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Hi Roberta,

Almost the same problem I am having!
Did you get anywhere with it?
I am running on a G4, wich is also only two weeks old.
For me mainly the lack of MAC understanding that holds me back from progress.....


I hope that yours is working by now.

Regards,

Laszlo.

"Roberta L. Millstein" <rlmillstein@spamaway.rlm.net> wrote in message news:<itSHa.15269$hz1.25567@sccrnsc01>...

Hi,

I bought a 17" powerbook several weeks ago. Everything was fine until
one day I was unable to wake the laptop from sleep. I rebooted with the "three finger salute," only to find that I can no longer boot (running 10.2.6). I get through the "gray apple" stage just fine, but then
during the "blue apple" stage the blue progress bar hangs with the
message "waiting for network port mapper". Eventually, it continues
(gives up?), and goes on to hang with the message "waiting for netinfo". Once again, it eventually continues, and then the message says "waiting
for application services." At this point, it seems to just hang forever (although obviously I haven't tested that...) without continuing.

I have tried a "safe boot," but the computer hangs in the same places.
I tried booting in verbose mode, but again, it hangs in the same places. Neither Disk First Aid (booting from CD) nor fsck (booting in
single-user mode) turn up any errors.

I would very much like to avoid reinstalling the OS. Does anyone have
any other suggestions? There is another mac (an ibook) in the
household, so I can boot my powerbook into FireWire "target" mode if
it's just a question of replacing a few files (but which files?)

Thanks!

Roberta

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