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Originally Posted by htismaqe

Have you checked the syslog? It's possible you had a key service fail to load, which would result in all of the dependent child services not loading.

thanks

i ended up taking it in to a shop...i figured maybe it was my hard drive, but their initial diagnostic said my hardware is fine

i'm guessing you're close to the problem...but it's beyond my skill set to fix