Can't shutdown or restart using Leopard

The first problem I noticed was no clock on menu, despite setting it correctly in system prefs. Thus I decided to restart-nothing doing, then tried shutdown, also nothing happened, so turned off the power button, and again nothing had happened when I turned it back on. Also, my backup drive is now not recognized by my computer. Anyone else having these problems with 10.5?

Yeah, I'm having the same problem. It's driving me nuts. I try relaunching "Finder" and sometimes that brings things up but my clock on the menu and all the menu stuff on the right hand side don't come up except for Spotlight and Adium. I can't change my volume with my keyboard, can't open my disk drives with my eject button, can't get into half of my system preferences (get the horrible spinning beachball instead and end up having to force quit from the dock) and then I can't even get it restart or shutdown from the menu bar. I have to restart by holding down the power button. Things are all sorts of messed up. I'm so upset about all these problems from Leopard. Did they not beta test this thing before? I can't print or anything. But this is the first post that describes something similar to what mine is doing.

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My macbook pro 15 inch can't shutdown and restart. I reinstalled the system but the problem still had.what's can i do?
Many thanks

Shutdown the machine until you can take it to a Apple repair/store and get a new adapter or contact the person you might have switched it with.
Your document isn't worth a few thousand dollar machine, use something else to finish it.

I can only shutdown arch linux using the terminal.

Recently I started using SLIM to log into Arch Linux. I was having trouble with the gnome-keyring window popping up everytime I logged in while using GDM. I downloaded SLIM and changed some settings so that gnome-keyring wouldn't pop up everytime.
Here are the changes I made:
~/.xinitrc using this article https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18930
exec ck-launch-session gnome-session
eval $(gnome-keyring-daemon -s --components=pkcs11,secrets,ssh)
And /etc/pam.d/slim
#%PAM-1.0
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auth required pam_env.so
auth required pam_unix.so
account required pam_unix.so
password required pam_unix.so
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session required pam_unix.so
session optional pam_loginuid.so
session optional pam_ck_connector.so
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so*
session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start*
*= the changes I made to the file.
I was hoping to just stop gnome-keyring from popping up everytime I log into Arch Linux (ideally I wanted to auto log in) and now I can't shutdown unless I use the $ sudo shutdown -h now command in the terminal. When I click on the "Power Off" button in Gnome 3 it basically logs me out to the SLIM log in screen. I was able to shutdown the computer before by shutting the laptop screen/lid but that doesn't do anything now for some reason. Is there a way for me to auto log into arch without the gnome-keyring popping up everytime?
Additionally, with the gnome keyring dialog I wasn't able to click the "Automatically log in....." radio button because it was grayed out for some reason.
Last edited by rg_arc (2011-09-06 19:45:05)

$ ck-list-sessions
Session2:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = 'Ricky ******'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = ''
active = TRUE
x11-display = ':0.0'
x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
display-device = ''
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2011-09-06T10:32:31.899610Z'
login-session-id = '1'
Session1:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = 'Ricky *******'
seat = 'Seat2'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ':0.0'
x11-display-device = ''
display-device = ''
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2011-09-06T10:32:31.706583Z'
login-session-id = '1'
$
I believe everything is working smoothly after I rebooted... I think this is solved... but its good measure to double check.
thanks for the input guys
Last edited by rg_arc (2011-09-06 15:37:05)

Can't shut down / restart after Leopard upgrade - can't install updates

(While I found a topic with the same subject from last November, which is marked "answered", as far as my machine is concerned, nothing in that thread helps)
Having upgraded to Leopard, I have found that the regular shutdown process never works. I invariably get told that Firefox (or something else) is still running but not only is the "Force Quit" dialog empty, but a "ps aux" command does not list any process related to Firefox in it.
For the last few months, I've been doing shutdown -h now, the only mechanism that would work.
However, there's a new update which has a button to restart, but it WON"T restart. I just get the usual problems as above. If I do a shutdown -r now, I can reboot, but it looks like the software update did not actually happen, as I simply get prompted again to install/restart.
Anyone know how to really solve this problem?

Well, it turns out that I was wrong about the original thread not helping. As a last act of a desperate user, I went to the place in user accounts where the login items are specified and pulled out EVERYTHING except my microsoft keyboard/mouse drivers (don't laugh...the only thing I hate about Macs are their keyboards and mice) and my system is now working perfectly...shuts down properly every time, etc...the updater was able to do its job.
I have absolutely no idea which item caused the problem and I don't care.
It works!

Can't shutdown or restart

I can't restart of shutdown on my MacBook since before upgrading to 10.5.4 and after. It always tell me a certain service has stopped the action, while the service has actually been quit. Anybody can tell me what to check?
I really love the Mac OS, but seems like the hardware has many issue. On my iMac the Front Row always makes my system hang, for months, but never a solution.

