Michael composed on 2018-07-19 10:47 (UTC-0500):
Michele Calgaro wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
I encounter this highly annoying message and 90 second shutdown delay too often. Why does TDM object to cmdline shutdown or reboot commands from login on the vttys? How can it be stopped? The immediate inducement to write this comes from Buster, but it happens in Stretch and openSUSE too, both in UEFI and legacy contexts.
Thanks systemd........... The best you can do is to reduce the timeout from 90 s to small value.
Reduce the timeout of exactly what/where? This happens with the openSUSEes and the Debians.
Continuous Ctrl-Alt-Delete should force immediate response, but not unusually it makes the situation worse, freezing after 90 seconds instead of the expectation, necessitating power or reset button.
Not sure what exact command you're running, but do also add a halt flag if it's available.
"option to halt services before rebooting. "shutdown -h now" is a graceful shutdown, and "reboot -h now" is a graceful reboot." --Source unknown (CentOS)
# alias | egrep 'boo|ff' alias Off='cd; umount -a; shutdown -h now' alias Reboot='cd; umount -a; shutdown -r now'
These I do whilst logged out of the TDM greeter, so it shouldn't be doing anything but waiting. It shouldn't matter what it's waiting for, whether an attempt to log in or a direction to reboot or shutdown.