I've seen posts the same of this thousands of times with this error; am I the only one in the world that doesn't have the above working for them?

The service restart never works so I don't try no more, I find the running process, kill the PID then restart the service and the host agent still hangs.

I end up having to do a restart "shutdown -r now" command then after stopping all the processes etc it sits at restarting the system until I manually power off the machine (left it 30~ hours once).

Not sure if this is beyond the scope of this subject but any help will be apreicated as it's every week this happens; only thing that's changed is I've added a new OpenFiler iSCSI storage share...