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How to cleanly shut down when things go wrong
Authored by: xevious70 on Feb 07, '05 03:30:28PM
Greetings: I'm really glad to have found this site, and especially this thread. I was experiencing a no-shutdown / restart problem this morning (G4 800MHz / OS 10.3.7) and it was getting pretty annoying.

I'd never touched the Terminal feature of my G4 (and never wanted to, since I don't know how to use it) - but after reading this thread I had the confidence to go to Terminal and key in
sudo shutdown -r now
to gracefully restart...and it did.

Heh - I'll admit, that was the first time I'd typed in code since my Basic Computer Programming class in 1983, when we used TRS-80s. But it worked. So thanks a bunch.

Yours,
X70

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