Verify Disk Permissions stalls and will not finish

Question

I noticed a little slow-down in performance lately, so I tried to repair the disk permissions. I attempted to verify first, but the process gets to the very end of the status bar and stalls. This is the last text displayed in the window whe the stall occurs: "Permissions differ on ./usr/share/man/man1/less.1, should be -rw-r--r-- , they are -r--r--r--"
I stopped verification and went straight to repair, but that also stalled at some point.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Scott
OS 10.2.8
G4 Dual 1.25 GHz
512MB DDR SDRAM
Power PC G4   Mac OS X (10.2.x)  

Answer 1

Rich
Interesting my post is still up there! But this is more recent:
kmosx2: Looking for devices matching vendor..
Scott
Your device (ID=8723) is not covered by the FAQ, so I would be interested in what model scanner you have so that I can add it. However, I doubt this is causing your problem.
In the Console application you can have several windows open at once. You'll find the system log (and others) listed on the File menu (it will open a new window). You can aslo click on the "Logs" icon to see more. A good idea is to have both a Console.log window and a system.log window when you are trying something out, since some messages go to one, others to the second, and occasionally to both.
If you look at kmosx: Spurious Permissions errors in 10.2 you'll see your messages listed toward the end. As Rich said, if you see these you have very nearly finished. Incidentally, why are you bothering with "Verify Permissions"? There's no point doing that for most users, just go straight to "Repair Permissions".