[SOLVED] Fedora 15 hangs during shutdown

[SanderH]

My Fedora 15 (2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64, SELinux disabled) installation hangs during 'shutdown -h'. The following lines keeps repeating:

[ xxxx.xxxxxx ] pulseaudio[xxx]: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
<above message repeated 11 times in total>
[ xxxx.xxxxxx ] pulseaudio[xxxx]: bluetooth-util.c: Failed to get D-Bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
[ xxxx.xxxxxx ] pulseaudio[xxxx]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-bluetooth-discover" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
[ xxxx.xxxxxx ] pulseaudio[xxxx]: main.c: Module load failed.
[ xxxx.xxxxxx ] pulseaudio[xxxx]: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.
[ xxxx.xxxxxx ] pulseaudio[xxxx]: main.c: Daemon startup failed.

I can continue the shutdown sequence by pressing CTRL + ALT + DELETE, but as the box should be used as a server physically out of reach, that's a bit annoying...

Any ideas?

[jpollard]

Don't use Fedora 15 for a server "out of reach".

It still isn't ready for general use.

Try Fedora 14. More controllable, more configurable, and has a much simpler startup/shutdown that can be configured.

[SanderH]

That's an idea, but not much of a fix or workaround :-)

Anyone with an actual fix/workaround?

[jpollard]

nearly everyone is caught with hangs. The only system that seems to work correctly is a minimal install.

Any slightly unusual services seem to fail, either by not starting properly, or not stopping... or both.

[DBelton]

do you get the same issue if you use systemd to shut itself down?

systemctl poweroff

or 

systemctl --force poweroff

[jpollard]

/sbin/shutdown is a link to systemctl.

So it is using systemd to shut itself down.

[DBelton]

So I guess he would get the same thing.

I hadn't really looked to see if /sbin/shutdown had been changed yet or not.

[jpollard]

The real question is whether they implemented the options that "shutdown" has in systemctl when it is invoked as "shutdown".

[SanderH]

Great news - 'yum update' at 20-Oct 18:00 GMT +1 updated at lot of packages, incl. some dbus*. The server now performs shutdown flawless!