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Re: stopping job before shutdown.



On 2022-06-29 18:32, Dan Ritter wrote:
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.

whatever it was must have been doing it during idle time as it seems to have stopped doing it now.

mick


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