hfsplus problems

[jd1008]

I have a 4tb hfsplus partition.
Mounting and writing to it present no problems.
However
1. sync command hangs
2. umount of any hfsplus partion, hangs.
3. reboot hangs (it never reboots, forcing me to use the hard reset)
4. shutdown now hangs requires hard reset.
5. using the gui  system -> shutdown -> [shutdown|restart|suspend|hibernate]
    hang forever, thus also requiring hard reset.

The rpm is: hfsplus-tools-540.1.linux3-9.fc22.x86_64