iBook hang on logout/shutdown
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Russ Dumke - 27 November 2005
Hello everyone,
I'm having a problem with my new iBook G4 (10.4.3) hanging on logout and not always shutting down. I've tried resetting the pmu, but the problem persists. I saw a post on the net suggesting background processes might still be running, thus causing the problem. Regardless, has anyone else had this problem, and does anyone have a fix?
Thanks,
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Tim Lance - 27 November 2005
I had it with an older version of LiteSwitch.
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Russ Dumke - 27 November 2005
Hmmm, I'm not running LiteSwitch--but how did you resolve the problem?
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Steven Lichter - 27 November 2005
I have had problems like that, it happens when a program is running in the background and will not shutdown to allow the computer to shut off.
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Tim Lance - 27 November 2005
Well, it was an older version. A newer version did the trick. Sorry, no help to you.
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Russ Dumke - 28 November 2005
How do you identify these programs?
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Russ Dumke - 28 November 2005
Thanks anyway!
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Steven Lichter - 28 November 2005
Most the time the system will tell you what program. You couldand do a force quit if you had to, that will also show any programs that are running. --
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matt neuburg - 28 November 2005
When I had this problem it turned out to be due to installing "SpeedTools Utilities". This program installs a startup process which was refusing to quit. You might try looking for something similar. If you have anything in /Library/StartupItems, delete it and see if that helps. Use Activity Monitor to track down unexpected processes. m.
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Russ Dumke - 29 November 2005
I've never seen my system show such programs at shutdown/restart. Should this happen under 10.4.3?
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Russ Dumke - 29 November 2005
Thanks. I tried tried setting Microsoft Auto Update to manual. I suspect this is the culprit (that or clamXav).
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breyfogle - 29 November 2005
FYI
This problem has been around at a rather low level for a long time. Sort of like "...they all do that (once and a while)..." In my case, a 15" PB running 10.3.7, it happened the very first time I shut the PB down after bringing it home from the store ! No non-Apple installed software what-so-ever. The PB has hung on shutdown twice more in the year I have owned it. Each time, it finally shut itself down after about an hour without me doing anything.
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Russ Dumke - 01 December 2005
Thanks for the info. I've been looking at a combo of background startup processes and the lookupd bug (apparently still alive and well in 10.4.3) as causes for the problem. If fixing these doesn't do it, then at least I have an idea of whom to blame! :/
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