Reducing shutdown timeout for "a stop job is running"

Question

I've got node.js and pm2 installed on a Pi (Raspbian). PM2 was configured to start via pm2 startup and the init scripts it creates. Sometimes when I reboot, shutdown hangs for a few minutes on:

A stop job is running for LSB: PM2 init script (... / 5min)

Every once in a while¹ what I'm assuming is PM2 doesn't shut down properly and hangs for the full 5 minutes.

On this system, I know exactly what apps PM2 is managing and I really don't care if they shutdown properly.

My question is: How do I reduce the timeout from 5 minutes to, say, 15 seconds or so? Where is this configured?

I read on a forum that it was the DefaultTimeoutStopSec key in /etc/systemd/system.conf, so I tried setting that to "15s" but it had no effect. I tried the same thing in /etc/systemd/user.conf, too, but no change. The timeout is still set to 5 minutes.

¹ I actually do know specifically what triggers this, but the details aren't important and the effect is unavoidable.

If there is a (default) stop script, you could re-write it to perform a forcestop or even to kill pm2 instead of a graceful shutdown. — Tigger, Dec 06 '16 at 03:38
@Tigger I came to a similar conclusion, actually. Out of desperation I just made stop in pm2's init script do nothing at all, and let it die naturally on shutdown. It's a terrible solution for general use but on this particular system it's fine. I still want to know how to change the 5 minute timeout though. — Jason C, Dec 06 '16 at 04:33

score 27 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 30 '16 at 11:02

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/etc/systemd/system.conf has a line

#DefaultTimeoutStopSec=90s

which can be uncommented and changed

edited Dec 30 '16 at 11:02

GAD3R

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answered Dec 30 '16 at 10:53

Wolfgang Fahl

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I mentioned that in my post and that changing it has no effect. – Jason C Dec 30 '16 at 12:40
setting 45s in Arch Linux makes shutdowns quick on an nvme drive - for really quick shutdowns use Alpine Linux (no systemd) – Stuart Cardall Oct 12 '18 at 10:32

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

How do I reduce the timeout from 5 minutes to, say, 15 seconds or so?

You re-build systemd from source, patching the hardwired timeout in systemv-sysv-generator from TimeoutSec=5min to whatever you want. Or you ask the systemd people for a control knob somewhere in the Fedora/SUSE or LSB headers.

Or, on the gripping hand, you give up on using this rc script that you have and write a systemd service unit for your service, whose timeouts you can set with an explicit TimeoutSec= setting, installed with a drop-in settings file in /etc/systemd/system/pm2.service.d/timeout.conf if necessary.

Given this, this, this, this, this, and others, the first rule for migrating to systemd applies here as well.

Reducing shutdown timeout for "a stop job is running"

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