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[Help] Trouble shutting down a linux machine (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

SystemCTL systems need to use: "systemctl shutdown".

Not sure if openSUSE uses it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

poweroff or shutdown will work on almost every distro. Even systemd ones (they are usually symlinks but doesn't really matter because they work).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

@doomsdayrs @theorangeninja Not entirely correct, most will have shutdown scripts that call systemd, but that is a direct way to accomplish it.