[Ti] verifying permission freezes

[Kynan Shook]

Make sure you have up-to-date backups, and you have nothing to worry  
about.  ;-)

You might want to just open Disk Utility, click on the drive (not the  
volume) and make sure that SMART Status says "Verified" at the  
bottom.  And also, make sure your drive doesn't make any loud,  
repetitive clicking noises.  I'm going to assume that you know what  
your hard drive normally sounds like; soft clicking, typically very  
fast.  If it starts clicking at a rate of about twice per second,  
very regularly, very loudly, especially if these hangs occur at the  
same time, then you'd want to think about replacing the drive.  That  
is a very common mode of failure.

Otherwise, I'd assume it's software.  One specific thing I've heard  
of recently is that if you have the latest version of iTunes 6.0.2  
and are running 10.3.9, Disk Utility can hang.  One "solution" is to  
delete every .pkg file with iTunes in the name from /Library/Receipts  
except for iTunesX.pkg and iTunesPhoneDriver.pkg.  Another is to  
strip iTunes of it's Intel-specific code.

Hope that helps,


T Molnar <tam at em.ca> writes:
> I ran Cocktail (latest version) and it hung while verifying  
> permissions.
> I also ran Onxy and it did the same.
>
> I booted from my back updrive and ran disk utility on my tibooks
> harddrive.
> Disk utility also hung while verifying permissions.
...
> So I am a bit worried about the state of my HD.
> Suggestions on how to proceed with this?