off is an alias to poweroff

  • fraksken@infosec.pub
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    25 days ago

    The response is very clear. Anoyhet user is tunning a process which blocks unelevated shutdown. You can override it with the command privided in the response. Like mentioned in a peer comment, sudo shutdown now would resuly in the immediate shutdown of the system, ignoring any interrupts. If anything else fails, interrupt power. It should start fine.

    It could be a process you are running under a different user (safe), which demands you to shut it down cleanly.

    Linux provides the mechanics to prevent the problem you’re angry about.

  • nomad@infosec.pub
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    25 days ago

    Pretty sure using sudo or being root helps with that. Other than that: never have I ever seen that. Pretty sure this is a shit distribution.

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    25 days ago

    I don’t know why it’s inhibiting you here, but Linux is a multi-user OS (meaning multiple users can be logged in at the same time), so it definitely makes sense for it to have a mechanism like that. If another user is in the middle of a long-running operation, it might be very bad to forcibly cancel that…

    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzOP
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      19 days ago

      Sure, but in this case it’s my own process that’s preventing shutdown. And it’s the cinnamon session of all things.

  • smb
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    25 days ago

    i’ld say this has nothing to do with linux (as linux is the kernel and what sucks there is your distributions choice of how things are handled), and i guess this is just one of tens of thousands of poisoned systemd crappy design “decisions”. i went from systemd away for the same crap why i went away from windows. there are tons of very “interesting” similarities between systemd and windows and “it sucks” is just one of them. use a linux distro without systemd and stop complaining about linux when systemd is what actually fails for you. ;-)