New MacBook Pro won't shut down.

I recently got a new MacBook Pro running Yosemite.
Very often (4 times out of 5) when I want to shut it down it doesn't do anything and I can wait and wait the top bar is gone but the dock remains accessible and the mac does't shut down. Most of the time I have to force the shut down and I don't like doing so.
Again, when I want to shut it down, the background and the dock remain visible but the top bar disappears.
The weird thing is that, the dock says finder is still opened but when I click on the app, it won't open it at all and other applications can be opened.
Anybody has a solution to that?
Thank you.

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