Hello. After switching my Gentoo desktop from sysvinit + openrc to systemd, I started getting "nobody cared" messages about IRQs 16 and 19 (common thing: they are assigned to the USB controllers, that's why CC: linux-usb) at shutdown. Also, instead of shutting down immediately, the kernel started waiting for something to time out (and after the timeout, it does power off the computer). Adding the "irqpoll" parameter does work around the issue. A screen photo illustrating the problem and the kernel config are attached. I didn't try to bisect because there is no known good kernel. I.e., the issue doesn't exist without systemd, and I didn't run systemd with earlier kernels. Please help diagnosing and, if possible, fixing this problem. The broken image at the top of the screen is from extlinux (I use it to boot the kernel because I don't like grub). Here is my lspci && lspci -nv: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G965 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82G965 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 HECI Controller (rev 02) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DC Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HB (ICH8) 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 02:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6101 single-port PATA133 interface (rev b1) 06:01.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1) 06:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) 00:00.0 0600: 8086:29a0 (rev 02) Subsystem: 8086:514d Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel 00:02.0 0300: 8086:29a2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: 8086:514d Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 40 Memory at 90300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Memory at 80000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at 2110 [size=8] Expansion ROM at [disabled] Capabilities: Kernel driver in use: i915 00:02.1 0380: 8086:29a3 (rev 02) Subsystem: 8086:514d Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at 90200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Capabilities: 00:03.0 0780: 8086:29a4 (rev 02) Subsystem: 8086:514d Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 Memory at 90426100 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16] Capabilities: 00:19.0 0200: 8086:104b (rev 02) Subsystem: 8086:0001 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 42 Memory at 90400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Memory at 90424000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] I/O ports at 20e0 [size=32] Capabilities: Kernel driver in use: e1000e Kernel modules: e1000e 00:1a.0 0c03: 8086:2834 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: 8086:514d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 I/O ports at 20c0 [size=32] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1a.1 0c03: 8086:2835 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: 8086:514d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21 I/O ports at 20a0 [size=32] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1a.7 0c03: 8086:283a (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: 8086:514d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 Memory at 90425c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Capabilities: Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:284b (rev 02) Subsystem: 8086:2114 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43 Memory at 90420000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel 00:1c.0 0604: 8086:283f (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff Memory behind bridge: 90500000-905fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000090900000-0000000090afffff Capabilities: 00:1c.1 0604: 8086:2841 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 00001000-00001fff Memory behind bridge: 90100000-901fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000090b00000-0000000090cfffff Capabilities: 00:1c.2 0604: 8086:2843 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00004fff Memory behind bridge: 90600000-906fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000090d00000-0000000090efffff Capabilities: 00:1c.3 0604: 8086:2845 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 00005000-00005fff Memory behind bridge: 90700000-907fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000090f00000-00000000910fffff Capabilities: 00:1c.4 0604: 8086:2847 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 00006000-00006fff Memory behind bridge: 90800000-908fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000091100000-00000000912fffff Capabilities: 00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:2830 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: 8086:514d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23 I/O ports at 2080 [size=32] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:2831 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: 8086:514d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 I/O ports at 2060 [size=32] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:2832 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: 8086:514d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 I/O ports at 2040 [size=32] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:2836 (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: 8086:514d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23 Memory at 90425800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Capabilities: Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd 00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev f2) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=06, sec-latency=32 Memory behind bridge: 90000000-900fffff Capabilities: 00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2810 (rev 02) Subsystem: 8086:514d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: 00:1f.2 0106: 8086:2824 (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: 8086:514d Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 41 I/O ports at 2108 [size=8] I/O ports at 211c [size=4] I/O ports at 2100 [size=8] I/O ports at 2118 [size=4] I/O ports at 2020 [size=32] Memory at 90425000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: Kernel driver in use: ahci 00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:283e (rev 02) Subsystem: 8086:514d Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 21 Memory at 90426000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] I/O ports at 2000 [size=32] Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus 02:00.0 0101: 11ab:6101 (rev b1) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO]) Subsystem: 11ab:6101 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10 I/O ports at 1018 [size=8] I/O ports at 1024 [size=4] I/O ports at 1010 [size=8] I/O ports at 1020 [size=4] I/O ports at 1000 [size=16] Memory at 90100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] Capabilities: 06:01.0 0480: 1131:7133 (rev d1) Subsystem: 11bd:002f Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 22 Memory at 90004800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: Kernel driver in use: saa7134 Kernel modules: saa7134 06:03.0 0c00: 104c:8023 (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: 8086:514d Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19 Memory at 90004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Memory at 90000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci Kernel modules: firewire-ohci Here is /proc/interrupts: CPU0 CPU1 0: 129 0 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 2032 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 7: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0 8: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 12: 30450 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 16: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3 18: 30167 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb7 19: 29 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb6, firewire_ohci 21: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb4 22: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi saa7133[0], saa7133[0] 23: 2 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb5 40: 23715 0 PCI-MSI-edge i915 41: 14244 0 PCI-MSI-edge ahci 42: 1574 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0 43: 691 0 PCI-MSI-edge hda_intel NMI: 619 619 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 74638 62356 Local timer interrupts SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts PMI: 619 619 Performance monitoring interrupts PND: 0 0 Performance pending work RES: 3050 2061 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 656 208 Function call interrupts TLB: 215 340 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts MCE: 0 0 Machine check exceptions MCP: 3 3 Machine check polls ERR: 1 MIS: 0 -- Alexander E. Patrakov