Fedora 21 shutting down after logging in?

[jd1008]

On 02/03/2015 04:55 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> I'm troubleshooting some video problems with a used laptop I got for 
> cheap.
>
> For the day is was pretty nice, Dell Latitude D620 with Nvidia Quadro 
> graphics (the problem I'm troubleshooting).
>
> I was looking through the journal when I saw this shortly after 
> logging in:
>
> Feb 03 17:47:15 localhost.localdomain systemd-logind[676]: Removed 
> session c1.
> Feb 03 17:47:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1364]: Stopping Default.
> Feb 03 17:47:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1364]: Stopped target 
> Default.
> Feb 03 17:47:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1364]: Stopping Basic 
> System.
> Feb 03 17:47:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1364]: Stopped target 
> Basic System.
> Feb 03 17:47:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1364]: Stopping Paths.
> Feb 03 17:47:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1364]: Stopped target Paths.
> Feb 03 17:47:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1364]: Stopping Timers.
> Feb 03 17:47:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1364]: Stopped target 
> Timers.
> Feb 03 17:47:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1364]: Stopping Sockets.
> Feb 03 17:47:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1364]: Stopped target 
> Sockets.
> Feb 03 17:47:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1364]: Starting Shutdown.
> Feb 03 17:47:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1364]: Reached target 
> Shutdown.
> Feb 03 17:47:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1364]: Starting Exit the 
> Session...
> Feb 03 17:47:15 localhost.localdomain systemd[1364]: Received 
> SIGRTMIN+24 from PID 2173 (kill).
>
> Why does systemd think I'm trying to shut down the computer right 
> after logging in?
>
> The computer doesn't actually shut down and I'll get a usable desktop 
> after what I assumed was a hard lock but it takes well over 5 minutes, 
> I haven't put a stopwatch to it.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
>
You will always see this in the logs AFTER booting.
All of this "stopping ....whatever ....."
comes AFTER

Starting Plymouth switch root service
....

Shortly thereafter you should see

SELinux: initialized (dev sysfs, type sysfs), uses genfs_contexts
.....etc,