Extremely long shutdown time in a restart

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#1

Machine is taking as long as 10 minutes to shutdown as part of a restart. It sits with a black screen with leap logo at bottom and asus lettering in middle. Extremely long duration, as much as 10 minutes. There does seem to be drive activity so it appears to be doing something. I feel confident that the system is not frozen only taking a long time to do something so I let it go. It does eventually restart. How to find out what is causing it?

System is i7 cpu, 32g memory, large disk space available, mate desktop (in use for 10 years) . All active processes manually shutdown prior to restart command. Restart was issued from mate menu as has always been done.

Hundreds of entries in sys log and systemd log. Don’t know what is important for dagnosis.

First question, I can’t find a ref for using systemd analyze for a shutdown. Only seems to store info on startup. Any advice?

Second question, will doing a “power-off” shutdown in the middle of the null period, followed by a “power-on” have a potential to bork my system or should just wait it out?

thanks, tom kosvic

#2

This is frequently ignored advice: Show what is going on:

**erlangen:~ #** journalctl -b -1 -o short-monotonic -g Stopped --no-pager                                    
    3.027925] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Initrd Default Target. 
    3.027954] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Basic System. 
    3.028025] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Initrd Root Device. 
    3.028054] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Initrd /usr File System. 
    3.028119] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Path Units. 
    3.045320] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch. 
    3.045398] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Remote File Systems. 
    3.045425] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Preparation for Remote File Systems. 
    3.045466] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Slice Units.
....
[55954.643421] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Graphical Interface. 
[55954.643489] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Multi-User System. 
[55954.643620] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Login Prompts. 
[55954.643700] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Sound Card. 
[55954.643880] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Timer Units. 
[55954.644042] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Backup of /home. 
[55954.644286] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Backup of RPM database. 
[55954.644417] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Backup of /etc/sysconfig. 
[55954.644584] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Balance block groups on a btrfs filesystem. 
[55954.644945] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Scrub btrfs filesystem, verify block checksums. 
[55954.645088] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Check if mainboard battery is Ok. 
[55954.645218] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Discard unused blocks once a week. 
[55954.645883] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Daily rotation of log files. 
[55954.646004] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Daily man-db regeneration. 
[55954.646251] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Daily locate database update. 
[55954.646379] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Systemd timer to update the system daily with PackageKit. 
[55954.646504] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Daily Cleanup of Snapper Snapshots. 
[55954.646626] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Timeline of Snapper Snapshots. 
[55954.646751] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Daily Cleanup of Temporary Directories. 
[55954.649022] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped auditd rules generation. 
[55954.657554] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Apply settings from /etc/sysconfig/keyboard. 
[55954.667937] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped hd-idle disk spindown service. 
[55954.668087] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped irqbalance daemon. 
[55954.668263] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler. 
[55954.668660] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Machine Check Exception Logging Daemon. 
[55954.668945] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Getty on tty1. 
[55954.669740] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Command Scheduler. 
[55954.670262] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Authorization Manager. 
[55954.675026] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped A remote-mail retrieval utility. 
[55954.675328] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped DBus interface for snapper. 
[55954.676490] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Save/Restore Sound Card State. 
[55954.677224] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Restore /run/initramfs on shutdown. 
[55954.677791] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Load/Save Random Seed. 
[55954.692434] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Start fetchmail. 
[55954.692552] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Hold until boot process finishes up. 
[55954.695288] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Disk Manager. 
[55954.749709] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy Service. 
[55954.750614] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Daemon for power management. 
[55954.845047] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped MiniDLNA is a DLNA/UPnP-AV server software. 
[55954.845242] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Network is Online. 
[55954.863258] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Postfix Mail Transport Agent. 
[55954.937733] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Initialize hardware monitoring sensors. 
[55956.009043] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped X Display Manager. 
[55956.076728] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped The Apache Webserver. 
[55956.077680] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target System Time Synchronized. 
[55956.077924] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target System Time Set. 
[55956.081185] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped NTP client/server. 
[55956.082185] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Host and Network Name Lookups. 
[55956.771169] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Session 2 of User karl. 
[55956.773062] erlangen systemd[1177]: Stopped Konsole - Terminal. 
[55956.773434] erlangen systemd[1177]: Stopped target Main User Target. 
[55956.775949] erlangen systemd[1177]: Stopped Save jAlbum Project Files. 
[55956.776274] erlangen systemd[1177]: Stopped User preferences database. 
[55956.776753] erlangen systemd[1177]: Stopped Virtual filesystem metadata service. 
[55956.782187] erlangen systemd[1177]: Stopped Virtual filesystem service. 
[55956.789530] erlangen systemd[1177]: Stopped D-Bus User Message Bus. 
[55956.789865] erlangen systemd[1177]: Stopped Accessibility services bus. 
[55956.789963] erlangen systemd[1177]: Stopped target Basic System. 
[55956.790006] erlangen systemd[1177]: Stopped target Paths. 
[55956.790046] erlangen systemd[1177]: Stopped target Sockets. 
[55956.790084] erlangen systemd[1177]: Stopped target Timers. 
[55956.790126] erlangen systemd[1177]: Stopped Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories. 
[55956.790357] erlangen systemd[1177]: Stopped Create User's Volatile Files and Directories. 
[55956.805827] erlangen systemd[1177]: Stopped KMail - E-Mail-Programm. 
[55956.813771] erlangen systemd[1177]: Stopped /usr/share/digikam/utils/digikam-camera. 
[55956.849104] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped User Manager for UID 1000. 
[55956.950774] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped User Login Management. 
[55957.023901] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped User Runtime Directory /run/user/1000. 
[55957.046373] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped D-Bus System Message Bus. 
[55957.047874] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Permit User Sessions. 
[55957.048322] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Basic System. 
[55957.048611] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Network. 
[55957.048803] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Path Units. 
[55957.061304] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Watch /etc/sysconfig/btrfsmaintenance. 
[55957.109298] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Watch for changes in CA certificates. 
[55957.109715] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler. 
[55957.141293] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Watch for changes in issue snippets. 
[55957.157288] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Watch for changes in smartmontools sysconfig file. 
[55957.157556] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Remote File Systems. 
[55957.157749] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Slice Units. 
[55957.158466] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Socket Units. 
[55957.159491] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target System Initialization. 
[55957.159942] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Local Encrypted Volumes. 
[55957.173327] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch. 
[55957.173567] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Local Verity Protected Volumes. 
[55957.197843] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Network Name Resolution. 
[55957.199883] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Record System Boot/Shutdown in UTMP. 
[55957.205475] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Network Configuration. 
[55957.206144] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Apply Kernel Variables. 
[55957.206443] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Apply Kernel Variables for 5.16.1-1-default. 
[55957.206731] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Load Kernel Modules. 
[55957.268222] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Security Auditing Service. 
[55957.268583] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Create Volatile Files and Directories. 
[55957.268608] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Local File Systems. 
**erlangen:~ #**

