Existing users, 
G4 PowerBook Leopard. Apple's Leopard permission repair is a problem for me running "applejack auto restart". I get a series of temperature warnings followed by a shutdown (no fan action) ---- none of the following cleanings occur.
Interim solution: Do the ^$##^& sloooow permission repair using Disk Utility, then run applejack through the sequence manually --- skipping permission repair.
AppleJack
troubleshooting tool that runs in single-user mode
Version: 1.5
Bitten by Leopard Permission Repair
Feedback Type: Usage Tip
Contributed by: GNJ Sunday, August 31 2008 @ 12:09 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: YES
Comments
If Apple explained what they actually do on permission repair - wraggj
Something is wrong with your computer then. I oversee about 50 Macs, of many varieties, and I have never seen one take that long. I have a dual g5, and it only takes a few minutes.Sunday, August 31 2008 @ 04:52 PM PDT
Bitten by Leopard Permission Repair - klktrk
One question: Do you have an uninterruptible power supply? There is a thread on that here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1742373&group_id=79562&atid=557034If not, add a new bug, so the developer can see it. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=557034&group_id=79562&func=browse
Tuesday, September 02 2008 @ 11:56 AM PDT
If Apple explained what they actually do on permission repair - Ilgaz
If you watch the permission repair disk activity via "fseventer" (get it from vt), you will figure there is no way such thing will work smoothly.I understand Apple tries to eliminate some security issues by creating thousands of random files in /tmp but I don't think they simulated it on G4 or slow hard disk laptops.
My Quad G5 barely stands to permission repair... Perhaps someone should contribute to Applejack code to make a timer.. Like "If it takes 40 mins, ask user to terminate or continue". It should be possible on Unix/BSD OS X runs. Or a uname -a parser which will get OS X version, CPU family and give option to skip it.
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Sunday, August 31 2008 @ 04:04 PM PDT