Refers to shutting down a computer, smartphone, tablet etc. The process of powering down a device such as a computer, smartphone or tablet.
Questions tagged [shutdown]
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How graceless is shutdown?
Shutting down the machine from the command line with e.g. shutdown -h seems as if it would not be particularly graceful, but on a scale of "Pulling the power cord out of the wall" to "Going through the standard shutdown procedure from the Menu",…
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MacBook Pro takes 10 minutes to shutdown
I have a 2016 MacBook Pro 15", running macOS Sierra, which fails to shutdown properly. Originally when I closed all applications and then went to shutdown, it would take less than 10 seconds to completely power down.
My problem:
Now, when shutting…
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Mac on High Sierra won't shutdown cleanly: black screen with mouse
Similar to issue "mac book pro sierra does not shutdown stays idle with a black screen and mouse".
Apple logo > Shutdown leads to black screen with mouse cursor. Stays like that for hours.
Realized this problem because it wouldn't install Mojave…
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Shutdown Cause: -102
My mid 2009 15" Macbook Pro (2.53 Ghz) has recently been shutting down at random. Doesn't matter if plugged into battery or not.
Terminal has diagnosed the shutdown cause as -102 (there are also a few -128 causes). I can't find what this cause…
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Mac freeze and shutdown randomly
Since months my mac shutdown at random moments , i couldn't find any specific app that made it.
Can you guys help me ? = (
Also my mail keep opening randomly , i saw that it's about google calendar but i can't find a fix that works for me .
Thank…
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MacBook pro 2017 shuts down randomly (shutdown cause 5)
I have a 13" 2017 MacBook pro that shuts down randomly.
Checking the logs I only see
2023-01-25 18:21:20.028735+0200 0x2ce Default 0x0 0 0 kernel: (AppleSMC) Previous shutdown cause: 5
I checked for previous…
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Previous shutdown cause: -59
My MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2019) keeps on shutting down overnight. When I come to it in the morning and try to turn it on, it takes at least 10 seconds of holding the power button to turn it on. If I check the kernel logs, among the normal…
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MacBook hangs on shutdown. It shows a progress spinner on black background. (Verbose printout included)
I have a macbook air 1.4 Core i5 with macOS sierra.
It hangs every time I shut it down. Thus, I cannot update it to high sierra.
Using command+v I was able to screenshot the printout during the shutdown sequence.
Failed to send exception…
Anon21
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Reopen all the windows after shutdown
There was once a feature that reopened all the windows on startup. Is it possible to enable that somehow, even the checkbox "Reopen all windows ..." disappeared.
Did this happen because of an update ? I it possible to revert back to an older version…
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Mac crashing randomly for the admin user. Works fine when using as a guest user. Any help appreciated
Here is the error log
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xfffffff0193768d0): "i2c0::_checkBusStatus SCL is stuck low; last write status 00010108 int shadow 00010100 xfer 00000000 fifo 00000000 for device audio-tas5770L-spkr-woofer-l"…
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Shutdown Script in macOS / RAM Disk Backup
I'm attempting to create a shutdown script in macOS (10.11) - that is, a script that runs at shutdown, not a script that shut's down the Mac. The linux "rc" system is not present in macOS.
I've searched and searched for a solution, and this is the…
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