[X-Unix] Diskarb

[William H. Magill]

On 03 Jan, 2005, at 11:51, Scott Warren wrote:
> While trying to run Diskutil from the command line, I get this error:
>      DiskArb couldn't be activated!
>
> Google does not seem to tell me how to make diskutil work, can anyone 
> offer a suggestion???

/usr/sbin/diskarbitrationd is not running, probably because it "died" 
for some reason.

I believe it should always be running.

Check the log files esp. /library/logs/crashreporter, and/or restart it 
with "-d" and see what it is upset about.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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