[X Newbies] Startup hangs on "Waiting for NetInfo"

[TheMacintoshLady]

David B. Holton tapped out this message on 2/13/2003 1:38 PM 

>I just upgraded my wife's G4 Powerbook (667) to Jaguar (out of the box,
>whatever version that is--10.2.1?).
>
>However, it won't boot into X. It hangs on "Waiting for NetInfo", the
>luscious blue-worm bar churning away. I've left it for as long as several
>hours, to see if it'll find whatever "info" it's looking for, but it
>doesn't.
>
>She had never booted into X before, though 10.0.x came loaded on the
>machine; whenever I tried to boot into that, I got kernel panics, which is
>why I got her the upgrade.


Did you try plugging it into a phone line when you are booting it? X 
seems to run searches for information and connections when you don't want 
it to...once you do get booted you can turn all that stuff off later.