systemd shutdown/reboot problems

[Heinz Diehl]

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_Problems

> 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.