Cant poweroff or reboot Tumbleweed.

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Installed Tumbleweed june30. I kept it up-to-date whenever updates were available. Recently I noted that on reboot or logoff, using the Gnome interface,
I wait for and do not get the poweroff/reboot occurring. Hitting escape shows me a console message of “awaiting reboot”, or some similar message.

I noted and will reconfirm, that if I do not use the GUI interface, but remain in xorg terminal mode, and then request a poweroff/reboot, Tumbleweed functions as expected.

Any clues where to look? Should I just reinstall TWD? I am using xorg and GNOME.

Same problem occurs with regular or hypervisor Tumbleweed boot folllowing gnome use.

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The problem is that the keyboard and monitor and mouse are locked up. My only recourse is to hold the poweroff switch for a few seconds until the motherboard bios shuts the computer down. Then I repower.
I looked at the journal, but it seems to say Everything is OK.

So now, I am trying a work around. I log in in terminal mode, and run startx. When I leave gnome with my logout, I am back to terminal mode. And I hope a normal poweroff or reboot does what it should.

And yes, I will check out the third link.

Thank you for the three links

Yours from Montreal
Leslie

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What happens if you close all applications and log out of gnome, and then try to shutdown via gdm (the login manager)?

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I tried it that way too, and it still locks up. BUT
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I have a partial workaround.**
I log in with console (ctl-alt-F4 ) and issue my startx. I am launched into Gnome. When I log out from Gnome, I am returned to terminal mode and then I issue the poweroff or reboot, and it works.

I started to peruse the third link you provided and I will see what things I can do to discover the “block / wait for some completion” to occur. when in Gnome. I generally do a fresh installation every six months, but if there is a rainy day before December, I will do the fresh installation somewhat sooner.

If you find some clues for me, I do check this forum every day.

Again, thank you for the follow-up.

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Out of curiosity, I tried shutting down from gnome and it worked (TW 20190829).

Have you tried using lightdm (install and switch with Yast2 -> Alternatives)?

Are you using proprietary video card drivers?

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Hi Ravi.
Bad news and good news.
The good news is that yesterday 31Aug, a zypper dup installed almost 250+ updates. On reboot and with testing, the indefinite (infinite) wait for reboot to occur has disappeared. The system is back to normal.

The bad news… I/we will never know what caused the problem.

Thank you for your help. It was much appreciated.