Linux Mint Shutdown Hang

[Br3tt96]

So I installed the latest Mint Cinnamon distro and actually like it a lot, and runs quite well on my laptop. Only downside is that whenever I shut it down or run sudo shutdown now it freezes the screen and hangs for a solid minute and a half to two minutes before actually shutting off. Quite annoying because I’m at Uni, so I really don’t want to shut my laptop down early at the end of class or sit there for awhile during shutdown at the end. Any possible solutions? Also I’m half way debating just switching to arch Linux as well, if that’ll fix my issue... I’ve got elementary on my old laptop and that works quite well, so possibly that os is a consideration. Lol 

[nrzn]

This used to be a common bug, if im not mistaken the system waits for something before shutting down which never happens.

what kernel are you on?

either look for what is causing it to wait and solve it or mess with the system.conf and user.conf files.

 

Edit. A bypass used to be turning off network and signing off before shutting down (works in most cases)

[Br3tt96]

16 hours ago, nrzn said:

This used to be a common bug, if im not mistaken the system waits for something before shutting down which never happens.

what kernel are you on?

either look for what is causing it to wait and solve it or mess with the system.conf and user.conf files.

 

Edit. A bypass used to be turning off network and signing off before shutting down (works in most cases)

Kernel is 4.15.0-33-generic

 

i tried turning off networking and shutting down and it was still slow af. 

[Guest]

17 hours ago, Br3tt96 said:

So I installed the latest Mint Cinnamon distro and actually like it a lot, and runs quite well on my laptop. Only downside is that whenever I shut it down or run sudo shutdown now it freezes the screen and hangs for a solid minute and a half to two minutes before actually shutting off. Quite annoying because I’m at Uni, so I really don’t want to shut my laptop down early at the end of class or sit there for awhile during shutdown at the end. Any possible solutions? Also I’m half way debating just switching to arch Linux as well, if that’ll fix my issue... I’ve got elementary on my old laptop and that works quite well, so possibly that os is a consideration. Lol 

There is for some reason a process which does not shut down properly and systemd waits minutes before killing it. You should give us some logs...Anyway a workaround for shutting down the computer immediately is to press Ctrl+alt+canc a lot of times until you'll see on the screen "forcing shutdown" or something similar

[Br3tt96]

Just now, Lukyp said:

There is for some reason a process which does not shut down properly and systemd waits minutes before killing it. You should give us some logs...Anyway a workaround for shutting down the computer immediately is to press Ctrl+alt+canc a lot of times until you'll see on the screen "forcing shutdown" or something similar

How would I get logs for that? As soon as I shut it down it freezes the screen for the duration of the shutdown time 

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, Br3tt96 said:

How would I get logs for that? As soon as I shut it down it freezes the screen for the duration of the shutdown time 

Mint like Ubuntu should store the logs in /var/logs.

Honestly for this particular issue I would check the dmesg, which should be stored on kern.log, just look at the clock... There will be more sessions.

I don't remember exactly how systemd shutdown logging works, you can try journalctl command which should store logs from there, I don't know if there can be some parameters for further information. I'm not into a Linux system currently so I cannot check 

[EPENEX]

It could be systemd hanging up. Edit /etc/systemd/system.conf and change the time out to something like 5 seconds

DefaultTimeoutStopSec=5s

[tux_peng]

Make sure your disks are clean; trying the unmount a dirty FS could be slow

[Br3tt96]

14 hours ago, EPENEX said:

It could be systemd hanging up. Edit /etc/systemd/system.conf and change the time out to something like 5 seconds

DefaultTimeoutStopSec=5s

Didn’t work. I edited it via sudo nano /etc/system/system.conf 

[Guest]

4 hours ago, Br3tt96 said:

Didn’t work. I edited it via sudo nano /etc/system/system.conf 

You could try journalctl command with those parameters: 

journalctl -b -2 

Which should show the current bootup systemd logs and the one before, so make sure you do that right after a fresh reboot, if needed use pastebin