[arch-general] Can't reboot or shutdown my computer (cgroup: option or name mismatch)

[Christian Demsar]

On March 17, 2015 6:59:25 PM EDT, Daniel Micay <danielmicay at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 17/03/15 09:13 AM, Janilson Andrade wrote:
>> Hi all.
>> After months trying many things and after posting in arch forum[1] I
>am here asking if anyone could help me.Everytime I try to reboot or
>shutdown my computer, after turning everything off, my system hangs and
>display one of these messages below.    
>> a) cgroup : option or name mismatch, new: 0x0"", old: 0x4 "systemd"
>> shutdown[1]: Failed to finalize  file systems, ignoring    
>> 
>> b) A stop job is running for Daemon for power management (20s/1min
>30s)I use Gnome 3, when I've changed to my DE to KDE the reboot options
>worked sometimes, but most of the times it didn't. After it stop
>working at all I've come back to Gnome, since I can't reboot my system
>no matter what I do.
>> OBS: I know the cgroup message is just a warning to most of people,
>but for me it freezes my system and I can only turn the power off and
>on in order to reboot my computer,
>> I really want some help of how can I at least search for the possible
>things that is causing this problem.Sorry for long e-mail.
>> 
>> [1] System doesn't reboot/shutdown (cgroup : option or name
>mismatch....) / System Administration / Arch Linux Forums
>
>The fact that it's the last message printed out before it stalls does
>not imply it is the cause. AFAIK this warning occurs *everywhere* so I
>doubt it has anything to do with your issue.

I can confirm that I have that message on all of my archlinux computers, and they function fine.

Try booting an arch iso on a USB and see if you still have the problem. It might be hardware related, so testing another operating system will help narrow things down.
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