systemd-journal-flush and ostree-finalize slowing shutdown

It seems to happen pretty much every time by now, but whenever I go to turn off/reboot my computer, it seems to always halt, generally after unmounting /var/home, with the systemd-journal-flush.service.

I've tried manually flushing before shutting down, to no avail, and the only fix related to it that I found online involved changing the flush configuration to have Storage=persistent, but I can't very well do that here to test it.

Same thing happens with ostree-finalize (earlier than journal-flush but always combined with it).
Even after a rebasing, be it with an update, kernel argument change, or even happened after I just updated grub with ujust, it halts for ups of 5 mins on shutdown until it eventually reaches the timeout and shuts it down.

Solution

turns out it very well may have been, after all
applying Turtlewit's workaround in #Tuned power manager tunes too low seems to have solved this returning issue for me and and for TheMCNerd2018; haven't had it again since
seems like this is one where "works on my machine" doesn't win :)

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Daph•4/27/24, 1:34 AM

also experiencing this

Daph•4/27/24, 1:36 AM

Exactly the same as you describe it

Daph•4/27/24, 2:34 AM

this seems isolated to bazzite. I rebased to ublue kinoite and it goes away

JohnyLPMOP•4/27/24, 2:34 AM

ublue kinoite? you mean aurora? but yeah, it is weird

Daph•4/27/24, 2:35 AM

just base kinoite ublue-os/kinoite

JohnyLPMOP•4/27/24, 2:35 AM

ohh, alright

JohnyLPMOP•4/27/24, 2:35 AM

but then it probably isn't an upstream issue?

Daph•4/27/24, 2:37 AM

i don't really know but that seems likely

HikariKnight•4/27/24, 3:10 AM

someone fixed this with a manual

rpm-ostree update

rpm-ostree update

earlier

JohnyLPMOP•4/27/24, 3:11 AM

it didn't update anything, but I'll report back if it does conclusively fix it

HikariKnight•4/27/24, 3:11 AM

well the ostree-finalizeostree-finalize is the final step in an update during shutdown

HikariKnight•4/27/24, 3:12 AM

it removes the oldest deployment and replaces it with the incoming one

HikariKnight•4/27/24, 3:12 AM

anyways i need to head off and get some sleep

JohnyLPMOP•4/27/24, 3:16 AM

yeah, I'll be doing that too, Mr Knight of Light

JohnyLPMOP•4/27/24, 3:17 AM

thank you for the help, I did run the rpm-ostree update and I'll see tomorrow if during normal use it happens again

JohnyLPMOP•4/27/24, 5:32 PM

systemd-journal-flush happened again, that didn't change, don't know about how it would affect ostree-finalize, I'll check in case I rebase for any reason

JohnyLPMOP•4/27/24, 6:21 PM

here's a log of my last boot that involved both the sddm black screen (from another issue) as well as the long shutdown time https://paste.centos.org/view/d0ed3e25

JohnyLPMOP•4/27/24, 6:24 PM

as for systemd service logs, @Kyle Gospo asked me for them but I'm not sure what service it should be, so here's journalctl -u systemd-journal-flush.servicejournalctl -u systemd-journal-flush.service I guess https://paste.centos.org/view/fab425ed

Kyle Gospo•4/27/24, 6:27 PM

All that does is write logs to your disk, I need the full log to figure out why that's taking so long

Kyle Gospo•4/27/24, 6:27 PM

I suspect you have a drive issue

Kyle Gospo•4/27/24, 6:27 PM

@nickname I'm out but if you can get them that command that'd be very helpful

JohnyLPMOP•4/27/24, 6:27 PM

yeah, I need the command

tryhardsoccermomswag•4/27/24, 6:28 PM

:clueless: oh boy

tryhardsoccermomswag•4/27/24, 6:28 PM

ok hold on

KKyle Gospo I suspect you have a drive issue

JohnyLPMOP•4/27/24, 6:28 PM

that'd be interesting, given I recently replaced both my nvmes

could be faulty, but hadn't had any issues before

tryhardsoccermomswag•4/27/24, 6:29 PM

yeah he's probably out doing work stuff

tryhardsoccermomswag•4/27/24, 6:29 PM

JohnyLPMOP•4/27/24, 6:29 PM

fair enough

tryhardsoccermomswag•4/27/24, 6:29 PM

give me a minute here

tryhardsoccermomswag•4/27/24, 6:29 PM

i just got pinged again

JohnyLPMOP•4/27/24, 6:30 PM

no problem

JohnyLPMOP•4/27/24, 6:30 PM

if I can't do it before I have to leave I'll do it later when I get back anyway, so it's all good

tryhardsoccermomswag•4/27/24, 6:40 PM

probably the wrong command but hey i don't know

journalctl -b-1 | grep systemd | fpaste

journalctl -b-1 | grep systemd | fpaste

send link idk i can take a look at this. also have you updated recently?

JohnyLPMOP•4/27/24, 6:41 PM

I have, like before yesterday or maybe even yesterday, and yesterday, per Hikari's suggetion, even did an rpm-ostree update again (although no updates were available)

tryhardsoccermomswag•4/27/24, 6:41 PM