services - Where in Ubuntu 16.04 is the shutdown log? - Ask Ubuntu

yes, aware of this this this , this answer.

still, can't find log information (the log lines see when pressing esc during splash screen. example ‘stopped target user , group name lookups.’ ...) in any of possible suspects in var/logs.

i.e. looking @ changed files: (my shutdown @ 11:20h, these files can possibly matter)

/var/log $ ll -tr | tail     -rw-r--r-- 1 root      root  27k 2016-10-27 11:03  xorg.0.log.old     -rw-rw-r-- 1 root      utmp    0 2016-10-27 11:20  wtmp     -rw-r----- 1 syslog    adm     0 2016-10-27 11:20  kern.log     -rw-r--r-- 1 root      root    0 2016-10-27 11:20  boot.log     -rw-r--r-- 1 root      root    0 2016-10-27 11:20  gpu-manager     -rw-r--r-- 1 root      root    0 2016-10-27 11:21  gpu-manager.log     -rw-r----- 1 root      adm     0 2016-10-27 11:21  apport.log     -rw-r--r-- 1 root      root    0 2016-10-27 11:21  xorg.0.log     -rw-r----- 1 syslog    adm  3,0k 2016-10-27 11:21  auth.log     -rw-r----- 1 syslog    adm   194 2016-10-27 11:21  syslog 

did things change? have enable (persistent) shutdown logging somewhere?

my shutdown did not fail, took 15-20 seconds , completed. (multiple runs before asked question, naturally). if wonder 0-bytes: truncated (emptied) log files before shutdown simplicity.