Restarting the system, while shutting down I see a message saying something like "stop job for user … " is running… and it takes long long time. CTL+ALT+Del seemed to stop it but did not actually shutdown or restart. Unfortunately I had to use power button. I can’t remember I had this before… mayb…

[image] [Tip] Enable Magic SysRq Key (REISUB) Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware The Linux kernel authors have provided a very nice feature of issuing low-level commands to the kernel directly, regardless of the state the system is in. This is called the “Magic SysRq Key”, …

[image] limotux: Unfortunately I had to use power button. Don’t do that. Especially on btrfs. Can easily corrupt the entire filesystem. [image] limotux: What might be causing this? Is there a way to avoid it? It means something is still running when you try to shutdown.

[image] dalto: Don’t do that. Especially on btrfs. Can easily corrupt the entire filesystem. Oh nooooooes! Not on the-future-of-linux-much-better-than-anything-else-fs !?!??! :scream: :scream_cat: :dizzy_face: :exploding_head: Who could have possibly see that coming… [honka_animated-128px-…

[image] dalto: Don’t do that. Especially on btrfs. Can easily corrupt the entire filesystem. It was saying like 3 minutes remaining, then 4 minutes remaining… I can’t think of waiting even 3 minutes to reboot! [image] dalto: It means something is still running when you try to shutdown. …

[image] limotux: I can’t think of waiting even 3 minutes to reboot! I assure you it will take more than 3 minutes to reinstall and restore all your data from backup. [image] limotux: What? and how to avoid it? It is your system, only you can know what is running…

A good place to start would be your Journal check last boot and scroll to the end journalctl -b -1

[image] keybreak: Oh nooooooes! Not on the-future-of-linux-much-better-than-anything-else-fs !?!??! :scream: :scream_cat: :dizzy_face: :exploding_head: Who could have possibly see that coming… I can not think of something running that needs 4 minutes to shut down! [image] dalto: It is …

[image] KDen: journalctl -b -1 I wonder if this helps Oct 16 18:09:01 asus sddm[348]: Socket server started. Oct 16 18:09:01 asus sddm[348]: Loading theme configuration from "/usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf" Oct 16 18:09:01 asus sddm[348]: Greeter starting... Oct 16 18:09:01 asus sd…

Never seen that before so maybe someone else will have an idea. In the mean time I found this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=212327 Which sounds like your filesystem is not getting unmounted properly potentially your swaps. Do you use a swap partition?

WOW! I did it! Switched off and back on in a second! (biut did not have WiFi after restarting) A normal restart everything is back to normal. [image] KDen: filesystem is not getting unmounted properly potentially your swaps. Do you use a swap partition? I do not remember I set any swap dur…

[image] KDen: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=212327 Which sounds like your filesystem is not getting unmounted properly potentially your swaps. Do you use a swap partition? Thanks @KDen It seems similar somehow to my case. But in my case it was mentioning something like “user” a…

Restarting -> stop job for user running!

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sradjoker October 16, 2022, 4:22pm 3

Poweroff gets stuck with "A stop job is running for ..." messages