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].
[...] > 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.
