Re: stopping job before shutdown.
tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 09:08:59AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> > On 6/29/22 08:35, mick crane wrote:
> > > hello,
> > > Because I don't trust that I've set up power saving properly with PC and
> > > monitor if leaving desk I turn off PC with power button on front.
> > > It usually is very quick and to start up again.
> > > There is printer attached to other PC.
> > > Recent update of bookworm when turning off PC with power button there is
> > > the message,
> > > " stopping job, make Cups quicker for external" or something like that.
> > > and it takes 1 minute 30 seconds to stop that and start shutdown.
> > > What could be causing that ?
> > >
> > > mick
> > >
> > That method of stopping the pc is quite dangerous to the hard drive, you
> > may kill the power while the journal is updating the drives contents,
> [...]
>
> I took that to mean that the button triggers an orderly
> shutdown (otherwise the PC wouldn't get a chance to output
> a message).
Yes. Mick's problem is systemd's default timeout.
-dsr-
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