Shutdown of host erlangen takes three seconds.

#3 
**mydesktop:/home/tom #** journalctl -b -1 -o short-monotonic -g Stopped --no-pager
Specifying boot ID or boot offset has no effect, no persistent journal was found.
**mydesktop:/home/tom #**

I am not sure what journal is not running and why. syslog is running and systemd journal is running

Perhaps, I exagerated a bit. A system shutdown (not a restart) took 4min 14 sec per cellphone stopwatch. This is excesive to me.

tom kosvic

#4

Configure persistent journal first:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-journalctl-to-view-and-manipulate-systemd-logs
Look for section Past Boots. Then reboot and run the command.

#5

Per instruction, I edited config file to storage = persistant. Rebooted. Shutdown took again 4 min 9 seconds.

upon restart ran codes below:

**mydesktop:/home/tom #** journalctl -b -1 -o short-monotonic -g Stopped --no-pager
Specifying boot ID or boot offset has no effect, no persistent journal was found.
**mydesktop:/home/tom #** journalctl --list-boots
 0 96fcdcf72a2843cdb371e23dc93ea3e1 Wed 2022-01-26 04:15:05 CST—Wed 2022-01-26 10:22>
**mydesktop:/home/tom #**

journalctl command with no options runs and gives overwhelmingly long list. Too long, I think, to paste into the forum.

Any other tweaks to get info needed for diagnosis?

thanks, tom kosvic

#6

Obviously there is only the current boot. Double check your modifications and reboot. On host erlangen I didn’t touch file /etc/systemd/journald.conf, but created directory /var/log/journal/ and rebooted. Try again.

#7

I re-edited the config file back to “auto”. I created the journal file. I decided to to two reboots to give a track record. Then rerun the specified command.
1st reboot took 4 min to shut dow.n Bizarrly, the second reboot only took about 15 seconds to shutdown. Somehow system healed itself.

