Slow shutdown with blinking cursor

PotatoFuhrer · 2021-11-19 05:10:59

Recently installed Arch a few days ago, and I've noticed it takes a few minutes to shutdown, just showing a blank screen with a blinking cursor in the top left corner. Sometimes it will show

@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^

before the blinking cursor.

Here is the output of my journactl:
http://ix.io/3FpQ

Neofetch output:

 max@maxbook  ~  neofetch
                   -`                    max@maxbook 
                  .o+`                   ----------- 
                 `ooo/                   OS: Arch Linux x86_64 
                `+oooo:                  Host: MacBookPro11,1 1.0 
               `+oooooo:                 Kernel: 5.15.2-arch1-1 
               -+oooooo+:                Uptime: 15 mins 
             `/:-:++oooo+:               Packages: 1251 (pacman) 
            `/++++/+++++++:              Shell: zsh 5.8 
           `/++++++++++++++:             Resolution: 2560x1600 
          `/+++ooooooooooooo/`           DE: Plasma 5.23.3 
         ./ooosssso++osssssso+`          WM: kwin 
        .oossssso-````/ossssss+`         Theme: Breeze Light [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3] 
       -osssssso.      :ssssssso.        Icons: [Plasma], Tela-circle-dark [GTK2/3] 
      :osssssss/        osssso+++.       Terminal: yakuake 
     /ossssssss/        +ssssooo/-       CPU: Intel i5-4278U (4) @ 3.100GHz 
   `/ossssso+/:-        -:/+osssso+-     GPU: Intel Haswell-ULT 
  `+sso+:-`                 `.-/+oso:    Memory: 2522MiB / 7859MiB 
 `++:.                           `-/+/
 .`                                 `/                           
                                                                 


 max@maxbook  ~ 

PotatoFuhrer · 2021-11-19 05:15:26

The solution in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2002155 didn't seem to fix my problem.

seth · 2021-11-19 07:08:57

You're concurrently running dhcpcd and networkmanager. Pick one, disable the other.

The journal however shows you stumbling out of plasma and SDDM starting a new greeter during the shutdown.
=> Post one where you first log out and then shutdown from sddm.

Interestingly, there's no message from kwin *at all* during the boot …

PotatoFuhrer · 2021-11-20 00:50:12

I removed dhcpcd and tried the log out and shutdown method, and this was probably the quickest shutdown I've had yet. Although, I had seem someone post about this before and I had tried the log out and then shutdown and it still took way too long power off. So I'm not sure if the issue is intermittent or not.

Here is the output of

journalctl -b -1 >> ~/bootlog.txt

after trying the above mentioned.
bootlog.txt

Arch Linux

#1 2021-11-19 05:10:59

Slow shutdown with blinking cursor

#2 2021-11-19 05:15:26

Re: Slow shutdown with blinking cursor

#3 2021-11-19 07:08:57

Re: Slow shutdown with blinking cursor

#4 2021-11-20 00:50:12

Re: Slow shutdown with blinking cursor

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