when I logged out I experienced the same hanging of the system described by others, but in a very unlucky case I've had my reiserfs compromised because my PC was unable to completely shutdown and poweroff itself and I needed to push the power button.
Does this mean that it wasn't even possible to do a Ctrl-Alt-F1 to change into a console as root and issue "shutdown -h now" to cleanly shut down the system?
(I don't know how experienced with Linux you are, so here's my advice: never push the button if shutting down the system cleanly like shown above is possible) *t -- -------------------------------------------------------- Tomas Pospisek http://sourcepole.com - Linux & Open Source Solutions --------------------------------------------------------