**mydesktop:/home/tom #** journalctl -b -1 -o short-monotonic -g Stopped --no-pager
-- Logs begin at Wed 2022-01-26 05:05:57 CST, end at Wed 2022-01-26 11:14:58 CST. --
   10.377747] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Initrd Default Target.
   10.377845] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Basic System.
   10.377954] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Initrd Root Device.
   10.378061] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Paths.
   10.378161] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Remote File Systems.
   10.378257] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Remote File Systems (Pre).
   10.378352] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Slices.
   10.378449] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Sockets.
   10.378546] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target System Initialization.
   10.378644] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Swap.
   10.378739] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Timers.
   10.378933] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped dracut initqueue hook.
   10.380012] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Apply Kernel Variables.
   10.380352] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Load Kernel Modules.
   10.380688] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Create Volatile Files and Directories.
   10.380834] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Local File Systems.
   10.380942] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Local File Systems (Pre).
   10.381185] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Coldplug All udev Devices.
   10.409593] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Rule-based Manager for Device Events and
 Files.
   10.410063] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped dracut pre-udev hook.
   10.410180] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped dracut cmdline hook.
   10.410291] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped dracut ask for additional cmdline parame
ters.
   10.411099] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Create Static Device Nodes in /dev.
   10.411267] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Create list of static device nodes for t
he current kernel.
   13.808855] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Switch Root.
   13.810231] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Switch Root.
   13.810259] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Initrd File Systems.
   13.810280] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Initrd Root File System.
   13.818690] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Show Plymouth Boot Screen.
   13.818919] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Plymouth switch root service.
   13.833223] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Journal Service.
   13.918556] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Entropy Daemon based on the HAVEGE algor
ithm.
  223.172539] mydesktop systemd[3324]: Stopped D-Bus User Message Bus.
  228.316386] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Bluetooth.
  228.316466] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Graphical Interface.
  228.319586] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Multi-User System.
  228.320080] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Login Prompts.
  228.320172] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME X11 Session (session: gn
ome-login).
  228.320454] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME Session.
  228.320522] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME X11 Session.
  228.320601] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME Session (session: gnome-
login).
  228.320682] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME Accessibility settings.
  228.320743] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME Color management.
  228.320807] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME Keyboard handling.
  228.320875] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Printer.
  228.320940] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME Media keys handling.
  228.321025] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME Power management handlin
g.
  228.321088] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME Printer notifications.
  228.321176] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME RFKill handling.
  228.321241] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME Smartcard handling.
  228.321299] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME Wacom handling.
  228.321360] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME WWan management.
  228.321419] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Sound Card.
  228.321484] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME XSettings.
  228.321547] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME session X11 services.
  228.321606] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Timers.
  228.321845] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Backup of RPM database.
  228.322041] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Backup of /etc/sysconfig.
  228.322315] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Check if mainboard battery is Ok.
  228.322492] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Discard unused blocks once a week.
  228.322718] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Daily rotation of log files.
  228.322946] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Do daily mandb update.
  228.323168] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Daily locate database update.
  228.323285] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Daily Cleanup of Temporary Directories.
  228.323396] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped daily update of the root trust anchor fo
r DNSSEC.
  228.323451] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target Current graphical user session
.
  228.324024] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped GNOME Accessibility settings.
  228.324153] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped GNOME Printer notifications.
  228.324263] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped GNOME RFKill handling.
  228.324369] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped GNOME Smartcard handling.
  228.324471] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped GNOME WWan management.
  228.325817] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Detect if the system suffers from bsc#10
89761.
  228.325942] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped Monitor Session leader for GNOME Sess
ion.
  228.327682] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Apply settings from /etc/sysconfig/keybo
ard.
  228.328071] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Early Kernel Boot Messages.
  228.328581] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped download broadcom firmware files needed 
for bcm43xx WLAN chips.
  228.338561] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped GNOME Keyboard handling.
  228.339074] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped GNOME Power management handling.
  228.340230] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped GNOME Wacom handling.
  228.340393] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped irqbalance daemon.
  228.340847] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped GNOME XSettings.
  228.340988] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology
 (SMART) Daemon.
  228.341410] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Machine Check Exception Logging Daemon.
  228.341476] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped GNOME Media keys handling.
  228.341817] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped System Logging Service.
  228.342099] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped GNOME Color management.
  228.342239] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Make remote CUPS printers available loca
lly.
  228.342585] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME Session is initialized.
  228.342654] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME Shell on X11.
  228.342787] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Manage, Install and Generate Color Profi
les.
  228.343544] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Accounts Service.
  228.344676] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped GNOME Shell on X11.
  228.344751] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target GNOME Session Manager is ready
.
  228.346227] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Command Scheduler.
  228.346971] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Daemon for power management.
  228.347898] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy Service.
  228.348934] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Getty on tty1.
  228.349596] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Save/Restore Sound Card State.
  228.361173] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped GNOME Session Manager (session: gnome
-login).
  228.361245] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target Tasks to be run before GNOME S
ession starts.
  228.361318] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target Session services which should 
run early before the graphical session is brought up.
  228.361967] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target Shutdown running GNOME Session
.
  228.366988] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped D-Bus User Message Bus.
  228.386751] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Disk Manager.
  228.387411] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Restore /run/initramfs on shutdown.
  228.389191] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Hold until boot process finishes up.
  228.402441] mydesktop systemd[3324]: Stopped target Main User Target.
  228.404095] mydesktop systemd[3324]: Stopped PipeWire PulseAudio.
  228.406738] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler.
  228.408398] mydesktop systemd[3324]: Stopped D-Bus User Message Bus.
  228.408738] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack.
  228.409408] mydesktop systemd[3324]: Stopped Multimedia Service Session Manager.
  228.410622] mydesktop systemd[3324]: Stopped Multimedia Service.
  228.410850] mydesktop systemd[3324]: Stopped target Basic System.
  228.410899] mydesktop systemd[3324]: Stopped target Paths.
  228.410945] mydesktop systemd[3324]: Stopped target Sockets.
  228.410988] mydesktop systemd[3324]: Stopped target Timers.
  228.414274] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped User Manager for UID 1000.
  228.421626] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped User Runtime Directory /run/user/1000.
  228.451960] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Bluetooth service.
  228.456396] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Postfix Mail Transport Agent.
  228.546218] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Virtual Machine qemu-1-opensuseTW.
  228.584078] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Modem Manager.
  228.762676] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Session c1 of user gdm.
  228.763528] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target Main User Target.
  228.764984] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped PipeWire PulseAudio.
  228.776550] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped D-Bus User Message Bus.
  228.813195] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped Multimedia Service Session Manager.
  228.814392] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped Multimedia Service.
  228.814633] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target Basic System.
  228.814682] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target Paths.
  228.814730] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target Sockets.
  228.814777] mydesktop systemd[1813]: Stopped target Timers.
  228.818093] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped User Manager for UID 461.
  228.825528] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped User Runtime Directory /run/user/461.
  228.879882] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Load/Save Random Seed.
  228.903036] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Berkeley Open Infrastructure Network Com
puting Client.
  229.001169] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Virtualization daemon.
  229.002682] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Virtual Machine and Container Registrati
on Service.
  229.003259] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Virtual machine log manager.
  229.041924] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped X Display Manager.
  229.043064] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target System Time Synchronized.
  229.043181] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target System Time Set.
  229.046329] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped NTP client/server.
  229.047519] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Host and Network Name Lookups.
  229.049786] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Permit User Sessions.
  229.049975] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Remote File Systems.
  229.056411] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Login and scanning of iSCSI devices.
  229.056618] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Network is Online.
  229.056703] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Network.
  229.097026] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped User Login Management.
  229.097268] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target User and Group Name Lookups.
  229.112715] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Name Service Cache Daemon.
  234.653397] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped wicked managed network interfaces.
  234.654241] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped wicked network nanny service.
  234.655076] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped wicked network management service daemon
.
  234.656040] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped wicked AutoIPv4 supplicant service.
  234.656521] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped wicked DHCPv4 supplicant service.
  234.656925] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped wicked DHCPv6 supplicant service.
  234.657133] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Network (Pre).
  234.733404] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped WPA Supplicant daemon.
  236.753584] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon.
  236.760530] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped D-Bus System Message Bus.
  236.808735] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Authorization Manager.
  236.808966] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Basic System.
  236.824173] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Forward Password Requests to Plymouth Di
rectory Watch.
  236.824301] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Paths.
  236.920192] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Watch for changes in CA certificates.
  236.920532] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler.
  236.936138] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Watch for changes in smartmontools sysco
nfig file.
  236.936238] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Slices.
  236.936821] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Sockets.
  236.938287] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target System Initialization.
  236.938450] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Local Encrypted Volumes.
  236.938503] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Swap.
  236.939019] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Apply Kernel Variables.
  236.939214] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Load Kernel Modules.
  236.947033] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Update UTMP about System Boot/Shutdown.
  236.958200] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Security Auditing Service.
  236.958382] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Create Volatile Files and Directories.
  236.958442] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Local File Systems.
  236.975140] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid/C
93A-C87E.
  237.117052] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid/e
748b401-3a8f-4152-a9ea-ef540efb0230.
  237.117481] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Local File Systems (Pre).
  237.118430] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Remount Root and Kernel File Systems.
  237.118629] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped File System Check on Root Device.
  237.118850] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Create Static Device Nodes in /dev.
  237.277330] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Monitoring of LVM2 mirrors, snapshots et
c. using dmeventd or progress polling.
**mydesktop:/home/tom #**

