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Re: A stop job is running for...



On Wed 02 Dec 2015 at 18:17:18 (+0100), Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 02.12.2015 um 18:05 schrieb Jape Person:
> > On 12/02/2015 10:49 AM, David Wright wrote:
> >> I have observed behaviour where, when the time limit of 90 seconds is
> >> reached, the limit increases by another 90 seconds and nothing else
> >> happens (for hours). eg
> >>
> >> [ <*> ] A stop job is running for Manage, Install and Generate Color
> >> Profiles (34min 54s / 36min)_
> >>
> >> Fortunately, that hasn't happened for a few months. It's very
> >> embarrassing when my laptop takes longer to close down than my
> >> wife's W10.
> 
> Sounds like it could be hard to reproduce indeed.
> 
> > Now *that* would be annoying.
> 
> In case you run into such a situation again, where a service is blocking
> the shutdown you can of course just use force and pull the plug or use
> sysrq b.
> But there is a nicer alternative: just hit ctrl+alt+del quickly 7 times.
> systemd then will initiate a forced shutdown. See [1].

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> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.html#SIGINT

I presume that this facility was added between versions 215 (jessie)
and 228 (this web page) so I'm hoping not to need it. Thanks anyway.

Cheers,
David.


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