Can't shutdown/restart Mac...

This is very strange... I was attempting to reboot my Mac to play a game on the Windoze Bootcamp partition, but the system will NOT restart. I try restart and it comes up with something saying an application was unable to shutdown to try again. I shutdown that application via the activity monitor and try again and same results. I'm afraid I'm going to have to hard boot the system to get it to shutdown.

Any thoughts on this strange behavior?

Unplug the cord and pull the battery out (assuming it's a notebook) and try starting it up again. To me, it seems like your only option.

Assuming it is not a notebook (by looking in your sig) Unplug it and than upon hold down the keys P R A M option and command and than press the power button.

The Vindicat3d said:

Assuming it is not a notebook (by looking in your sig)

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If I could only read...

It was very odd in that I could do pretty much anything else with the system. I could launch programs and whatnot... I ended up holding down the power button until it powered off. This did reboot the system and it came up fine afterwards. I believe that the problem was some weird issue with Firefox because when I restarted Firefox it came up with the restore session option.

Anyway, I'll be rebooting again soon to see if this was an anomaly or something more.