On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:47 AM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for everyone's response. > > All good points, there isn't any need for an immediate reboot, and my point > wasn't to complain about the behavior. As I try and make friends with systemd, I > like to learn why things do what they do. The poweroff.timer solution is > attractive and I like the (subshell) approach (fast, simple and readily > available after kernel updates). I don't pretend to understand all the > nitty-gritty that plays into difficulty ironing out ordering between > systemd-user-sessions.service and network.target processing, but slowly the > basics are sinking in. The session shutdown logic got a lot of fixes in systemd git, especially today. I'd expect this to work properly in systemd 209.