Problems shutting down Leopard after running Parallels?

Hi all,

Has anyone noticed a problem with shutting down their Mac after Parallels has been running? I'm having a problem where if I've run Parallels (5160, running XP), then when I come to shut down my MacBook, it hangs forever at the closedown screen, spinning its little gearwheel. When I force a shutdown and reboot, the last thing in the system.log in Console is always something like:

Nov 26 08:51:44 Orac Parallels[5517]: Shutdown complete.

Anyone else seeing this? Any ideas? I did an archive & install of Leopard, and reinstalled Parallels afterwards.

Ta,

Matt

 

Hello,

do you close PD before you shut down your Mac?

Best regards,
Alicia.

 

Yup. Every time. I shutdown XP cleanly, then close Parallels. In this case, it'd been several hours since I'd run Parallels that I tried to shutdown the MacBook, and there was nothing running other than the Finder.

 

Do you use a bootcamp partition in a VM or not?
And could you please show the whole system.log file?

Best regards,
Alicia.

 

I had the exact same problem. After running Parallels, any Mac program I opened after that would not launch properly. It would get like halfway opened with the icon appearing in the dock, but no program and it would not quit that half-open program. I had to do a hard reboot. I read on this forum about others having this same problem and the culprit appeared to be Parallels incompatibility with Spaces in Leopard. After running my system repairs, I disabled Spaces (which I love) and everything runs smoothly now. You might want to consider trying that to see if it fixes your problem. I am hoping Parallels will address this problem SOON.

 

It's just a standard parallels disk image; I've never used Boot Camp. Irritatingly, though, I just tried to reproduce the problem to see if I could get you a decent system.log -- the last one crossed midnight so it got split into two, and was over the course of several hours, anyway -- and I couldn't get it to happen again.

I don't think I'm doing anything different, but today my machine seems quite happy to close down after Parallels has been running. If I see it happen again, I'll collect the system.log and let you know.

 

Well, I do have Spaces running, but I've never seen a problem with launching applications after parallels has run; that works just fine for me. It's only shutdown I was having an issue with, so maybe we don't have the same problem.

Cheers,

Matt

 

(Oh, and thanks for the quick reply, by the way!)