I'm not asking for your sympathy. The problem I have is a simple
one. I am unable to shutdown/reboot or logout from the apple menu,
and I'm able to via shutdown(8) in the terminal. I don't know the
reasons for this. Linking me to the catb smart questions site. If
there are any particular details you require, do say.
Thanks for finally telling us what you're problem is. Though I'd
like more detail: "Can't shut down" could be anything. Do you mean
you choose the menu item and nothing happens, do you mean the menu
item is disabled, do you mean all running apps quit but one doesn't,
do you get any error messages like "application X canceled shutdown",
do you mean you're left at an endlessly spinning cogwheel on a blue
screen but the Mac never physically shuts down ??? Give us something
to work with, already!
So far one problem I see is that essentially you're saying that
everything is fine at the Darwin level (which is what this list is
for) but the Apple GUI level doesn't work (which is what this list
isn't for). So that may be another reason why it's not too likely
you'll get any useful answers here.
Anyway, here are my guesses what could screw up your restarts: Have
you checked whether you've installed any Input Managers ("SIMBL
plugins") or APE haxies or so that could be buggy and cause problems?
Do you have any apps that install Kernel Extensions that might have
hung? Are there any applications that are still running, maybe
showing error messages or asking you to save?
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