[solved] Shutdown troubles

mouseman · 2016-04-27 11:51:16

Since a couple of weeks I'm running into either one of these 2 issues.

1. I shutdown or reboot my system and the screen turns black, numlock gets stuck, HDD led blinks a few more times and then nothing. I need to hard reset or keep power pressed for 4 seconds to turn it off.

Here's what the journal looks like after that happens:

apr 27 13:22:37 atlantis systemd[1]: Starting Hostname Service...
apr 27 13:22:37 atlantis dbus[1639]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.hostname1'
apr 27 13:22:37 atlantis systemd[1]: Started Hostname Service.
apr 27 13:23:00 atlantis syncthing[2054]: [EFHLS] INFO: Established secure connection to Z6CBNMM-7PR3S3J-EF26PEZ-SS2PDM6
apr 27 13:23:00 atlantis syncthing[2054]: [EFHLS] INFO: Device Z6CBNMM-7PR3S3J-EF26PEZ-SS2PDM6-H4ESNLC-RT4WCK7-K7QDSGB-X
apr 27 13:27:18 atlantis syncthing[2054]: [EFHLS] INFO: Joined relay relay://138.201.27.188:20140/?id=I6L6JV7-I74OFF3-6R
apr 27 13:27:44 atlantis syncthing-inotify[2056]: [OK] Syncthing is indexing change in MasterDB: [.master.kdbx.lock .mas
apr 27 13:31:24 atlantis sudo[2726]:  citizen : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/citizen ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/zfs umount 
apr 27 13:31:24 atlantis sudo[2726]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
apr 27 13:31:25 atlantis sudo[2726]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
apr 27 13:31:38 atlantis systemd-logind[1628]: System is rebooting.
apr 27 13:31:38 atlantis systemd[1]: Stopped target Sound Card.
lines 1332-1380/1380 (END)

2. The system enters shutdown process, I get the staggered messages on screen and then it hangs. When I hit ctrl-alt-del, I see a message stating it failed to start Generate shutdown-ramfs. See systemctl status mkinitcpio-generate-shutdown-ramfs.service. Systemctl status doesn't show anything of course but journalctl --unit shows past messages:

-- Reboot --
apr 25 19:43:19 atlantis systemd[1]: Starting Generate shutdown-ramfs...
apr 25 19:43:20 atlantis mkinitcpio[2979]: ==> Starting build: none
apr 25 19:43:20 atlantis mkinitcpio[2979]:   -> Running build hook: [sd-shutdown]
apr 25 19:43:20 atlantis mkinitcpio[2979]: ==> Build complete.
apr 25 19:43:20 atlantis systemd[1]: Started Generate shutdown-ramfs.
-- Reboot --
apr 27 11:14:11 atlantis systemd[1]: Starting Generate shutdown-ramfs...
apr 27 11:14:11 atlantis mkinitcpio[2023]: ==> Starting build: none
apr 27 11:14:11 atlantis mkinitcpio[2023]:   -> Running build hook: [sd-shutdown]
apr 27 11:14:11 atlantis mkinitcpio[2023]: ==> Build complete.
apr 27 11:14:11 atlantis systemd[1]: Started Generate shutdown-ramfs.
apr 27 11:14:25 atlantis systemd[1]: mkinitcpio-generate-shutdown-ramfs.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
apr 27 11:14:25 atlantis systemd[1]: Failed to start Generate shutdown-ramfs.
apr 27 11:14:25 atlantis systemd[1]: mkinitcpio-generate-shutdown-ramfs.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
apr 27 11:14:25 atlantis systemd[1]: Failed to start Generate shutdown-ramfs.
apr 27 11:14:27 atlantis systemd[1]: mkinitcpio-generate-shutdown-ramfs.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
apr 27 11:14:27 atlantis systemd[1]: Failed to start Generate shutdown-ramfs.
apr 27 11:14:28 atlantis systemd[1]: mkinitcpio-generate-shutdown-ramfs.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
apr 27 11:14:28 atlantis systemd[1]: Failed to start Generate shutdown-ramfs.
apr 27 11:14:28 atlantis systemd[1]: mkinitcpio-generate-shutdown-ramfs.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
apr 27 11:14:28 atlantis systemd[1]: Failed to start Generate shutdown-ramfs.
apr 27 11:14:28 atlantis systemd[1]: mkinitcpio-generate-shutdown-ramfs.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
apr 27 11:14:28 atlantis systemd[1]: Failed to start Generate shutdown-ramfs.
apr 27 11:14:28 atlantis systemd[1]: mkinitcpio-generate-shutdown-ramfs.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
apr 27 11:14:28 atlantis systemd[1]: Failed to start Generate shutdown-ramfs.
apr 27 11:14:28 atlantis systemd[1]: mkinitcpio-generate-shutdown-ramfs.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
apr 27 11:14:28 atlantis systemd[1]: Failed to start Generate shutdown-ramfs.
apr 27 11:14:28 atlantis systemd[1]: mkinitcpio-generate-shutdown-ramfs.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
apr 27 11:14:28 atlantis systemd[1]: Failed to start Generate shutdown-ramfs.
lines 105-153/153 (END)

As you can see it goes well a few times and then fails continuously. I have not found a reason for when it fails or succeeds to reboot or shutdown.

I found this bug report, but I doubt it is related, I could be wrong, its just that this is the time I get this message. Searches about generate ramfs and this error come up empty or seems unrelated to me.

Every once in a very while, the system reboots or shuts down correctly, but it doesn't happen very often. Almost every time, I get the immediate blank screen. Sometimes I see the generate shutdown message.

I would appreciate some help with this problem as I'm continually hard resetting my system. It's handling it but I guess it's a matter of time before that borks up the system.

Thanks for the help!

Last edited by mouseman (2016-04-28 10:10:01)

mouseman · 2016-04-28 10:16:07

It;s not actually solved, but I've wiped the system and reinstalling. Wanted to reorganize partitions and disks anyway so now is as good a time as any.

I did find out that when I shutdown from Plasma instead of XFCE it actually shuts down correctly. Maybe openbox or compton got in the way I dont know.

Abaddon · 2016-04-29 21:24:15

I face the same issue.

Arch Linux

#1 2016-04-27 11:51:16

[solved] Shutdown troubles

#2 2016-04-28 10:16:07

Re: [solved] Shutdown troubles

#3 2016-04-29 21:24:15

Re: [solved] Shutdown troubles

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