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dani.sands

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Re: System takes a lot of time to shutdown. (Help with debug)

Well as i saw that my log files are 85 mb I assume that I'm not logging the joutnalctl correctly and I need an specific command to do it. If you could teach me it will be awesome.

V1del

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Re: System takes a lot of time to shutdown. (Help with debug)

Just a journalctl -b-1 after the relevant reboot should suffice, just without all the debug fluff by using the kernel parameters to set up debug logging

dani.sands

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Re: System takes a lot of time to shutdown. (Help with debug)

Just a journalctl -b-1 after the relevant reboot should suffice, just without all the debug fluff by using the kernel parameters to set up debug logging

The output is:
Here is a couple during the reboot :
https://pastebin.com/JXxzRvC1
https://pastebin.com/rfVxUiyq
And one after rebooting.
https://zerobin.net/?407ab1859f170c93#N … OdKHgj9yc=

One kick question, is there personal information leaked in this logs? I mean apart from the username, hostname and some folder structures. Thanks

Last edited by dani.sands (2020-08-19 09:02:25)

scrouthtv

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Registered: 2019-10-15

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Re: System takes a lot of time to shutdown. (Help with debug)

For me, this was a problem with the nvidia drivers.
Do you have an nvidia graphics card? Do you use the nvidia driver (package

nvidia

)?

dani.sands

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Registered: 2020-08-15

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Re: System takes a lot of time to shutdown. (Help with debug)

For me, this was a problem with the nvidia drivers.
Do you have an nvidia graphics card? Do you use the nvidia driver (package

nvidia

)?

Yep a 1060 with the nvidia drivers.

scrouthtv

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Re: System takes a lot of time to shutdown. (Help with debug)

In this case I would suggest to try to isolate the issue by
- uninstalling nvidia
- installing xf86-video-nouveau (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xo … tallation)
- rebooting
Then, with the new driver try to shutdown now. Is it working as expected?

dani.sands

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Re: System takes a lot of time to shutdown. (Help with debug)

If you read my previous posts this is something related to my user because in other users the system behaves normally.

scrouthtv

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Re: System takes a lot of time to shutdown. (Help with debug)

What happens if you stop sddm using systemctl stop sddm, go into a new tty via CTRL ALT F3, log in using your user and then shutdown?

dani.sands

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Re: System takes a lot of time to shutdown. (Help with debug)

Even running shutdown now from kde's terminal the system shutdowns instantly, is not a problem with systemd.

scrouthtv

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Re: System takes a lot of time to shutdown. (Help with debug)

Simply running

 shutdown now 

from the terminal? Or with the

-f

flag?

dani.sands

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Re: System takes a lot of time to shutdown. (Help with debug)

Without any flags.

scrouthtv

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Re: System takes a lot of time to shutdown. (Help with debug)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … ribly_long

dani.sands

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Re: System takes a lot of time to shutdown. (Help with debug)

Is not a systemd issue.