Hello!
I downloaded and istalled Lion with no problems. I noticed however an increase in the shutdown time. With SL it would shut down almost instantly. With Lion I'm getting the spining wheel for about 20 seconds before complete shutdown. Is it normal?
I have a brand new Macbook Pro 13'' (i5, 4Gb RAM).
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!
Marc
I have the same experience with MacBook Pro (late 2009) and Air (11", 2010) after installing Lion. Everything else is OK, but shutdown time is noticeably increased, and on Air this now takes even longer than boot time.
This happens no matter I do or do not choose the "reopen windows when logging back in" option when shutting down/restarting.
Would be thankful for any advices.
Exactly! I also tried to uncheck the "reopen windows" option to no avail. I´ll try to repair permissions and if nothing changes I might try a clean reinstall...
I have the same problem and tried a clean install - still no luck. My iMac (i3 with 12 GB RAM) is still taking about 4 minutes to shut down. One observation though - the spotlight seems to 'index' in the background for a long time (around 30-40 mins) after the clean install. My thoughts are that I am shutting down the system while the indexing is in process - so, planning to let it complete indexing and evaluate shutdown times again. You may try this approach. Hope this works.
While it did take longer to shut down, I did have a lot of apps open so I'm assuming the Resume feature is what is increasing the time it takes to shut down. But I didn't receive any spinning beach balls. How long have you let the system run once Lion was installed?
Thank you all for the help. I read about the spotlight indexing issue and let my MBP rest for a while, I also closed all my apps before shutting down, but the spinning wheel kept on coming for about 20 sec before complete shut down. Yestarday I finally faced my destiny and tried a clean install. Even after I reinstalled all of my software, the shut down process has come back to normal with no spinning wheel whatsoever. So clean install worked for me. Good luck to you guys!
Thank you - clean install solved the problem for me too. Put back almost all applications, stil no problem... untill I installed Java and the long shutdown was back. Any ideas how to remove Java from Lion? The java installer has no option for uninstalling.
To be honest, I don´t recall any specific installation regarding Java. How do I know if I have it installed? If it´s not installed what kind of restrictions would I experience?
When I installed back all my applications (after the clean Lion install), there were two applications (of approximately 50) which required installation of Java Runtime, to work them. I did so, and immediately after Java installation the long shutdown appeared again (I guess, when Lion was installed over Snow Leopard, Java already was there - from the previous installation, as well as all the other applications).
As I could not find how to remove Java, I did Lion clean install once more, installed all my apps (except those two requiring Java), and everything is now OK.
Of course, I don't know if exclusively Java was the long shutdown reason, just my situation is as it is. I still try to find any confirming or disaffirming references.
Update: Now it is clear, the long shutdown in my case was caused by one of the applications itself, NOT THE JAVA. It was related to Huawei USM modem, which created a folder in Macintosh HD/Library/StartupItems.
Found a reference to this and reinstalled Java again - and the shutdown remains instant. Previously installed Java together with the app which required to do - and the shutdown was noticeably prolonged (this caused mis-suspision against Java). Obviously, the long shutdown was not related to Java itself, but to the modem.
SORRY FOR BLAMING JAVA.
You nailed it! I also had the Huawei Mobile Partner installed in SL. It was one of the few apps I haven´t installed back into Lion after the clean re-install. Thanks!
Confirmed! My macs had long shutdown times as well (around 10-20 seconds.) I had Huawei's Mobile Partner installed which came with a Huawei E367 USB 3G modem.
So I removed Mobile Partner and the three entries related to Huawei (HWNetMgr, HWPortDetect and StartOuc) under /Library/StartupItems. Now all three macs shut down in less than a second.
Good catch!
After installing Lion my imac hung on shut down with the spinning beach ball. Gave up waiting after 3 or 4 minutes and used the power button to turn off. Restarted OK although slowly.
Not impressed.
Please note that I managed to fix both the boot and the shutdown time by uninstalling some applications not currently compatible with Lion, WITHOUT A CLEAN INSTALL!
I tried the cache cleaning trick using iTweax, but the shutdown time was still horrible. My boot time was close to 1min30
I read in another thread that someone deleted old applications not compatible with Lion and it solved their issue, so I tried it.
I uninstalled Mac The Ripper, which was not compatible with Lion (the app was "hidden" inside a sub-folder and it was missed during my day-1 Lion cleanup of all the apps bearing the "not compatible" icon). I uninstalled Gimp! which I don't use anyway.
Note: I erased all related files using the very good App Cleaner software which finds and lets you remove everything related to an app.
I tried to shutdown again, though I had Skype and MSN Messenger on, and those slowdown the shutdown process with all the questions "are you sure you want to terminate this chat session". Still it was very fast, no beach ball and no hiccups.
The boot time is now 52 seconds up to the login screen. This used to be my shutdown and boot time together before Lion.
Running Mid 2009 15'' Macbook Pro 2.66 GHz, 8GB RAM and 640GB 5400rpm Toshiba HDD.
same here, uninstalled Huawei stuff and voila, shutdown back to 2 sec, boot time is 35 without any startup items, clean leopard was 22 so still some issues there but better then 1min 10 sec 🙂
I haven't had any issues starting up or shutting down. Lion's been working great for me. 😊
Lion Taking longer to shut down?
