Unable to Power Off Powerbook

[cwhitehurst]

Upgraded my G4 Powerbook to 10.4.2 2 weeks ago and since the upgrade, I have not been able to perform a proper shutdown / restart. The shutdown process goes through the motion but never shuts down. I have hold down the power button or remove the battery to get the system to power off.

Has anyone encountered this type of problem?? Any help would be appreciated.

CWhitehurst

 

[eva01]

repair permissions, go through the proper routines of things, create a new user see if it works for the new one

 

[mad jew]

I've found that Tiger doesn't like quitting apps and shutting down/sleeping at the same time. So, if I quit iTunes but there's still a triangle under its icon (so it's quitting but is technically still running) and then try to sleep or shutdown my iBook it does nothing and it means that I can't get it to work without either just closing the lid to sleep it. Next time I wake it, everything works again.

In short, do you wait for everything to quit before shutting down? 🙂

 

[cwhitehurst]

Thanks for passing this information along.

Eva01 - I will try to repair the permissions as well as setting up a new user to test.

MadJew - I close all apps and windows before shutting down the system. As for the system going into sleep mode, that appears to be working fine. I can place the MAC in sleep manually and it goes to sleep when there is not activity.

Thanks again
Cwhitehurst