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Lion installed but shutdown is much longer now? Ideas?

I have installed Lion but the shutdown is much slower now. Snow Leopard shut down in 4 seconds and now it appears to be more like 15-20 seconds. I had to move a few non-compatible apps to trash but that is all I've changed. Any ideas?

Mac OS X (10.7), Macbook Pro 2011

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 7:35 AM

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Jul 22, 2011 1:49 AM in response to johnnyfromelizabeth

Lion takes also much longer to shut down here, actually longer than even booting, and every time I try.


Turning off the resume feature doesn't seem to make a difference, shutting down takes more than 10 seconds every time without exeption.


I have tried repairing permissions, checking processes, printing jobs, deleting caches, etc.


What's interesting, even if shutting off right from the login screen, it will take this long time...


I just don't understand it, maybe it's a feature that speeds up the following boot procedure?

Jul 24, 2011 2:43 AM in response to johnnyfromelizabeth

don't know if this helps but i'll throw it in here in case it helps anyone. i too had issues with a slow boot and shutdown since installing lion. i tried many things people suggested in various threads such as repairing permissions and verifying/repairing disk, clearing caches etc. what did work for me however, finding it by accident is... i noticed i could no longer play avi files. i had perian installed. apperntly the version i have needed upgrading so i did and to my surprise, it actually improved shutdown time. my shutdown went from nearly 30 second to just under 10 seconds. it improved my boot up from nearly a minute down to under 50 seconds. it's still a long time to boot compared to snow leaoprd but at this stage any improvement is a good thing. so i guess the things to look for possible causes of problems are incompatible software. either upgrade them to a lion friendly version or uninstall them if none are available.

Jul 25, 2011 1:48 PM in response to johnnyfromelizabeth

I had the same problem specially with shutdown time (boot up not so much). What solved my problem was a clean re-install of Lion. After that, I didn´t restored from the backup, but instead I´m coping all of my stuff back. So far so good. Shutdown is almost instantly now (like SL).


I think that could be another clue towards bad apps (not compatible) causing the slowdown. I´ve alredy installed all the apps that I use regularly and everithing is fine. I heard that Java could be the culprit but I´m not sure how to check if it´s installed on my system. Anyway, clean install is wirth trying. Good luck!

Jul 25, 2011 2:18 PM in response to Jack From Southend-On-Sea ASPV

Extra boot files means extra boot time, ok I can admit this.

But.


Here we are speaking about shutdown and not start up.

And if the first boot is slow, or even the second and the third, it's normal. I can figure out the OS needs to update data, create caches, make some basic configuration.

But seriously, after the ten reboot do you find it's normal ?


I'm not speaking about 30 or 40 seconds more, which should be boring but acceptable.

It's may be not a reference for anybody but yesterday I had the time to ligh a cigaret, smoke it and drop it between the shutdown and the Mac totally powered off. With no filevault activated or anything.

This said, I have to admit I just repaired permissions, check disk and launch automated tasks proposed by Onyx (except clearing caches,...) and this reboot tooks me exactly 2min31.
Without opening last session windows and nothing launched at boot.

Just boot, start restart, launch the chrono, confirm and wait for the login window.

So it's already much better.

But I find it kinda weird this need to repair permissions after a "clean" install.

(Installation of OS X Server failed during the migration, so I restore it at the next boot process)

Lion installed but shutdown is much longer now? Ideas?

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