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#1 2019-05-20 15:40:32

account2
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Stuck at shutdown, all green OKs

I've been at this shutdown screen for almost 40 minutes. smile The last three messages are:

[  OK  ] Started Power-Off.
[  OK  ] Reached target Power-Off.
[  OK  ] Closed LVM2 metadata daemon socket.

Below this, a "_" cursor, blinking interminably.

What do I do?

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#2 2019-05-20 16:41:41

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Re: Stuck at shutdown, all green OKs

Hold down the power button until it turns off then see https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/s … /#index2h1

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#3 2019-05-20 17:05:07

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Re: Stuck at shutdown, all green OKs

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Hold down the power button until it turns off then see https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/s … /#index2h1

Thanks. But the only section that seems to apply to me there is:

Shutdown Never Finishes

If normal reboot or poweroff never finish even after waiting a few minutes, the above method to create the shutdown log will not help and the log must be obtained using other methods. Two options that are useful for debugging boot problems can be used also for shutdown problems:

    use a serial console
    use a debug shell - not only is it available from early boot, it also stays active until late shutdown.

And I do not feel comfortable doing either of those two tasks. smile

I held down the power button and forced shut off. I then smoothly booted back into my system.

At this point, what are the go-to "system logs" I can go to to find errors? I.e., where's that Windows Event Viewer?

This page lists some log files:

Common Linux log files names and usage

    /var/log/messages : General message and system related stuff
    /var/log/auth.log : Authenication logs
    /var/log/kern.log : Kernel logs
    /var/log/cron.log : Crond logs (cron job)
    /var/log/maillog : Mail server logs
    /var/log/qmail/ : Qmail log directory (more files inside this directory)
    /var/log/httpd/ : Apache access and error logs directory
    /var/log/lighttpd/ : Lighttpd access and error logs directory
    /var/log/boot.log : System boot log
    /var/log/mysqld.log : MySQL database server log file
    /var/log/secure or /var/log/auth.log : Authentication log
    /var/log/utmp or /var/log/wtmp : Login records file
    /var/log/yum.log : Yum command log file.

But I don't have *any* of these in my /var/log (probably because that page is about "Debian/Ubuntu or CentOS/RHEL/Fedora"). I have ... btmp, pacman.log, Xorg.0.log, a bunch of folders...

journalctl

as mentioned in your resource as well as the Arch wiki, seems like the closest thing. Is there anything obvious in there I should be looking for?

Last edited by account2 (2019-05-20 17:39:06)

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