I've had two server oses here: alma linux and debian(currently). On both of them, they will hang when I shut them down from cockpit, and they hang at the end of the shutdown.

Also, it takes an hour to a day to have this issue start. if it's restarted two times in a row quickly, it works perfectly fine for some reason.

What I've tried:

• setting "acpi=off" and "acpi=force" kernel parameters in grub
• removing my nvidia gpu(i was using nouveau drivers)
• changing distros

nothing worked. here are some things that both distros had in common with eachother:

• systemd
• cockpit
• libvirt & qemu
• docker

does anyone have advice? nothing i've seen online has worked. thank you for suggestions