repair permissions (can't repair)

[Gregg Dinse]

I had the same thing happen, though I did not know what it meant.

My memory is fuzzy, but in my case I think it occurred in the  
following situation.  I just bought my wife a new iMac last week.  I  
waited a month after Leopard was released, but it still came pre- 
loaded with Tiger.  I did a clean install of Leopard and then loaded  
the iLife apps from the Tiger DVDs (since they are not on the slip-in  
Leopard DVD).  I tried to start up each iLife app.  iMovie kept  
crashing on launch.  I think this is where I tried repairing  
permissions.  If so, it did not help and I got this same set of  
messages that you report.  I then checked for software updates and  
found them for most (if not all) of the iLife apps.  After the  
update, I was able to start iMovie.  It's possible that I repaired  
permissions after that, but I think it's more logical that I did it  
before the update.

I doubt that any of this helps your friend much, but I thought I'd  
give you some details about what I think was going on when I got this  
message.  Perhaps the problem arises from installing apps from a  
Tiger DVD on a Leopard system.

Gregg

On 4 Dec 2007, at 2:52 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

> A friend of mine is having this problem and wondering what it means  
> and how to solve it.
> http://www.kevincallahan.org/repairPermissions.png
>
> I've never seen this.
>
> Should he be concerned?
>
> He's on Leopard 10.5.1
>
> thanks,
> Kevin
>
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