shutdown doesn't shut down

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/07/2015 01:55 AM, jd1008 wrote:
>
> On 02/06/2015 05:31 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It went down and immediately rebooted.
>>>
>>> I have other log from other attempt, but sorting them out is a bit
>>> difficult.
>>>
>> It's quite tedious yes.
>>
>> The only other thing I can think of is to compare 'systemctl
>> list-unit-files' on a live media boot, and the currently installed
>> system, and disable everything  on the current system that isn't
>> enable or doesn't exist on the live media boot. That way you should
>> have boot parity. If the problem goes away, then it's some unit file.
>> Maybe enable 1/2 of them and try again...kinda like bisecting. If you
>> can't reproduce the problem with all the unit files in parity between
>> live media and current boots, then it's something else that maybe
>> isn't using a native systemd unit. Maybe it's a legacy init script?
>> Actually that might be worth checking before the systemd unit files.
>> Clearly it's related to something either being startedup or qutting at
>> poweroff time, and it's doing something wrong, acting almost like a
>> watchdog. Some process dies and the watchdog does an "oh crap!" and
>> reboots the system before systemd can actually complete the poweroff.
>> Whereas poweroff -f skips all the normal nice quit sequence of
>> services and goes straight to telling the kernel to power off the
>> hardware.
>>
>>
> Is the original OP of this thread still not able to fully shutdown
> and power off using the command
> sudo shutdown -P now ?

No, I (== Original OP) am not. Just like anything else (but "poweroff 
-f"), "shutdown -P now", results in a "shutdown + immediate reboot".

Ralf