Perhaps this gives a clue but I can live with last reboot.

thanks, tom kosvic

#8

To verify reboot times, I did another restart. Only 10 sec or so to shutdown. Problem has gone away with no changes made. That means it will come back at some time. but dor now, it;s ok

tom kosvic

#9

erlangen is faster than mydesktop:

**erlangen:~ #** journalctl -b -1 -u init.scope -o short-monotonic -g Stopped|grep 'Create Static Device Nodes' 
    2.915677] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped **Create Static Device Nodes** in /dev. 
**erlangen:~ #**

Thus I presume you get what you can hope for.

#10

I almost lost my computer due to no / disk space from diagnostic messages. I believe it was due to the diagnostic changes I made regarding shutdown times.

I got message – only 1 gig left in root. Then apps stopped running. I did restart and no normal start only black screen. Alt-f2 got me to a login. I got to root and /var/log. messages file was 65 gig. I deleted it. A restart was normal.

Subsequently, I deleted all the files in /var/log/journal that I created. Maybe I should delete entire journal directory? I also made sure that systemd.journald.conf had “storage=auto” as it was originally.

Anything else, I should do to make sure messages are under control? Now I am back at 30% root use out of 100 gig.

thanks, tom kosvic

#11

Stop tinkering. Don’t try to be too clever. Undo those diagnostics. Rely on journal only.

I got message – only 1 gig left in root. Then apps stopped running. I did restart and no normal start only black screen. Alt-f2 got me to a login. I got to root and /var/log. messages file was 65 gig. I deleted it. A restart was normal. Subsequently, I deleted all the files in /var/log/journal that I created. Maybe I should delete entire journal directory?

Nope. Journal is a matured application. Use this instead:

**erlangen:~ #** journalctl --vacuum-size 1G 
Vacuuming done, freed 0B of archived journals from /run/log/journal. 
Vacuuming done, freed 0B of archived journals from /var/log/journal. 
Vacuuming done, freed 0B of archived journals from /var/log/journal/94f3af277bac4a8eb57da425c9677379. 
**erlangen:~ #**

I also made sure that systemd.journald.conf had “storage=auto” as it was originally. Anything else, I should do to make sure messages are under control? Now I am back at 30% root use out of 100 gig.

Show usage:

**erlangen:~ #** btrfs filesystem usage -T /            
Overall: 
    Device size:                   1.82TiB 
    Device allocated:            403.07GiB 
    Device unallocated:            1.42TiB 
    Device missing:                  0.00B 
    Used:                        384.71GiB 
    Free (estimated):              1.44TiB      (min: 745.61GiB) 
    Free (statfs, df):             1.44TiB 
    Data ratio:                       1.00 
    Metadata ratio:                   2.00 
    Global reserve:              512.00MiB      (used: 0.00B) 
    Multiple profiles:                  no 

                  Data      Metadata System               
Id Path           single    DUP      DUP      Unallocated 
-- -------------- --------- -------- -------- ----------- 
 1 /dev/nvme0n1p2 397.01GiB  6.00GiB 64.00MiB     1.42TiB 
-- -------------- --------- -------- -------- ----------- 
   Total          397.01GiB  3.00GiB 32.00MiB     1.42TiB 
   Used           381.12GiB  1.79GiB 64.00KiB             
**erlangen:~ #**

[FONT=monospace]**erlangen:~ #** du -hd1 -t10k /var/log 
12M     /var/log/YaST2 
8.1M    /var/log/zypp 
72M     /var/log/journal 
3.0M    /var/log/cups 
5.5M    /var/log/audit 
16K     /var/log/samba 
1.5M    /var/log/apache2 
12M     /var/log/updateTestcase-2022-01-25-18-48-40 
12M     /var/log/updateTestcase-2022-01-27-01-22-32 
183M    /var/log 
**erlangen:~ #**[/FONT]
#12

I have ext4 file system. I see nothing but problem threads from btrfs so I use ext4. I dont think an “active” filesystem is necessary.

thanks, tom kosvic

#13

see code dump below. But this is after deleting almost 70 gig of messages in messages file.

(base) tom@mydesktop:~> sudo du -hd1 -t10k /var/log
[sudo] password for root:  
128K    /var/log/cepces
8.0M    /var/log/audit
50M     /var/log/YaST2
2.3M    /var/log/cups
1.6M    /var/log/libvirt
3.7M    /var/log/zypp
33M     /var/log/journal
12K     /var/log/swtpm
153M    /var/log
(base) tom@mydesktop:~>

thanks, tomkosvic

#14

There have been minor issues, which have been fixed some time ago: https://karlmistelberger.wordpress.com/2019/11/07/its-not-a-trick-its-snapper-running-on-opensuse/

Actually btrfs is a big leap forward: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/538062-Btrfs-Snapper-Amazing-Stuff!?p=2978149#post2978149

Currently I have:

**erlangen:~ #** fdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1 
**Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors**
Disk model: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB             
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes 
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes 
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes 
Disklabel type: gpt 
Disk identifier: F5B232D0-7A67-461D-8E7D-B86A5B4C6C10 

