The engineer in charge of hdiutil asked you to try this with the
latest seed of Leopard. The large binary output was a bug in an
earlier version of Leopard.
Discussing unreleased OS versions is not appropriate for any public
Apple list.
This error might occur in previously released versions of Mac OS X as
well.
I once got a bug report from an end-user (Mac OS X 10.4.6, PPC) who
saw this error code with an Applescript of mine; the Applescript
simply wraps a shell script to make use of hdiutil. No, I couldn't
reproduce the error on my system, so I didn't file a bug report.
To summarise:
It seemed one of the reasons listed below could contribute to the
problem:
1) Some of the files you're trying to archive are being used
exclusively by another process. A couple of people figured that their
Anti-Virus software (Norton AV) was to blame.
2) Disk space is low, and the hdiutil tool cannot perform its
internal caching.
3) A file system error which is not detected by Disk Utility prevents
proper accessing some crucial files. Repairing the disk using "Disk
Warrior" did help.
4) Files which were put into the trash can but were not deleted yet
cause problems when tried to being put into the disk image.
Anyway, non of these reasons applied to my end-user's setup.
Best,
Dirk Stegemann
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