So, it can't tell it's shutting down, it's plain dead. It means it's dead but everyone believe it's still alive.
Today, with Time Machine, if you've experienced a connection problem with your TM drive - such as a rocked FW connector - you can have the 'backupd' daemon hosed to a point it has entered what is called the 'zombie' state. On all Unix systems, your shutdown procedure can be impacted during its execution by a problem 'unmounting' a file-system Keep in mind we're not in your back looking at what your doing over your shoulder.Ī/ How do you proceed to 'shutdown' your Mac, today?ī/ Do you have some external drive connected to your Mac?Ĭ/ Do you have some remote file-systems mounted? Which protocol? Now, you've got to tell us a bit more about your machine.
Period!ĭon't ever kill power of your Mac by removing its battery! > You can always shutdown your MB by holding pressed down the power button for some 10-15'. That's a bad one! (bad thing to do, I mean) When I start the MacBook and shut it down immediately without using the applications, it works normal. I can only stop this by taking out the battery. After installing 10.5.3 my MacBook shows instead of shutting down a small rotating wheel on the screen.
