Hello everyone, nice to find some local help. Installed RH 7.1 on my desktop and everything worked fine for awhile, but now my machine wont shutdown properly until I shutdown/reboot/shutdown a second time. When I choose shutdown the first time all the process' are ended but then they restart themselves and then the process takes me to the DOS login screen which is where I do the three-finger salute and the process starts over and delievers me to the GUI login screen...I choose Shutdown a second time and only then can I power down properly. Upon the reboot I get the following error message "Shutting down kernal logger FAILED" Is this because of the reboot? On the second shutdown I go back to the DOS login screen but the following happens: MKC-65.26.XX.XXX Login: md recovery thread got woken up md: recovery thread finished md recoevery at (0) flushing signals Stopping all md devices Power down (where XXX is my internet address) Any ideas/thoughts as to what is causing this? Your help is appreciated and thanks in advance. Robert Berger OP KS