Sorry, forgot to mention, a real nasty side effect: I cannot run the task manager - Ctrl-Alt-Del does not work! So all I can do is just sit there twiddling my thumbs.
I will try running the task manager *before* attempting to log off though and see what's going on. I will also run ps -W, ps -a and netstat -an before attempting it too, and post all the results here tomorrow (I have to wait a day for this problem to occur each time so the turn-around is a bit longwinded) Regards --------------------------------- Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert. http://www.q-games.com "Andrew DeFaria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dylan Cuthbert wrote: > > > The problem: > > > > After about a day's work I go to logoff or shutdown and the machine > > just sits there, fully operational and "in the process of logging > > off", so I can't open any new tasks but I can open up a file explorer > > window or the start menu etc. If I wait long enough (and I mean 15 > > minutes to several hours) the machine will eventually log off > > succussfully. > > While in this "in the process of logging off" mode, start the > TaskManager (or better yet have the TaskManager running when you attempt > shutdown), then selectively start killing processes. If you kill a > process and wham you logout that's probably the culprit! > > Note you cannot kill services with the TaskManager. You can either: > Start the Services applet and attempt to shutdown the services or have a > console window running and try net stop "sevice name" or do what I do, > get Process Explorer from SysInternals which allows you to kill services. > > Good luck. > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
