X. Otherwise it's not necessary.

Read here > http://unsanity.org/archives/000410.php

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Aug 14, 2011 4:06 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Thanks again for your time.

What triggered it was because I found irregularities in terms of how the systm is responding to certain tasks. I can feel it 'rather' sluggish and annoying.

Oh btw, I do not install any anti virus.

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pedro3178

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Aug 14, 2011 4:17 AM in response to Grande Latte

Anti virus is not required....

With regards to your errors i can't help with that, sorry

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Answer 6

Aug 14, 2011 4:22 AM in response to Grande Latte

Sluggish? How much free space on the startup disk?

Right or control click the MacintoshHD on your Desktop then click Get Info.

See; Capacity & Available.

Make sure there is no less then 15% free disk space.

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Aug 14, 2011 4:31 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Hi Carolyn, thanks again for the link. Very interesting and useful read 🙂

I am running version 10.7 on 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 12GB ram. The free space on my startup disk is around 400GB. It shouldn't be a problem on that side.

The sluggishness fluctuates and but is noticeable. Sometime it happens when I am about to begin installing a new update of a third party application or in the middle of copying and pasting object between applications.

@pedro31787 Thanks for your comment. I was just saying that I had no antivirus related software installed while this thing took place.

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Answer 8

Aug 14, 2011 4:38 AM in response to Grande Latte

The sluggishness fluctuates and but noticable. Sometime it happens when I am about to begin installing a new update of a third party applicaiton or in the middle of copying and pasting object between applications.

Check the startup disk just in case.

Launch Disk Utility

Select the startup disk in the panel on the left then select the First Aid tab.

Click: Verify Disk (not Verify Disk Permissions)

Boot from your install disc if necessary to make repairs.

Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks

In case you aren't aware, your Mac can run maintenance tasks for you if you leave your Mac on over night (not in Sleep mode). Once monthly is all that's needed.

Mac OS X: About background maintenance tasks

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Answer 9

Aug 14, 2011 1:18 PM in response to Grande Latte

Hello,

FWIW, I have those same unrepairable permissions, but haven't noticed intermittent sluggish behavior. Between what programs are you copying/pasting, and what third party programs are updating? I'm happy to give it a try on my system.

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Aug 15, 2011 5:10 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Thanks Carolyn,

I have tried all the stuff you mentioned before and after posting this question.

The fact that I have known those things that you shared frustrates me somehow. But thanks anyway for your time and attention.

I may need to rebuild my machine to overcome the problem.

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Aug 15, 2011 5:16 AM in response to lotsolentils

Hi Robert,

It's random and at times I could notice them in every things I do from activating mission control or lunch pad to moving 3 layer groups on 8MB of psd file.

I can tell that they are not perfoeming smoothly all the time.

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sheffi

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Aug 19, 2011 12:18 PM in response to Grande Latte

Repairing permissions is important do not be misled.

By the way I was misled by Apple Japan they said that Teqtool deluxe on Apple care DVD does not work if lion is installed, paradoxically lion repair permissions also does not work if SnowLeopard is installed on another volume and even using bundle install DVD does not work !

The directory is corrupt and like society we must fix corruption otherwise we have many problems.

How?

1 disable Vile fault and fire wall.

2 restart safe mode wait let sleep 1 day, over night reboot using DVD

Go to system profiler on DVD

Check power on self -test and diagnostics if it is ok

3 shut down

4 restart option DVD again

5. Repair permissions

6 if still corrupt re install OS

Do not enable Vile Fault or Fire Wall when updating first after clean install.

For Lion go to Recovery HD press options

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