OK, who's been fooling around with something so that since some updates done yesterday (my time, Australian Eastern Daylight Time) oS 12.1 [32-bit] will not shutdown the way it has been doing for....for....for ever? :-( Right-click on Desktop, select Leave>Shutdown the Computer - and the system hangs :-( . No mouse, no keyboard.....just the green screen with the gecko sitting there in the bottom-right corner staring at me..... Even using ALT-CTRL-F3, logging in as root and issuing the 'halt' command results in.....nothing :-( . Black screen, the computer keeps running...The only way to stop it is to physically power-off. Surely I am not the only one suddenly suffering this hassle? BC -- Aspire to inspire before you expire. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org