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schmurfy

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Registered: 2015-03-22

Posts: 11

No power down on shutdown

Hi,
I am running archlinux on this: http://www.zotac.com/products/mini-pcs/ … tions.html
I have most of what I need working out of the box but reboot / shutdown stops before powerding down the machine and I can't figure out why.

The last thing I see on screen when shutting it down is:

 cgroup: option or name mismatch, new: 0x0 "", old: 0x4 "systemd"

After this nothing happens but the keyboard is not longer doing anything and the network is down (no longer answer pings), it seems like linux is shutdown and stopped right before powering down the machine
I searched it but apparently this is a harmless error which would not be related to my issue.

I can provide more logs/information as needed, I am currently out of ideas.

Ps: I tried running openelec from an usb key and it can power down the machine so the hardware itself seems able to do it

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: No power down on shutdown

Do you have any attached drives?
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic. … 37#p422837

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schmurfy

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Registered: 2015-03-22

Posts: 11

Re: No power down on shutdown

No drives attached, I only have an USB dongle for a remote but I tried to remove it before initiating the shutdown without any impact

schmurfy

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Registered: 2015-03-22

Posts: 11

Re: No power down on shutdown

Which part of the computer handles this ? I suppose it falls under the ACPI subsystem but is it tied to the CPU or the chipset of the motherboard ? (if that makes any sense, I am not familiar with this part of the hardware at all xD)

schmurfy

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Registered: 2015-03-22

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Re: No power down on shutdown

Can someone point me in a direction ? I am currently clueless as to what I could even look at.

firekage

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From: Eastern Europe, Poland

Registered: 2013-06-30

Posts: 624

Re: No power down on shutdown

Do you have nfs-utils installed? If yes - try to downgrade it. This error in first post i think is not an problematic matter, i also have it but i can shutdown on the spot.

schmurfy

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Registered: 2015-03-22

Posts: 11

Re: No power down on shutdown

nothing nfs related installed
On a brand new archlinux installed I already had the issue without installing anything more than he base system.

dcdriving

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2015-01-20

Posts: 70

Re: No power down on shutdown

Have a look at this thread below?  I had this issue though when shutting down from a graphical environment but had no issue when using LTS kernel.  Rolling back to previous kernel also resolved issue as last post below suggests.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=195486

edit: My bad.  This only really affected me when using [testing].  Sorry.

Last edited by dcdriving (2015-04-05 11:24:01)

schmurfy

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Registered: 2015-03-22

Posts: 11

Re: No power down on shutdown

I am starting to think it might be systemd related, when booting on a simple usb based linux install without systemd it manages to poweroff just fine.
Can I issue a poweroff as the old poweroff executable would to check that it works ? (I mean bypass systemd since poweroff is now a symlink to systemctl)

schmurfy

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Registered: 2015-03-22

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Re: No power down on shutdown

I finally found the solution if it can help anyone:

the board I am using supports both UEFI mode and legacy mode for  MBR boot, my system was installed with an MBR boot and in this mode for some reason the system can not power off the machine.
Since I had a drive failure (it was an old one) I reinstalled using UEFI this time and switched my bios to EUFI mode and now it appears I can properly power off the system, yeah

numbchild

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Registered: 2010-05-22

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Re: No power down on shutdown

I have the same issue. it hangs indefinitely when shutdown. I guess same issue with upper post, I need to install UEFI Arch.

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