On Thu, 2024-08-22 at 07:48 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Sorry if that wasn't clear. I'm talking about the time between initiating a reboot, either from the Shell or from the GUI, and the actual system going down (either for reboot or shutdown) as determined by the display turning off. During that time I'm looking at a screen with a spinner and the Fedora logo.
All right. So, as I suggested: when you dropped to a shell, su-ed to root, and then typed "reboot", what happened then?
I just repeated this in two ways:
1) Logged into KDE, ran 'sudo -i' in a Konsole and typed 'reboot'. Screen went black except for a message saying 'System will reboot now'. Then a 60 second wait until a brief line flashed up (unreadable), screen went black and the reboot started.
2) Didn't log into KDE but switched to another virtual console, logged in as root and typed 'reboot'. This time I got the splash screen (mobo logo, Fedora logo and spinner), then again a 60 second delay and reboot as above.
Evidently something is taking a long time to timeout. I then followed Barry Scott's advice (see his reply) and changed the default timeout values. That seems to have fixed the problem.
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