On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 09:08:59AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 6/29/22 08:35, mick crane wrote: > > hello, > > Because I don't trust that I've set up power saving properly with PC and > > monitor if leaving desk I turn off PC with power button on front. > > It usually is very quick and to start up again. > > There is printer attached to other PC. > > Recent update of bookworm when turning off PC with power button there is > > the message, > > " stopping job, make Cups quicker for external" or something like that. > > and it takes 1 minute 30 seconds to stop that and start shutdown. > > What could be causing that ? > > > > mick > > > That method of stopping the pc is quite dangerous to the hard drive, you > may kill the power while the journal is updating the drives contents, [...]
I took that to mean that the button triggers an orderly shutdown (otherwise the PC wouldn't get a chance to output a message). I do it all the time with my laptop. Far easier than finding a terminal to enter "shutdown -h now", or ($DEITY forbid!) clicking around with a rodent. Cheers -- t
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