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itsoulos

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Registered: 2020-12-19

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Why the system takes too long to shutdown?

Hello all,
sometimes the Q4OS system requires many seconds to completely shutdown due to some user@1000.service!
Is this normal?

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q4osteam

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Re: Why the system takes too long to shutdown?

No it's not normal. How many seconds ?

itsoulos

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Re: Why the system takes too long to shutdown?

No it's not normal. How many seconds ?

90 seconds

itsoulos

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Re: Why the system takes too long to shutdown?

This  problem occurs in my desktop running X11. This is not present in my Tuxedo Pulse that runs wayland

q4osteam

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Re: Why the system takes too long to shutdown?

AI says, and it's consistent with what we assume:

Systemd is trying to stop the user session for UID 1000 (usually the first normal user) and something in that user session is hanging during logout/shutdown.

What’s usually causing it, most common culprits:
- A stuck user process (browser, Electron app, VS Code, Java, Python, etc.)
- A systemd user service that doesn’t exit cleanly
- FUSE mounts (sshfs, rclone, gvfs)
- Lingering user services still running after logout
- Flatpak / Snap apps misbehaving

Systemd waits (default ~90s), then complains.

Quick ways to diagnose
See what’s still running for that user
$ loginctl user-status 1000
This usually points straight at the offender.

Check failed user services
$ systemctl --user list-units --failed
Or logs:
$ journalctl --user -xe

itsoulos

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Re: Why the system takes too long to shutdown?

here is the output for loginctl:

https://pastebin.com/5WZTj9VB

and here for systemctl

https://pastebin.com/vLuezG7i