HT1338 Darwin/BSD (localhost) (console) on a dark screen. What does this mean?

This morning I attempted to start up twice and got this message on a dark screen. Behind it "Responder couldn't read user specified computer name". On the third try it started up normally. What does this indicate?

Could be many things, like Hard Drive problems for one.
See if the Disk is issuing any S.M.A.R.T errors in Disk Utility...
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7029

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Help!
I installed 10.3.9 and thought I had done everything correctly. However, when I was using Safari on the jigsaw.com website, the fan started racing at a very high speed.
Not knowing much about computers, but having read MANY posts, I looked at the console log and found the following:
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2006-08-18 06:21:51 -0400
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2006-08-18 06:21:53.687 AcceleratorMenu[203] Found account/password in keychain to try
And, having never looked at the system log, today I checked it out and got the following:
Aug 18 06:25:32 localhost /Users/barbaralindauer/Applications/Safari/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: * Warning: ATSUSetFontFallbacks has been deprecated. Use ATSUFontFallbacks objects instead. *
Aug 18 06:31:42 localhost /Users/barbaralindauer/Applications/Safari/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: * Warning: ATSUSetFontFallbacks has been deprecated. Use ATSUFontFallbacks objects instead. *
What does this mean? I had no other programs or web pages open.
Thanks for any help!
barblin
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Me too.
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C

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