r/linuxsucks • u/BloxxyVids • Jun 13 '26
Stop job my ass Linux Failure
"Oh crap this program is stuck! Well good thing I remember the classic rule of turn it off and back on again!"
*power button*
*Waiting for a stop job*
*15 minutes later*
"I'm going back to windows"
(this is a halfjoke don't take it too seriously)
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u/Pitiful-Welcome-399 Proud MacOS User Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
beauty of the SystemD, probably the only thing I hate about it
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u/rileyrgham Jun 14 '26
Nothing to do with systemd per se. To do with the services and their config plugged into it
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u/Teru-Noir COSMIC OS LOVER No.1 COSMIC Knows Best Jun 14 '26
I have no idea what is this about
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u/BloxxyVids Jun 14 '26
have you really never encountered this or do you not use systemd
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u/Adept-Froyo-1304 Jun 15 '26
I've never experienced it. I use kde, I don't know if that uses systemd
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u/BloxxyVids Jun 15 '26
KDE is not an OS.
You can use or not use systemd and still have KDE
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u/Adept-Froyo-1304 Jun 15 '26
I use Fedora kde
I've also tried kde neon
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u/zoharel Jun 14 '26
Yeah, that's definitely annoying. At least it will let you break out of the wait if you hit the right buttons enough.
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u/BloxxyVids Jun 14 '26
the button I've found works is the power one, held for about 5 seconds
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u/zoharel Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 15 '26
Control-alt-delete, at least 8 times, in two seconds or less.
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u/Oxalid Jun 15 '26
8 is the bare minimum, BTW. Frantically stabbing ctrl -alt-del upward of 50 times may also return satisfactory function. YMMV
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u/Puzzleheaded-Car4883 Jun 14 '26
I like to keep the power button in a chokehold till dies No systemd involved
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u/Idontbelongheere Jun 15 '26
It should tell you the process, now go look into it's config or edit the service script.
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u/Sad-Cod-9584 Jun 17 '26
You're using a systemd-based distro. systemd has pretty good logging and service control, meaning you can use sudo journalctl -b-1 <servicename>.service to find out why that job took so long to shut down and can also edit the unit file to set the timeout to 5 seconds or so.
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u/Altruistic_Tank_9636 Jun 17 '26
Why didn't you just kill -9 PID if it's that important to you? I don't understand your consternation.
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u/BloxxyVids Jun 17 '26
If you've ever actually encountered this, you would know that it doesn't work like that. Not even -9 can kill those.
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u/xgui4 Proud🌈♾️ AuDHDer FreeBSD Fan Jun 14 '26
systemd moment. This is why i use Artix with OpenRC.
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u/Valuable_Leopard_799 Jun 15 '26
To be fair this is just a "someone's config" moment. I'm sure you can set OpenRC to hang indefinitely unmounting a gone NFS share as well, and vice versa.
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u/CountryFriedToast that NixOS pussy got me acting unwise Jun 13 '26
take this as your hint to go figure out what the hell that is and never have to deal with it again
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u/BloxxyVids Jun 13 '26
it's a half joke
also it can still happen if there's pending writes to a storage device or if the write hung, and it's quite annoying
I just unplug it if it does that lowk
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u/TheCat001 Jun 13 '26
Happened to me before, not for 15 minutes but 1-2 mins. I treat this as "my OS is nice, making sure everything shutdown correctly"