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Andre4freedom

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Registered: 2017-11-15

Posts: 220  

Testing Devuan6 excalibur RC1

Hello,
testing a bog-standard installation of Devuan 6 (Excalibur) RC1 using the netinstall iso I fall on a quite old, ever occurring problem:
After installation, configuring a user, installing ntpsec and trying to reboot or shutdown the system,
the shutdown process hangs for a loooong while trying to end "anacron". Not always, to complicate the things.

The problem repeated itself with every Devuan release since v.3.
I usually end up just disabling or un-installing anacron.
Why is there an anacron, I have cron anyway???
My choices at install-time:
Devuan - OpenRC - Cinnamon - lightdm - standard console and system utilities, sshd

Do other Devuan users encounter the bug as well? I have no idea where to address it.

fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 2,728  

Re: Testing Devuan6 excalibur RC1

anacron is useful for systems that are not running 24 hours a day, like laptops for example, so that scheduled cron jobs will run somewhat according to their schedules. It's safe to remove it if you don't need it.

Here's a thought. If you only run the computer for short times, you might be shutting down while it's trying to run a job. Only way I can think of to check this would be to look in syslog right before you shut down. If cron is active, wait for it to finish and then see if shutdown is faster.

Andre4freedom

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Registered: 2017-11-15

Posts: 220  

Re: Testing Devuan6 excalibur RC1

Thank you, fsmithred. I will have a look at it.
As a side-note: I have never observed that problem when not using OpenRC. I'm not so sure the problem is not related to OpenRC.
I will let you know when I can find an answer. Could be a while.
Have a great time!
Andre4freedom