My Ubuntu laptop recently runs into a power-off issue. Every time when I shutdown or reboot the machine, it stuck at blank screen with text message “systemd-shutdown[1]: waiting for process: crond” for more than a minute. According to the keyword ‘crond‘, it has something to do with the cron schedule job. And, thanks to this… Continue reading Fix Slow Shutdown ‘systemd-shutdown[1]: waiting for process: crond’ Issue
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Free up Disk Space – Clear Systemd Journal Logs in Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04
Going to free up Ubuntu system disk space? Try clearing the systemd journal logs, it may free up a few GB of space. By using the Disk Usage Analyzer tool, I found that /var/log/journal takes more than 4 GB system space in my Ubuntu 20.04. Systemd has its own logging system called the journal, and… Continue reading Free up Disk Space – Clear Systemd Journal Logs in Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04