**Device        ****  Start****       End****   Sectors**** Size****Type**
/dev/nvme0n1p1    2048    1050623    1048576  512M EFI System 
/dev/nvme0n1p2 1050624 3907029134 3905978511  1.8T Linux filesystem 
**erlangen:~ #** btrfs filesystem usage -T / 
Overall: 
    Device size:                   1.82TiB 
    Device allocated:            404.07GiB 
    Device unallocated:            1.42TiB 
    Device missing:                  0.00B 
    Used:                        383.17GiB 
    Free (estimated):              1.44TiB      (min: 747.45GiB) 
    Free (statfs, df):             1.44TiB 
    Data ratio:                       1.00 
    Metadata ratio:                   2.00 
    Global reserve:              512.00MiB      (used: 0.00B) 
    Multiple profiles:                  no 

                  Data      Metadata System               
Id Path           single    DUP      DUP      Unallocated 
-- -------------- --------- -------- -------- ----------- 
 1 /dev/nvme0n1p2 398.01GiB  6.00GiB 64.00MiB     1.42TiB 
-- -------------- --------- -------- -------- ----------- 
   Total          398.01GiB  3.00GiB 32.00MiB     1.42TiB 
   Used           379.78GiB  1.70GiB 64.00KiB             
**erlangen:~ #** snapper list 
   # | Type   | Pre # | Date                     | User | Cleanup | Description           | Userdata      
-----+--------+-------+--------------------------+------+---------+-----------------------+-------------- 
  0  | single |       |                          | root |         | current               |               
  1* | single |       | Wed Nov 24 21:33:32 2021 | root |         | first root filesystem |               
170  | pre    |       | Fri Jan 21 12:08:55 2022 | root | number  | zypp(zypper)          | important=yes 
171  | post   |   170 | Fri Jan 21 12:09:02 2022 | root | number  |                       | important=yes 
180  | pre    |       | Sun Jan 23 19:17:43 2022 | root | number  | zypp(zypper)          | important=yes 
181  | post   |   180 | Sun Jan 23 19:20:11 2022 | root | number  |                       | important=yes 
184  | pre    |       | Tue Jan 25 03:20:04 2022 | root | number  | zypp(zypper)          | important=yes 
185  | post   |   184 | Tue Jan 25 03:27:34 2022 | root | number  |                       | important=yes 
186  | pre    |       | Tue Jan 25 18:48:39 2022 | root | number  | zypp(zypper)          | important=no  
187  | post   |   186 | Tue Jan 25 18:48:43 2022 | root | number  |                       | important=no  
188  | pre    |       | Thu Jan 27 01:22:31 2022 | root | number  | zypp(zypper)          | important=no  
189  | post   |   188 | Thu Jan 27 01:22:45 2022 | root | number  |                       | important=no  
190  | pre    |       | Thu Jan 27 02:18:42 2022 | root | number  | zypp(zypper)          | important=no  
191  | post   |   190 | Thu Jan 27 02:19:39 2022 | root | number  |                       | important=no  
192  | pre    |       | Thu Jan 27 15:55:49 2022 | root | number  | zypp(zypper)          | important=no  
193  | post   |   192 | Thu Jan 27 15:55:55 2022 | root | number  |                       | important=no  
194  | pre    |       | Thu Jan 27 20:25:29 2022 | root | number  | zypp(zypper)          | important=no  
195  | post   |   194 | Thu Jan 27 20:26:52 2022 | root | number  |                       | important=no  
196  | pre    |       | Fri Jan 28 04:59:03 2022 | root | number  | zypp(zypper)          | important=yes 
197  | post   |   196 | Fri Jan 28 05:01:24 2022 | root | number  |                       | important=yes 
198  | pre    |       | Fri Jan 28 05:11:27 2022 | root | number  | zypp(zypper)          | important=yes 
199  | post   |   198 | Fri Jan 28 05:11:31 2022 | root | number  |                       | important=yes 
200  | pre    |       | Fri Jan 28 07:58:05 2022 | root | number  | zypp(zypper)          | important=no  
201  | post   |   200 | Fri Jan 28 07:58:15 2022 | root | number  |                       | important=no  
204  | pre    |       | Fri Jan 28 18:24:57 2022 | root | number  | zypp(zypper)          | important=no  
205  | post   |   204 | Fri Jan 28 18:25:09 2022 | root | number  |                       | important=no  
**erlangen:~ #**

No severe messages in journal. Warnings are rare:

**erlangen:~ #** journalctl --quiet --priority warning --grep btrfs 
Jan 24 18:20:22 erlangen kernel: **BTRFS**** warning (device nvme0n1p2): qgroup rescan init failed, qgroup is not enabled**
Jan 28 21:21:32 erlangen kernel: **BTRFS**** warning (device nvme0n1p2): qgroup rescan init failed, qgroup is not enabled**
Jan 29 06:37:21 erlangen kernel: **BTRFS**** warning (device nvme0n1p2): qgroup rescan init failed, qgroup is not enabled**
**erlangen:~ #**

**Summary

**btrfs has great features. It’s built into the kernel, warranting easy maintenance and extreme robustness. It’s flexible. It’s the optimal file system for SSDs.

Warning

Don’t use it on shaky hardware. Don’t tinker. The default setup as shown above works best. When moving from ext4 to btrfs beware of pitfalls. Start with a pristine default installation and rsync your system: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/541321-Upgrading-the-Hardware?p=3086058#post3086058

#15

Beware of syslog:


**erlangen:~ #** zypper search --installed-only syslog 
Loading repository data... 
Reading installed packages... 
No matching items found. 
**erlangen:~ #**

None of my systems has /var/log/messages. Get familiar with journal and stick to it: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-journalctl-to-view-and-manipulate-systemd-logs

Always post properly filtered journal. Don’t play Battleship with users willing to help.

#16

My system has /var/log/messages file and I don’t know what put it there.

I am not sure what you meant about playing battleship.

I followed some ideas you gave me to diagnose my shutdown problem and I appreciate your advice. But, incorporating those changes for diagnosis made for the /var/log/messages file to grow very quickly to >65gig. It filled root and shutdown my machine. I was able to recover by deleting that file after getting into a terminal using alt-f2 . I undid all the changes made just before that happened and rebooted several times. Bt the way, shutdowns were tolerably short since then.

