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nourathar

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From: Bxl

Registered: 2013-04-26

Posts: 109

another reboot instead of shutdown; where are shutdown logs ?

Hi,

since yesterday my desktop computer consistently reboots when I want to shutdown.
Yesterday I did pacman -Syu and updated to the most recent kernel, also I had a HD crash and removed one of my HDs from the system (and from my fstab).

I've read most of the old forum threads on 'rebooting instead of shutting down'; hard to see a pattern there !

My question is very concrete:

I shut down by typing: shutdown now
and just before the system goes down it displays two lines that do not stay long enough to read.

The first says something like 'something something mismatch'
the second says 'reboot'.

So I am assuming that some error detected on shutdown causes the system to reboot instead of shutdown.

my questions:

- could there be any substance to this line of reasoning ?
- are these shutdown messages kept in a log someplace ?
I looked at everything there is in /var/log but did not find this.

thanks !

Joost.

Last edited by nourathar (2015-09-30 06:54:14)

jasonwryan

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Re: another reboot instead of shutdown; where are shutdown logs ?

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niceman

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Registered: 2015-08-31

Posts: 55

Re: another reboot instead of shutdown; where are shutdown logs ?

after reboot use: 

journalctl -b 1

this will tell you what happened since your last boot until your last shutdown(which actually reboots but you will see the message there I think). 

press END key to go to the last of events.