I am having what appears to be the same problem. One of my i386 systems (a very old one) was upgraded to jessie, and whenever I do a "shutdown -r now" or press Ctrl-Alt-Del on the console, it hangs at "Reached target Shutdown".
I enabled the systemd debug shell, and systemctl list-jobs during the hang gives this: JOB UNIT TYPE STATE 525 reboot.target start waiting 526 systemd-reboot.service start waiting 622 umount.target start waiting 624 dev-disk-by\x2did-wwn\x2d0x5000cca325f1d454\x2dpart2.swap stop running 625 dev-disk-by\x2did-at...1616PLAT80_PV6904Z23JM4LN\x2dpart2.swap stop running 626 dev-sda2.swap stop running 632 final.target start waiting If I type "swapoff /dev/sda2" in the debug shell, the reboot continues to completion, so the swap partition is definitely where it's getting stuck. There's nothing special about this computer, as far as I know. No encrypted file systems, no LVM. It has very limited RAM (64 MB), so the swap is really used. The disk is IDE, not SATA, because the machine is just that old. Here is the disk (there is only one): # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 149.1 GiB, 160041885696 bytes, 312581808 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x000849bc Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 63 19535039 19534977 9.3G 83 Linux /dev/sda2 19535040 21494969 1959930 957M 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 21494970 60565049 39070080 18.6G 83 Linux /dev/sda4 60565050 312576704 252011655 120.2G 83 Linux Here's /etc/fstab: # cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 UUID=a748f137-7898-4238-a1aa-7615d3c93932 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /dev/hda3 /var/qmail/queue ext2 sync,noatime 0 2 UUID=33359184-c7f0-4986-919a-2bd976fd9d20 /var/qmail/queue ext2 sync,noatime 0 2 # /dev/hda4 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 UUID=f9c2e8fa-7e5a-4cbe-bc29-63813bfdaf67 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 # /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 UUID=29061e22-60fa-449a-a1c6-41e352b4f3d8 none swap sw 0 0 # /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org