[RPi4] Argon One Case Shutdown

Hello, I've been searching multiple forums to find out how can I completely shutdown my Raspi 4b but nothing seemed to solve my issue:

I am running LibreELEC 10.0.3 and when I hit "s" on keyboard and select "Power off system" the screen goes black, everything seems ok - but the red LED on the Raspberry blinks once and then it stays on. So when I need to turn it on again I have to hold the power button on the case about 5 seconds to completely turn it off. Is there any solution to shut it down completely from the default dialog window? I am not very experienced with Linux overall so if someone knows any solution, please keep it "step by step" .

Thank's for any answers

Quote from Da Flex

Use the power button of your case instead, and add dtoverlay=gpio-shutdown to config.txt.

Ok, I tried that, it's better than holding the button for 5 seconds and waiting untill the red led turns off but is it safe to do so? Will the system poweroff gracefully without corruption of any data on the SD card? I mean - it does the same thing even when I delete the "dtoverlay=gpio-shutdown" line in config.txt - I have to keep the button pressed for about 3 seconds and then screen goes black and red led turns off.

Well, is there any other safe way to do this without pressing the button on the case, like somehow reprogram the "Power off system" in the dialog window?

Quote from Da Flex

Remove the case, and shutdown from GUI. If RPi shuts down correctly, then your case is the problem.

If it still hangs without the case, then your microSD eventually has a corrupted file system, and I suggest to install from scratch.

I tried it without the case and with clean install, but the results are still the same.

Quote from Da Flex

Important: Now don't use the Argon One case, until we found the shutdown issue.

Activate debug logging at GUI, and try to shutdown from GUI again.

• If you still have SSH after that, you can use pastekodi to upload kodi.log, and post the resulting link on the forum.
• If you don't have SSH after the shutdown attempt, remove power, remove microSD, and copy the kodi.log content from microSD to PasteBin. Then post the link.

I didn't have SSH access, it shutted down completely. I couldn't find kodi.log when I've taken out the SD card (Windows PC) so I turned the Raspi back on and got the log file from SSH if that's ok.

Here it is: http://ix.io/4C4p

Quote from Da Flex

That's the log of your current session, which lacks the shutdown recordings.

Logs are at /storage/.kodi/temp. We need one with a shutdown attempt.

I can't access the file nor with ssh or from Windows PC when I remove the SD card. How can I do that? I turned on the logging before last shutdown like that: Settings>System>Logging>Enable debug logging, shouldn't it be in the log file when I use pastekodi?

Quote from Da Flex

The STORAGE partition (/storage) is an EXT4 file system, so you need a tool to view EXT4 on Windows.

Your last session is recorded at kodi.old.log, your current session at kodi.log.

pastekodi only uploads kodi.log. Unfortunately that's not the one with the shutdown recordings.

Ok, this is the contents of the kodi.old file:

Quote from VLouis

To access files from ext4 partition: download a "live linux" like Ubuntu (or Xubuntu, is smaller), write it to a USB stick and run it from USB (without install). The easyest way is installing the "Ventoy" boot loader to a USB stick and booting the "iso" file directly (or almost any bootable iso).

About the RPi "full shutdown", I don't know in case of RPi4, but I measured once the power consumption of my RPi3B and was around 4-5W when playing video file. So if you too using daily your RPi, I don't know if worth the effort to "shutdown" it every times.

I already downloaded "Linux reader" utility for Windows and accessed the ext4 partition. I measured the Rpi4 consumption too, it was very similar to Rpi3 but sometimes I don't turn it on like for a week so it's not necessary to keep it powerd on. Also every watt counts you know - some smart things, routers, standby device etc, it adds up. I am also curious what solution can resolve this, it could be useful also useful in some other future projects and I am always happy to expand my knowledge.