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gdm3 package

  1. Bug #1706939
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 1706939

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote : Re: A live session can't be shut down due to "[ *** ] (2 of 2) A start job is running for ... (21s / no limit)"

This isn't a gdm3 bug, right?

If it's a systemd or systemd unit problem and it's still happening, we probably need to provide some more information so that xnox or someone can help and take a look. I tried and just booting a live session in a VM and shutting it down works for me.

Can someone give clear reproduction steps, preferably for making this happen in a VM?

If it only happens for some people for some reason, maybe an affected person can get a journal log for this bug report: https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging/#index2h1 - although it'll be a bit harder to get it out of the live session it should be possible e.g. to mount a hard drive or a USB key or a 9p shared volume using virt-manager (hopefully that last one works at late shutdown).