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pZsolt · Jul 18, 2003, 02:24 AM

Dear All,

I had some problems before with some game demos (for the kid). I ran the Repair Disk Permissions, which listed several folders/directories which need to be repaired, and where it was done. The program ended with an OK message.

The problems kept poping up, so I decided, donno why, to run the same repair disk permission again. So, I got back the same list of files/folders as with the previous session.

Then I boot up from the install disk, and run the Repair permission from there, surprisingly, got the exact same list like before.

What do you think? what can be the problem?

I am running 10.2.6 (used the combo update), 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM, SuperDrive, eMac, the machine is brand new, only extra soft is NetBeans, MySQL

Thanks for your help,

Zsolt

The Placid Casual · Jul 18, 2003, 04:35 AM

It may be worth you booting into single user mode and running fsck a few times, and then repairing the permissions in OS X...

pZsolt · Jul 18, 2003, 08:42 AM

Originally posted by The Placid Casual:
It may be worth you booting into single user mode and running fsck a few times, and then repairing the permissions in OS X...

Thanks, I got the same idea after spending almost the whole day to figure out what the hell happens. As turned out, several other people have the same problem, mainly on the /man3 folder, which seems to me a general bug. Not a serious one.

Have a good weekend

Zsolt

msuper69 · Jul 18, 2003, 08:58 AM

Permissions differ on ./usr/share/man/man3/DB.3, should be -rw-r--r-- , they are -r--r--r--
Owner and group corrected on ./usr/share/man/man3/DB.3
Permissions corrected on ./usr/share/man/man3/DB.3
Permissions differ on ./usr/share/man/man3/db.3, should be -r--r--r-- , they are -rw-r--r--
Owner and group corrected on ./usr/share/man/man3/db.3
Permissions corrected on ./usr/share/man/man3/db.3

This is the file that will always get permissions repaired. It constantly flip/flops the permissions every time repair permissions is run.

Looks like a problem with case-sensitivity.

pZsolt · Jul 25, 2003, 07:16 AM

Originally posted by msuper69:
Permissions differ on ./usr/share/man/man3/DB.3, should be -rw-r--r-- , they are -r--r--r--
Owner and group corrected on ./usr/share/man/man3/DB.3
Permissions corrected on ./usr/share/man/man3/DB.3
Permissions differ on ./usr/share/man/man3/db.3, should be -r--r--r-- , they are -rw-r--r--
Owner and group corrected on ./usr/share/man/man3/db.3
Permissions corrected on ./usr/share/man/man3/db.3

This is the file that will always get permissions repaired. It constantly flip/flops the permissions every time repair permissions is run.

Looks like a problem with case-sensitivity.

Hi,

Is it a bug? or this is normal. Funny enough that I was talking to the Apple Assistance in France because of a keyboard problem, mentioned this thing to the guy and he never heard about. Anyway, seems there is no effect on the system, so I will live with this till Panther.

Zsolt

msuper69 · Jul 25, 2003, 07:28 AM

Originally posted by pZsolt:
Hi,

Is it a bug? or this is normal. Funny enough that I was talking to the Apple Assistance in France because of a keyboard problem, mentioned this thing to the guy and he never heard about. Anyway, seems there is no effect on the system, so I will live with this till Panther.

Zsolt

It's a bug but it doesn't seem to cause any problems. At least I haven't noticed any.