Whenever I try to shut down Manjaro, it frequently doesn’t complete the process. This issue has been persistent since installation. I’m not seeing any specific error messages, so I’m not sure what’s causing the system to hang during shutdown.
2. Partition Access Issues
I’m also experiencing issues with partition access. I’m using KDE Plasma, and while I can successfully mount partitions, I’m often prompted for authentication to access them. Ideally, I’d like my user to access /run/media without needing sudo, but the system currently doesn’t allow this.
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Has anyone else experienced these issues or have suggestions for fixes? I’d appreciate any guidance, especially around the shutdown issue, as it’s the one affecting me the most right now.
Session restore on login is currently broken in Plasma and prevents it from shutting down properly. You need to disable it — set it to start with an empty session — and reboot.
You may get more informative information by making the startup/shutdown messages visible. When the GRUB menu shows up, hit the “e” key to edit the command line. Now remove quiet and or splash from the line and press to continue the boot. You’ll now see loads of messages flying past as the computer boots. But more important, you’ll also see them when you shut down, so with luck you should be able to see exactly what’s causing the shutdown to hang. My guess is it may be a systemd stop job hanging around.
This of course assumes your problem isn’t the ubiquitous “saving KDE session” problem mentioned by others.
