Mountain Lion won't sleep, shut down, restart, or log out.

What do we have to check in ~/Library/LaunchAgents ??

In my Users settings -> Open (sry if bad translation...). I Have MagicDriver Manager (software for the mouse), SIMBL Agent (dont know what is it), and Dropbox. None of these are checked.

On the other account, the one that works, i only have iTunes Helper (Type : Unknown) and MagicDriver Manager.

You think it is SIMBL Agent that ***** up? what is it?

@All - Ok, so we all seem to be having the same problem with the Apple menu items. One other thing I noticed is that some Mac OS keyboard shortcuts got changed during the re-install, and when I changed them back to how I had them setup... the settings don't save (after a forced shut down). Not sure if this is part of the problem, or if it's just that the forced reboot messes with this. Anybody else encounter anything like this?

My mouse wheel also got set to "natural scrolling". I turned this off, and it switches back with every forced reboot.

I'm not an expert but it seems normal to me that your computer does not remember your preference when you force shutdown by hitting the button on your mac.

If you want to shutdown your mac. Go to another account or do it by the Terminal and type "sudo halt" and your password when it ask for it

Another suggestion is to move everything from ~/Library/Caches .

@Kinoulou: I have no special startup item or launchagent in mind. Just compare the things in your two accounts and try to (re)move everything from hte non-functional account that is not in the functional one.

SIMBL seems to be a knd of unarchiver. You can safely remove this from startup item list using the - sign (unchecking will not remove it) and see if this helps.

@soehn - I backed all those files up and removed them from the "caches" directory. No luck their either.

One other thing I've failed to mention... the to menu bar (entire top bar) doesn't appear at first after logging in. It isn't until I click finder or start up something that it appears. Even hitting the key combination for spotlight or something else on that bar doesn't work until I start an app. After that the bar works... except the items previously mentioned. Software Update works, Recent Items, etc... just not the other ones (restart, log out, shut down, about my mac, etc.)

@soehn - Btw, I really appreciate your help... while it isn't fixed yet - thank you for taking the time to suggest so many possible solutions. Any other ideas?

Same with me: absolutely NO RESPONSE to the following 'switches' on the Apple Menue:

- About this Mac

- Force Quit

- Sleep

- Restart

- Shut Down

- Log Out

Only way to shut down the system is to hold the on/off button pressed for a forced shut down 😠

Had the same problem and this worked for me:

Try deleting following two items:

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.db

Make sure you take a screenshot of your current dock since deleting these files will reset your dock to default.

Now open terminal and do a sudo reboot w/ your password.

This solved the problem for me.

@hifidk - This worked! Well, the only file I could find was the first one... but removing that and doing a forced reboot worked.

Thanks, hifidk.

It solved my problem, too.

Got exactly the same problem here, but strangly i have none of these both files in my ~/Library/Preferences/

I only got ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dockfixup.plist

Are you sure you are looking at your home directory?

Right click on Finder on your dock and select "go to folder..." and type in ~/Library/Preferences/

You can probably find those files in that folder.

Ops.. my bad! Worked for me, Thanks!

Thank you for this fix, I was ready to do something... drastic.

Worked for me too!!