When I try to start up, (TiBook G4, Mac OS X 10.2.6), my laptop seizes up during startup at "waiting for authentication services" or else it freezes "waiting for activation services".
the first time I saw this I thought the permissions needed repair. But I can't repair permissions because I have to boot up first on that disk. And I can't complete startup. Catch 22.
Running fsck, DiskUtility, DiskWarrior make no difference. All this happened two weeks ago. So in the end I reinstalled the software from the CD.
Today it's happening again - "waiting for authentication services" when
I try to start up. Does any one know what is going on, and what to do
about it?
Since I reinstalled Mac OS X 10.2 last time this happened, I suppose
the problem must be some non-Apple application I installed. The extra
apps I have run recently are Cocktail and Windowshade. Can one of them
cause this sort of problem?
Mike
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:50:45 -0700 From: Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: "Waiting for authentication services" In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Michel Treisman wrote:
When I try to start up, (TiBook G4, Mac OS X 10.2.6), my laptop seizes up during startup at "waiting for authentication services" or else it freezes "waiting for activation services".
Go into Utilities and run Directory Access. Turn off all the services you don't use for authentication. In most cases, you can turn off all but AppleTalk (if you connect to AppleTalk devices) BSD and Rendezvous, perhaps SMB if you're connecting to a windows system.
In authentication make sure only /netinfo/root shows and it's set to automatic.
I'll bet it's trying to reach nonexistent authentication servers and hanging until they time out.
-- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
Hi Bruce, thank you for taking the trouble to answer me.
I can't try what you say at this time because I bit on the bullet and reinstalled the software.
But it has happened twice now, this problem with starting up, so I expect it again.
I expect you are right about missing servers, because when I did fsck, some lines flashed past my eyes which I think
referred to missing kernel servers.
that leaves the questions, Why do they go missing? Twice. Is it some other software, one of my non-Mac applications,
that is killing them?
And it sometimes freezes saying "waiting for application services". So that would be a different missing server?
Mike
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