Last time I reinstalled system due to nvidia grapgics issues, I formatted disk using openSUSE installer as ext4 rather than btrfs as I had problems with btrfs before and i saw many others asking for problem solutions. No one asks for any solutions to problems related to ext4. I did not convert system to ext4 from btrfs, ext4 was installed from scratch.

From last comment here is code block:

(base) tom@mydesktop:~> sudo zypper search --installed-only syslog  
[sudo] password for root:  
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name           | Summary                                 | Type
--+----------------+-----------------------------------------+--------
i | rsyslog        | The enhanced syslogd for Linux and Unix | package
i | syslog-service | Syslog service files & scripts          | package
(base) tom@mydesktop:~>

Please advise me. Should the rsyslog packages be removed? It appears you don’t have these packages from above code you posted. Did this app create the /var/log/messages file, maybe?

thanks again, tom kosvic

#17

I examined message info in /var/log/messages file and in /var/log/journal/xxxxx file that is from systemd and message at same time were identical. It also appears that rsyslog and associated service were generating /var/log/message files so I deleted rsyslog and service through yast software manager. I also deleted /var/log/messages files and /var/log/warn file.

All log info will be through systemd journal. I do not remember how, why, or when rsyslog got installled but it is no longer inplace.

My shutdown times (the reason for this thread) have changed from 4+ minutes to tolerable even though no changes were implemented.

thanks all, tom kosvic

#18

Great. As a courtesy to other readers you may show evidence by running and posting the output:

**erlangen:~ #** zypper search --installed-only syslog                                
Loading repository data... 
Reading installed packages... 
No matching items found. 
**erlangen:~ #**

**erlangen:~ #** du -h /var/log/journal/ 
112M    /var/log/journal/94f3af277bac4a8eb57da425c9677379 
112M    /var/log/journal/ 
**erlangen:~ #**


**erlangen:~ #** journalctl -b -1 -o short-monotonic -g Stopped --no-pager  
    3.016008] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Initrd Default Target. 
    3.016089] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Basic System. 
    3.016117] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Initrd Root Device. 
    3.016189] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Initrd /usr File System. 
    3.016216] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Path Units.
...
 **3425.227064**] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Graphical Interface. 
 3425.227328] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Multi-User System. 
 3425.228066] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Login Prompts. 
 3425.228598] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Sound Card. 
 3425.228683] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Timer Units. 
 3425.228890] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Backup of /home. 
 3425.229047] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Backup of RPM database. 
 3425.229200] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Backup of /etc/sysconfig. 
 3425.229369] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Balance block groups on a btrfs filesystem. 
 3425.245649] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Scrub btrfs filesystem, verify block checksums. 
 3425.246678] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Check if mainboard battery is Ok. 
 3425.246897] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Discard unused blocks once a week. 
 3425.247015] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Daily rotation of log files. 
 3425.247118] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Daily man-db regeneration. 
 3425.247241] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Daily locate database update. 
 3425.247350] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Systemd timer to update the system daily with PackageKit. 
 3425.247496] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Daily Cleanup of Snapper Snapshots. 
 3425.247992] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Timeline of Snapper Snapshots. 
 3425.248106] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Daily Cleanup of Temporary Directories. 
 3425.248791] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped auditd rules generation. 
 3425.250047] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Apply settings from /etc/sysconfig/keyboard. 
 3425.252069] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped hd-idle disk spindown service. 
 3425.252785] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped irqbalance daemon. 
 3425.253445] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Machine Check Exception Logging Daemon. 
 3425.254037] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler. 
 3425.254822] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Getty on tty1. 
 3425.255465] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Command Scheduler. 
 3425.256050] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Daemon for power management. 
 3425.257976] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy Service. 
 3425.259138] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped A remote-mail retrieval utility. 
 3425.260273] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Save/Restore Sound Card State. 
 3425.261012] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Restore /run/initramfs on shutdown. 
 3425.261808] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Load/Save Random Seed. 
 3425.263652] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Start fetchmail. 
 3425.263787] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Hold until boot process finishes up. 
 3425.273701] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Authorization Manager. 
 3425.302000] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped MiniDLNA is a DLNA/UPnP-AV server software. 
 3425.302303] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Network is Online. 
 3425.306386] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Disk Manager. 
 3425.312068] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Session 2 of User karl. 
 3425.333005] erlangen systemd[1168]: Stopped target Main User Target. 
 3425.333615] erlangen systemd[1168]: Stopped Sound Service. 
 3425.333922] erlangen systemd[1168]: Stopped Accessibility services bus. 
 3425.333982] erlangen systemd[1168]: Stopped User preferences database. 
 3425.334040] erlangen systemd[1168]: Stopped Save jAlbum Project Files. 
 3425.334088] erlangen systemd[1168]: Stopped Terminal - Super User Mode. 
 3425.334207] erlangen systemd[1168]: Stopped D-Bus User Message Bus. 
 3425.346884] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Postfix Mail Transport Agent. 
 3425.373193] erlangen systemd[1168]: Stopped Firefox - Web Browser. 
 3425.398474] erlangen systemd[1168]: Stopped Virtual filesystem service. 
 3425.398573] erlangen systemd[1168]: Stopped target Basic System. 
 3425.398611] erlangen systemd[1168]: Stopped target Paths. 
 3425.398658] erlangen systemd[1168]: Stopped target Sockets. 
 3425.398697] erlangen systemd[1168]: Stopped target Timers. 
 3425.398735] erlangen systemd[1168]: Stopped Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories. 
 3425.399096] erlangen systemd[1168]: Stopped Create User's Volatile Files and Directories. 
 3425.425414] erlangen systemd[1168]: Stopped KMail - E-Mail-Programm. 
 3425.463648] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Initialize hardware monitoring sensors. 
 3425.729909] erlangen systemd[1168]: Stopped /usr/bin/korgac. 
 3425.734197] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped User Manager for UID 1000. 
 3425.862311] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped User Runtime Directory /run/user/1000. 
 3425.877658] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped D-Bus System Message Bus. 
 3426.589430] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped X Display Manager. 
 3426.609626] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Permit User Sessions. 
 3426.674360] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped User Login Management. 
 3426.714573] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped The Apache Webserver. 
 3426.714650] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Remote File Systems. 
 3426.714713] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target System Time Synchronized. 
 3426.714758] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target System Time Set. 
 3426.715674] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped NTP client/server. 
 3426.715798] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Basic System. 
 3426.715866] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Network. 
 3426.715917] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Host and Network Name Lookups. 
 3426.715962] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Path Units. 
 3426.721369] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Watch /etc/sysconfig/btrfsmaintenance. 
 3426.769390] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Watch for changes in CA certificates. 
 3426.769812] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler. 
 3426.801385] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Watch for changes in issue snippets. 
 3426.817395] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Watch for changes in smartmontools sysconfig file. 
 3426.817600] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Slice Units. 
 3426.818511] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Socket Units. 
 3426.819671] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target System Initialization. 
 3426.820184] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Local Encrypted Volumes. 
 3426.833523] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch. 
 3426.833845] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Local Verity Protected Volumes. 
 3426.855058] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Network Name Resolution. 
 3426.868146] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Record System Boot/Shutdown in UTMP. 
 3426.902688] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Network Configuration. 
 3426.904779] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Apply Kernel Variables. 
 3426.905144] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Apply Kernel Variables for 5.16.2-1-default. 
 3426.905949] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Load Kernel Modules. 
 3426.962556] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Security Auditing Service. 
 3426.962650] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped Create Volatile Files and Directories. 
 **3426.962686**] erlangen systemd[1]: Stopped target Local File Systems. 
**erlangen:~ #**

