Out of the box MBP 13" will not shut down

Question

hello all
whenever I attempt to shut down/restart my laptop it stays in the grey page with a spinning wheel. having read tens of threads it appears a lot of people are having the same problem that I am having, but most are related to conflicting/badly written 3rd party apps whilst my MBP is almost minty. (in fact I have only installed onyx and microsoft office and activity monitor shows that neither are affecting shut down)
I have reset PRAM, verified and repaired disk permissions, ran some scripts as suggested by some forumers but they all failed to resolve the problem. Worse still I am currently in a country that does not have an apple store and the hotline technician hardly speaks any English.
HELP!

Answer 1

That log extract spans less than one second, and doesn't show anything remarkable.
Let's take a different tack. Launch the Terminal application, copy or drag -- do not type -- the line of text below into the window, and press return:
kextstat -kl | awk ' !/apple/ { print $6 $7 } '
Post the lines of output (if any) that appear below what you just entered (the text, please, not a screenshot.)
Next, do the same thing with this line:
sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk ' !/0x|apple|com\.vix|edu\.|org\./ { print $3 } '
That's one line, not two. You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. You don't need to post the warning.
Next, this command:
launchctl list | sed 1d | awk ' !/0x|apple|edu\.|org\./ { print $3 } '
Again, one line. Finally, one more:
ls -1 /Library/{InputManagers,StartupItems}
Remember, this is all drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste, whichever you prefer -- no typing, except your password.
You can then quit Terminal.