05-05-2009, 09:44 AM
Leopard's installer seems to have trouble with previously-migrated or updated user accounts. Did you upgrade to 10.4 or migrate one or more user accounts to that Mac from another Mac at some point?
Get info on a few files and folders in your Home folder and make sure that the owner and group info are correct. The owner should be your user and the group should be "staff" on just about everything.
You might also have ACL problems. They are sort of like extended permissions on top of regular UNIX permissions. Sometimes they get set wrong by the installer.
As a precaution, I'd strip ACLs from each Home folder and then put 'em back properly using the Reset Password Utility.
This is the Terminal command to remove ACLs from your Home folder:
After removing ACLs, boot from the installer disc and run the Reset Password Utility from the Utilities menu. Use the Reset Home Folder Permissions command to put the ACLs back on the folders where they belong.
Get info on a few files and folders in your Home folder and make sure that the owner and group info are correct. The owner should be your user and the group should be "staff" on just about everything.
You might also have ACL problems. They are sort of like extended permissions on top of regular UNIX permissions. Sometimes they get set wrong by the installer.
As a precaution, I'd strip ACLs from each Home folder and then put 'em back properly using the Reset Password Utility.
This is the Terminal command to remove ACLs from your Home folder:
chmod -R -N ~
After removing ACLs, boot from the installer disc and run the Reset Password Utility from the Utilities menu. Use the Reset Home Folder Permissions command to put the ACLs back on the folders where they belong.