<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Kaj, <br><br></div>I just realized that those two lines were actually the last lines in the boot process - not the ones on which the system gets stuck during the shutdown. I have disabled the grub quiet splash options, and the last thing I saw before the SDDM login screen were those two lines. On shutdown I just see a black screen all the time. But If I hit Ctrl+Alt+F7, I see the screen as it appeared at boot before SDDM login screen showed up. So, I actually have no clue of what causes shutdown delay...<br><br></div>Donatas<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-04-25 23:10 GMT+03:00 Kaj Haulrich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kaj@haulrich.net" target="_blank">kaj@haulrich.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 2015-04-25 21:12, Donatas G. wrote:<br>
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Hello everyone,<br>
<br>
I have been running Kubuntu Vivid (on Thinkpad X220t, amd64, with SSD<br>
hard drive) for a few weeks now. Everything goes ok, but it is strange<br>
that it takes a few minutes for the system to shut down. It takes long<br>
both if I shut down the graphical way, and if I issue "sudo halt -p"<br>
(independently of whether the Plasma session is running).<br>
<br>
I looked at what is happening during the shutdown procedure, and the<br>
shutdown procedure stops and hangs for more than a minute at these lines:<br>
<br>
Starting Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit...<br>
Starting Terminate Plymouth Boot Screen...<br>
<br>
How do I troubleshoot this problem? How do I see what is halting the<br>
shutdown process, what is hiding behind those lines?<br>
<br>
Would be grateful for any ideas.<br>
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Well, the problem seems to be plymouth. You could try to edit (as root): /etc/default/grub<br>
and remove "quiet splash" (not the "") from the linux line. Save the file and run:<br>
sudo update-grub<br>
Now reboot. You will see the boot process in all its glory, without the plymouth candy.<br>
If your shutdown process still behaves badlu, I'm out of ideas...<br>
<br>
HTH<br>
Kaj Haulrich.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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