Bug#845187: systemd: pressing ctrl-alt-delete repeatedly to force immediate reboot leads to systemd getting stuck with something

[Michael Biebl]

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On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 10:07:53 +0100 Martin Steigerwald
<Martin at Lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 232-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Martin, dear Michael, dear Maintainers-
> 
> I noticed by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete repeatedly quickly at the 90 seconds
> timeout for stopping a service that didn´t seem to agree with being stopped
> at shutdown that systemd did initiate an immediate reboot.
> 
> This does no longer work. Systemd still says it triggers an immediate reboot
> but then seems to be stuck. I waited for a while but there was not output.
> 
> I could let it sit for a little more and also provide a screenshot of what
> is displayed on screen, what I have seen so far didn´t give me a hint what is
> getting stuck there.
> 
> Maybe there is some debugging stuff I can activate before doing so? If so,
> can I also tell systemd to store the debugging stuff in a while before
> actually shutting down the laptop? Otherwise important information may have
> been scrolled out of the visible screen already.
> 

Is this problem reproducible?
Hitting ctrl+alt+del 7times quickly in a row does reliably reboot here.



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