Re: The "Restart" Apple menu option

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Dave Fritzinger <dfritzin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I pointed out one program, Groupwise 7, that consistently stops
logging out, shutting down or restarting. I have, on occasion seen
other programs do the same thing. Usually this happens when I get a
spinning beach ball in a program that won't stop, and the program
won't force quit. Many of these problems seem related to network
issues, using Novell Netware (though the client is actually written by
a company called Prosoft Engineering). Indeed, Netware has given me no
end of problems, including kernal panics (which nearly always have
a ...prosoftengineering.kext somewhere in the offending file). And, in
my infrequent use of Windows, I have seen occasions where force
quitting doesn't work, though I am unable to say how frequent they are
because I rarely use the OS (XP Pro).

There! That is my experience. I am neither saying OSX is perfect, nor
am I saying the various flavors of Windows are trash, though I do
clearly prefer OSX.

This happens when a disk is not connected but the OS "thinks" it so it's
waiting for the disk to respond. I've had this with USB connected disks.
Clue is that the OS will not restart with the disk connected.
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