Libreshop: Lock screen and logout both work normally. Reboot causes the
same problem as shut down.
loldier: Pressing esc did exactly what you said it would!
I did this several times and each time this is what I got each time (except
once, see below).
[ OK ] Started Show Plymouth Reboot Screen.
[ OK ] Stopped Cryptography Setup for nvme01p5_crypt.
[ OK ] Reached target Unmount All Filesystems.
[ OK ] Removed slice system-systemd\x2dcryptsetup.slice.
[ OK ] Reached target Shutdown.
And then on the line below that is a flashing cursor (like a flashing
underscore character). It stays there forever.
But one time I got this instead:
[ OK ] Started Show Plymouth Reboot Screen.
[ OK ] Stopped Cryptography Setup for nvme01p5_crypt.
[ OK ] Reached target Unmount All Filesystems.
[ OK ] Removed slice system-systemd\x2dcryptsetup.slice.
[ OK ] Reached target Shutdown.
[ 112.115472] systemd-shutdown[1]: Sending SIGTERM to remaining processes...
[ 112.117560] systemd-journald[473]: Received SIGTERM from PID 1
(systemd-shutdow).
[ 112.117963] systemd-shutdown[1]: Sending SIGKILL to remaining processes...
[ 112.119606 systemd-shutdown[1]: Process 1751 (plymouthd) has been been
marked to be excluded from killing. It is running from the root file system,
and thus likely to block re-mounting of the root file system to read-only.
Please consider moving it to an initrd file system instead.
[ 112.119855] systemd-shutdown[1]: Unmounting file systems.
[ 112.119960] Remounting '/' read-only with options
'errors=remount-ro,data=ordered'.
[ 112.128418] EXT4-fs (nvme0n1p1): re-mounted. Opts:
errors=remount-ro,data=ordered
[ 112.131177] systemd-shutdown[1]: Remounting '/' read-only with options
'errors=remount-ro,data=ordered'.
[ 112.131266] EXT4-fs (nvme0n1p1): re-mounted. Opts:
errors=remount-ro,data=ordered
[ 112.131284] systemd-shutdown[1]: All filesystems unmounted.
[ 112.131298] systemd-shutdown[1]: Deactivating swaps.
[ 112.131336] systemd-shutdown[1]: All swaps deactivated.
[ 112.131349] systemd-shutdown[1]: Detaching loop devices.
[ 112.131984] systemd-shutdown[1]: All loop devices detached.
[ 112.131999] systemd-shutdown[1]: Detaching DM Devices.
[ 112.132269] systemd-shutdown[1]: Detaching DM 252:2
[ 112.157600] systemd-shutdown[1]: Detaching DM 252:1
[ 112.185505] systemd-shutdown[1]: Detaching DM 252:0
[ 112.217557] systemd-shutdown[1]: All DM devices detached.
[ 112.222777] systemd-shutdown[1]: Powering off.
[ 112.222821] kvm: exiting hardware virtualization
And it stays there forever.
I haven't been able to figure out why I got a different result just one time.
I feel a little closer to a solution, now that I can at least see something
of what's happening. Perhaps this text means more to someone than it does to
me?
Thank you so much everyone who has posted suggestions.
