Not knowing the system in question a guess would be a .bash_logout file if bash is the shell being used is needed to have sysctl stop networkmanager.service in it, and may need more similar commands in it too. On Thu, 7 May 2020, Ram Kumar via arch-general wrote: > Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 11:10:32 > From: Ram Kumar via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Ram Kumar <ramkumar21194@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Graceful shutdown Arch Linux > > Dear Arch users, > I am Ramkumar from India, i use Archlinux with i3 and no login manager. > When i try to shutdown the machine, it throws lot of warnings about > ethernet port and etc.. > and when turning on the machine and open an application, say firefox, it > shows like it has been crashed as if it was a forceful shutdown. But i > checked it whether firefox is closed before shutting down and it was > closed. > I am worried whether i am doing some nasty things while shutting the > machine down. > Could you please help me with some graceful shutdown options for Arch linux? > > Thanks in advance > > -Ramkumar > --