Computer won't shutdown

[Aranince]

I go to shutdown my computer, and finder closes but that's it. It doesn't turn off. The dock is still running, so I can relaunch finder. Right now I tried shutting down and it is telling me that finder failed to quit. What is causing this?

 

[EricNau]

Has it done this more than once, or is this a single incident so far?

If it's just a single incident, hold the power button until the computer powers down (or unplug it).

 

[pablogott]

Most times I can't shutdown a computer, it's because there is a volume that won't unmount.

Try this: Do your shutdown, and wait for it to get stuck again. Relaunch finder. Go to applications/utilities, and open up the console.app

Look for the system.log in the drawer on the left. You might have to hit show log list. Copy the last 20 or so lines, or anything that looks relevant, and post them back here.

 

[Mmaton]

Disk permissions?

Try repairing your boot disk permissions in Disk utility..

 

[Aranince]

Has it done this more than once, or is this a single incident so far?

It has happened several times in the past few days. I'll try the repairing permissions

 

[Aranince]

Ok it did it again, here is system.log

Nov 9 23:18:30 ryan-macbook-pro loginwindow[23]: ERROR | WSActivateApp | SetFrontProcess({0, 237626}) returned error -600. Unable to activate process.
Nov 9 23:18:49 ryan-macbook-pro ReportCrash[922]: Formulating crash report for process Mail[127]
Nov 9 23:18:52 ryan-macbook-pro ReportCrash[922]: Saved crashreport to /Users/Ryan/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Mail_2008-11-09-231843_ryan-macbook-pro.crash using uid: 501 gid: 20, euid: 501 egid: 20
Nov 9 23:18:50 ryan-macbook-pro com.apple.launchd[77] ([0x0-0x17017].com.apple.mail[127]): Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
Nov 9 23:18:58 ryan-macbook-pro loginwindow[23]: ERROR | -[ApplicationManager(AppleEventHandling) _tryQuitAllForRequestor:replyEvent:] | _tryQuitAllForRequestor - _vproc_set_global_on_demand returned error -1866929231
Nov 9 23:19:13 ryan-macbook-pro loginwindow[23]: ERROR | WSActivateApp | SetFrontProcess({0, 237626}) returned error -600. Unable to activate process.
Nov 9 23:19:27 ryan-macbook-pro /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd[47]: SFLSharePointsEntry::CreateDSRecord: dsCreateRecordAndOpen(Ryan's Public Folder) returned -14135
Nov 9 23:19:30 ryan-macbook-pro mDNSResponder[22]: Failed to obtain NAT port mapping 00048CF8 from router 192.168.0.1 external address 0.0.0.0 internal port 5353 error 0

 

[SnowLeopard2008]

"pull the plug" 😀