Can't logout, shutdown, or restart?

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mikefmikef
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in macOS edited January 2014
I select "Log out..." from the Apple menu and it doesn't logout (same goes for Shutdown and Restart).



What happened? It doesn't always happen, but has a few times now. I am running 10.4.8.



Anybody seen something similar?

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    irelandireland Posts: 17,801member
    Press ctrl+Apple key+Eject, that should restart your Mac.
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  • Reply 2 of 5
    mikefmikef Posts: 698member
    No fix to this problem? I just held the power button until it went off.
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  • Reply 3 of 5
    santasanta Posts: 67member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by mikef View Post


    I select "Log out..." from the Apple menu and it doesn't logout (same goes for Shutdown and Restart).



    What happened? It doesn't always happen, but has a few times now. I am running 10.4.8.



    Anybody seen something similar?



    G'day



    I'm getting a similar problem.



    Mine's caused by quitting Acquisition while the main window is in the Dock. It freezes with no error message, but stops shutdown, logout & restart.



    Santa
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  • Reply 4 of 5
    Marvinmarvin Posts: 15,558moderator
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by mikef View Post


    No fix to this problem? I just held the power button until it went off.



    Don't do that regularly. When applications won't quit, they stop the logout process so you need to see what programs are running and try and close them down.
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  • Reply 5 of 5
    mikefmikef Posts: 698member
    Using Activity Viewer, I confirmed the only application running at the time was Finder.



    Maybe another background process was stuck, but I couldn't identify which one.
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