Comments on: OS X: Finder won’t quit - Logout Timeout

By: Joe Hutsko

Joe Hutsko — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:44:37 +0000

Thanks for the tip, mikes, worked for me as well. - JOEyGADGET

By: mikes

mikes — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:00:17 +0000

A buddy of mine was just having this problem. I shut his computerdown by holding the powerkey down. Zapped his pram and the problem is gone. option+command+p+r

By: Macca

Macca — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:50:19 +0000

@Wiggles

Just killing the window server process kicks you back to the login, after which it’s fine again for an indeterminate amount of time. As an aside, It hasn’t happened since I stopped using Adium….

By: Wiggles

Wiggles — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:32:56 +0000

It’s definitely not anything to do with USB devices as i’ve had this exact problem on my MB Pro with nothing attached. As mentioned before it’s definitely related to sleep as sometimes you open the lid and login, and instead it goes back to sleep. Close the lid, open and login again and everything appears ok except hot-corners screen saver doesn’t work (as in literally its like the corners have been disabled) and you have this same same problem with the finder not quitting. Very odd….did clearing the virtual memory work?

By: Scott Shattuck

Scott Shattuck — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:21:34 +0000

A workaround is that you can enable fast user switching, provided you have at least one other account (Guest perhaps). Then you can select “Login Window…” from the fast user menu bar item. This locks the account without losing the active work.

By: Macca

Macca — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:36:39 +0000

@PAC - Nope, not yet. I’ve just migrated to a brand new Macbook Pro running 10.5.2 and got the same problem within 2 days.
I have a hypothesis now that this is to do with devices connected over USB, I had both an iPod and a Windows Mobile 6 phone connected at sleep and wake time.
I don’t think i’ve seen this occur without things connected up at either sleep or wake.

By: PAC

PAC — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:44:51 +0000

Same problem here. Has anyone found a definitive fix?

By: Macca

Macca — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:24:45 +0000

@Chiang - What a timely post - as soon as I got to the office today, I had the same issue again.
I’ve followed your instructions, it booted to safe mode (eventually) then I rebooted to normal.
Lets see how long it lasts now..

Thanks.

By: Chiang

Chiang — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:25:36 +0000

Next time, if it crashes like that, try this command in terminal to do soft shutdown:

sudo shutdown -h now

Then, restart the computer and hold shift key until you see the clock is running.
After log in, wait for several min to let computer clean up the virtual memory and then restart it.

By: Macca

Macca — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:58:10 +0000

@biggflynn
Do you get the same problem with out that connected? Try shutting down, unplug that from the USB completely, restart and try to shutdown without it.