I've had shutdown issues and have been trying to manage since installation, even had installed it a second time previously (it's my only OS). The issues are:
Shutdown partially (turns off screen after some minutes, but mouse, keyboard, fan and motherboard keeps the lights on and running)
Doesn't shutdown at all (stay hours on shutdown screen and most of the times pressing ESC doesn't change the screen to the one with text lines)
Freeze upon shutdown desktop button press (sometimes I can't even access CTRL ALT F3)
I've tried (based on wiki search):
shutdown now (when I am able to open CTRL ALT F3, but only works sometimes or leads to the first 2 scenarios)
Checked if motherboard BIOS is up to date (which is)
systemctl poweroff (a few days ago, guess it's the one that worked quickly)
journalctl -rb -1 (but there are many lines and I don't know what to look for)
updated grub (just now as I'm writing this, my last try)
My system is updated as I run garuda-update or sudo pacman -Syu at least every 2 days.
Both linux-lts and linux-zen headers are installed
My garuda-inxi showed no failed units, but it has showed THIS time.
It appears you are booting into single-user mode, which is sort of a rescue mode typically used for troubleshooting or server maintenance. Do you have the same issue if you boot with the normal options?
It looks like you have taken off the quiet splash kernel parameters, but still have Plymouth running. Are you trying to get rid of Plymouth, or have you removed the quiet splash parameters for troubleshooting?
If the latter, what is the systemd output the shutdown hangs on?
Have you tried switching from Plymouth to plymouth-git (or vice-versa)?
Hi.
I booted in recovery mode only that time, the issues happens when I boot in the normal Garuda Linux option. Idk if it happens in recovery mode too because I did logout and turned off with poweroff last time.
I did a little search and it seems plymouth is what shows the splash screen on login, right?
The animations still show and I did not touch plymouth or quiet splash, at least intentionally, and don't know what might have caused it to fail.
Hmm, that’s interesting. Maybe your single-user mode doesn’t have those kernel parameters added. Can you boot to your regular boot option and post the garuda-inxi from there?
Plymouth may be a red herring, but just in case you can test if removing the splash kernel parameter changes the issue with the shutdown hanging as in this thread:
Have you had a chance to change Plymouth versions to test? It’s been a while, but a few months back a version of Plymouth was causing issues and switching from the git to the “regular” version solved the problem, see this thread here:
Like I said though, Plymouth could be a red herring. If you remove the quiet splash from your kernel parameters (you can do this right in the Garuda Boot Options tool) you should see the actual journal output on the screen while shutting down–this could point to a clue, if you can make note of the process it is getting stuck on.
SDDM is notorious for holding up a shutdown, although in your case it sounds like it is freezing (as opposed to just taking a while).
Hello.
I did replace plymouth-git for plymouth as indicated and removed quiet quiet splash.
It was really hard to boot normally (konsole wouldn't show the line to type and anything would take several minutes to open, as well as running into the shutdown problem)
I'll now try to reboot now, but leaving this message from my garuda-inxi from normal boot in case I am not able to boot in normally again and need to enter recovery.
Update:
I still run into the problem.
I would like to keep trying, but the current situation is forcing me to use the turn off case button too much and I worry about the PC parts integrity.
I'm proceeding to install Arch Linux instead.
Thank you for the time and effort you put on helping me with this situation anyway
Maybe it would work to reboot using the REISUB command?
There’s another name for that, it’s kernel-based, the sysRQ I think? Magic SysRq key - Wikipedia
Hi!
I tested a few distros yesterday and today, like Mint Cinnamon, endeavours, archlinux and Ubuntu.
But no OS fulfills my heart like Garuda did. I downloaded Garuda Dragonized iso again and went back to installing, but ran into the issue once it was installed.
So instead I decided to try other "flavours".
I installed Garuda LXQT-Kwin and everything seems to be running fine.
I miss the network management interface of the Dragonized version, where you could see the strength of the connection and easily set up the Mac address if needed, but I'm really happy to have Garuda again, even in another flavour.
I think Dragonized possibly wasn't the right one for my hardware. I didn't not choose the gaming edition, but my GPU is integrated (I have a Ryzen 5 5600G), which I thought would be no problem as I don't play any games nor do media work (although I had VS Code installed for programming/web dev, I haven't even opened it).
Seems everything is solved. I accept and appreciate recommendations in regard of the network interface, tho with my little Linux knowledge Idk if it can be changed
That's good to know!
If you ever have time, you could try Garuda KDE-Lite, install the Dr460nized Global Theme and install your needed packages. Maybe starting from a leaner ISO would help too and in this case you'd get the full Dr460nized experience.
