Since I’ve switched to OpenSUSE 13.1, an annoying shutdown problem appeared.
I have /home directory on separate RAID disk.
On shutdown log, it says “failed unmounting /home” a couple of lines before “Reached target Shutdown”, and then the computer freezes. I have to switch it off manually. If I do this, RAID does not detect dirty shutdown.
If I log off from KDE Plasma, and then shutdown from the login screen, computer shuts down properly. Also, I move /home on the same disk where system is installed, shutdown/restart works OK.
> Since I’ve switched to OpenSUSE 13.1, an annoying shutdown problem
> appeared.
> I have /home directory on separate RAID disk.
> On shutdown log, it says “failed unmounting /home” a couple of lines
> before “Reached target Shutdown”, and then the computer freezes. I have
> to switch it off manually. If I do this, RAID does not detect dirty
> shutdown.
> If I log off from KDE Plasma, and then shutdown from the login screen,
> computer shuts down properly. Also, I move /home on the same disk where
> system is installed, shutdown/restart works OK.
I have a vaguely similar problem with this older openSUSE installation. I
work around the problem by dropping to runlevel 1 before rebooting. Whether
this is as simple to do in 13.1 I’ve not needed to try, but first log out of
KDE, then login on a tty as root, then do ‘init 1’. If that works as I
expect, there won’t be any more inexplicably open files or processes
dependent on /home, and umounting of /home will work as it should when you
use the reboot or shutdown commands. If init 1 doesn’t work right, you’ll
probably need to use the systemctl isolate command instead according to
whatever the man page says about it.
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