Shutdown problems

[radtek]

Whenever I try to shutdown or reboot my laptop it hangs right after the time spent up log. I have to hard shutdown at that point. Doesn't happen with my desktop...

I found the desktop's shutdown had binary content. On my laptop the file exists but is blank. I was going to copy the file over but ran into ownership problems between the file and my flash drive. I was about to chown the file, but I'm wondering what affect that might have when I replace it in my /sbin directory. Maybe a security issue I don't want.

There has to be a simple solution.

Any help would be appreciated.

rad