Broken kexts?

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Hi guys,

Recently, I messed with the permissions trying to take ownership of the drive. The drive wouldn't boot so I used a cd and repaired permissions which fixed it. Now I keep getting a message about bjusbloader.kext and a bunch of printer kexts not being installed correctly.

I tried modifying the permissions on those to chmod 777 "filename" but it still pops up and I cannot print to any printers.

Any ideas where to go from here? I'd rather not give up and reformat. Thanks!
 
Did you change the permissions on the whole drive (when you took the ownership of it)?

You could see if you manage to install the latest system update on your system. So 10.6.6 if on 10.6.6 - even if you already have 10.6.6, installing it on top of that should be able to repair some damage of those changed permissions. (And the same is valid for 10.58, 10.4.11 etc)

777 is not the correct permission for most of those files, and the owner is not correct if the ownership of files on the whole drive were changed. Repairing the permissions on the drive can do more good when run from the Mac OS X install disc, so in case you did it from the booted OS, try it from the install disc.
 
Thanks for the suggestion, I was thinking of the same thing. Unfortunately, it did not work =( If I try to load vmware for example, still says I don't have permission to open the virtual machine. Printers still dont work either
 
Giaguara said:
Did you change the permissions on the whole drive (when you took the ownership of it)?

You could see if you manage to install the latest system update on your system. So 10.6.6 if on 10.6.6 - even if you already have 10.6.6, installing it on top of that should be able to repair some damage of those changed permissions. (And the same is valid for 10.58, 10.4.11 etc)

777 is not the correct permission for most of those files, and the owner is not correct if the ownership of files on the whole drive were changed. Repairing the permissions on the drive can do more good when run from the Mac OS X install disc, so in case you did it from the booted OS, try it from the install disc.
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Not sure if my original reply went through, or maybe its getting approved. Anyway, thanks for the tip, I tried it but everything is still the same unfortunately. I'm just running off win 7 boot camp for now.
 
The permissions/ownerships for a VMware virtual machine's files get a bit more complicated.

These are e.g. what show for one of my virtual machine (as the VM is a folder):

Zen:~ zisa$ ls -lias /Users/zisa/Documents/Virtual\ Machines/XP\ Work.vmwarevm
total 11875960
1300734 0 drwxr-xr-x@ 17 zisa staff 578 Mar 11 22:16 .
680185 0 drwxr-xr-x 7 zisa staff 238 Oct 10 2008 ..
2062311 0 drwxr-xr-x 92 zisa staff 3128 Jun 7 2010 Applications
1300847 24 -rw-------@ 1 zisa staff 8684 Jun 8 2010 XP Work.nvram
1300736 10689792 -rw-------@ 1 zisa staff 5473173504 Jun 8 2010 XP Work.vmdk
7961418 1048576 -rw-------@ 1 zisa staff 536870912 Jun 7 2010 XP Work.vmem
1300749 8 -rw-------@ 1 zisa staff 28 Jul 10 2008 XP Work.vmsd
7967143 136208 -rw-------@ 1 zisa staff 69736021 Jun 8 2010 XP Work.vmss
1300740 8 -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 zisa staff 2894 Jun 8 2010 XP Work.vmx
7961388 0 drwxrwxrwx 3 zisa staff 102 Jun 7 2010 XP Work.vmx.lck
1300750 8 -rw-------@ 1 zisa staff 262 Jul 7 2008 XP Work.vmxf
7961498 0 drwxr-xr-x 7 zisa staff 238 Jun 7 2010 appListCache
9349969 536 -rw-r--r-- 1 zisa staff 273281 Mar 11 22:16 quicklook-cache.png
7951461 168 -rw-r--r-- 1 zisa staff 83281 Jun 7 2010 vmware-0.log
6819489 160 -rw-r--r-- 1 zisa staff 79592 Dec 11 2009 vmware-1.log
6804934 160 -rw-r--r-- 1 zisa staff 79691 Dec 9 2009 vmware-2.log
7961399 312 -rw-r--r-- 1 zisa staff 157415 Jun 8 2010 vmware.log
Zen:~ zisa$
 
Giaguara said:
The permissions/ownerships for a VMware virtual machine's files get a bit more complicated.

These are e.g. what show for one of my virtual machine (as the VM is a folder):

Zen:~ zisa$ ls -lias /Users/zisa/Documents/Virtual\ Machines/XP\ Work.vmwarevm
total 11875960
1300734 0 drwxr-xr-x@ 17 zisa staff 578 Mar 11 22:16 .
680185 0 drwxr-xr-x 7 zisa staff 238 Oct 10 2008 ..
2062311 0 drwxr-xr-x 92 zisa staff 3128 Jun 7 2010 Applications
1300847 24 -rw-------@ 1 zisa staff 8684 Jun 8 2010 XP Work.nvram
1300736 10689792 -rw-------@ 1 zisa staff 5473173504 Jun 8 2010 XP Work.vmdk
7961418 1048576 -rw-------@ 1 zisa staff 536870912 Jun 7 2010 XP Work.vmem
1300749 8 -rw-------@ 1 zisa staff 28 Jul 10 2008 XP Work.vmsd
7967143 136208 -rw-------@ 1 zisa staff 69736021 Jun 8 2010 XP Work.vmss
1300740 8 -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 zisa staff 2894 Jun 8 2010 XP Work.vmx
7961388 0 drwxrwxrwx 3 zisa staff 102 Jun 7 2010 XP Work.vmx.lck
1300750 8 -rw-------@ 1 zisa staff 262 Jul 7 2008 XP Work.vmxf
7961498 0 drwxr-xr-x 7 zisa staff 238 Jun 7 2010 appListCache
9349969 536 -rw-r--r-- 1 zisa staff 273281 Mar 11 22:16 quicklook-cache.png
7951461 168 -rw-r--r-- 1 zisa staff 83281 Jun 7 2010 vmware-0.log
6819489 160 -rw-r--r-- 1 zisa staff 79592 Dec 11 2009 vmware-1.log
6804934 160 -rw-r--r-- 1 zisa staff 79691 Dec 9 2009 vmware-2.log
7961399 312 -rw-r--r-- 1 zisa staff 157415 Jun 8 2010 vmware.log
Zen:~ zisa$
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I ended up reformatting lol.. thanks :)
 
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