[X4U] Permissions won't repair

[Lee Licata]

Hi!

Just had this happen to me while reinstalling 10.3.9 on a hard drive 
that could not boot.

What I was doing, in the interest of saving time, was using software 
update to see what needed to be updated, then using my saved package 
files located on other drives, using them to update the system 
software.

When done, i ran disk utility and got the error you described.

Got it to work by putting all the packages used for the update in the 
package folder in the library where they belong, and where they would 
have been had I downloaded them, making sure the receipts were in the 
receipts folder, rebooted using this drive, and running repair 
permissions on that drive.

It worked for me.

Lee

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:36:54 -0600
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I tried to repair permissions on a G5 running 10.3.9

During the verifying process, a message was received saying "Disk
Utility had lost connection with the Disk Utility engine. Try quitting
and relaunching".

I tried relaunching 3 times but there was no change. I also booted from
the original G5 CD and tried to run the Disk Utility from there, but
received the same message.

I ran Disk Warrior and repired Directory structure, but Disk Utility
still would not run.

3 weeks ago, I deleted a user who left the company.

Any suggestions?