My linux mint mate 17 was taking a long time to shut down. To discover what the problem was I used<\/p>\n
sudo halt
\nand then give it plenty of time. eventually it will say “system halted”. The messages above that will tell me what took so long.<\/p>\n
modem manager is taking a long time to close a remote connection. Here’s how to stop that:<\/p>\n
In my case replacing line: But it may be necessary to include these changes:<\/p>\n open \/etc\/init\/network-manager.conf<\/p>\n Just before “stop on stopped dbus” add the line<\/p>\n kill timeout 1<\/p>\n open \/etc\/init\/modemmanager.conf<\/p>\n Just before “stop on stopped network-manager” add the line<\/p>\n kill timeout 1<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My linux mint mate 17 was taking a long time to shut down. To discover what the problem was I used sudo halt and then give it plenty of time. eventually it will say “system halted”. The messages above that will tell me what took so long. modem manager is taking a long time to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nstop on stopping dbus
\ninto:
\nstop on runlevel [06]
\ninto the file \/etc\/init\/
\nfixes this problem.<\/p>\n