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
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:50:45 -0700
From: Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Waiting for authentication services
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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.
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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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