[Bug 1464917] Re: reboot hangs at 'Reached target Shutdown'

[xtrchessreal]

The issue came back for me a few shutdowns after I purged old kernel
images as explained above.

I was gonna wait until I've had more time before calling it successful
at least for me as a work around but I tried Adam's idea too and so far
it is working.  When you 'sudo swapoff -a' it takes time on my machine
for the system to do the switch.  I hear the cpu fan run higher and the
terminal screen is delayed in giving me the prompt back while the
command is processed.  I'm sure totally normal behavior.  Then I shut
down as usual and there is no delay at all, I see the message for a
second maybe and then my machine is off.

I first played around with the swappiness=0 but that made my machine
hang for normal operations so I set it to 50 and then tried Adam's idea
just before shutdown.  I think a nice script would be cool to make until
this issue is fixed officially.

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Title:
  reboot hangs at 'Reached target Shutdown'

Status in systemd:
  New
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I rebooted my 15.04 system, and found it hanging indefinitely at the
  plymouth shutdown screen.  Hitting esc to reveal the console showed a
  normal set of shutdown messages, ending with 'Reached target Shutdown'
  (paraphrased from memory).

  The system never rebooted on its own.  I had to use SysRq to finish
  the shutdown.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: systemd 219-7ubuntu6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-20.20-generic 3.19.8
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-20-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sat Jun 13 11:53:10 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-09-24 (1723 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
  MachineType: LENOVO 2306CTO
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.19.0-20-generic root=/dev/mapper/hostname-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: systemd
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2014-12-06 (189 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 10/25/2013
  dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.bios.version: G2ET97WW (2.57 )
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
  dmi.board.name: 2306CTO
  dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.board.version: Not Defined
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrG2ET97WW(2.57):bd10/25/2013:svnLENOVO:pn2306CTO:pvrThinkPadX230:rvnLENOVO:rn2306CTO:rvrNotDefined:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
  dmi.product.name: 2306CTO
  dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X230
  dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

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