[hyperb0le]

Disk Utility froze 13 times today when i was trying to repair permissions. And it wasnt a normal freeze, where I could force quit it and be fine. It froze everything. Has this happened to anyone else? Any fix? (I'm in 10.3)

[gorickey]

It's unique to your set-up and not a "common" problem...

[mcsjgs]

I had a similar situation and repaired it by rebooting into single user mode, (hold down apple and s keys) and running fsck -f. Showed multiple crosslinked files. Did repair, ran fsck -f again, no repairs, rebooted ran Disk Warrior from CD just to make sure. No cross linked files. Rebooted, problem gone.

[drdocument]

I just had the problem: Disk Utility froze up during Repair Permissions; had to hold power button on monitor to power down and then again to restart; Mac just sat there with dark screen and I had to hold power button a second time to force a second shutdown and then started normally.

Ran fsck; all okay.
Ran TTP4; all okay.
Drive 10: all okay.
Reinstalled 10.3.4 combo update and later updates.
Deleted caches with Cocktail.
Trashed DiskUtility .plist
Problem persists.

Ideas?

Ken

[yukon]

very odd, very bad. try repairing the permissions from the CLI, diskutil something or other (it's in my anacrontab, I don't bother with it anymore).

I'd suggest backing up, and doing what's necessary to fix this (read: reformat if necessary), it's a bad sign.