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GhostOverFlow256

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Registered: 2023-07-16

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"sudo reboot now" no longer working due to systemd-inhibit

Upon attempting to run something like `sudo reboot now`, it complains:
```
Operation inhibited by "<user>" (PID 2663 "gnome-session-s", user <user>), reason is "user session inhibited".
User <user> is logged in on seat0.
Please retry operation after closing inhibitors and logging out other users.
'systemd-inhibit' can be used to list active inhibitors.
Alternatively, ignore inhibitors and users with 'systemctl reboot -i'.
```
This also happens if there is an ssh session open to the computer.
How can I make reboot behave like it does on every other distribution? (E.g. if i run `sudo reboot now` on a multi-user debian system, it force logs everyone else out, and immediately shuts down) I'm aware I could alias `sudo reboot now` to `systemctl reboot -i`, but that seems like a workaround rather than a fix...

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: "sudo reboot now" no longer working due to systemd-inhibit

"Don't use gnome"

It's inhibiting the reboot, systemd adheres to that inhibition unless you tell it to do not.
https://systemd.io/INHIBITOR_LOCKS/

systemd-inhibit --list

There's really nothing special *arch* would do here - the list is empty here and I can juts reboot w/o any further notice.

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