On 27.10.2012, Ian Chapman wrote:
I have a home server which runs F17 and for a long time now it just
doesn't
reboot or shutdown cleanly. I've had the same issue since it was running F16
and possibly F15. When the server shuts down, I get spurious messages about
some services failing or a dependency was not met for the shutdown target,
or sometimes a black screen with a line which just says "Adding Swap target"
(really, on a shutdown?).
I have encountered similar problems with systemd, see e.g.
here for the latest one which is present a long time:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857406
Neither Fedora nor sysyemd-people really care, so expect to be on your
own.
How do I about starting to diagnose these problems with
systemd?
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging#Diagnosing_Shutdow...
Given that the system is left in a state where I can't do
anything
with it. The usual places such as /var/log/messages doesn't turn up anything
useful. Maybe because syslog has already been stopped by then.
Do the diagnostics from the link above and open a bugreport. Maybe you
are more lucky than I have been. In the meantime, I switched all my
machines to Archlinux, there's just one Fedora machine left (which
will go soon). Most of the showstoppers were systemd ones, where the
developers/maintainers didn't care.
"Didn't care" translates in my case *not* to "they do not provide the
help and fixes I'm expecting" (it's free software, after all). It
translates to "I don't even get an answer"", despite that I offered
full support to debug the case.