Same problem here. First thing this morning tried to open address book. After bouncing in the dock for 30 minutes, I have up and forced quit. The computer froze. Desktop totally unresponsive. Tried to restart and got warning that it could not until address book had quit, yet I had already done so. Tried restarting a few more times and it completely froze with only the desktop pattern, no icons. I closed the macbook, and reopened it. This time screen totally dark (which at this point was actually some kind of progress). This time when I hit restart, I got my login screen and it did restart.
So I'm hoping opening and closing will work next time. It's not a fix, but so much is going wrong with every aspect of my mac in the last 3 months I'm glad to get it to operate at all.

Can't shut down / restart after Leopard upgrade

The installation went ok - I had to unplug all peripherals for it to reboot at the end of the install.
Now when I want to shut down or restart, it just doesn't. After a while it brings an error message that it can't shut down because an application (e.g. firefox) doesn't want to quit. Even if I close all running applications, it still comes back and says it can't close Finder (at that point, there is no menu bar on top anymore, however the application bar on bottom is still there - showing now application active. And then it just sits there. I have to push and hold the power button for it to switch off.
Anybody any idea how to fix this?
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Eumele wrote:
I know... It's difficult to convey exactly the data that is needed for someone else to make a judgement - because if I did know what I need to know I probably would know how to solve it...
Yes. I know. If you could type everything about the problem, it would be too long for anyone to read.
Be patient, because I would like to track down where you are getting this "hang."
If you "Quit" (via command Quit) all open appications except Finder (verify this by opening the Apple icon --> Force Quit and verify that nothing except "Finder" is showing); disconnect all external firwire and USB devices; and then choose shut down, do you still get a hang?
If it still hangs, and you get the message that you can't shut down because some application will not quit, then open Aptivity Monitor (Applicaitons --> Utilities), are any of the processes listed displayed in red?
I think that the deal is that you've got an applicaiton hanging that is preventing a system shup down. I bet we can find the culprit.

[SOLVED] Can not shutdown/restart from KDE with systemd

Hello,
Recently, following I switched to a pure systemd setup. The process was simple and most things worked "right out of the bpx". However, I can not shutdown or restart from KDE!
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sys-devi...da-sda1.device loaded active plugged ST9500420ASG
sys-devi...da-sda2.device loaded active plugged ST9500420ASG
sys-devi...da-sda3.device loaded active plugged ST9500420ASG
sys-devi...da-sda4.device loaded active plugged ST9500420ASG
sys-devi...da-sda5.device loaded active plugged ST9500420ASG
sys-devi...da-sda6.device loaded active plugged ST9500420ASG
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sys-devi...t-wlan0.device loaded active plugged AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
sys-devi...y-ttyS0.device loaded active plugged /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS0
sys-devi...y-ttyS1.device loaded active plugged /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS1
sys-devi...y-ttyS2.device loaded active plugged /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS2
sys-devi...y-ttyS3.device loaded active plugged /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS3
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sys-kernel-debug.mount loaded active mounted Debug File System
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colord-sane.service loaded active running Daemon for monitoring attached scanners and registering them with colord
colord.service loaded active running Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles
console-...daemon.service loaded active running Console Manager
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kdm.service loaded active running K Display Manager
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I need your help. Recently, my comp has been acting very weird.
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My 2009 iMAC 2.8 Intel Core Duo 24" 10.5.8 (Leopard) lost it's Fire Wire. (Long Story-my fault) Shop told me it needs a logic board. ($1400.-1500.00) Apple care is well over. Otherwise the unit works well. No wireless, no mobile devices. Well as luck would have it, a while back, my wife had asked me to transfer all our home VHS tapes to Digital. (DVD) About 12 of them. I finished 4, using iMovie 6, and added titles and other FX as well, before the FW died. The camera that I use to transfer the analog to digital is FW 400. So when I told her I couldn't finish the transfers, she told me to buy a new computer.
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Joseph Mctamany wrote:
My 2009 iMAC 2.8 Intel Core Duo 24" 10.5.8 (Leopard) lost it's Fire Wire. (Long Story-my fault) Shop told me it needs a logic board. ($1400.-1500.00) Apple care is well over. Otherwise the unit works well. No wireless, no mobile devices. Well as luck would have it, a while back, my wife had asked me to transfer all our home VHS tapes to Digital. (DVD) About 12 of them. I finished 4, using iMovie 6, and added titles and other FX as well, before the FW died. The camera that I use to transfer the analog to digital is FW 400. So when I told her I couldn't finish the transfers, she told me to buy a new computer.
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Any suggestions or comments will be well appreciated.
Thanks in Advance.
JAM
Nope, it will not work.

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