Mac OS 10.5 MacBookPro
Okay, let's face it...I screwed up big time. Back in 10.4 (Tiger) days I
was downloading an update (I don't remember which) and in my impatience
began another task on my Mac whilst the download and update progressed.
BIG MISTAKE!! Since then the Mac will not shutdown nor restart without
holding down the power button for several secands or taking out the
battery. I thought that updating to Leopard would fix it.No deal. Still
won't behave. Does anyone, anywhere, anyhow, have a solution at hand?
There must be a way to fix this! Have a heart on a blunderer; I promise
not to do it again.

ALAN COHEN wrote:
> Mac OS 10.5 MacBookPro
> Okay, let's face it...I screwed up big time. Back in 10.4 (Tiger) days I
> was downloading an update (I don't remember which) and in my impatience
> began another task on my Mac whilst the download and update progressed.
> BIG MISTAKE!! Since then the Mac will not shutdown nor restart without
> holding down the power button for several secands or taking out the
> battery. I thought that updating to Leopard would fix it.No deal. Still
> won't behave. Does anyone, anywhere, anyhow, have a solution at hand?
> There must be a way to fix this! Have a heart on a blunderer; I promise
> not to do it again.


A clean brand new install of your OS? Not just an upgrade, since that
may not fix the broken bit you have. Do back up you personal info before
proceeding.

Barnacle Bill the Sailor wrote:
> ALAN COHEN wrote:
>> Mac OS 10.5 MacBookPro
>> Okay, let's face it...I screwed up big time. Back in 10.4 (Tiger) days I
>> was downloading an update (I don't remember which) and in my impatience
>> began another task on my Mac whilst the download and update progressed.
>> BIG MISTAKE!! Since then the Mac will not shutdown nor restart without
>> holding down the power button for several secands or taking out the
>> battery. I thought that updating to Leopard would fix it.No deal. Still
>> won't behave. Does anyone, anywhere, anyhow, have a solution at hand?
>> There must be a way to fix this! Have a heart on a blunderer; I promise
>> not to do it again.
>
>
> A clean brand new install of your OS? Not just an upgrade, since that
> may not fix the broken bit you have. Do back up you personal info before
> proceeding.


Oh, and I put Leopard on my mini mac and while it got it's first bundle
of patches after first boot I did some other poking around. No ill
effects and when updates were done, I was invited to reboot which went
as it should. Therefore presume something is amiss in your machine that
had only a coincidental relationship with what you were doing whilst the
install went on.