Hi, I am trying to use an inhibitor lock on shutdown (kubernetes kubelet daemon to drain node on reboot of Fedora CoreOS 33), but while it registered successfully, a PrepareForShutdown signal is never sent and the machine is rebooted without notifying the service. systemd-inhibit --list WHO UID USER PID COMM WHAT WHY MODE Inhibitor Test 0 root 51742 inhibit shutdown Testing systemd inhibitors from Go delay NetworkManager 0 root 713 NetworkManager sleep NetworkManager needs to turn off networks delay kubelet 0 root 32385 kubelet shutdown Kubelet needs time to handle node shutdown delay To reduce the possible causes I have used a proof of concept inhibitor written in go (https://trstringer.com/systemd-inhibitor-locks/) and tried it on different systems. Ubuntu Server 21.04 produces the correct logs: May 07 18:53:45 osboxes inhibit[3001]: Starting dbus example May 07 18:53:45 osboxes inhibit[3001]: Inhibitor file descriptor: 7 May 07 18:53:45 osboxes inhibit[3001]: Waiting for shutdown signal May 07 18:57:01 osboxes inhibit[3001]: Signal: &{:1.7 /org/freedesktop/login1 org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.PrepareForShutdown [true] 5} May 07 18:57:01 osboxes inhibit[3001]: Closing file descriptor May 07 18:57:01 osboxes systemd[1]: Stopping Inhibitor test... May 07 18:57:01 osboxes systemd[1]: inhibit.service: Succeeded. May 07 18:57:01 osboxes systemd[1]: Stopped Inhibitor test. Fedora CoreOS 33, Fedora Server 33 and openSUSE Server 15.2 don't receive the PrepareForShutdown signal: May 10 02:12:58 localhost.localdomain inhibit[795]: Starting dbus example May 10 02:12:58 localhost.localdomain inhibit[795]: Inhibitor file descriptor: 7 May 10 02:12:58 localhost.localdomain inhibit[795]: Waiting for shutdown signal May 10 02:13:08 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Stopping Inhibitor test... May 10 02:13:08 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: inhibit.service: Succeeded. May 10 02:13:08 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Stopped Inhibitor test. The configuration file /etc/systemd/logind.conf is empty. Any pointers where to look? Regards, Stefan _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel