G5 freezes when restarting or shutting down

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I have a Dual 1.8 GHz PowerPC G5, 2.5 GB of RAM and it keeps freezing everytime I try to restart or shut down the computer.

It will close out any open programs and the dock and top menu bar will go away and it just freezes with my desktop image up. I have tried to be patient, but I have left it overnight and come back to see it still idling. I often have to force quit it from the power button from the front. I imagine after a while this will put some strain on things.

Any ideas of what might be causing this? Some of my other co-workers that are on comparable machines complain about the same problem. Any ideas would be helpful!

I am using OS 10.4.8. I have run permissions and that didn't seem to do anything.

Thanks in advance,
Carol
 
If your coworkers have the same exact problem then we net some network setup issue. I ask this because the if you all use a server login (on your Macs) then something might be wrong there.
 
It also could be some program running in the background that refuses to quit - fire up Activity Monitor and try closing a few processes that look suspicious.
 
All programs seem to close before it freezes. We are logged onto an XServe, so maybe eject them before we shut down? Could simply being logged into a server cause it to freeze up?

Thanks for your help so far!
 
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