Shutdown hanging

[sunrat]

You can use journalctl to see if there are error messages, see man journalctl
Something like this may help -

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journalctl -b -1 -p 3

[dariusdor]

Not sure if this will help but...

When my computer is connected to another machine via an ethernet cable, and when that machine's shared directory is mounted on my machine, if I shut down the other machine without first unmounting its directory on my machine... then when I try to shut down my machine, it will freeze.

[Lou]

I just updated to Jessie today, left systemd installed on purpose (later on i will nuke it).

No problems with shutting down or rebooting the machine.

I use:

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# halt -p
# reboot

[raptir]

You can use journalctl to see if there are error messages, see man journalctl
Something like this may help -

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journalctl -b -1 -p 3

I haven't been using this system as often lately, but I tried to run this after it hung on shutdown and I get...

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Failed to look up boot -1: Cannot assign requested address

Obviously the system is discarding all old logs... how can I change that behavior?

Edit: although, all of my log files in /var/log seem to go back to yesterday, so if someone can tell me what file I should be looking at I can pull that together.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

You need to be in the systemd-journal group to view the journalctl logs.

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# gpasswd -a <user name> systemd-journal

[raptir]

You need to be in the systemd-journal group to view the journalctl logs.

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# gpasswd -a <user name> systemd-journal

I tried adding myself to that group and I still can't view any old logs. And even prior to adding myself to the group I was able to view the current log (just running journalctl or journalctl -p 3) but not the old logs.

Edit: And even as root I cannot view the old logs.