[Dancingcow]

Recently I have not been able to repair permissions using disk utility on either my iBook or eMac, both runnung OS X 10.3.9.
The program stops after a minute with the message "Disk Utility Internal Error - Disk Utility has lost it's connection with the Disk Management Tool and cannot contiune. Please quit and relaunch Disk Utitliy." Of course when I quit, I get the message "Operations still in progress - blah blah - can leave a disk non-operational."
Not quitting just spins the wheels. Quiting doesn't seem to harm anything.
Both computers are running fine, but I like to repair permissions occasionally for maintainance.
Anyone know anything about this problem?

[Dancingcow]

The problem was iTunes. The new version, 6.04 fixes the problem.

[voicebox]

Hi Dancingcow
Below is an excellent 'fix' which I have used with great success on various Macs running 10.3.9

"Three workarounds have already been noted, and now MacFixIt reader Ian Waterson offers a less invasive procedure: deleting all .pkg files with iTunes in their name from /Library/Receipts except for for iTunesX.pkg and iTunesPhoneDriver.pkg."

On the other hand you are correct; iTunes 6.04 does indeed fix the problem!
voicebox