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comictimes

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Jun 20, 2004
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Berkeley, California
So I don't know if these are all related or are separate problems, but I discovered them all together so I'll post them together.

First I was trying to install Halo, and when it got to the part where it tries to do "installation clean-up" (Halo is the only game or application I know that does this, by the way), it had an error. I'm fairly sure it was because of this, but even when I tried deleting and installing multiple times, the game wouldn't start. That was the first error.

To see if it was something in my computer I tried repairing the permissions, but whenever I try this, it gets about 1/4 of the way through and says "you must quit Disk Utility because it has lost connection with disk management Utility", and makes me quit. I tried restarting my computer twice, but this still happens.

shortly after this I tried opening Limewire, and it just bounces a few times in the dock before disappearing again. I haven't come upon another application that does this though, so I think this part is unrelated.



The most worrying part of all of this is the fact that I can't repair permissions, so if anyone has suggestions on that, I'd love them.
Advice for the other things would be great too of course, but the permissions part is most important.
 
i would say reboot to the macosx disk and run a disk check, it could be a faulty hdd, becuase ive seen major coincednces
 
a disk check i where the permission check is but on the rigth hand side, also you could try a full hardware test
 
It's a bug. I have 10.3.9 and the same thing happened. Re-Installing 10.3.9 combined updater solved the problem. Run fsck before you run the installer again and make sure the file system is journaled.:cool:
 
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