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Synek

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Registered: 2013-03-24

Posts: 17

System hangs on shutdown on fresh install

I just installed the september iso and my system hangs on either one of two lines on shutdown:

kvm: exiting hardware virtualization

or

sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache

sda is the SSD with my /root on it, /home and swap are on sdb (HDD).

I don't know if it's related, but I had an issue with umounting /mnt at the end of the installation. It was 'busy' but I couldn't find the process that was running on it using lsof. I did 'umount -l /mnt' and it seemed to unmount, though.

I am new to Linux and Arch so try to be descriptiove when asking me to paste outputs and logs.

PS. I have a similar thread in the Installation section, but it's focused on the /mnt issue I mentioned above. Since I managed to unmount /mnt (apparently) I think that the shutdown hang is the main issue and it wasn't really relevant in the Installation section. Is this the right place for it? Maybe the Laptop section?

edit

It hangs after journal stops. All filesystems are unmounted, swap deactivated, loop devices detached, DM devices detached, and "storage is finalized", then it hangs on "kvm: exiting hardware virtualization".

edit 2

I left it hanging on reboot for about an hour, and when I came back it had rebooted.

There were 3 lines at the top of the screen (above the CLI login):

nouveau E[    DRM] Pointer to TMDS table invalid

nouveau E[    DRM] Pointer to flat panel table invalid

nouveau ![     PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] unhandled status 0x00000001

It now shuts down and reboots normally.

Another line appears on the cursor after a few seconds:

 nouveau E[     PFIF0][0000:01:00.0] playlist 0 update t

Last edited by Synek (2013-09-17 13:58:43)