[G4] Upgraded to 10.4.10 and now it won't shut down

[JayB]

Sound advice Steve. Although the Activity Monitor didn't seem to tell  
me anything (and it shuts down the moment I hit the Shutdown  
command).   Of course I had already done permissions and the whole  
Disk Warrior v4 on it without any luck.

So I did an 'archive and install' of 10.4 and the problem appeared to  
be cured. I then downloaded the combo update of 10.4- 10.4.8 (instead  
of reinstalling 10.4.10) and everything  appears to be back to normal  
(although I was prompted by Photoshop to a partial reinstall for a  
couple of missing files).  I don't think I'll run the 10.4.10 on this  
machine.  I've gotten great service from it but I'll have to  
surrender to the Intel Mac soon as much of the new pro-photo software  
is geared for it and runs slow even on my relatively new G4 1.67ghz  
powerbook.

Thanks to all who pitched in with suggestions.  It really would be an  
8-10 hr project to start from scratch.  I run my whole studio on this  
computer.

Best,

~Jay

On Oct 3, 2007, at 4:00 PM, Steve Adams wrote:

> First thing I would do is look at Activity Monitor after shutting  
> down and see which program is not responding. Try doing a Forced  
> Quit on that program from the Activity Monitor. Usually this  
> resolves my problem forever.
>
> Next I would check and repair permissions.
>
> After all that, if there are still problems, try reinstalling the  
> last upgrade. The upgrade should go faster since it sees it has  
> already been installed and only tries to install missing or corrupt  
> files.
>
> No need to reinstall any applications, the upgrades won't effect them.
>
> Steve Adams
>
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> On Oct 3, 2007, at 1:31 PM, JayB wrote:
>
>> Hey gang-
>>
>> I needed to install my upgrade to CS3 (photoshop) so I had to jump  
>> from Tiger 10.4.1  at least 10.4.6.  I went ahead and downloaded  
>> and installed the upgrade to 10.4.10.
>>
>> Although CS3 runs (slowly), and everything else seems OK, the CPU  
>> won't do a proper SHUTDOWN.  It empties the screen down to desktop  
>> color only and hangs.  No wheel (curser fine), no other clues.
>>
>> I've since zapped the PRAM, and run Disk Warrior 4.
>>
>> No Joy.
>>
>> I've got a 500 AGP boosted to 1gig  (and a gig of RAM) that has  
>> run smooth for 5 yrs.
>>
>> Until now, things were fine.
>>
>> Clues?
>>
>>
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