Patrick O'Callaghan writes:
On Thu, 2024-08-22 at 07:15 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan writes:
When I reboot the system, there's a delay of around a minute before anything happens. This is a single-user desktop and I really don't need to stare at a spinner for so long. Is there a setting somewhere that lets me change this? I'm aware of 'reboot -f' but I assume that would normally be too drastic.
I find it highly improbable that there is a "delay reboot for X minutes for no reason whatsoever" setting somewhere, that simply needs to be changed. As Mr. Spock would say: "this is not logical".
There must be a reason, or some kind of a malfunction, that causes that. Unfortunately, this is one of those things for which there is no "press X and push Y to figure out why", paint-by-numbers, recipe for troubleshooting. It's unclear whether you are describing a delay before the reboot actually starts and things start shutting down, or if there's a delay during the subsequent boot. I would take a different approach depending on which is the case here. If there's a hang during boot, it's systemd-analyze time. If there's a delay initiating a reboot the first thing I would try is dropping to a shell, su-ing to root, manually executing "reboot", and then seeing what happens.
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?