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Software update error!
- Thread starter CubaTBird
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zimv20
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one thing you could try doing is directly addressing the error and changing permissions on that one file. open up a terminal window and type (w/o the percent sign):
% sudo chmod 644 /tmp/501/TemporaryItems/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate
you'll be prompted for your password. if that doesn't do the trick, try it again, only use 755 instead of 644 (i.e. i assume com.apple.SoftwareUpdate is a file, but it may be a directory, and that needs the execution bits set, which is what the 755 does [among other things]).
report back on if it works. if the sudo command gets you an error, cut and paste both your command and the error message here for debugging.
% sudo chmod 644 /tmp/501/TemporaryItems/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate
you'll be prompted for your password. if that doesn't do the trick, try it again, only use 755 instead of 644 (i.e. i assume com.apple.SoftwareUpdate is a file, but it may be a directory, and that needs the execution bits set, which is what the 755 does [among other things]).
report back on if it works. if the sudo command gets you an error, cut and paste both your command and the error message here for debugging.
i still get that same error, i did that thing in terminal and it says no file existed.. the irony of this is i reinstalled os x twice! and im still getting that error, fully formatting the drive as well.
damn.. all i can say is wow, this isn't working for me, i tried the unix command anybody else got any other ideas?
here is the message i get after i typed that command in
Chris$ ls -las /tmp/501/TemporaryItems
total 0
0 drwxr-xr-x 2 Chris wheel 68 22 Jan 18:57 .
0 drwx------ 3 Chris wheel 102 22 Jan 18:57 ..
what does it mean? is it fixed? 😕
Chris$ ls -las /tmp/501/TemporaryItems
total 0
0 drwxr-xr-x 2 Chris wheel 68 22 Jan 18:57 .
0 drwx------ 3 Chris wheel 102 22 Jan 18:57 ..
what does it mean? is it fixed? 😕
also, before i got this error i did an 8 way random format on my hd but interrupted it b/c it was takin way to long and just had disk utility do a normal format and partition the drive, then installed os x.3 could this have been the culprit for this error? me stopping the 8 way random format? What does it mean to do a "8 way random format" on a harddrive? And how long would it take on a 40 gb hard drive? if i let it go all the way through this time would it finish whatever it didn't finish before? 😕
so that 8 way random format thing had nothin to do with it then? i mean it seems to be workin' now.. ~sigh~ it seems there isn't explanation for everything eheh
Chip NoVaMac
macrumors G3
YES I FIXED IT!! here's what i did! 😛 i went to the folder /tmp/ by using the go coommad in the finder and deleted the folder called "501" then i re-ran software update and it installed everything 100%! yay! lol i feel so proud of myself now... after the restart that 501 folder still didn't appear in the tmp folder, yay!
CubaTBird...can you give me a little more detail on how you did that? I had the same problem and have been watching the posts...I love my Mac but I'm a bit of a techno-idiot. Some more details would be extremely helpful. Thanks.
wrldwzrd89
macrumors G5
Okay...DocB said:
Here's how it's done:
From Finder's Go menu, choose Go To Folder...
In the Go To Folder dialog, type "/tmp" (without the "quotes")
A new window will open showing the contents of the /tmp directory.
Delete the 501 folder the same way you would delete any other folder.
Close the window when you're done.
Thank you...that worked great. Now for a little education - how did that problem materialize? What was the purpose of that folder? Etc.? Thanks for your help.