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#1 2025-02-28 18:58:15
- lem0nify
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Yet another 'A stop job is running for User Manager' issue (SDDM/KWin)
I use KDE/Plasma and the SDDM display manager. Sometimes when shutting down or rebooting my PC, I encounter a two-minute wait with the message "A stop job is running for User Manager for UID 1000." This doesn’t happen every day, but it has been persisting for several years and is now extremely annoying, so I decided to try tackling the issue.
An attempt to Google the problem showed that similar issues are quite common among various users, but the causes differ, and the solutions vary. This means I’m unlikely to find a specific solution easily, so I decided to write here.
I tried running the command journalctl -p5 and searching the logs for "timed out. Killing." I found that most often (or always) in my case, the issue is related to sddm.service and plasma-kwin_x11.service:
arch systemd[1]: sddm.service: State 'stop-sigterm' timed out. Killing.
arch systemd[1]: sddm.service: Killing process 744 (sddm) with signal SIGKILL.
arch systemd[1]: sddm.service: Killing process 4773 (sddm) with signal SIGKILL.
arch systemd[1]: sddm.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL
arch systemd[1]: sddm.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
arch systemd[909]: plasma-kwin_x11.service: State 'stop-sigterm' timed out. Killing.
arch systemd[909]: plasma-kwin_x11.service: Killing process 1075 (kwin_x11) with signal SIGKILL.
arch systemd[909]: plasma-kwin_x11.service: Killing process 1231 (CPMMListener) with signal SIGKILL.
arch systemd[909]: plasma-kwin_x11.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL
arch systemd[909]: plasma-kwin_x11.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.However, I don’t know where to go from here. Please advise on how to diagnose the issue in more detail and help me find a solution!
Thank you in advance!
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#2 2025-03-09 21:06:40
- seth
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Re: Yet another 'A stop job is running for User Manager' issue (SDDM/KWin)
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