Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-23 Thread James Szinger
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 1:41 PM Jon LaBadie wrote: > But we can blame systemd for the cryptic message > > A stop job is running > > Surely systemd knows what service it is waiting for, > why doesn't it tell us? > > The stop job XYZ is running The message reported by the OP and the message I s

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-23 Thread James Pearson
Scott Robbins wrote: > ** WARNING: This mail is from an external source ** > > > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 03:41:24PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 09:07:32AM -0600, James Szinger wrote: >>> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 7:44 AM mark wrote: The joys of systemd >>> >>

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-22 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 03:41:24PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 09:07:32AM -0600, James Szinger wrote: > > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 7:44 AM mark wrote: > > > > > > The joys of systemd > > > > I'm not sure it's right to blame systemd. Systemd asked nicely for > > the ser

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 09:07:32AM -0600, James Szinger wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 7:44 AM mark wrote: > > > > The joys of systemd > > I'm not sure it's right to blame systemd. Systemd asked nicely for > the service to shutdown. But we can blame systemd for the cryptic message A

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-22 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, James Szinger said: > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 7:44 AM mark wrote: > > The joys of systemd > > I'm not sure it's right to blame systemd. Systemd asked nicely for > the service to shutdown. The service didn't, probably because the > update change something and pulled the ru

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-22 Thread James Szinger
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 7:44 AM mark wrote: > > The joys of systemd I'm not sure it's right to blame systemd. Systemd asked nicely for the service to shutdown. The service didn't, probably because the update change something and pulled the rug out from beneath it. Systemd then waited a bit

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-22 Thread James Pearson
mark wrote: > James Pearson wrote: >> James Pearson wrote: >> >>> >>> I'm currently trying to reboot a CentOS 7.5 workstation (to complete an >>> upgrade to 7.6), but it is 'stuck' while shutting down with 'A stop >>> job is running for ...' - the counter initially gave a limit of '1min >>> 30s'

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-22 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
On 22/05/2019 14:43, mark wrote: > James Pearson wrote: >> James Pearson wrote: >> >>> >>> I'm currently trying to reboot a CentOS 7.5 workstation (to complete an >>> upgrade to 7.6), but it is 'stuck' while shutting down with 'A stop >>> job is running for ...' - the counter initially gave a li

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-22 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> James Pearson wrote: >> James Pearson wrote: >> >>> >>> I'm currently trying to reboot a CentOS 7.5 workstation (to complete an >>> upgrade to 7.6), but it is 'stuck' while shutting down with 'A stop >>> job is running for ...' - the counter initially gave a limit of '1min >>> 30s' - >>> but eac

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-22 Thread mark
James Pearson wrote: > James Pearson wrote: > >> >> I'm currently trying to reboot a CentOS 7.5 workstation (to complete an >> upgrade to 7.6), but it is 'stuck' while shutting down with 'A stop >> job is running for ...' - the counter initially gave a limit of '1min >> 30s' - >> but each time it

Re: [CentOS] Bypassing 'A stop job is running' when rebooting CentOS 7

2019-05-22 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: > > I'm currently trying to reboot a CentOS 7.5 workstation (to complete an > upgrade to 7.6), but it is 'stuck' while shutting down with 'A stop job > is running for ...' - the counter initially gave a limit of '1min 30s' - > but each time it reaches that limit, it just adds