Slow Shutdown

[then00b]

Hello there! My laptop used to shutdown very quickly, but suddenly it slowed down. Is there anyway to bring back the quickness of it? Thanks! :-\

[paul1149]

I just did a fresh install of 3.4 x64 and have the same thing. The drive and the install seem pretty snappy, otherwise. I tested a large file transfer and it was very fast. Bootup isn't fast, but it's not bad either. Also, I didn't see any noticeable unnecessary processes that would clog things up, at least to my eye.

[Valtam]

Hello there! My laptop used to shutdown very quickly, but suddenly it slowed down. Is there anyway to bring back the quickness of it? Thanks! :-\

that depends on what software you have added to your system since you first installed. Consider that it may also be a hardware issue and not related to linux at all.

[ralphy]

Hello there! My laptop used to shutdown very quickly, but suddenly it slowed down. Is there anyway to bring back the quickness of it? Thanks! :-\

This is me shooting in the dark... the most common issues I've seen with slow laptops shutdown are:

1- Wifi cards (when service takes a long time to shutdown you'll experience this)
2- CUPS (shared printers)

Here is a tip to "pinpoint" either service:

1- For wifi test - uncheck the "Enable wireless"  option in Network settings and reboot... see if the shutdown returned to usual speed.
2- For CUPS ... from Terminal, execute:  sudo systemctl stop cups-browsed (it might take a while to stop)... then reboot or shutdown to test the shutdown speed.

[paul1149]

Ok, thank you. Sounds logical. I'll give that a try next time I see the machine. My friend is happily using it already.

[paul1149]

Just to note that I found the root of the problem - inadvertently, on a different machine. It is LibreOffice's QuickStart utility. The machine was shutting down very quickly, until I turned LO QS on. Then, molasses. It took me a few days to remember what I had changed, and then as soon as I disabled it the problem was gone.

BTW, QS is deprecated in LO, and in the not distant future will be eliminated.

Thanks again everyone for the help.