On 27.10.2012, Ian Chapman wrote:
I have a home server which runs F17 and for a long time now it just doesn't reboot or shutdown cleanly. I've had the same issue since it was running F16 and possibly F15. When the server shuts down, I get spurious messages about some services failing or a dependency was not met for the shutdown target, or sometimes a black screen with a line which just says "Adding Swap target" (really, on a shutdown?).
I have encountered similar problems with systemd, see e.g. here for the latest one which is present a long time:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857406
Neither Fedora nor sysyemd-people really care, so expect to be on your own.
How do I about starting to diagnose these problems with systemd?
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging#Diagnosing_Shutdown_P...
Given that the system is left in a state where I can't do anything with it. The usual places such as /var/log/messages doesn't turn up anything useful. Maybe because syslog has already been stopped by then.
Do the diagnostics from the link above and open a bugreport. Maybe you are more lucky than I have been. In the meantime, I switched all my machines to Archlinux, there's just one Fedora machine left (which will go soon). Most of the showstoppers were systemd ones, where the developers/maintainers didn't care.
"Didn't care" translates in my case *not* to "they do not provide the help and fixes I'm expecting" (it's free software, after all). It translates to "I don't even get an answer"", despite that I offered full support to debug the case.