El Capitan will not restart or shut down.

PS) it's obviously not Soundflower after all. Seems to be a Finder problem. Quitting the Finder first and then restart/shutdown works on my Retina 27" late Oct 2015 (El Capitan10.11.5) but this can't be a solution…!?

ℹDeleted Little Snitch! Basically its because of any of the program not functioning properly, In my case Little snitch got corrupted which was churning out this problem!! The moment I removed . Finder was back to normal and shutdown/restart issue vanished.🙂

Take backup. (although its not compulsory but take it for caution)

And then proceed to lastly if you are unable to find out that program then go to the recovery mode and run disk utility!

if no luck then go for fresh Os download in recovery.

buddysat wrote:

El Capitan will not restart or shut down after I installed it on my MacBook Pro. It simply hangs up and does nothing and I have to manually shut down by holding the power button down.

After installing EC downloaded from the App Store on a clean external Firewire drive partition, I reverted to SN to locate some files and Serial numbers in Mail and finished, attempted to restart in EC via Startup Drive - but EC did not show up. Now there seems to be no way to restart in EC and I fear that if there was a way, then shutting down the box would only activate the same problem.

Is there any way out of this conundrum? I need to occasionally switch back and forth between SN (10.68), and EC - both on external HD partitions.

Thanks

poorfish wrote:

...Is there any way out of this conundrum? I need to occasionally switch back and forth between SN (10.68), and EC - both on external HD partitions...

Boot and hold down the Option key after the chime. Both OS's should appear. Pick the one you want to boot from.

That only worked as long as there was a chime - now there is no chime. And so no way to restart into EC from 10.68. Any thoughts?

poorfish wrote:

That only worked as long as there was a chime - now there is no chime. And so no way to restart into EC from 10.68. Any thoughts?

So you're saying that when booting from cold there is no chime? At startup the Mac conducts a Power On Self Test (POST) and the bong confirms that the test was passed. The lack of a chime would suggest serious problems somewhere in the system before the OS loads.

Yeah that was my thought also. Reset SMC and PRAM but still no chime. Cannot boot into Single User mode - Cmd-S does not work at startup. Can't run fsck. Can anything else to be done short of taking the mac in for repair? Or buying a new one ...

same for me mac pro 2010 (old style) BUT - Problem solved with:desactivate Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/Digidesign CoreAudio.plugin

😎

Going to Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/ there is no such plugin as Digidesign CoreAudio.plugin - only an iSightAudio.plugin.

No joy. thanks anyway

it's only there if a third party app install like protools (made by Digidesign) or similar left it there.

for whatever reason and believe me I tried everything - bar re-install to base el cap (I'm on beta 2 10.11.6 so messy to downgrade) on mac pro (last old shape) - and

this fixed the "won't shut down or restart finder (crash) only dock left" issue for me anyway.

I am still on 10.68.

poorfish wrote:

I am still on 10.68.

if you are still running Snow Leopard you might have more luck posting your question here…

Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard

Hi Tomp66, have you find the solution for this ? this is very bad . it happen on my mac mini (late 2012) I tried to re-install, safa-mode, repair and any thing suggested , and no success. the only way I can shut down is from terminal command.

I have 2 macbook. one is very old macbook pro (2009 model) and the other is new macbook 12", both have no issue with the shutdown.

is Apple hearing this problem ?

So, finally in my case (iMac Apple Retina 27" end 2015) the troublemaker was the core in /Library/Application suppourt/Wacom too (like aforesaid) coming with the Wacom Bamboo installer. After deinstallation the Finder restarts/shuts down ordinarily.Unfortunately Wacom provides no update because the Bamboo tablet series is obviously outdated and was replaced by the new Intous-series. This is annoying 😟 Hope my info helps you.

Hi everyone,

What should I remove exactly? I can't find that Audio plugin you are talking about. Am I wrong with the Library path?

Thank you.