[X4U] Screwy Mac mini

[Joe Sporleder]

On Oct 30, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:

> On Oct 30, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Joe Sporleder wrote:
>
>> We've got an Intel Mac mini, 2 GB of RAM, running MacOS X 10.4.11.  
>> It is primarily used as a basic Internet machine, plus iCal. It has  
>> difficulty shutting down. When ever I tell it to shutdown or  
>> restart directly through the Finder or via Remote Desktop, it  
>> simply restarts the Finder, instead of restarting or shutting down  
>> the machine. Anyone ever seen this kind of behavior before, and  
>> what could be the problem and solution?
>
> I've seen this caused by a problem with one's iDisk.
>
> I've also seen this caused by an application or process that cancels  
> shutdown.  You might want to run Activity Monitor and see what is  
> running after the failed shutdown.


We are not running iDisk on this particular machine. If I try to  
shutdown or restart from the login window, the login window is simply  
relaunched when I try. I copied the activity monitor from that machine  
to this email. Harry is my boss.

1711	 Activity Monitor	harry	2.60	2	9.23 MB	357.22 MB	Intel	
1707	 AppleVNCServer	harry	3.90	5	19.70 MB	363.68 MB	Intel	
1706	 ARDAgent	harry	0.00	6	2.73 MB	341.57 MB	Intel	
1704	 mdimport	harry	0.00	4	2.67 MB	39.26 MB	Intel	
1703	 SyncServer	harry	0.00	2	20.58 MB	47.52 MB	Intel	
1700	 iChatAgent	harry	0.00	5	5.79 MB	298.99 MB	Intel	
1697	 UniversalAccessApp	harry	0.00	1	3.78 MB	348.38 MB	Intel	
1696	 Preview	harry	0.00	1	3.66 MB	348.09 MB	Intel	
1695	 Mail	harry	0.00	5	15.04 MB	368.94 MB	Intel	
1694	 iCal	harry	0.00	6	32.93 MB	393.98 MB	Intel	
1693	 iChat	harry	0.00	7	9.56 MB	369.47 MB	Intel	
1692	 iTunes Helper	harry	0.00	2	1.94 MB	349.68 MB	Intel	
1691	 FontAgent Activator	harry	0.10	4	18.39 MB	414.64 MB	PowerPC	
1688	 Finder	harry	0.00	4	29.07 MB	395.88 MB	Intel	
1687	 SystemUIServer	harry	0.00	2	6.83 MB	360.00 MB	Intel	
1686	 Dock	harry	0.00	2	2.97 MB	330.51 MB	Intel	
1681	 pbs	harry	0.00	2	2.08 MB	54.21 MB	Intel	
1671	 loginwindow	harry	0.00	3	4.10 MB	346.18 MB	Intel	
1221	 ATSServer	harry	0.00	2	10.69 MB	85.49 MB	Intel