MacBook will not log out, restart, or shut down

I know there have been tons of posts on this topic but I still do not know how to fix this. My MacBook has never had any trouble shutting down, restarting, or logging out before and now all of a sudden it will not do any of these three things. I have not installed anything new in quite some time. Whenever I try to shut down it says that Finder will not quit and to quit the application, I do this and the Mac just sits there at the desktop without the dock and the hard drive symbol. Is there any solution to this problem?

I'm very new to the Mac World so I don't know what you mean!
I did read to repair the permissions and this is what I got when I did that about 2 minutes ago:
Permissions differ on "private/var/log/secure.log", should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r----- .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.usbmuxd.plist", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are -rwxr-xr-x .
Group differs on "private/etc/cups", should be 0, group is 26.
???

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