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beej

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[SOLVED] xdm, shutdown, waiting for stopped job

On reboot, I get a 1m30s delay while systemd(?) is waiting for a stopped job. Logs show this after the appropriate amount of time:

Nov 06 15:00:02 borgy systemd[1]: xdm-archlinux.service: State 'stop-sigterm' timed out. Killing.
Nov 06 15:00:02 borgy systemd[1]: xdm-archlinux.service: Killing process 419 (xdm) with signal SIGKILL.
Nov 06 15:00:02 borgy systemd[1]: xdm-archlinux.service: Killing process 447 (Xorg) with signal SIGKILL.
Nov 06 15:00:02 borgy systemd[1]: xdm-archlinux.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL
Nov 06 15:00:02 borgy systemd[1]: xdm-archlinux.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.

My Googlefu is failing me. Anyone seen this one before?

Edit: this seems to happen regardless of how I shutdown, e.g. from XFCE, three-finger salute in console, or shutdown -h now.

Last edited by beej (2017-11-11 05:07:42)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] xdm, shutdown, waiting for stopped job

xdm doesn't respond to SIGTERM, can you kill the process (SIGTERM is the default signal) from VT2 or ssh (ie. w/o shutting down)?

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beej

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Re: [SOLVED] xdm, shutdown, waiting for stopped job

Went into a VC, but shutting down closed all the ttys.

So I manually tried to stop xdm from a VC:

# systemctl stop xdm-archlinux.service 
 
 UNIT                        LOAD   ACTIVE SUB       DESCRIPTION  
 xdm-archlinux.service       loaded deactivating stop-sigterm stop X-Window Display Manager                                              
                                                                                
Nov 10 20:36:53 borgy systemd[1]: Stopping X-Window Display Manager... 
Nov 10 20:38:23 borgy systemd[1]: xdm-archlinux.service: State 'stop-sigterm' timed out. Killing.
Nov 10 20:38:23 borgy systemd[1]: xdm-archlinux.service: Killing process 415 (xdm) with signal SIGKILL.
Nov 10 20:38:23 borgy systemd[1]: xdm-archlinux.service: Killing process 432 (Xorg) with signal SIGKILL.
Nov 10 20:38:23 borgy systemd[1]: xdm-archlinux.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL
Nov 10 20:38:23 borgy systemd[1]: xdm-archlinux.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Nov 10 20:38:23 borgy systemd[1]: Stopped X-Window Display Manager. 
                                                                                
 UNIT                        LOAD   ACTIVE SUB       DESCRIPTION                
 ● xdm-archlinux.service     loaded failed failed    X-Window Display Manager  

After that, I rebooted, and manually tried to SIGTERM the xdm process. It dies as expected. I could even restart it with systemctl afterwards.

beej

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Re: [SOLVED] xdm, shutdown, waiting for stopped job

So somehow xdm.service got enabled as well as xdm-archlinux.service. Not sure how that happened, since I don't recall touching this in a couple years, but the fix was

# systemctl disable xdm.service
# systemctl enable xdm-archlinux.service