Disk Warrior - Mac OS Services Failure

I ran into the same message using DiskWarrior 5.

It was resolved by running DW5 while booted from the Recovery Disk (CMD-R on boot).

I loaded DW5 onto a USB stick and was able to run it from the terminal window while in Recovery Mode.

Every attempt prior to that was using the USB stick to boot from (option key on boot), and then trying

to use DW5, but finding I got this error. It seems that there is something that my USB loaded

system was unable to have running, which DW5 requires to complete disk repairs.

If I booted the Recovery Disk instead, I could attach the usb with DW5 on it and run from there with success.

Good luck if this helps anyone trying to fix their HD with macos Sierra or earlier.

I haven't tried to boot from DW in years because of persistent problems. Another way to run it is to install it on your hard drive, clone your hard drive to an external drive, boot from that, and run DW from there. No problems and no need to boot from DW; simply dismiss it after use and boot back into your internal drive.

Hello

You mentioned that you are running/starting DW5 by the terminal. Normally command "open" is used to start/run an app from terminal. On the MacOSX installer (created on USB-Stick) it seems that "open" is missing. Is there an other way to start DW5 from terminal than with "open"?

Thanks and best regards

Try this, from a post on another site:

If an application on OS X has damaged the Journaling data, then when you try to run Disk Warrior, you may get this error:the new directory cannot replace the original directory due to a mac os services failure. You may be able to work around this problem by temporarily turning off Journaling via Disk Utility:

Open Disk Utility
Select the Volume of the drive
Hold down the Option key on the keyboard
Go to the File menu – select Disable Journaling
Now run Disk Warrior again. Afterwards, you can turn back journaling.

If you continue to have problems, you may need to clone or backup the drive to an external, reformat the internal drive, and clone back or reinstall Mac OS X and restore your data. Alsoft may have additional suggestions.

Regards.