On Thursday 19 July 2018 07:11:52 am Michele Calgaro wrote:
> On 2018/07/19 05:08 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> > I encounter this highly annoying message and 90 second shutdown delay too
> > often. Why does TDM object to cmdline shutdown or reboot commands from
> > login on the vttys? How can it be stopped? The immediate inducement to
> > write this comes from Buster, but it happens in Stretch and openSUSE too,
> > both in UEFI and legacy contexts.
>
> Thanks systemd...........
> The best you can do is to reduce the timeout from 90 s to small value.

Not sure what exact command you're running, but do also add a halt flag if 
it's available.

"option to halt services before rebooting. "shutdown -h now" is a graceful 
shutdown, and "reboot -h now" is a graceful reboot."
--Source unknown (CentOS)

MySQL likes to break tables otherwise...

Best,
Michael