It just won't quit!

I have acquisition. Whenever i quit it gives me that "writing shared files" status bar or whatever it is, and then just freezes somewherein the middle and never ends. its so annoyin to always have to force quit. whats going on?

I just submitted a bug for this also. I believe that it is related to the process loginwindow because I get the following message in the console:
<quote>
1/19/08 3:04:19 AM loginwindow[23] ERROR | WSActivateApp | SetFrontProcess({0, 618647}) returned error -600. Unable to activate process.
</quote>
So I opened Activity Monitor, killed the process, which made the graphic server restart, and I appeared back in the login form of OS X. After I logged in, I could log out with no problems.
I don't know, but I think it is related with putting my mac to sleep, because I think that the only common thing between these problems that I had was that I had trouble when coming back from sleep, the screen stayed all black and all I could see was the mouse pointer. To correct this, in both times, I closed the powerbook for it to go to sleep again and then re-opened it and everything was ok (i.e. showed the "enter your pass form"). Because this also involves loginwindow process, I believe that the two situations may be related.
Hope it helps! Regards,
Afonso
Message was edited by: Afonso

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