Re: Tiger won't shut down or restart

In article <1137274058.336335.319210@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Speedy" <marcus.hennecke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> ever since I upgraded to Tiger I can't shut down or restart my system
> any more. When I start shut down, everything seems to go smoothly at
> first. But then, when at last the screen only shows the blue background
> image, disk activity dies down and the system should actually shut
> down, it just sits there and won't turn itself off. I have to hold the
> power button in the back of the Mac down for several seconds to turn it
> off. Then, when the system starts up the next time it reports that the
> system hasn't been shut down correctly.
>
> This is a G4 iMac from beginning 2002 which I have been upgrading to
> Tiger when it came out. The various updates (including the latest,
> 10.4.4) didn't make the error go away, either.

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