Booting and poweroff

[Pedro Francisco]

On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Richard Vickery
<richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com> wrote:
> Frequently when booting the GUI hangs on the full F blue circle, and
> when going to poweroff or reboot it hangs while shutting down until I
> lose patience. At times I have left it hang over night only to wake to
> see it still hanging for poweroff, so I reboot without waiting. I
> never experienced this in i386, and may go  back to that side since
> there were no problems like this. In the mean time, where is the file
> that records what happened?

Regarding boot-only, try:
$ sudo journalctl -b
and look for GDM failures. I've read some failures are expected
because gdm slave someting borks attempting to use VT1 for something
something and eventually is able to start, but sometimes it never does
and I need to login on VT2 and do
$ systemctl restart gdm.service

It appears to be better on latest kernel BUT I've added patches to get
BFS (CPU scheduler) and since it would appear to be a run condition
with Something Accounts, the reason for it being better may be
unrelated to the newer kernel version.

Regarding shutdown, it is also better since a few months, but when it
does happen I use the Magic Keys combination - R-E-I-S-U-B to
shutdown.

P.S.: sorry for the excessive use of 'something', can't check the
actual service names now. Also, Magic Keys are disabled by default on
Fedora.