Thanks for the reply, pressing the power button worked perfectly. If you're scared or there is something totally out of hand I can't figure out whith the few elements of information you give us: -> Hit the Power Key and old it down for a while.

If you can't get a drive to eject, do this:Ĭ/ let it do it's shudown. You'll see if you have a stale process that won't release hand over a mediaī/ Unmount (Eject) all remotely mounted FS (iDisk, Windows Samba/CIFS, Unix NFS, Finder FTP/WebDav). If it's a remotely mounted FS, you may have a 'stale' FS handle that never is going to terminate.Ī/ Unmount (Eject) all physical hardware drives before calling for shutdown. With the regular 'shutdown' executed from the Finder, such problem to unmount a filesystem will abort, or endlessly hold your shutdown to execute.

So, it can't tell it's shutting down, it's plain dead. It means it's dead but everyone believe it's still alive. Today, with Time Machine, if you've experienced a connection problem with your TM drive - such as a rocked FW connector - you can have the 'backupd' daemon hosed to a point it has entered what is called the 'zombie' state. On all Unix systems, your shutdown procedure can be impacted during its execution by a problem 'unmounting' a file-system Keep in mind we're not in your back looking at what your doing over your shoulder.Ī/ How do you proceed to 'shutdown' your Mac, today?ī/ Do you have some external drive connected to your Mac?Ĭ/ Do you have some remote file-systems mounted? Which protocol? Now, you've got to tell us a bit more about your machine. Period!ĭon't ever kill power of your Mac by removing its battery! > You can always shutdown your MB by holding pressed down the power button for some 10-15'. That's a bad one! (bad thing to do, I mean) When I start the MacBook and shut it down immediately without using the applications, it works normal.

I can only stop this by taking out the battery. After installing 10.5.3 my MacBook shows instead of shutting down a small rotating wheel on the screen.

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