'Shut Down' is sloooooooow

Upgraded MacBook Pro (early 2011) and MacBook Air (mid 2011) to ML and noticed 'Shut Down' is slow and takes a while. Noticed this on both systems. Are all Mac's experiencing the same issue ?

MacBook Pro 17-inch 2.3GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Mac OS X (10.7.2), IPad 2 64GB Wi-Fi + 3G, R6 6TB RAID

Posted on Jul 25, 2012 4:49 PM

75 replies

Aug 24, 2012 9:38 AM in response to Kaostheory7

K7,

Ok, well that makes sense. At least you have a good excuse.

I have cleared my cashe folder (even before joining this thread), but still no dice on speeding shutdown and start up.

I like you idea about Automator, need to check that out, never used it (same with terminal).

For 3rd party extensions, i really dont know how to find these. If not mentioned before, I dont really have alot of apps on my machine, just tons for docs, pics, videos. I wish there was an app that would scan your system for invalid apps/programs that might cause problems. I have Garmin updater, Chrome, HP printer software, ect. very common items that I dont think would cause issues. I have a co-working with MBP that's a year older than mine (recenly installed ML), and his start up is 35 seconds, about the same as mine with SL, so I do think its a program or setting on my MBP, not OSX.

Jvalal

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Aug 24, 2012 8:17 PM in response to apple bytes77

I have the same issue. No parallels, but the shut down time is siginifcantly slower than the prior version and an older mac.

Any Non-Parallels solutions?!

ALV-AR-O

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Aug 25, 2012 5:07 AM in response to Jvalal

I have found slower shutdown times consistently when used the maximum scaled resolution in my MBP retina, when switched back to "best for retina" resolution the shutdown time is faster. I also found that with scaled, the verbose shutdown doesn't work.

Maybe this could affect some of you.

Aug 30, 2012 7:32 AM in response to Chakravarthy Cuddapah

Anyone try Parallels 8 to see if the shutdown issue has been fixed in new version? It is supposed to be availableto existing users today...

Aug 30, 2012 3:48 PM in response to Dave Drake

I already fixed the issue with the post I marked as solution. I upgraded to Parallels 8 and noticed the shutdown is really fast. Hope this helps !

Aug 30, 2012 4:01 PM in response to Chakravarthy Cuddapah

Thanks for the feedback. I saw your "solution" since it breaks parallels it is not a solution for me. I have software that I use daily that I need windows for. Glad to know v 8 is working for you I may give it a try.

Aug 30, 2012 7:01 PM in response to Chakravarthy Cuddapah

This issue goes beyond Parallels. I dont have it, and my system still is slow to boot and shutdown. I've installed 10.8.1, but not change.

Aug 31, 2012 7:36 AM in response to Chakravarthy Cuddapah

I want to put an exclamation point behind the previous message saying that "this issue goes beyond Parellels."

I've tried every fix suggested in this thread (including one that I submitted) and nothing works. On about 80% of my shutdowns on two different 2011 MacBook Airs, the shutdown time is from 12 to 15 seconds. The other 20% of the time it's about 3 seconds--which is consistent with what I experienced under Lion.

The one really important point that I want to make is that when I examine my system logs, this extended shutdown time is *NOT* reflected in those logs. In every case, the logs indicate that shutdown takes place in a second or two--every time. Something is hanging but I can't figure out what it is.

kevinz33

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Sep 1, 2012 6:16 PM in response to Chakravarthy Cuddapah

Parallels 8 fixed the shutdown issue!

john.23

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4 points

Sep 2, 2012 2:11 AM in response to kevinz33

Can confirm this,

Parallels 8 fixed slow shutdown.

And now supports the new retina display with full resolution, looks awesome!!

Nice piece of software 😉

Sep 9, 2012 3:48 PM in response to Chakravarthy Cuddapah

I uninstalled Parallels 7, it still didn't work, install and uninstall Parallels 8, and didn't work.

Solution: Resetting the PRAM.

It shuts down fast again.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

I hope this helps 😉

Sep 9, 2012 4:32 PM in response to Alfonso Cartes

Maybe you'll be luckier than I am. I tried resetting PRAM a while back and it seemed to work but after a day or so, the shutdowns got slow again.

ALV-AR-O

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Sep 10, 2012 8:11 AM in response to Scott Newman

Try with this:

Open a terminal window (Applications/Utilities/Terminal)
type: sudo nano /Library/Parallels/Parallels\ Service.app/Contents/Resources/ParallelsDispatcherService
you will be prompted for your password.
Look for the ForcedServerShutdown() function and change the -TERM parameter of the kill command to -KILL. It would look like this: kill -KILL "${pid}" 2>/dev/null
Look for the WaitForPID() function, now change the -0 parameter of the kill command for -KILL, the command should look like this: kill -KILL $1 2>&1 1>&/dev/null || return 0
Save the file pressing control+x, y, return
You must restart, after the first restart the shutdown time will be ok.

Sep 30, 2012 2:48 AM in response to TEVillegas

Thanks for this advice. If I enter

sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel I got:

Can't open CFBundle for /System/Library/Extensions/prl_hid_hook.kext.

Can't open CFBundle for /System/Library/Extensions/prl_hypervisor.kext.

Can't open CFBundle for /System/Library/Extensions/prl_netbridge.kext.

Can't open CFBundle for /System/Library/Extensions/prl_usb_connect.kext.

Can't open CFBundle for /System/Library/Extensions/prl_vnic.kext.

Can't open CFBundle for /System/Library/Extensions/prl_hid_hook.kext.

Can't open CFBundle for /System/Library/Extensions/prl_hypervisor.kext.

Can't open CFBundle for /System/Library/Extensions/prl_netbridge.kext.

Can't open CFBundle for /System/Library/Extensions/prl_usb_connect.kext.

Can't open CFBundle for /System/Library/Extensions/prl_vnic.kext.

Kernel file /mach_kernel does not contain requested arch: i386

and if I enter sudo kextcache -system-caches