shuttin down...waiting, waiting...

[BitWit]

Im noticing that some times my mac takes a longer time to shut down (longer than it does to start up by far).

Does this have something to do with X11?
Is there some huge log file somewhere that is causing this?

 

[Darkshadow]

could be that some application is "reluctant" to quit. Or maybe it just needs to process something and that's taking a while. OS X won't shut down or restart while an application is open - they all have to quit first.

Found that one out when I had Photoshop (Classic one) open and tried to restart - I had been editing a document in Photoshop and hadn't saved it. The save dialog came up, but I had gone to make myself something to eat while my computer was restarting. When I got back, OS X had given me a dialog that said something like "Restart timed out because an application refused to quit" (it was something like that. I think it may have even named Photoshop - which would be something, 'cause it was running in Classic).

So it's very possible some application is just taking a while to quit.