SuSE 10 Hangs On Shutdown

SuSE 10.0 (X86-64)
Dual boot with WindowsXP
Use grub boot loader
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My system hangs when trying to shutdown out of SuSE. Once I issue the
shutdown command, I hear about 2 seconds of hard disk activity, and
then nothing. Black screen with a static cursor in the top-left-hand
corner. This is a relatively new install (a few days ago) and the
hanging happened right from the beginning.

I have tried multiple times and /var/log/messages consistently says
this each time:

Feb 1 07:43:01 linux init: Switching to runlevel: 0
Feb 1 07:43:01 linux kernel: bootsplash: status on console 0 changed
to on
Feb 1 07:43:02 linux kernel: bootsplash: status on console 0 changed
to on
Feb 1 07:43:02 linux sshd[6399]: Received signal 15; terminating.


If I hit escape at the right time after shutdown to switch from the
splash screen to the command line, I see this:

Boot logging started on /dev/tty1
Master Resource Control: previous run level:5, switching to runlevel:
Shutting down the Firewall
Shutting down the cupsd
Shutting down the mdnsd
Shutting down the irqbalance
Shutting down the Name Service Cache Daemon
Shutting down the net daemon
Saving random seed
Umount SMB/ CIFS File Systems .shutting down SSH daemon


"top" does not showing anything sucking up CPU resources or memory
just before shutdown, and scanning the processes alive does not reveal
anything unusual.

Anyone have an idea what I could check for? Looks like that SSH
daemon is a common theme. Could that be it, and why?

Rob

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