On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59...@care2.com> wrote: > Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> >> Debian sid >> >> systemd currently fails to poweroff for me >> >> XFCE (appears to) exit, the mouse point shows >> for a while, then the kernel/ shutdown log appears. >> >> The last message is: >> "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user me" >> >> Red asterisks (up to 3) appear to oscillate at left >> edge in an ascii "wait for me" animation. >> >> Requires hard powercycle to poweroff. >> >> How might I debug this? >> > > Right. Debian Sid. 'halt' does not poweroff with systemd. I think this behaviour has changed from pre-systemd era.
At halt/poweroff/reboot manpage : DESCRIPTION halt, poweroff, reboot may be used to halt, power-off or reboot the machine. I think it should be better explain what is exactly halt and which is the difference with poweroff As I understand, power off is like you press the power button some seconds. Halt (as current behaviour) is stop all process but pid 1 There is the "-p" switch to halt, or the "--halt" switch to poweroff, so halt can power off the machine or power off can stop all process in an ordered way Regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAL5yMZS_D68vLw9KZaZgbRbMXA0C_r0iHcdSh6e=at-hxrv...@mail.gmail.com