I think I fixed the ACL problem
Even since I upgraded to Leopard I’ve been having a problem that seem to be a common issue among Leopard users, when using the repairing permissions options in Disk Utility a long list of ACL used to show up. The message was actually something like, ACL found but not expected.
They had something to do with user templates, I took my Mac back to Apple where they told me that this was a common issue, they had knowledge of it and they were working on fixing it. That was back in 10.5.0, we are already in 10.5.2 and for those of us who see the error, we have seen that it has not been fixed.
Apple assures me that this was not affecting the day-to-day use of my Mac, it was nothing to worry about they said. But, it has bothered me since I discovered it. Today, I started thinking on doing some troubleshooting to see if I could see any difference and I did.
I went to my system preferences, users, and created a new user with admin privileges. After that, I disabled automatic login and restarted. Logged in with the new user account and ran the repair permissions once again without any different results.
Frustrated I when back to my account and deleted the user I created, activated back the automatic login for my account and went back to disk utility. This time the disk utility took over a minute to run and returned no ACL errors, I was shocked, apparently this is the fix.
Crete a user, run repair permission on the new account, come back to your account. Delete the newly created user and run repair permissions again. Please, someone try this and tell me if it works or not, I’m dying to know and I don’t have another Mac available to test this fix.
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Hey Bill,
Thanks for stopping by, for the regular user seeing all these warnings is troublesome. I just would like them to go away. Thanks for your input. Cheers.
Apple is correct. I’m a Unix user, and there is no problem with Access Control Lists. They are now simply enabled by default when this wasn’t the case in 10.4 or earlier. They are not causing any problems, they are just additional permissions rules beyond the simple POSIX user/group/other crap we’ve had to use until now.
This damn thing have me so frustrated, if your permissions repair takes over 5 minutes but brings you nothing in regards to ACL warnings, click on the empty space where the it reads repairs completed. When I did, it showed me the otherwise hidden warnings, so they are still there nothing is fixed, this POS is killing me. Apple get on this and fix it.
Man! take it easy. I kind of agree with you, but at the same time whats wrong with trying to make things different. Get it, think different. Maybe you don’t get it.
ridiculous, I tell you whats ridiculous. Not accepting apple explanation thats there is noting wrong with your computers. nerds,drop it and go out and meet real people!
I’m sorry friends, after rebooting the damn thing went back to the ACL errors. I will keep playing with it, as I know the problem is around the users and the permissions.
Will report back whatever I find.
I did not see any change.
Leopard on ppc G5 2004 tower.
Here we are, how many years after OSX has been out, still beta testing for Apple, ridiculous!
Sorry, But I just tried the exact steps you outlined and it did not change a thing. I am sure they will fix it eventually. I have to agree that it is a benign thing as my MacBook with 10.5.2 runs great…
Could this be affecting only people with one user and not Macs that have multiple users?