What does it mean when REPAIRING PERMISSIONS just hangs indefinetly?

I'm running Repairing Permissions and it just stops a little before halfway
through the process. It stops progressing.
Is it fixing something and if I leave it alone for an hour or so will it eventually
move on, or is the fact that it keeps stopping in that one spot usually
mean there is a serious hard drive problem?
It's a G4 1.6 powerbook, running 10.3.9. And it's running really slow, so
I'm trying to repair permissions to see if that will help.

hi brvideo,
repairing permissions is not likely to speed your machine up.... i would start off by rebooting, and just before the chime hold down the command and S keys at the same time. your machine will boot into single-user mode (black screen with ascii text on it)...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106388
then type /sbin/fsck -fy and hit return.
are any errors seen? if so, enter that command again. if it looks like they got fixed, then enter reboot to restart...
post back with the results.... cheers

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