On Aug 11, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Vince Meghrouni wrote:
Sound familiar to anyone?
Yes. I've had something similar on my G5 w/10.5.8. It's intermittent, sometimes it shuts down ok, sometimes it stops that a blue screen without any icons, but instead of the beachball I usually have a normal cursor that moves around, but there's nothing to click upon anywhere, and it stays 'stuck' at this stage until I use the Power button to force a shutdown.
My guess is that some application is causing this? I suspect Firefox 10.3.19 perhaps? I have my G5 set to verbose startup, and during a normal shutdown I'd see a black screen with shutdown dialog in white, which I never see. When I use the Power button, it does recognize the bad shutdown and resets some parameters, so it seems to me the shutdown is delayed by an application hang most likely, which would also explain the intermittency since I might not have the offending application open during normal shutdowns.
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