Qubes R3 shutdown is VERY slow on my Lenovo T450s

[2yh0d9+ch4...@guerrillamail.com]

Hello,

I have installed Qubes R3 on my Lenovo T450s (i7 with 12GB RAM) and either the shutdown or the startup takes an huge amount of time to complete.

During the startup a lot of time is spent on the initialization of the NetVM & DispV :

"Starting Qubes DispVM startup setup..."
"Staring Qubes NetVM startup..."

The shutdown takes almost 5m in my laptop to complete and I have no idea what dom0 is doing.
I used to run qvm-shutdown --all --wait followed by 'init 0' but this shows no improvement in the shutdown time.

Any ideas what one could do in order to improve this?

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[Chris Laprise]

On 02/07/2016 05:42 PM, 2yh0d9+ch4d0s6d04tw8 via qubes-users wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed Qubes R3 on my Lenovo T450s (i7 with 12GB RAM) and either the shutdown or the startup takes an huge amount of time to complete.
>
> During the startup a lot of time is spent on the initialization of the NetVM & DispV :
>
> "Starting Qubes DispVM startup setup..."
> "Staring Qubes NetVM startup..."
>
>
> The shutdown takes almost 5m in my laptop to complete and I have no idea what dom0 is doing.
> I used to run qvm-shutdown --all --wait followed by 'init 0' but this shows no improvement in the shutdown time.
>
> Any ideas what one could do in order to improve this?
>
>

My old shutdown script which started with qvm-shutdown also doesn't work
properly... it usually hangs at some point. I find the normal shutdown
initiated from the KDE launcher now works the way it should, so I use
that now. I believe the shortcut for shutdown is Shift-Ctrl-Alt-PgDown.

Chris

[timet...@gmail.com]

On Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 3:42:35 PM UTC-7, 2yh0d9+ch4...@guerrillamail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed Qubes R3 on my Lenovo T450s (i7 with 12GB RAM) and either the shutdown or the startup takes an huge amount of time to complete.
>

Shutdown was very slow for me too on my Dell but it is much faster now (often less than a minute) using RC2.

[2zqcn6+8u9...@guerrillamail.com]

This seems to a recurrent issue with the Qubes R3.
Even when all AppVMS down, Qubes takes a long time to complete the shutdown and this is quite annoying.

Is there anything that one could be done in order to improve the shutdown/startup ?

[Tim W]

As it snot happening to a majority of users is there some common link?   Everyone once in a while if things get a bit corrupted shut down might take a long time but for me I use the normal shut down route even with a fair amount of VMs running and its nothing out of the ordinary for qubes.  Certainly no where remotely close to 5 mins.

[Eric Shelton]

On Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 5:42:35 PM UTC-5, 2yh0d9+ch4...@guerrillamail.com wrote:

Hello,

I have installed Qubes R3 on my Lenovo T450s (i7 with 12GB RAM) and either the shutdown or the startup takes an huge amount of time to complete.

During the startup a lot of time is spent on the initialization of the NetVM & DispV :

"Starting Qubes DispVM startup setup..."
"Staring Qubes NetVM startup..."

The shutdown takes almost 5m in my laptop to complete and I have no idea what dom0 is doing.
I used to run qvm-shutdown --all --wait followed by 'init 0' but this shows no improvement in the shutdown time.

Any ideas what one could do in order to improve this?

I have seen this happen on some systems, while not on others.  A workaround that often works is to stop all of the domains, including sys-firewall and sys-net, before doing a shutdown/reboot.

Eric 

[Tim W]

I think that is the issue, they are stopping all VM except Dom0 and thus some Dom0 process is extending the shutdown time.  

I am running a Thinkpad T440p and do not have these issues so it's some variable.

[toilet...@gmail.com]

I'm experiencing the same in M4700. It took me 5 mins to shutdown qubes.

[Grzesiek Chodzicki]

Out of pure curiosity. Does the shutdown still take such a long time if You manually shutdown sys-net, sys-usb and every other VM that holds a PCI device? If yes set pci_e820_host to false in qvm-prefs of those VMs. Worked for me.