On Thu, 2024-08-22 at 07:57 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 7:36 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> Use systemd-analyze:
>
> DESCRIPTION
>        systemd-analyze may be used to determine system boot-up
> performance
> statistics and retrieve other state and tracing information from the
> system
> and service manager, and to
>        verify the correctness of unit files. It is also used to
> access
> special functions useful for advanced system manager debugging.

Boot up is reasonably fast (actually the firmware take a long time
before I get to the boot splash screen but that's a separate issue). My
question is about stopping the system prior to shutdown or reboot.