Related to bnc#886599 and others. That is use the vhangup(8) tool to explicit do a virtually hangup on the specified on the terminal line to give e.g. the bash a few seconds to e.g. safe its history. [crrodriguez@opensuse.org: Feb 2015 This a known kernel bug, no notification from the cgroup subsystem arrives and the processes in the "scope" units have to be SIGKILL'ed without delay in order not to hang shutdown Status: fix not available as of Feb 16 2015 track progress: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141137 ] --- units/getty@.service.m4 | 1 + units/serial-getty@.service.m4 | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) Index: systemd-218/units/getty@.service.m4 =================================================================== --- systemd-218.orig/units/getty@.service.m4 +++ systemd-218/units/getty@.service.m4 @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ ConditionPathExists=/dev/tty0 [Service] # the VT is cleared by TTYVTDisallocate ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --noclear %I $TERM +ExecStopPost=-/sbin/vhangup /dev/%I Type=idle Restart=always RestartSec=0 Index: systemd-218/units/serial-getty@.service.m4 =================================================================== --- systemd-218.orig/units/serial-getty@.service.m4 +++ systemd-218/units/serial-getty@.service.m4 @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ IgnoreOnIsolate=yes [Service] ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --keep-baud 115200,38400,9600 %I $TERM +ExecStopPost=-/sbin/vhangup /dev/%I Type=idle Restart=always UtmpIdentifier=%I