Shutdown time of erlangen is 3426.96 - 3425.22 = 1.74 seconds.

BTW:
“Battleship (also known as Battleships or Sea Battle) is a strategy type guessing game for two players. It is played on ruled grids (paper or board) on which each player’s fleet of ships (including battleships) are marked. The locations of the fleets are concealed from the other player.”

Reduce guessing by showing the locations of the fleets. When posting reduce narrating and show evidence for your claims.

#19

I know what the game battleship is. I don’t know what your implications were in bringing that up. I posted code blocks where I could. I couldn’t post code block for the 65gig messages file in a directory listing because it was already deleted.

Here are the actions you requested to be posted.

(base) tom@mydesktop:~> sudo zypper search --installed-only syslog
[sudo] password for root:  
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
No matching items found.
(base) tom@mydesktop:~> 


(base) tom@mydesktop:~> du -h /var/log/journal/  
65M     /var/log/journal/128599b179684a9b94263a31be841993
65M     /var/log/journal/
(base) tom@mydesktop:~>


(base) tom@mydesktop:~> sudo journalctl -b -1 -o short-monotonic -g Stopped --no-page
r
-- Logs begin at Wed 2022-01-26 16:21:36 CST, end at Sun 2022-01-30 07:38:20 CST. --
   10.419580] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Initrd Default Target.
   10.419672] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Basic System.
   10.419771] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Initrd Root Device.
   10.419869] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Paths.
   10.434067] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped dracut cmdline hook.
   10.434172] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped dracut ask for additional cmdline parame
ters.
   10.435023] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Create Static Device Nodes in /dev.
   10.435179] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Create list of static device nodes for t
he current kernel.
   13.920410] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Switch Root.
   13.921811] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Switch Root.
   13.921840] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Initrd File Systems.
   13.921860] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Initrd Root File System.
   13.930263] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Show Plymouth Boot Screen.
   13.930493] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Plymouth switch root service.
   13.930864] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Journal Service.
   14.056307] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Entropy Daemon based on the HAVEGE algor
ithm.
[174189.150405] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Graphical Interface.
[174189.150473] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Multi-User System.
[174189.150548] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Login Prompts.
[174189.150634] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Printer.
[174189.150703] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Sound Card.
[174189.150767] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Timers.
[174189.150887] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Backup of RPM database.
[174189.150987] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Backup of /etc/sysconfig.
[174189.151076] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Check if mainboard battery is Ok.
[174189.151168] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Discard unused blocks once a week.
[174189.151262] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Daily rotation of log files.
[174189.151352] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Do daily mandb update.
[174189.151439] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Daily locate database update.
[174189.151660] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Daily Cleanup of Temporary Directories.
[174189.151751] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped daily update of the root trust anchor f
or DNSSEC.
[174189.154279] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Detect if the system suffers from bsc#1
089761.
[174189.156715] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Apply settings from /etc/sysconfig/keyb
oard.
[174189.157130] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped download broadcom firmware files needed
 for bcm43xx WLAN chips.
[174189.166502] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped irqbalance daemon.
[174189.166970] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Virtual Machine and Container Registrat
ion Service.
[174189.167397] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Accounts Service.
[174189.167891] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Virtual machine log manager.
[174189.168580] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Daemon for power management.
[174189.169296] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Manage, Install and Generate Color Prof
iles.
[174189.169839] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Command Scheduler.
[174189.170274] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy Service.
[174189.170864] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Getty on tty1.
[174189.197379] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Hold until boot process finishes up.
[174189.258096] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME X11 Session (session: g
nome-login).
[174189.261478] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME Session.
[174189.261540] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME X11 Session.
[174189.261599] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME Session (session: gnome
-login).
[174189.261651] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME Accessibility settings.
[174189.261708] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME Color management.
[174189.261759] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME Keyboard handling.
[174189.261820] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME Media keys handling.
[174189.261879] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME Power management handli
ng.
[174189.261931] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME Printer notifications.
[174189.261995] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME RFKill handling.
[174189.262045] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME Smartcard handling.
[174189.262096] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME Wacom handling.
[174189.262153] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME WWan management.
[174189.262204] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME XSettings.
[174189.262259] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME session X11 services.
[174189.291768] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target Current graphical user sessio
n.
[174189.374420] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped GNOME Smartcard handling.
[174189.376769] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped Monitor Session leader for GNOME Ses
sion.
[174189.420119] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped GNOME RFKill handling.
[174189.605124] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Restore /run/initramfs on shutdown.
[174190.035688] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Bluetooth service.
[174190.044734] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped GNOME WWan management.
[174190.426623] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Load/Save Random Seed.
[174190.427118] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped GNOME Accessibility settings.
[174190.676469] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Machine Check Exception Logging Daemon.
[174190.704291] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped X Display Manager.
[174190.764021] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Make remote CUPS printers available loc
ally.
[174190.808482] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Postfix Mail Transport Agent.
[174190.808835] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target System Time Synchronized.
[174190.808953] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target System Time Set.
