Hi there,

Like most people who use Applejack, I love this free utility and now my disk warrior cd is collecting dust.

But I've twice encountered a strange problem on 2 different computers when using applejack. It stalls on disk permissions repair.

permissions repair starts, and then says "......*** malloc[194]: deallocation of a pointer not malloced: 0x50a790; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug:" and so on...

then the screen just slowly fills with periods. looks like this:

+........................................................................
+........................................................................

and so on. this won't stop on its own, so I usually shut the computer down manually by holding down the power button.

I should mention that using disk utility to repair permissions does the same thing - it stalls and I get the spinning beach ball.


so then, there are 2 things I'd like to know.

1. what's happening here? the computers in question were a 20" flat screen imac and an emac, both running 10.3.9. (I'm sorry to say I don't have more specs on hand, but I could supply them if requested). Oh yeah - both users have MS office X and use entourage for mail (the iMac user has an unrecoverable Entourage database problem). don't know if that has any bearing, but who knows?

2. Is there another way to quit the permissions repair process when running applejack? Is there an arcane command I can use? or do I have to force-shut down?

thanks very much for an awesome little utility!