On Dec 2, 2004, at 5:39 PM, Steve Martin wrote: > Use Disk Utility to repair permissions. > > Then reboot (shouldn't really be necessary) and see if all is back to > normal. That fixed it. I was surprised by the log because I expected something more silent. On the contrary, some stuff had as owner user 501 (me) instead of 0 (root), there were permissions corrected in /Developer, /usr/lib, /usr, /Library/Application Support, .... Thank you very much! -- fxn PS: Gimp.app does not launch, so that might be unrelated.