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Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / January 2008Won't Shut Down! - iMac 800 G3 - TIGER OS X.4
Won't Shut Down! - iMac 800 G3 - TIGER OS X.4 Hello, I have an iMac 800 G3 17" flowerpot.... 768MB RAM... and I just installed Tiger OS X.4.1 ... and now it won't shut down. It runs beautifully... but just hangs on shut down. It will even go to sleep after 15 mins during shut-down, and wake up.... but it never, never fully shuts down... just hangs at the blue-screen. What can I do to fix this? TIA!!!! > Won't Shut Down! - iMac 800 G3 - TIGER OS X.4 > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > What can I do to fix this? Oh dear. Nasty. Some process won't die.. If you run up a terminal and get a root login via sudo bash and type sync then halt that should thump it down quick and hard, whilst preserving the filesystem. Then try a reboot via the power switch etc. If it doesn't come up cleanly, and shut down cleanly there is more work to do. It may be that you have got a weirded out filesystem..but lets try the easy things first. At least it seems to BOOT. > TIA!!!! > > ................................................................ > Posted via TITANnews - Uncensored Newsgroups Access > >>>> at http://www.TitanNews.com <<<< > -=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=- > > Won't Shut Down! - iMac 800 G3 - TIGER OS X.4 > > [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > > >>>> at http://www.TitanNews.com <<<< > > -=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=- You might go to the Apple web site and look for instructions for re-setting the PMU or SMU, I think an iMac of your vintage will have the former not the latter. For different models this happens in different ways. > Won't Shut Down! - iMac 800 G3 - TIGER OS X.4 > > Hello, > I have an iMac 800 G3 17" flowerpot.... 768MB RAM... and I just There's no such machine. All iMac G3s had 15" screens. You may be referring to an iMac _G4_. > installed Tiger OS X.4.1 ... and now it won't shut down. I doubt that Tiger had much to do with it. I suspect that Something Else(tm) installed, usually as a startup item, has everything to do with it. > It runs beautifully... but just hangs on shut down. > > It will even go to sleep after 15 mins during shut-down, and wake up.... > but it never, never fully shuts down... just hangs at the blue-screen. Is the pinwheel going? > What can I do to fix this? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >>>> at http://www.TitanNews.com <<<< > -=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=-  Signatureemail to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com. [re original post] > > It runs beautifully... but just hangs on shut down. > > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > > What can I do to fix this? Have you (the OP) installed applejack (from versiontracker.com) and run it? I will bet that if there is some basic problem, this will fix it - or at least tell you that it is a conflict from somewhere else. Rifty Nonexistent group comp.sys.mac.hardware deleted from ngs. Signatureriftynet - put a dot after rifty > [re original post] > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Nonexistent group comp.sys.mac.hardware deleted from ngs. Mm. I had this happen - nasty program wouldn't close.. Stage one is close all apps that you can. Stage two is to use the activity monitor to see if some of 'your processes' haven't died. Try 'force quit' on them ..from acivity monitor. If that doesn't work, the following won't do any harm. Fire up a terminal Execute:- sudo bash which will give you a superuser privileged shell. Then execute these two commands:- sync halt This will synchrnise the file system and pull the rug out from under the machine. If it still does the same after rebooting, its time to look at the logs and figure out why. > > Won't Shut Down! - iMac 800 G3 - TIGER OS X.4 > > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Is the pinwheel going? No pinwheel... just all blue frozen. > > > Won't Shut Down! - iMac 800 G3 - TIGER OS X.4 > > > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > >>>> at http://www.TitanNews.com <<<< > -=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=- Log into another account, preferably a brand new one, and see if you can effect a normal shutdown. regards, 20cents > > > > Won't Shut Down! - iMac 800 G3 - TIGER OS X.4 > > > > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > regards, > 20cents To the original poster - that's odd because I experienced the same thing on a MacMini recently. I wrote about it in an earlier posting and eventually put it down to overheating. Now it seems to be working fine again. One thing I did was to use Applejack to do a full housekeeping check on the MM. If that had any effect, it wasn't immediate, but I do know it is working properly now. It was several days before it righted itself. Did it shut down properly at any stage? I wondered if some upgrade to the system caused a problem. Anyway, it may come good if you run Onyx or Applejack, or wait till the weather cools down! Good luck. Rifty Signatureriftynet - put a dot after rifty |
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