Permission Repair Not Completing-SR MBP

[SubaruNation555]

I got a new SR MacBook Pro yesterday. After I had installed Leopard and all my software and other files I figured a permissions repair might clean some things up. I repaired permissions but about 30 seconds in the progress bar froze in one location. I gave it 5 minutes to move but it didn't make any progress. At that point the fans came on so I checked what was making the comp so hot. Activity monitor showed installdb as the process taking up 75-90% of the CPU. I quit disk utility and restarted and the process was gone. Any idea what the deal is? Thanks.

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[SubaruNation555]

I tried booting from the Leopard CD and opening Disk Utility that way but when I prompted it to repair permissions, the progress bar just candy caned for about 5 minutes. When I booted normally and tried running a permissions repair again it said: "Disk Aid Failed: The underlying task reported failure on exit."

 

[QuarterSwede]

There is a bug in Leopard that makes repairing permissions take forever (10-30min). The bar seems to be frozen for a while and then it starts moving but you'll end up with 9 errors. Apple knows about it, says it's harmless and we're assuming they'll fix it in the next update (10.5.2).

 

[SubaruNation555]

Thanks for the response, glad to know it's not just my computer. I am always a little paranoid with something like a new computer.

 

[Plymouthbreezer]

I still think Apple should have fixed this by 10.5.1... Grr.