Sonoma 14.6, Hang on shutdown

[luckman212]

Anyone else having a problem of hanging on shutdown since updating to 14.6 ?

I'm on an M1 Mac Mini, and 75%+ of the time, when I shut down I just get a black screen (still has the mouse cursor on it which I can move around). But the computer never shuts down. I have waited hours.

If I ssh to the computer and run `sudo pkill loginwindow` then the login window re-appears, and from there I can choose Shut Down again and it does finally shut off.

 

[diego.caraballo]

Anyone else having a problem of hanging on shutdown since updating to 14.6 ?

I'm on an M1 Mac Mini, and 75%+ of the time, when I shut down I just get a black screen (still has the mouse cursor on it which I can move around). But the computer never shuts down. I have waited hours.

If I ssh to the computer and run `sudo pkill loginwindow` then the login window re-appears, and from there I can choose Shut Down again and it does finally shut off.

Does it happens if you start in safe mode?
If not:
Temporally disable the login items.
Move the plist files from LaunchAgents and LaunchAgents in the Mac Library to a couple of folders on the Desktop.
Restart in normal mode and try to shutdown.
If successful, then restore the plist files one by one and keep testing if the Mac shutdowns correctly.
If after restoring one of the plist files, the shutdown stalls again, then you found the culprit.

If the plist files in LaunchAgents and LaunchAgents aren't the ones causing the trouble, repeat the above procedure with the plist files inside LaunchAgents in the User Library.