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Two panel meme.
Top panel: Woman in the front seat of a car screaming at a child in the rear seat. She’s saying “Why can’t you just shutdown?”
Bottom panel: A child screaming “A stop job is running for Session c2 of user … (1:30 / no limit)”
If anything ever makes me leave systemd. It’ll be this.
Ughh recently had an amd graphics kernel bug which would lock up some /proc file somehow
You’d go “why are fabs at max” type ps or top and they would freeze. System monitor would freeze.
“Okay, I’ll just reboot, this is fucked”, and systemd is just there:
Luckily it’s patched now. Hopefully those hard reboots didn’t damage anything.
Hard reboots don’t damage anything but the OS state, and even that has been protected against the last 2 decades.
That is good to know, because I do not want to replace a 2tb ssd.
Some computer components don’t protect against voltage loss and some OS components aren’t tolerant to sudden shutdown but we’re 99% the way there. Any of the two which don’t have protection at this point are complete garbage.
Why? You can bypass it immediately if it’s a one-off, or go update the unit configuration to have a short timeout if it’s a regular error.
More likely though, it’s something that should actually be fixed, like a misconfigured fstab. Systemd is rarely the problem here.
how do you bypass it? didn’t know its a thing
If you hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete 7 times in 2 seconds it will skip immediately
Unless the culprit is that one process permanently stuck in uninterruptible disk sleep, in which case the timer would just perpetually go up, and pressing 7x Ctrl-Alt-Del as you mentioned will simply shut down systemd and the kernel itself will start complaining (faulty hardware can cause this)