shutdown doesn't shut down

[jd1008]

On 02/06/2015 05:31 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
>
>> It went down and immediately rebooted.
>>
>> I have other log from other attempt, but sorting them out is a bit
>> difficult.
>>
> It's quite tedious yes.
>
> The only other thing I can think of is to compare 'systemctl
> list-unit-files' on a live media boot, and the currently installed
> system, and disable everything  on the current system that isn't
> enable or doesn't exist on the live media boot. That way you should
> have boot parity. If the problem goes away, then it's some unit file.
> Maybe enable 1/2 of them and try again...kinda like bisecting. If you
> can't reproduce the problem with all the unit files in parity between
> live media and current boots, then it's something else that maybe
> isn't using a native systemd unit. Maybe it's a legacy init script?
> Actually that might be worth checking before the systemd unit files.
> Clearly it's related to something either being startedup or qutting at
> poweroff time, and it's doing something wrong, acting almost like a
> watchdog. Some process dies and the watchdog does an "oh crap!" and
> reboots the system before systemd can actually complete the poweroff.
> Whereas poweroff -f skips all the normal nice quit sequence of
> services and goes straight to telling the kernel to power off the
> hardware.
>
>
Is the original OP of this thread still not able to fully shutdown
and power off using the command
sudo shutdown -P now ?