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CelesteMarina

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Registered: 2023-09-20

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Shutdown does not turn off computer (all peripherals off) (new GPU)

Since replacing my old Nvidia 1060 with an AMD 7800XT, neither shutdown nor poweroff result in a full system shutdown. All peripherals are disabled (no display. Keyboard and mouse both unpowered) but the hardware inside the case continues running indefinitely.

This occurs in both the installation medium (2023.09.01) and on my installation. systemctl poweroff -f does appear to completely shutdown the system. (Edit: actually unsure. It worked once but I can't replicate it anymore.)

This is the journalctl from an offending boot, with the debug kernel parameter: https://0x0.st/HOED.2.log
The Xorg log: https://0x0.st/HOEl.log.old

My default grub command line is

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet intel_iommu=on iommu=pt vfio_iommu_type1.allow_unsafe_interrupts=1 kvm.ignore_msrs=1"

(I have no clue which of these is there by default, the rest are probably there from experimenting ages ago.)

mkinitcpio.conf has no modules, binaries, or files. The hooks are:

HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf block lvm2 usr filesystems keyboard fsck)

I've seen some reference to nvidia drivers breaking things, but neither grepping pacman -Q for nvidia nor nouveau returns anything anymore.

I'm not exactly sure if this is all the relevant information, as I couldn't see anything useful (but I'm relatively inexperienced). I'm happy to provide whatever data/logs necessary.

This is a quite severe issue, as if I don't remember to manually unmount the boot partition, it becomes damaged, blocks POST until the drive is removed, and requires fs repair and a reinstall of grub.

Last edited by CelesteMarina (2023-09-21 03:00:02)

V1del

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Re: Shutdown does not turn off computer (all peripherals off) (new GPU)

There by default is "loglevel=3 quiet". I strongly suggest you remove all of the other ones.

The xorg log is old, but if any of these files are still present, remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf

That said I don't see anything immediately off in the journal. I suggest you do a UEFI firmware update especially since upgrading to newer hardware.

Last edited by V1del (2023-09-20 15:05:49)

CelesteMarina

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Registered: 2023-09-20

Posts: 3

Re: Shutdown does not turn off computer (all peripherals off) (new GPU)

There by default is "loglevel=3 quiet". I strongly suggest you remove all of the other ones.

The xorg log is old, but if any of these files are still present, remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf

That said I don't see anything immediately off in the journal. I suggest you do a UEFI firmware update especially since upgrading to newer hardware.

I've removed all the extra args, though they didn't seem to be related to the issue.

That is an old xorg... huh... the latest I can find in /var/log is dated from like 9 days ago. I'm a little confused now, I'll have to look at it more thoroughly a bit later... the nvidia config was removed a few days ago.

The UEFI firmware I updated yesterday with no change.

Edit: I checked, and although the newest log is dated 13/09/2023, it actually corresponds to today? I'm confused as to how that happened, but I didn't have an AMD device on the 13th, nor display port monitors, yet both of those show up in that log.
Either way, the log is uneventful, though I've amended the original post with the correct Xorg log link.

Edit (2): I'm an idiot. That's the datetime for the kernel build. I also updated the journal log because it seems like the debug flag was overridden before? Either way, this log should be accurate: https://0x0.st/HOED.2.log

Edit (3): Very occasionally, the keyboard and mouse stay powered on. The display always seems to be disabled though.

Last edited by CelesteMarina (2023-09-21 00:20:22)