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[Help] Trouble shutting down a linux machine (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 3 months ago by theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz to c/linux@programming.dev
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I am having issues with my linux machine running openSUSE MicroOS. It runs fine but I can't power it off via SSH. I tried shutdown, poweroff and halt but no command turned the machine off. I then have to physically push the power button but I don't feel comfortable doing that too often because I might interrupt some processes which are still running? Is there something I could still try or something I did wrong?

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[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 4 points 3 months ago

Can you power it off from the command line without SSH? You may have a hardware problem that's keeping the board from responding to soft poweroff at all.

Provided the machine isn't writing to disk or holding unwritten data in a disk cache at the moment you press the button, you're unlikely to damage anything with a hard poweroff.

[-] theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

I hooked up a screen and keyboard but I couldn't even login using the TTY (I didn't install a DE). Maybe I fucked up when setting the machine up.

Good to know that at least I am not damaging anything. I should be more than safe if I halt the system and the do a hard poweroff.

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