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iRadioman

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Registered: 2025-06-07

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] Cinnamon with Nekoray prevents the system from shutting down

Hi there!

I've installed Cinnamon on my Arch system and ran into the following problem: periodically (about half of the cases) the system shuts down for a long time - the "Stop job" starts and ends only after a timeout (1 minute and 30 seconds).

The system is completely fresh, installed about a week ago.
There is no such problem with other DE (XFCE, for example).
I was analyzing the logs and noticed that the cinnamon-launch process was preventing the system from shutting down, but I don't know how to solve this problem.

Help me, dear people. The option to reduce the timeout is not suitable.

The logs was captured as described here
Logs (Google Drive)

ASUS Vivobook Go 14 E1404FA
Ryzen 3 7320u, 8 GB RAM, Radeon 610M
Kernel: linux and linux-lts
BTRFS, ZRAM, 4 GB swap file

Last edited by iRadioman (2025-06-14 06:23:02)

iRadioman

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Registered: 2025-06-07

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Cinnamon with Nekoray prevents the system from shutting down

I found what causing this issue - that's Nekoray. When I close it manually before reboot/shutdown the problem doesn't show up.

Tried to reinstall it with full config wipe - nothing.
Reinstalled Arch from scratch - nothing.
Nekoray doesn't let Cinnamon to close session which makes systemd wait.
There is no such issue with other DE's.

I don't know whose problem this is - Nekoray or Cinnamon.

iRadioman

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Registered: 2025-06-07

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Cinnamon with Nekoray prevents the system from shutting down

Solved by downgrading Nekoray to 4.0.1.

P. S. New Nekoray is simply piece of garbage. It works unstable on Windows too.