On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > In January I and others were apparently spoiled. Haitians I speak to want > the old shutdown efficiencies back, as they depend on VERY sparse > electricity, and therefore have to power off/on very often to > conserve...unlike us "rich" people who don't care to conserve. In any > case, it now in February consistently takes >
1.5MIN to shut down, and this is a big problem for them [many Haitians, and others] Sometimes (rarely thankfully) it even takes ~3MIN to shut down, when I see > this on screen: > > - "Stopping MariaDB database server" (appears for ~90sec, possibly due to > Ethernet/Internet cord recently unplugged) > > *I always now the see the following on screen, while shutting down:* > > - "Deconfiguring network interfaces" (appears for ~75sec) > > Regardless whether Ethernet cord (leading to Internet) is attached or > not. If others can help advise how to crack this when many of us are in LA > for SCaLE next week, that'd be tremendous- I can also post to the Raspbian > forums (https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=66) later too, > if that is advisable, and we're convinced this is Raspbian's doing...maybe > Josh Dennis can shed light?) > > > Extraneous (Likely Unrelated?) Observations: > > - Bootup takes likewise ~1.5min (sometimes more, sometimes less) but > THAT is completely normal, due to extensive XSCE/IIAB services and X > Windows etc on this installation (with Raspbian Pixel's desktop apps in > this particuliar case). So the full reboot, used take less than 2min > earlier in Jan, consistently and wonderfully, a situation we eventually > need to return to :) > - "Raspbian 1.2 - February 2017" appears on the screen during the 2nd > half of the bootup process, as "apt-get dist-upgrade" was run recently. > It's entirely always possible Raspbian "upgrades" here made things worse. > Something to look into, if I knew how! > - RTC clock seems to lose a full 2 minutes, sometime during the 1st > poweroff WITHOUT the Ethernet cord (and live Internet) plugged in. Not the > end of the world ($2 DS3231 RTC modules can't be perfect?) but very weird > still. The RTC seems to hold its time (erroneous time, falling 2 min into > the past) consistently after that, even across many reboots, and > true-disconnections for several minutes, completely turned off. Of course > NTP tidies up the time within seconds *after* the Ethernet/Internet cord is > re-inserted. Until Internet is lost again, and the clock mysteriously / > rather suddenly wanders again :) > >
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