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Need two tries to shut-down old G5
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Moderator  Join Date: Aug 2001
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One of my kids wants my old 2x2 G5 PowerMac to goof around on. Mostly GarageBand stuff. So, I pulled it out of the closet, cleaned it up and deleted the other user accounts from it. It's running great. Except for one odd problem...When I click "Shut Down" on the User window, the system goes through the motions like it's shutting down, I get a blank screen with the turning wheel...and then it goes back to the login screen. Clicking the Shut Down button once more properly shuts the G5 down.
I know I've had the same problem in the past with the G5, but I can't find how I solved it. I know it wasn't doing this when I retired the G5. It's still running 10.3.9, fwiw.
Any guesses as to what's up?
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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If you turn on Verbose it should drop into CLI mode during shut down and clue you into what it's doing to some degree.
It may not be worth the trouble to you at this point, but I imagine an upgrade to Tiger or Leopard would cure the problem.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Moderator Join Date: Aug 2001
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I wouldn't mind upgrading to Tiger, but, unless some secret santa drops a free set of install discs on me, it's not in the budget. Leopard would be pushing it, I think. There's some old apps on it that might get a bit flaky in Leopard.
I'll see about going Verbose.
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Moderator Join Date: Aug 2001
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Enabled Verbose and this is what I got on the first shutdown attempt...
Init Process...Could not establish default connection to Window Server.
Or something to that effect. As before, a second attempt shuts it down.
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Administrator  Join Date: May 2000
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Window Server might have gone down early. Either crashed, or received a quit command when other parts of the system still expected it to be up. You could check the Crash Reports in Console.
It might be a permissions issue, or damage to a system file when you lost a block on the HD. Plausible, considering it's been in storage for awhile. Try a permissions repair for the heck of it, but after a long term storage, a clean install of OS X would be my move. Especially before providing it to someone else. I might have tweaked various system files at some point on one of my old boxes (something outside the Users folder) and not remember to undo it.
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