>> An old friend with an eMac (1ghz) installed Tiger last week and now
>> has problems shutting down -- he gets the black screen with
>> instructions to restart in a multitude of languages (a Kernel Panic
>> I think its called).  He has removed Norton's and run Disk Utilities
>> -- Repair Permissions all to no avail.
>> 
>> Any suggestions on what to do next will be appreciated please.
>> 
>> Adrian
> 
> Don't shut the machine down.
> 
> Have fun,
> Shay

As weird as it sounds this is my solution on my 2x1.25GHz G4. I get a hang
when shutting down from the GUI. To actually shut down I have to run and
halt and then a shutdown from the command line. Instead of going through
that every time I'm just leaving my machine on.