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[harris ruben]

Today I was unable to Repair Disk Permissions. After it would start, 
a dialog box would appear saying:

"Disk Utility internal error
Disk Utility has lost its connection with the Disk Management
Tool and cannot continue. Please quit and relaunch Disk Utility"

Quitting and relaunching didn't help.
I ran TT4
I restarted in Safe Mode

None of the usual things would work.

So I called Apple (still under Applecare).

Here's what you do to fix this:

1. Open HD>Library>Receipts
2. Find iTunes.pkg and iTunes4.pkg and drag them off onto the desktop
3. Restart with the Install 1 CD and run Disk Utilities from the pulldown menu
4. Run "Repair Disk Permissions" from there (I had to run it twice)
5. Run "Repair Disk" and then Quit.
6. The system will restart, and then put pack the 2 iTunes pkg into 
HD>Library>Receipts

The next time I want to repair permissions, I'll try to remember to 
remove those two files. The Indian I spoke with had all the answers. 
Maybe Apple will fix whatever they screwed up on the next update.

iMac G5, 10.3.9

N2ERN
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