[174190.843517] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped GNOME Shell on X11.
[174191.310265] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped NTP client/server.
[174191.310717] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Host and Network Name Lookups.
[174191.370724] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Save/Restore Sound Card State.
[174191.381383] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler.
[174191.383882] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped GNOME Printer notifications.
[174191.473133] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack.
[174191.475421] mydesktop systemd[4305]: Stopped D-Bus User Message Bus.
[174191.514233] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Self Monitoring and Reporting Technolog
y (SMART) Daemon.
[174191.536920] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Disk Manager.
[174191.557897] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped GNOME Keyboard handling.
[174191.558211] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped GNOME Media keys handling.
[174191.558520] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped GNOME Power management handling.
[174191.558817] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped GNOME Wacom handling.
[174191.580658] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped GNOME Color management.
[174191.630806] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped GNOME XSettings.
[174191.631207] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME Session is initialized.
[174191.631281] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME Session Manager is read
y.
[174191.631341] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target GNOME Shell on X11.
[174191.719938] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped GNOME Session Manager (session: gnom
e-login).
[174191.720028] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target Tasks to be run before GNOME 
Session starts.
[174191.720104] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target Session services which should
 run early before the graphical session is brought up.
[174191.727056] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target Shutdown running GNOME Sessio
n.
[174191.808620] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped D-Bus User Message Bus.
[174192.253209] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Modem Manager.
[174193.134834] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Session 1 of user tom.
[174193.186583] mydesktop systemd[4305]: Stopped target Main User Target.
[174194.299750] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Session c1 of user gdm.
[174194.334538] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target Main User Target.
[174194.389324] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped User Login Management.
[174281.570089] mydesktop systemd[4305]: Stopped Evolution source registry.
[174281.570340] mydesktop systemd[4305]: Stopped D-Bus User Message Bus.
[174281.594688] mydesktop systemd[4305]: Stopped PipeWire PulseAudio.
[174281.668714] mydesktop systemd[4305]: Stopped Multimedia Service Session Manager.
[174281.687996] mydesktop systemd[4305]: Stopped Multimedia Service.
[174281.688324] mydesktop systemd[4305]: Stopped target Basic System.
[174281.688393] mydesktop systemd[4305]: Stopped target Paths.
[174281.688455] mydesktop systemd[4305]: Stopped target Sockets.
[174281.688512] mydesktop systemd[4305]: Stopped target Timers.
[174281.692991] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped User Manager for UID 1000.
[174281.705649] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped User Runtime Directory /run/user/1000.
[174281.901372] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped PipeWire PulseAudio.
[174281.901760] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped D-Bus User Message Bus.
[174281.933710] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped Multimedia Service Session Manager.
[174281.935331] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped Multimedia Service.
[174281.935709] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target Basic System.
[174281.935842] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target Paths.
[174281.935954] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target Sockets.
[174281.936069] mydesktop systemd[2110]: Stopped target Timers.
[174282.007371] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped User Manager for UID 461.
[174282.016255] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped User Runtime Directory /run/user/461.
[174282.031639] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Permit User Sessions.
[174282.031848] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target User and Group Name Lookups.
[174282.031917] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Remote File Systems.
[174282.072935] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Name Service Cache Daemon.
[174282.082226] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Login and scanning of iSCSI devices.
[174282.082404] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Network is Online.
[174282.082478] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Network.
[174283.951422] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped wicked managed network interfaces.
[174283.952499] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped wicked network nanny service.
[174283.978759] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped wicked network management service daemo
n.
[174283.979568] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped wicked AutoIPv4 supplicant service.
[174283.979932] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped wicked DHCPv4 supplicant service.
[174283.980269] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped wicked DHCPv6 supplicant service.
[174283.980394] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Network (Pre).
[174284.105600] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped WPA Supplicant daemon.
[174285.612951] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon.
[174285.622986] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped D-Bus System Message Bus.
[174285.636745] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Authorization Manager.
[174285.636868] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Basic System.
[174285.652298] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Forward Password Requests to Plymouth D
irectory Watch.
[174285.652485] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Paths.
[174285.740252] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Watch for changes in CA certificates.
[174285.740456] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler.
[174285.748280] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Watch for changes in smartmontools sysc
onfig file.
[174285.748416] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Slices.
[174285.749011] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Sockets.
[174285.750510] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target System Initialization.
[174285.750703] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Local Encrypted Volumes.
[174285.750769] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Swap.
[174285.752125] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Apply Kernel Variables.
[174285.752421] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Load Kernel Modules.
[174285.799686] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Update UTMP about System Boot/Shutdown.
[174285.832522] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Security Auditing Service.
[174285.832721] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped Create Volatile Files and Directories.
[174285.832797] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Local File Systems.
[174285.939606] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid/
C93A-C87E.
[174287.355658] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid/
e748b401-3a8f-4152-a9ea-ef540efb0230.
[174287.776222] mydesktop systemd[1]: Stopped target Local File Systems (Pre).

(base) tom@mydesktop:~>

Still significantly longer time than yours but I can live with this as long as any anamaly is not indicative of a problem that needs correction.

thanks again, tom kosvic

#20

This large gap of 87 seconds is atypical. Further investigation may be worthwhile.