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lucius

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Jun 19, 2003
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Atherton, Manchester
Hi - our Mac Mini was working fine for ages, right up to when I installed the latest iTunes version to get the AppStore. That installed fine. However, when I attempted to install the 10.5.3 patch or the mobileme installer, the installation process crashed with:


The installer could not install sime files in "/". Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.



When I tried to run a disk utility repair permissions, that crashed, with some blather about an underlying task failing.

I did a Google and, while a common enough problem, I couldn't see a conclusive root cause or resolution. There was some talk of /usr/local/lib problems but I didn't have any of those issues.

Anyone had and solved this???

--sean
 
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