After almost two months of normal shutdowns, the shutdown problem is back. I read David's post above, and also found this forum thread that resolved the problem the same way: https://forums.opensuse.org/t/disable-plymouth/137775 I went through step one of the thread by disabling chrony-wait with this command with bash as root: systemctl disable chrony-wait.service But it didn't resolve the issue, the computer still hangs on shutdown. I'm unsure as to how to do the next step to pass the kernel parameter 'plymouth.enable=0" Where do I insert that? Please forgive my lack of knowledge on this point, and provide me with a bit of further instruction. Thanks, Mark On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 10:17 PM David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On 8/23/23 08:53, Mark Misulich wrote:
i, I've had a problem with my desktop computer for some months, in that it doesn't always shut down completely with opensuse. That is, it's an intermittent problem. The computer is set up as a multiboot, and does always shut down when I shut down Windows. Here are the specs for opensuse and the computer. <snip>
I have had problems with Leap where all drives are unmounted and the journal stopped, but my laptop simply hangs on shutdown (and it always feels creepy doing a forced-shutdown even with all drives unmounted, etc...)
For my laptop, it always comes back to the same issue -- plymouth. I don't know why and I have no technical explanation. But the solution here has always been to remove plymouth.
To test, just pass the kernel parameter:
"plymouth.enable=0"
If that's the case, I just "rpm -e ...." all the plymouth packages -- never have any further issues.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.