I am having problems shutting down my mac. When I shutdown via the Apple menu, everything disappears from the desktop as normal but I do not get the usual rotating clock icon in the center. I can still access the Dock bar at the bottom of the screen when I move my mouse towards the bottom to display it. When I select the Finder from the Dock, everything reappears on the desktop as if the shutdown command do not execute.
I tried both a manual shutdown and letting the 60 seconds countdown run on it is own. Same results,
The shutdown command will work if I go into the Activity Monitor and "Quit Process" loginwindow.
Also are you running 10.6.6 as your signature suggests? If you are, I'll ask a moderator move your thread to the 10.6 forum. If you are running some version of 10.5, that would be significant info to add to your signature or this thread.
Sorry about not providing these bits of info. I have two machines. The Intel iMac and PowerPC G5 Dual. The G5 is running regular Leopard, which is the one I have a questions on. Yes, it is backed up and the boot drive is 500GB with 100 GB of free space. I only have a Epson scanner and a LaCie 250GB external. They have been connected to my G5 for quite some time without causing any problems like the one I am describing now. It seems more like an OS issue than hardware. Should I be in a G5 forum?