Uh, something's gone wrong and now can't restart

On my main computer, my MBP, it started getting very unresponsive. I tried shutting down and restarting but that didn't help. I looked at the activity monitor and it seemed there was a lot of disk activity, and that Spotlight had started indexing my external backup HD. So I managed to get into Spotlight and turn off indexing for the external disk. And I stopped Time Machine to see if that would help. But it remained unreponsive.
I tried shutting down and starting again, but instead of starting up, after the Apple mark showed for a while I saw something I never saw before - like a circle with a slash through it. I'm trying to start up again. If I can I'm going to try to run the Disk utility. But so far I can't start up. <sigh>
But does anybody know what might be wrong?
Thanks,
doug@an old iBook G4...

I was able to boot from the system disk. The disk does appear.
Running permission repairs doesn't seem to proceed.
I then tried to run verify disk. It proceeds part way and then then seems to stop after a while and the "remaining time" just grows and grows.
I then tried to run "repair disk" but Disk Utility reports that it cannot unmount the disk. Is there anything I can do about that part so I can proceed with a disk repair?
Thanks,
doug

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