Leap 15.4 keeps rebooting

Hi,
I have installed Leap 15.4 on my Dell Laptop in dual boot mode with Windows. On startup in the morning, it boots but half way through the process it reboots and then completes the boot. Same thing happens at shutdown; on ‘power off’ it shuts down but reboots on its own after completing the shutdown. It has to be shut down again.
Could someone please identify the problem?
Wishing Everyone a Very Happy New Year.
Regards,
RSP2

@rsp2 check the journal for the previous boot(s) to see what is happening;

journalctl -b (current boot)
journalctl -b 1 (previous boot - increase count to go back more)

Happy New Year back at you :sunglasses:

Hi Malcolm,
Thanks for your response. Below is the journal for the current boot:

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rsp@dell-linux:~> sudo journalctl -b
[sudo] password for root:
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7.40) #1 SMP >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7.40) #1 SMP >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7.40) #1 SMP>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7.40) #1 SM>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7.40) #1 S>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7.40) #1 >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7.40) #1>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7.40) #>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7.40) >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7.40>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7.>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7.40) #1 SMP >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7.40) #1 SMP>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7.40) #1 SM>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7.40) #1 >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7.40) #>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7.40)>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100.7>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150100>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-15010>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810-150>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.20220810->
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.202208>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0.202>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.39.0>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15)>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterpris>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterp>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Ente>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux E>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Lin>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE L>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUS>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils; S>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils;>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binuti>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binut>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Binu>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU Bin>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GNU B>
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Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (GN>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (G>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld (>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU ld >
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Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU >
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Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU >
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.14.21-150400.24.38-default root=UUID=37a75095-dd2>
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x001: ‘x87 floating point registers’
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x002: ‘SSE registers’
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x004: ‘AVX registers’
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: x86/fpu: xstate_offset[2]: 576, xstate_sizes[2]: 256
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: x86/fpu: Enabled xstate features 0x7, context size is 832 bytes, using ‘standard’ format.
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: signal: max sigframe size: 1776
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009d7ff] usable
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009d800-0x000000000009ffff] reserved
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000e0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x00000000cb020fff] usable
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000cb021000-0x00000000cb027fff] ACPI NVS
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000cb028000-0x00000000cb452fff] usable
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000cb453000-0x00000000cba4efff] reserved
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000cba4f000-0x00000000da86afff] usable
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000da86b000-0x00000000dabdcfff] reserved
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000dabdd000-0x00000000dabf7fff] ACPI data
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000dabf8000-0x00000000db573fff] ACPI NVS
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000db574000-0x00000000dbffdfff] reserved
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000dbffe000-0x00000000dbffefff] usable
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000dd000000-0x00000000df1fffff] reserved
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000f8000000-0x00000000fbffffff] reserved
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fec00000-0x00000000fec00fff] reserved
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fed00000-0x00000000fed03fff] reserved
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fed1c000-0x00000000fed1ffff] reserved
Dec 31 10:38:43 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fee00000-0x00000000fee00fff] reserved
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Kindly advise.
Regards,
RSP2

@rsp2 no need to post, there is a lot more, you need to press the space for the next page output, I think journalctl -r -b 1 will help better and the -r option starts at the end and goes back.

The output is as below:

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rsp@dell-linux:~> sudo journalctl -r -b 1
[sudo] password for root:
Specifying boot ID or boot offset has no effect, no persistent journal was found.
rsp@dell-linux:~

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Regards,
RSP2

@rsp2 ahh, not persistent, is there a /var/log/journal directory? If not if you create this it will store boot logs also need to chown root:systemd-journal of the directory.

Following output:

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rsp@dell-linux:/var/log> sudo mkdir journal
[sudo] password for root:
rsp@dell-linux:/var/log> ls
acpid boot.log-20221227.xz boot.omsg journal mail.warn pk_backend_zypp-1 warn
alternatives.log boot.log-20221228.xz btmp krb5 messages private wpa_supplicant.log
apparmor boot.log-20221229.xz chrony lastlog messages-20221230.xz samba wtmp
audit boot.log-20221230.xz cups mail NetworkManager speech-dispatcher YaST2
boot.log boot.log-20221231.xz firewall mail.err pbl.log tallylog zypp
boot.log-20221222.xz boot.msg gdm mail.info pk_backend_zypp tuned zypper.log
rsp@dell-linux:/var/log> sudo chown root:systemd-journal
chown: missing operand after ‘root:systemd-journal’
Try ‘chown --help’ for more information.
rsp@dell-linux:/var/log>

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Regards,
RSP2

@rsp2 you for got the directory name, chown root:systemd-journal journal the old logs it won’t be there until the next reboot.

Did that and the ‘ls -al’ output for ‘journal’ in /var/log directory is as below:

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drwxr-sr-x 3 root systemd-journal 4096 Jan 1 06:22 journal

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Regards,
RSP2

The output as under:

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rsp@dell-linux:~> sudo journalctl -b
[sudo] password for root:
Jan 01 14:00:57 dell-linux kernel: Linux version 5.14.21-150400.24.38-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, GNU >
Jan 01 14:00:57 dell-linux kernel: Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.14.21-150400.24.38-default root=UUID=37a75095-dd2>
Jan 01 14:00:57 dell-linux kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x001: ‘x87 floating point registers’
Jan 01 14:00:57 dell-linux kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x002: ‘SSE registers’
Jan 01 14:00:57 dell-linux kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x004: ‘AVX registers’
Jan 01 14:00:57 dell-linux kernel: x86/fpu: xstate_offset[2]: 576, xstate_sizes[2]: 256
Jan 01 14:00:57 dell-linux kernel: x86/fpu: Enabled xstate features 0x7, context size is 832 bytes, using ‘standard’ format.
Jan 01 14:00:57 dell-linux kernel: signal: max sigframe size: 1776
Jan 01 14:00:57 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jan 01 14:00:57 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009d7ff] usable
Jan 01 14:00:57 dell-linux kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009d800-0x000000000009ffff] reserved
…more lines.

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Regards,
RSP2

Thanks a lot Malcolm, the problem of re-booting has disappeared. I have been watching for the past two days. Normal booting and shutdowns are observed.
Lot of Regards,
RSP2

@rsp2 One wonders if it was just grumpy it couldn’t create a journal?