Long RAID sync silently prevents shutdown on new installation

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Hello
I was having a strange problem whereby my new 15.4 Leap installation was refusing to shut down. I checked the shutdown logs and various forum suggestions here, none of which gave any clue or helped.

I later ran the Power Management setup and it reported that disk manager was blocking sleep screen locking mdraid-sync-job

And indeed checking this there was a very long RAID sync up going on between the two new drives.

Presumably this was blocking shutdown as well but I didn’t get any warnings on screen or anywhere in the logs while this was going on.

Once I’d allowed the sync to complete (several hours) then shutdown worked as normal.
I wasn’t expecting a long sync on two new drives, I don’t remember seeing this on previous RAID setups.

So anyway I get that preventing shutdown is correct behaviour but no notification of it anywhere completely threw me.

Should I open a bug for this?
Thanks

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I would read Monitoring your system - Linux Raid Wiki first. I don’t think a bug report would be likely to produce fruit. Also I don’t think most RAID users are in the habit of frequent shutdowns that would make this a more important feature. Also it would probably depend on your DE, so probably the report would need to goto your DE upstream.

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What exactly does it mean? Where you see it? What you did, what you observed?

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Hello,
@mrmazda
Re: monotoring yes that’s how I worked out what was going on (eventually)

@arvidjaar
When shutting down it just went to a black screen and froze at that stage. Pressing ‘Esc’ to show the log also showed nothing. So a black screen with no indication of what was going on and no visible log either. It would happen to anyone who has just set up a new RAID array and tries to shut down.